M. Raggi

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20072025

most citedA novel way to search for light dark matter in lepton beam-dump experiments

63 citations · 174 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

hep-ex2025

Searches for hidden sectors using $K^{+} \to π^{+} X$ decays

NA62 Collaboration

Results from the study of the rare decays $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ , $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $K^{+} \to π^{+} γ γ$ at the NA62 experiment at CERN are interpreted in terms…

hep-ex2025★ 9 cited

Search for a new 17 MeV resonance via $e^{+} e^{-}$ annihilation with the PADME Experiment

F. Bossi, R. De Sangro, C. Di Giulio +24

The PADME Experiment at the Frascati DA $Φ$ NE LINAC has searched for a hypothetical particle with mass around 17 MeV, commonly referred to as the X17, using a positron beam incident…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Dark sector searches with high-intensity positron beams in the CERN North Area

F. Arias-Aragón, L. Darmé, R. Gargiulo +6

Dark sector models present a rich phenomenology that requires high-intensity beams and precision detectors for thorough exploration. The NA62 experiment has already published sever…

physics.acc-ph2024

Steering of Sub-GeV positrons by ultra-thin bent Silicon crystal for ultra slow extraction applications

M. Garattini, D. Annucci, P. Gianotti +6

For the first time at the Beam Test Facility of the DAΦNE accelerator complex at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN, 450 MeV positrons have been deflected with high effic…

hep-ex2024

Characterization of the PADME positron beam for the X17 measurement

S. Bertelli, F. Bossi, B. Buonomo +27

This paper presents a detailed characterization of the positron beam delivered by the Beam Test Facility at Laboratori Nazionali of Frascati to the PADME experiment during Run III,…

hep-ex2022★ 19 cited

Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+} \to π^{-} (π^{0}) e^{+} e^{+}$ decays

NA62 collaboration

Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+} \to π^{-} e^{+} e^{+}$ and $K^{+} \to π^{-} π^{0} e^{+} e^{+}$ decays have been performed using the complete dataset collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 20…

hep-ex2021★ 28 cited

Search for lepton number and flavour violation in $K^{+}$ and $π^{0}$ decays

NA62 Collaboration

Searches for the lepton number violating $K^{+} \to π^{-} μ^{+} e^{+}$ decay and the lepton flavour violating $K^{+} \to π^{+} μ^{-} e^{+}$ and $π^{0} \rightarrow μ…

physics.ins-det2020★ 10 cited

Characterisation and performance of the PADME electromagnetic calorimeter

P. Albicocco, J. Alexander, F. Bossi +42

The PADME experiment at the LNF Beam Test Facility searches for dark photons produced in the annihilation of positrons with the electrons of a fix target. The strategy is to look f…

hep-ex2018★ 63 cited

A novel way to search for light dark matter in lepton beam-dump experiments

L. Marsicano, M. Battaglieri, M. Bondì +7

A novel mechanism to produce and detect Light Dark Matter in experiments making use of GeV electrons (and positrons) impinging on a thick target (beam-dump) is proposed. The positr…

physics.ins-det2016★ 20 cited

Performance of the PADME calorimeter prototype at the DA $Φ$ NE BTF

M. Raggi, V. Kozhuharov, P. Valente +10

The PADME experiment at the DA $Φ$ NE Beam-Test Facility (BTF) aims at searching for invisible decays of the dark photon by measuring the final state missing mass in the process $e^+…

hep-ex2016

New Projects on Dark Photon Search

V. Kozhuharov, M. Raggi, P. Valente

Despite the great success of the Standard Model of particle physics the nature of Dark Matter still remains unclear. Recently, the idea of the existence of a hidden sector coupling…

physics.ins-det2016★ 1 cited

Study of the performance of the NA62 Small-Angle Calorimeter at the DA $Φ$ NE Linac

A. Antonelli, F. Gonnella, V. Kozhuharov +3

The measurement of $B R (K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ)$ with 10% precision by the NA62 experiment requires extreme background suppression. The Small Angle Calorimeter aims to provide an efficient…

physics.ins-det2014★ 7 cited

Time over threshold in the presence of noise

F. Gonnella, V. Kozhuharov, M. Raggi

The time over threshold is a widely used quantity to describe signals from various detectors in particle physics. Its electronics implementation is straightforward and in this pape…

physics.ins-det2012★ 3 cited

The large-angle photon veto system for the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS

F. Ambrosino, B. Angelucci, A. Antonelli +19

The branching ratio (BR) for the decay K^+ \to π^+ν\barν is a sensitive probe for new physics. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS will measure this BR to within about 10%. To reje…

physics.ins-det2011★ 9 cited

The NA62 LAV front-end electronics

A. Antonelli, G. Corradi, M. Moulson +22

The branching ratio for the decay $K^{+} \to π^{+} ν ν ˉ$ is sensitive to new physics; the NA62 experiment will measure it to within about 10%. To reject the dominant background from c…

physics.ins-det2011★ 2 cited

The Large-Angle Photon Veto System for the NA62 Experiment at CERN

F. Ambrosino, B. Angelucci, A. Antonelli +19

The branching ratio (BR) for the decay K^+ \rightarrow π^+ ν\barν is a sensitive probe for new physics. The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS will measure this BR to within about 10%…

physics.ins-det2007★ 2 cited

A prototype large-angle photon veto detector for the P326 experiment at CERN

F. Ambrosino, A. Antonelli, E. Capitolo +15

The P326 experiment at the CERN SPS has been proposed with the purpose of measuring the branching ratio for the decay K^+ \to π^+ ν\barν to within 10%. The photon veto system must…

Searches for hidden sectors using K+→π+X decays

Search for a new 17 MeV resonance via e+e− annihilation with the PADME Experiment