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Atmospheric effects on cosmic-ray muon rate at high latitude (78.9°N)
M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini +71
Since 2019, three scintillator detectors of the EEE collaboration have been continuously measuring cosmic muon rates at 78.9°N at the Ny-Ålesund Research Station (Svalbard). The re…
Sensor operating point calibration and monitoring of the ALICE Inner Tracking System during LHC Run 3
D. Agguiaro, G. Aglieri Rinella, L. Aglietta +285
The new Inner Tracking System (ITS2) of the ALICE experiment began operation in 2021 with the start of LHC Run 3. Compared to its predecessor, ITS2 offers substantial improvements…
First results on new helium based eco-gas mixtures for the Extreme Energy Events Project
M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini +58
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project, a joint project of the Centro Fermi (Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche "E.Fermi") and INFN, has a dual purpose: a scient…
Ecological transition for the gas mixtures of the MRPC cosmic ray telescopes of the EEE Project
C. Ripoli, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +62
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Collaboration is fully involved in an ecological transition. The use of the standard gas mixture, \ce{C_{2}H_{2}F_{4}}+ \ce{SF_{6}}, has stopped in…
Three years of muography at Mount Etna: results and perspectives
G. Gallo, D. Lo Presti, D. L. Bonanno +6
The Summit Craters system represents the point of maximum expression of the persistent tectonic activity at Mount Etna Volcano. The Muography of Etna Volcano (MEV) Project began in…
First demonstration of in-beam performance of bent Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors
ALICE ITS project, :, G. Aglieri Rinella +250
A novel approach for designing the next generation of vertex detectors foresees to employ wafer-scale sensors that can be bent to truly cylindrical geometries after thinning them t…
The cosmic muon and detector simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment
M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini, L. Baldini +60
This paper describes the simulation framework of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment. EEE is a network of cosmic muon trackers, each made of three Multi-gap Resistive Plate…
Characteristics and performance of the Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers of the EEE experiment
F. Coccetti, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +61
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) experiment, dedicated to the study of secondary cosmic rays, is arguably the largest detector system in the world implemented by Multigap Resistive…
Strategies to reduce the environmental impact in the MRPC array of the EEE experiment
M. P. Panetta, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +61
The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project employs Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) for studying the secondary cosmic ray muons in Extensive Air Showers. The array consists of…
MRPC Telescope Simulation for the Extreme Energy Events Experiment
G. Mandaglio, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +61
A simulation tool based on GEMC framework to describe the MRPC telescope of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project is presented. The EEE experiment is mainly devoted to the study…
Handling missing data in a neural network approach for the identification of charged particles in a multilayer detector
S. Riggi, D. Riggi, F. Riggi
Identification of charged particles in a multilayer detector by the energy loss technique may also be achieved by the use of a neural network. The performance of the network become…
The MEV project: design and testing of a new high-resolution telescope for Muography of Etna Volcano
D. Lo Presti, G. Gallo, D. L. Bonanno +12
The MEV project aims at developing a muon telescope expressly designed for the muography of Etna Volcano. In particular, one of the active craters in the summit area of the volcano…
Analysis of the apparent nuclear modification in peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV
ALICE Collaboration
Charged-particle spectra at midrapidity are measured in Pb-Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon pair = 5.02 TeV and presented in centr…
The Extreme Energy Events HECR array: status and perspectives
I. Gnesi, M. Abbrescia, C. Avanzini +65
The Extreme Energy Events Project is a synchronous sparse array of 52 tracking detectors for studying High Energy Cosmic Rays (HECR) and Cosmic Rays-related phenomena. The observat…
INFN What Next: Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
A. Dainese, E. Scomparin, G. Usai +138
This document was prepared by the community that is active in Italy, within INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), in the field of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. T…
Muon tomography imaging algorithms for nuclear threat detection inside large volume containers with the Muon Portal detector
S. Riggi, V. Antonuccio-Delogu, M. Bandieramonte +9
Muon tomographic visualization techniques try to reconstruct a 3D image as close as possible to the real localization of the objects being probed. Statistical algorithms under test…
ALICE EMCal Physics Performance Report
Rene Bellwied
The ALICE detector at the LHC (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) will carry out comprehensive measurements of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, in order to study QCD matter un…
Strangeness enhancements at central rapidity in 40 A GeV/c Pb-Pb collisions
The NA57 Collaboration, F. Antinori
Results are presented on neutral kaon, hyperon and antihyperon production in Pb-Pb and p-Be interactions at 40 GeV/c per nucleon. The enhancement pattern follows the same hierarchy…
Performance of prototypes for the ALICE electromagnetic calorimeter
The ALICE EMCal group
The performance of prototypes for the ALICE electromagnetic sampling calorimeter has been studied in test beam measurements at FNAL and CERN. A array of final design mod…
Expansion dynamics of Pb-Pb collisions at 40 A GeV/c viewed by negatively charged hadrons
The NA57 Collaboration
In this paper we present results on transverse mass spectra and Hanbury-Brown and Twiss correlation functions of negatively charged hadrons, which are expected to be mostly negativ…
Transverse dynamics of Pb-Pb collisions at 40 A GeV/c viewed by strange hadrons
The NA57 Collaboration
The transverse mass spectra of K0s, Lambda, Xi and Omega particles produced in Pb-Pb collisions at 40 A GeV/c have been studied for a sample of events corresponding to the most cen…
Beam Test Performance and Simulation of Prototypes for the ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector
Jan Conrad
The silicon pixel detector (SPD) of the ALICE experiment in preparation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is designed to provide the precise vertex reconstruction needed f…
Central-to-peripheral nuclear modification factors in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt{s_NN} = 17.3 GeV
NA57 Collaboration
We present central-to-peripheral nuclear modification factors, R_CP, for the p_T distributions of K^0_S, Lambda, Anti-Lambda, and negatively charged particles, measured at central…
Multiplicity of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at SPS energies
The NA57 collaboration
The multiplicity of charged particles in the central rapidity region has been measured by the NA57 experiment in Pb--Pb collisions at the CERN SPS at two beam momenta: 158 A GeV/{\…