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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…
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…
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"…
CUORE Opens the Door to Tonne-scale Cryogenics Experiments
CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino +206
The past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good energy resolution - comparab…
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…
Test and characterization of 400 Hamamatsu R5912-MOD photomultiplier tubes for the ICARUS T600 detector
M. Babicz, L. Bagby, B. Baibussinov +35
ICARUS T600 will be operated as far detector of the Short Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab (USA), which foresees three liquid argon time projection chambers along the Booster…
An innovative technique for TPB deposition on convex window photomultiplier tubes
M. Bonesini, T. Cervi, A. Falcone +13
Tetraphenyl-butadiene (TPB) is an organic fluorescent chemical compound generally used as wavelength shifter thanks to its extremely high efficiency to convert ultra-violet photons…
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…
The Single-Phase ProtoDUNE Technical Design Report
B. Abi, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +824
ProtoDUNE-SP is the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype that is under construction and will be operated at the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) starting in 2018. ProtoDUNE-SP, a cr…
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…
CUORE-0 detector: design, construction and operation
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +151
The CUORE experiment will search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Te with an array of 988 TeO bolometers arranged in 19 towers. CUORE-0, the first tower assembled…
Steps towards the hyperfine splitting measurement of the muonic hydrogen ground state: pulsed muon beam and detection system characterization
A. Adamczak, G. Baccolo, D. Bakalov +52
The high precision measurement of the hyperfine splitting of the muonic-hydrogen atom ground state with pulsed and intense muon beam requires careful technological choices both in…
Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +151
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requ…
Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +142
The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at…