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Investigating Optical Coupling Material Candidates in NaI(Tl) Detectors for the SABRE-North Dark Matter Experiment
Chemseddine Ananna, Gabriella Cataldi, Davide D'Angelo +21
Direct dark matter detection with NaI(Tl) scintillators requires ultra-low-background materials. Silicone optical pads can couple NaI(Tl) crystals to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) i…
Application of zone refining to the development of NaI(Tl) detectors for SABRE North
C. Ananna, F. B. Armani, G. Cataldi +23
The SABRE North experiment is developing ultra-high radiopurity NaI(Tl) detectors to investigate dark matter. To achieve this, SABRE North utilizes the technique called zone refini…
Performance of the front-end electronics of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter barrel for the High-Luminosity LHC
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group
The performance of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter upgraded readout electronics, developed for the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC, is discussed. Data collected in two beam te…
Autoencoder-based Anomaly Detection System for Online Data Quality Monitoring of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
The CMS ECAL Collaboration
The CMS detector is a general-purpose apparatus that detects high-energy collisions produced at the LHC. Online Data Quality Monitoring of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter is a…
Comparative characterization study of LYSO:Ce crystals for timing applications
F. M. Addesa, P. Barria, R. Bianco +28
Cerium-doped Lutetium-Yttrium Oxyorthosilicate (LYSO:Ce)is one of the most widely used Cerium-doped Lutetium based scintillation crystals. Initially developed for medical detectors…
Performance of the SABRE detector module in a purely passive shielding
F. Calaprice, J. B. Benziger, S. Copello +19
We present here a characterization of the low background NaI(Tl) crystal NaI-33 based on a period of almost one year of data taking (891 kgxdays exposure) in a detector configurati…
High sensitivity characterization of an ultra-high purity NaI(Tl) crystal scintillator with the SABRE proof-of-principle detector
F. Calaprice, S. Copello, I. Dafinei +23
We present new results on the radiopurity of a 3.4-kg NaI(Tl) crystal scintillator operated in the SABRE proof-of-principle detector setup. The amount of potassium contamination, d…
Characterization of SABRE crystal NaI-33 with direct underground counting
M. Antonello, I. J. Arnquist, E. Barberio +43
Ultra-pure NaI(Tl) crystals are the key element for a model-independent verification of the long standing DAMA result and a powerful means to search for the annual modulation signa…
Monte Carlo simulation of the SABRE PoP background
M. Antonello, E. Barberio, T. Baroncelli +45
SABRE (Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection) is a direct dark matter search experiment based on an array of radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystals surrounded by a liquid scintillato…
The SABRE project and the SABRE PoP
M. Antonello, E. Barberio, T. Baroncelli +46
SABRE aims to directly measure the annual modulation of the dark matter interaction rate with NaI(Tl) crystals. A modulation compatible with the standard hypothesis in which our Ga…
Response of microchannel plates in ionization mode to single particles and electromagnetic showers
A. Yu. Barnyakov, M. Yu. Barnyakov, L. Brianza +22
Hundreds of concurrent collisions per bunch crossing are expected at future hadron colliders. Precision timing calorimetry has been advocated as a way to mitigate the pileup effect…
Performance of a Tungsten-Cerium Fluoride Sampling Calorimeter in High-Energy Electron Beam Tests
R. Becker, L. Bianchini, G. Dissertori +29
A prototype for a sampling calorimeter made out of cerium fluoride crystals interleaved with tungsten plates, and read out by wavelength-shifting fibres, has been exposed to beams…
Response of microchannel plates to single particles and to electromagnetic showers
L. Brianza, F. Cavallari, D. Del Re +22
We report on the response of microchannel plates (MCPs) to single relativistic particles and to electromagnetic showers. Particle detection by means of secondary emission of electr…
Determining Higgs couplings with a model-independent analysis of h ->gamma gamma
Aleksandr Azatov, Roberto Contino, Daniele Del Re +3
Discovering a Higgs boson at the LHC will address a major outstanding issue in particle physics but will also raise many new questions. A concerted effort to determine the coupling…
Exotic Searches at LHC and Tevatron
Shahram Rahatlou
Successful operation of the Large Hadron Collider has led to more than 1 fb^-1 of data recorded with both ATLAS and CMS detectors by summer of 2011. This large amount of data has a…
Radiation hardness qualification of PbWO4 scintillation crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Group, P. Adzic, N. Almeida +267
Ensuring the radiation hardness of PbWO4 crystals was one of the main priorities during the construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at CERN. The produ…
A Measurement of CP Asymmetry in b->sgamma using a Sum of Exclusive Final States
BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
We perform a measurement of the CP asymmetry in b->sgamma decays using a sample of 383 BB events collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory. We reconstruct…
Study of B Meson Decays with Excited eta and eta' Mesons
The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
Using 383 million BBbar pairs from the BaBar data sample, we report results for branching fractions of six charged B-meson decay modes, where a charged kaon recoils against a charm…
Measurement of the Spin of the Xi(1530) Resonance
The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
The properties of the Xi(1530) resonance are investigated in the Lambdac+ --> Xi- pi+ K+ decay process. The data sample was collected with the BaBar detector at the SLAC PEP-II asy…
Search for CP Violation in Neutral D Meson Cabibbo-suppressed Three-body Decays
BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
Using 385 fb^-1 of e^+e^- collision data collected at center-of-mass energies around 10.6 GeV, we search for time-integrated CP violation in the singly Cabibbo-suppressed decays D0…
Searches for the decays B0 -> l+ tau- and B+ -> l+ nu (l=e,mu) using hadronic tag reconstruction
The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
We present searches for the leptonic decays B+ -> l+ nu and the lepton flavor violating decays B0 -> l+ tau-, where l=e,mu, with data collected by the BaBar experiment at SLAC. Thi…
Measurement of D0-anti-D0 Mixing using the Ratio of Lifetimes for the Decays D0 --> K-pi+, K-K+, and pi-pi+
The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
We present a measurement of - mixing parameters using the ratios of lifetimes extracted from a sample of mesons produced through the process $D^{*+}\to\D^0π^+…
Measurement of the Decay B- --> D*0 e- nubar
The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
Using 226 million BBbar events recorded on the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the SLAC e+e- PEPII storage rings, we reconstruct B- -> D*0 e- nubar decays using th…
Search for CPT and Lorentz Violation in B0-B0bar Oscillations with Dilepton Events
The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert
We report results of a search for CPT and Lorentz violation in B0-B0bar oscillations using inclusive dilepton events from 232 million Y(4S) --> BBbar decays recorded by the BABAR d…