activity
20132025
most citedBackground rejection in NEXT using deep neural networks

66 citations · 286 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

28 papers

hep-ex2025

First results of the NEXT-100 detector using Kr decays

NEXT Collaboration, G. Martínez-Lema, C. Hervés Carrete +113

The NEXT collaboration is investigating the double beta decay of Xe using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers, which provide excellent energy reso…

hep-ex2023

High-statistics measurement of Collins and Sivers asymmetries for transversely polarised deuterons

G. D. Alexeev, M. G. Alexeev, C. Alice +183

New results are presented on a high-statistics measurement of Collins and Sivers asymmetries of charged hadrons produced in deep inelastic scattering of muons on a transversely pol…

hep-ex2023

Final COMPASS results on the transverse-spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries in the pion-induced Drell-Yan process

G. D. Alexeev, M. G. Alexeev, C. Alice +180

The COMPASS Collaboration performed measurements of the Drell-Yan process in 2015 and 2018 using a 190 GeV/c beam impinging on a transversely polarised ammonia target. Comb…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

Design, characterization and installation of the NEXT-100 cathode and electroluminescence regions

NEXT Collaboration, K. Mistry, L. Rogers +107

NEXT-100 is currently being constructed at the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc in the Spanish Pyrenees and will search for neutrinoless double beta decay using a high-pressure…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

Demonstration of Event Position Reconstruction based on Diffusion in the NEXT-White Detector

J. Haefner, K. E. Navarro, R. Guenette +108

Noble element time projection chambers are a leading technology for rare event detection in physics, such as for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay searches. Time proje…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 10 cited

The helion charge radius from laser spectroscopy of muonic helium-3 ions

The CREMA Collaboration, Karsten Schuhmann, Luis M. P. Fernandes +37

Hydrogen-like light muonic ions, in which one negative muon replaces all the electrons, are extremely sensitive probes of nuclear structure, because the large muon mass increases t…

physics.ins-det2023

NEXT-CRAB-0: A High Pressure Gaseous Xenon Time Projection Chamber with a Direct VUV Camera Based Readout

NEXT Collaboration, N. K. Byrnes, I. Parmaksiz +116

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay () remains one of the most compelling experimental avenues for the discovery in the neutrino sector. Electroluminescent gas-phas…

physics.ins-det2023★ 1 cited

A Compact Dication Source for Ba Tagging and Heavy Metal Ion Sensor Development

K. E. Navarro, B. J. P. Jones, J. Baeza-Rubio +107

We present a tunable metal ion beam that delivers controllable ion currents in the picoamp range for testing of dry-phase ion sensors. Ion beams are formed by sequential atomic eva…

hep-ex2023

Transverse-spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries of pion and kaon pairs produced in muon-proton and muon-deuteron semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering

The COMPASS Collaboration

A set of measurements of azimuthal asymmetries in the production of pairs of identified hadrons in deep-inelastic scattering of muons on transversely polarised LiD (deuteron) a…

physics.ins-det2022

Test-Beam and Simulation Studies Towards RPWELL-based DHCAL

Dan Shaked-Renous, Fernando Domingues Amaro, Purba Bhattacharya +11

Digital Hadronic Calorimeters (DHCAL) were suggested for future Colliders as part of the particle-flow concept. Though studied mainly with Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC), studies f…

physics.ins-det2022

Development of a real-time tritium-in-water monitor

C. D. R. Azevedo, A. Baeza, E. Chauveau +9

In this paper, we report the development and performance of a detector module envisaging a tritium-in-water real-time activity monitor. The monitor is based on modular detection un…

physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

Simulation results on a real-time in water tritium monitor

C. D. R. Azevedo, A. Baeza, E. Chauveau +8

In this work we present simulation results for a modular tritium in-water real-time monitor. The system allows for scalability in order to achieve the required sensitivity. The mod…

physics.ins-det2019★ 1 cited

TRITIUM - A Real-Time Tritium Monitor System for Water Quality Surveillance

C. D. R. Azevedo, A. Baeza, M. Bras +17

In this work the development results of the TRITIUM project is presented. The main objective of the project is the construction of a near real-time monitor for low activity tritium…

hep-ex2018★ 22 cited

Measurement of -weighted Sivers asymmetries in leptoproduction of hadrons

M. G. Alexeev, G. D. Alexeev, A. Amoroso +209

The transverse spin asymmetries measured in semi-inclusive leptoproduction of hadrons, when weighted with the hadron transverse momentum , allow for the extraction of importan…

physics.med-ph2018

An EDUGATE simulation toolkit based on the educational easyPET

P. M. M. Correia, J. Menoita, A. L. M. Silva +2

EasyPET is a new concept of a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner using an innovative acquisition method based on two rotation axes for the movement of detector pairs. Due t…

physics.ins-det2017★ 22 cited

Simulation of gain stability of THGEM gas-avalanche particle detectors

P. M. M. Correia, M. Pitt, C. D. R. Azevedo +6

Charging-up processes affecting gain stability in Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEM) were studied with a dedicated simulation toolkit. Integrated with Garfield++, it provides a…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 8 cited

Line shape analysis of the K transition in muonic hydrogen

D. S. Covita, D. F. Anagnostopoulos, H. Fuhrmann +19

The K transition in muonic hydrogen was measured with a high-resolution crystal spectrometer. The spectrum is shown to be sensitive to the ground-state hyperfine splitting, the…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 5 cited

The proton radius puzzle

J. J. Krauth, K. Schuhmann, M. Abdou Ahmed +49

High-precision measurements of the proton radius from laser spectroscopy of muonic hydrogen demonstrated up to six standard deviations smaller values than obtained from electron-pr…

hep-ex2017★ 34 cited

First measurement of the Sivers asymmetry for gluons from SIDIS data

C. Adolph, M. Aghasyan, R. Akhunzyanov +223

The Sivers function describes the correlation between the transverse spin of a nucleon and the transverse motion of its partons. It was extracted from measurements of the azimuthal…

physics.ins-det2016★ 66 cited

Background rejection in NEXT using deep neural networks

NEXT Collaboration, J. Renner, A. Farbin +64

We investigate the potential of using deep learning techniques to reject background events in searches for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure xenon time projection c…

physics.atom-ph2016

Laser Spectroscopy of Muonic Atoms and Ions

Randolf Pohl, François Nez, Luis M. P. Fernandes +44

Laser spectroscopy of the Lamb shift (2S-2P energy difference) in light muonic atoms or ions, in which one negative muon is bound to a nucleus, has been performed. The measur…

physics.ins-det2016★ 9 cited

In-beam evaluation of a medium-size Resistive-Plate WELL gaseous particle detector

L. Moleri, F. D. Amaro, L. Arazi +10

In-beam evaluation of a fully-equipped medium-size 3030 cm Resistive Plate WELL (RPWELL) detector is presented. It consists here of a single element gas-avalanche multi…

physics.ins-det2016★ 19 cited

THGEM gain calculations using Garfield++: Solving discrepancies between the simulation and experimental data

C. D. R. Azevedo, P. M. Correia, L. F. N. D. Carramate +2

Discrepancies between the measured and simulated gain in Thick Micropatterned gaseous detectors (MPGD), namely THGEM, have been observed by several groups. In order to simulate the…

physics.atom-ph2015★ 24 cited

Experiments towards resolving the proton charge radius puzzle

A. Antognini, K. Schuhmann, F. D. Amaro +34

We review the status of the proton charge radius puzzle. Emphasis is given to the various experiments initiated to resolve the conflict between the muonic hydrogen results and the…