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First operation of the FAMU experiment at the RIKEN-RAL high intensity muon beam facility
FAMU Collaboration, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +40
The FAMU experiment, supported and funded by the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), aims to perform the first…
The muon beam monitor for the FAMU experiment: design, simulation, test and operation
R. Rossini, G. Baldazzi, S. Banfi +35
FAMU is an INFN-led muonic atom physics experiment based at the RIKEN-RAL muon facility at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (United Kingdom). The aim of FAMU is to measure the hype…
Investigating the Proton Structure: The FAMU experiment
A. Vacchi, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +46
The article gives the motivations for the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the ground state of muonic hydrogen to explore the properties of the proton at low momentu…
Status of the detector setup for the FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL for a precision measurement of the Zemach radius of the proton in muonic hydrogen
R. Rossini, A. Adamczak, D. Bakalov +46
The FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL is a muonic atom experiment with the aim to determine the Zemach radius of the proton by measuring the 1s hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen. T…
Characterisation of a low-momentum high-rate muon beam monitor for the FAMU experiment at the CNAO-XPR beam facility
Riccardo Rossini, Roberto Benocci, Roberto Bertoni +17
The FAMU experiment aims at an indirect measurement of the Zemach radius of the proton. The measurement is carried out on muonic hydrogen atoms produced through the low-momentum (5…
Transverse Emittance Reduction in Muon Beams by Ionization Cooling
The MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +134
Accelerated muon beams have been considered for next-generation studies of high-energy lepton-antilepton collisions and neutrino oscillations. However, high-brightness muon beams h…
ICARUS at the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino Program -- Initial Operation
ICARUS Collaboration
The ICARUS collaboration employed the 760-ton T600 detector in a successful three-year physics run at the underground LNGS laboratory studying neutrino oscillations with the CERN N…
Calibration of the ICARUS cryogenic photo-detection system at FNAL
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +7
The calibration of the ICARUS photo-detection system is based on a low power laser diode at 405 nm. Laser pulses arrive to one optical switch and then are sent to 36 UHV flanges, b…
Large area LaBr3:Ce crystals read by SiPM arrays with improved timing and temperature gain drift control
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +4
Compact X-rays detectors made of 1/2" or 1" :LaBr3:Ce crystals of cubic shape with SiPM array readout have been developed for the FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL. The aim is a precise…
Online control of the gain drift with temperature of SiPM arrays used for the readout of LaB:Ce crystals
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, M. Prata +1
LaB:Ce crystals have been introduced for radiation imaging in medical physics, with photomultiplier or single SiPM readout. An R-D was pursued with 1/2" and 1" LaBr3:Ce crystal…
Multiple Coulomb Scattering of muons in Lithium Hydride
M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +134
Multiple Coulomb Scattering (MCS) is a well known phenomenon occurring when charged particles traverse materials. Measurements of muons traversing low materials made in the MuS…
Detection of low-energy X-rays with 1/2 and 1 inch LaBr3:Ce crystals read by SIPM arrays
M. Bonesini, R. Bertoni, R. Benocci +6
LaBr3:Ce crystals, with photomultiplier or single SiPM readout (up to 3x3 mm) have been introduced for radiation imaging in medical physics. An R&D was pursued with 1/2" and 1"…
Effective exploitation of a geyser bubble-chamber equipment as a background-free fast neutron detector
R. Bertoni, G. Bruno, N. Burgio +10
MOSCAB equipment, a geyser-concept bubble-chamber originally thought for the search of dark matter in the form of WIMPs, is employed for the detection of fast neutrons. Once the ba…
Performance of the MICE diagnostic system
The MICE collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +135
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams of a neutrino factory and for multi-TeV lepton-antilepton collisions at a muon coll…
Measurement of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen in the range 70-336 K
C. Pizzolotto, A. Sbrizzi, A. Adamczak +39
The first measurement of the temperature dependence of the muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen to oxygen was performed by the FAMU collaboration in 2016. The results provide ev…
Test beam characterization of sensor prototypes for the CMS Barrel MIP Timing Detector
R. Abbott, A. Abreu, F. Addesa +196
The MIP Timing Detector will provide additional timing capabilities for detection of minimum ionizing particles (MIPs) at CMS during the High Luminosity LHC era, improving event re…
The laser diode calibration system of the ICARUS T600 detector at FNAL
M. Bonesini, R. Benocci, R. Bertoni +6
The ICARUS T600 LAr TPC is the far detector of the Short Baseline Program at FNAL. As it will have to work at shallow depth in the Booster Neutrino Beam, a large cosmic rays backgr…
First demonstration of ionization cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov, G. Vankova-Kirilova +132
High-brightness muon beams of energy comparable to those produced by state-of-the-art electron, proton and ion accelerators have yet to be realised. Such beams have the potential t…
First measurement of the temperature dependence of muon transfer rate from muonic hydrogen atoms to oxygen
FAMU Collaboration, E. Mocchiutti, A. Adamczak +39
We report the first measurement of the temperature dependence of muon transfer rate from p atoms to oxygen between 100 and 300 K. Data were obtained from the X-ray spectra of de…
First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +133
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam…
FAMU: study of the energy dependent transfer rate
FAMU Collaboration, E. Mocchiutti, V. Bonvicini +53
The main goal of the FAMU experiment is the measurement of the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the 1S state of muonic hydrogen . The physical process behind this exp…
First FAMU observation of muon transfer from mu-p atoms to higher-Z elements
FAMU Collaboration, Emiliano Mocchiutti, Valter Bonvicini +54
The FAMU experiment aims to accurately measure the hyperfine splitting of the ground state of the muonic hydrogen atom. A measurement of the transfer rate of muons from hydrogen to…
MOSCAB: A geyser-concept bubble chamber to be used in a dark matter search
The MOSCAB Collaboration, A. Antonicci, M. Ardid +26
The MOSCAB experiment (Materia OSCura A Bolle) uses the "geyser technique", a variant of the superheated liquid technique of extreme simplicity. Operating principles of the new dar…
Design and expected performance of the MICE demonstration of ionization cooling
MICE Collaboration, M. Bogomilov, R. Tsenov +129
Muon beams of low emittance provide the basis for the intense, well-characterised neutrino beams necessary to elucidate the physics of flavour at a neutrino factory and to provide…