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Kaonic Atom X-ray Spectroscopy: From SIDDHARTA-2 to the EXKALIBUR Program
F. Sgaramella, L. Abbene, F. Artibani +31
X-ray spectroscopy of kaonic atoms offers a unique experimental window on the interplay between low-energy strong interaction and precision atomic physics studies. This article rev…
Pulse-shape discrimination with machine learning for CZT detectors at the DANE beam test facility
Simone Manti, Francesco Artibani, Leonardo Abbene +36
Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors offer versatility, operational simplicity, and room-temperature X- and gamma-ray spectroscopy, making them attractive for collider applicatio…
First measurement of kaonic deuterium X-ray transitions
Massimiliano Bazzi, Francesco Clozza, Carlo Guaraldo +38
The study of the strong interaction among hadrons at low energies remains one of the key challenges in fundamental physics because of its non-perturbative nature, which makes theor…
Atomic correlation effects in collapse-induced spontaneous radiation
Simone Manti, Nicola Bortolotti, Lajos Diósi +2
Collapse models introduce stochastic and nonlinear modifications in the quantum dynamics, predicting observable effects, such as spontaneous radiation from charged particles, which…
High-precision measurement of the kaonic hydrogen 1s level shift and width with SIDDHARTA-2
M. Bazzi, F. Clozza, C. Guaraldo +37
Kaonic atoms provide a unique experimental probe of strong interaction in the low-energy regime. In particular, the strong-interaction-induced shift () and…
First Kaonic Boron Isotopes Measurements with SIDDHARTA-2 at DANE
D Sirghi, M Iliescu, F Sgaramella +35
A precision measurement of X-ray transitions in kaonic boron, performed by the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration at the DANE collider, is reported. The energies and yields of the $5g\ri…
Kaonic Copper and Fluorine Absolute Yields Measurement with a CZT-based Detection System at DANE
Francesco Artibani, Simone Manti, Leonardo Abbene +36
\noindent In this work, new measurements of absolute X-ray yields for several transitions in kaonic copper and, for the first time, in kaonic fluorine are reported. The data were c…
Bound-state QED test above the Schwinger limit with kaonic fluorine
F. Clozza, S. Manti, F. Sgaramella +35
Kaonic atoms, formed when a negatively charged kaon replaces an electron in an atomic orbit, provide access to bound-state quantum electrodynamics (BSQED) in electromagnetic fields…
Probing Nuclear Structure with Kaonic Atoms through E2 Resonance Mixing
Simone Manti, Luca De Paolis, Leonardo Abbene +33
Kaonic atoms provide a unique laboratory to investigate the interplay between atomic, nuclear, and strong-interaction physics. In heavy nuclei, atomic transitions can couple to low…
Experimental exclusion of a generalized Károlyházy gravity-induced decoherence model
Nicola Bortolotti, Kristian Piscicchia, Matthias Laubenstein +4
We report new experimental constraints on the generalized version of the gravity-induced decoherence model originally proposed by Károlyházy. Using data collected by the VIP Collab…
Machine Learning Optimization of BEGe Detector Event Selection in the VIP Experiment
Simone Manti, Jason Yip, Massimiliano Bazzi +19
The VIP collaboration operates a Broad Energy Germanium detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory to measure radiation in the few keV to 100 keV range, aiming to search for sp…
Recent Developments of the VOXES Von Hamos X-ray Spectrometer for Laboratory XES and XAS Studies
Simone Manti, Alberto Clozza, Gabriel Moskal +5
VOXES is a Von Hamos X-ray spectrometer developed at the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati for high-resolution laboratory X-ray spectroscopy in the 5--20~keV range. It uses cu…
CZT Detectors for kaonic atoms spectroscopy
Francesco Artibani, Leonardo Abbene, Antonino Buttacavoli +36
Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors offer excellent room-temperature energy resolution, making them well suited for X- and -ray spectroscopy in challenging environments. With…
Time-based Selection of Kaonic Atom X-ray Events with Quasi-Hemispherical CZT Detectors at the DAFNE collider
Francesco Artibani, Leonardo Abbene, Antonino Buttacavoli +37
This work presents the results of a time-based event selection for searching X-ray signals from kaonic atom X-ray transition using a single quasi-hemispherical Cadmium-Zinc-Telluri…
EXKALIBUR: Towards a Kaonic Atoms Periodic Table to test Fundamental Interactions
Simone Manti, Leonardo Abbene, Francesco Artibani +34
Kaonic atoms, formed when a negatively charged kaon replaces an electron, provide a unique laboratory to test fundamental interactions at low energies. EXKALIBUR (EXtensive Kaonic…
Precision Test of Bound-State QED at Intermediate-Z with Kaonic Neon
S. Manti, F. Sgaramella, L. Abbene +40
We report Dirac-Fock calculations of transition energies for kaonic neon (KNe). For the most intense line, the 7-6 transition, the calculated energy is 9450.28 eV, which includes a…
Fundamental Limits on Clock Precision from Spacetime Uncertainty in Quantum Collapse Models
Nicola Bortolotti, Catalina Curceanu, Lajos Diósi +2
Models of spontaneous wavefunction collapse explain the quantum-to-classical transition without invoking the von Neumann measurement postulate. Prominent frameworks, such as the Di…
Intermediate Mass Kaonic Atoms at DANE
Francesco Artibani, Francesco Clozza, Massimiliano Bazzi +36
The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration aims to measure for the first time the shift and width induced on the level of kaonic deuterium by the strong interaction. In the preliminary pha…
First Linearity and Stability Characterization for CZT Detection System in a ee Collider Environment
Leonardo Abbene, Francesco Artibani, Manuele Bettelli +40
The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration built a new cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT, CdZnTe)-based X-ray detection system, used for the first time in the DANE electron-positron collider at IN…
Kaonic lead feasibility measurement at DAΦNE to solve the charged kaon mass discrepancy
D. Bosnar, L. Abbene, C. Amsler +39
An HPGe detector equipped with a transistor reset preamplifier and readout with a CAEN DT5781 fast pulse digitizer was employed in the measurement of X-rays from kaonic lead at the…
SIDDHARTA-2 apparatus for kaonic atoms research on the DANE collider
F. Sirghi, F. Sgaramella, L. Abbene +41
SIDDHARTA-2 represents a state-of-the-art experiment designed to perform dedicated measurements of kaonic atoms, which are particular exotic atom configurations composed of a negat…
First measurement of kaonic helium-4 M-series transitions
F Sgaramella, D Sirghi, L Abbene +40
In this paper we present the results of a new kaonic helium-4 measurement with a 1.37 g/l gaseous target by the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DAΦNE collider. We measured, for the f…
CdZnTe detectors tested at the DAΦNE collider for future kaonic atoms measurements
A. Scordo, L. Abbene, F. Artibani +42
The SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration at the INFN Laboratories of Frascati (LNF) aims to perform groundbreaking measurements on kaonic atoms. In parallel and beyond the ongoing kaonic deut…
Detecting Iron Oxidation States in Liquids with the VOXES Bragg Spectrometer
Simone Manti, Marco Miliucci, Alessandro Scordo +9
Determining the oxidation states of metals assumes great importance in various applications because a variation in the oxidation number can drastically influence the material prope…