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most citedStrong reduction of the effective radiation length in an axially oriented scintillator crystal

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physics.ins-det2026

Development and Commissioning of the Cryogenic Target Detectors for the Technical Run of the NUCLEUS Experiment

N. Schermer, H. Abele, G. Angloher +57

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to study coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) of reactor electron antineutrinos at the Chooz nuclear power plant in France. In this wo…

physics.ins-det2026

Sensitivity enhancement techniques for cryogenic calorimeters in the NUCLEUS experiment

M. Cappelli, A. Wallach, H. Abele +62

Phonon-mediated cryogenic calorimeters find application in rare event searches due to their intrinsically low energy threshold. Achieving optimal sensitivity for these kinds of det…

physics.ins-det2026

Characterization of the Low Energy Excess using a NUCLEUS AlO detector

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +62

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos using low-threshold, gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters. Similar to other…

physics.ins-det2026

Projected sensitivity to light WIMP-like particles of the BULLKID-DM experiment

Matteo Folcarelli, A. Acevedo-Rentería, L. E. Ardila-Perez +39

BULLKID-DM is an experiment designed for the direct searches of particle dark matter candidates with mass around 1 GeV, or below, and cross-section with nucleons smaller than $10^{…

physics.ins-det2025

Real-Time Readout System Design for the BULLKID-DM Experiment: Enhancing Dark Matter Search Capabilities

T. Muscheid, R. Gartmann, L. E. Ardila-Perez +41

The BULLKID-DM experiment aims to detect WIMP-like potential Dark Matter particles with masses below 1 GeV/c^2. Sensing these particles is challenging, as it requires nuclear recoi…

physics.ins-det2025

Energy calibration of bulk events in the BULLKID detector

M. Folcarelli, D. Delicato, A. Acevedo-Rentería +39

BULLKID is a cryogenic, solid-state detector designed for direct searches of particle Dark Matter candidates, with mass GeV/c, and coherent neutrino-nucleus scatte…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Particle background characterization and prediction for the NUCLEUS reactor CENS experiment

H. Abele, G. Anglogher, B. Arnold +57

NUCLEUS is a cryogenic detection experiment which aims to measure Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENS) and to search for new physics at the Chooz nuclear power pl…

physics.ins-det2025

R&D on a high-performance electromagnetic calorimeter based on oriented crystalline scintillators

M. Soldani, N. Argiolas, L. Bandiera +36

Although inorganic scintillators are widely used in the design of electromagnetic calorimeters for high-energy physics and astrophysics, their crystalline nature and, hence, their…

physics.ins-det2025★ 8 cited

A highly-compact and ultra-fast homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeter based on oriented lead tungstate crystals

L. Bandiera, V. G. Baryshevsky, N. Canale +25

Progress in high-energy physics has been closely tied to the development of highperformance electromagnetic calorimeters. Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility to si…

physics.ins-det2025★ 4 cited

Sub-keV Electron Recoil Calibration for Macroscopic Cryogenic Calorimeters using a Novel X-ray Fluorescence Source

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +61

Percent-level calibration of cryogenic macro-calorimeters with energy thresholds below 100~eV are crucial for light Dark Matter (DM) searches and reactor neutrino studies based on…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

High-Precision Alignment Techniques for Realizing an Ultracompact Electromagnetic Calorimeters Using Oriented high-Z Scintillator Crystals

Lorenzo Malagutti, Alessia Selmi, Laura Bandiera +29

Electromagnetic calorimeters used in high-energy physics and astrophysics rely heavily on high-Z inorganic scintillators, such as lead tungstate (PbWO4 or PWO). The crystalline str…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

Decoupling Pulse Tube Vibrations from a Dry Dilution Refrigerator at milli-Kelvin Temperatures

The NUCLEUS collaboration, A. Wex, J. Rothe +64

With the rising adoption of dry dilution refrigerators across scientific and industrial domains, there has been a pressing demand for highly efficient vibration decoupling systems…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Germanium target sensed by phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors

D. Delicato, D. Angelone, L. Bandiera +13

Cryogenic phonon detectors are adopted in experiments searching for dark matter interactions or coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, thanks to the low energy threshold the…

physics.ins-det2024

Development of nanocomposite scintillators for use in high-energy physics

A. Antonelli, E. Auffray, S. Brovelli +33

Semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) are light emitters with high quantum yield that are relatively easy to manufacture. There is therefore much interest in their possible app…

physics.ins-det2024

Development of crystal optics for Multi-Projection X-ray Imaging for synchrotron and XFEL sources

Valerio Bellucci, Sarlota Birnsteinova, Tokushi Sato +27

X-ray Multi-Projection Imaging (XMPI) is an emerging technology that allows for the acquisition of millions of 3D images per second in samples opaque to visible light. This breakth…

physics.ins-det2023★ 15 cited

Development towards high-resolution kHz-speed rotation-free volumetric imaging

Eleni Myrto Asimakopoulou, Valerio Bellucci, Sarlota Birnsteinova +19

X-ray multi-projection imaging (XMPI) provides rotation-free 3D movies of optically opaque samples. The absence of rotation enables superior imaging speed and preserves fragile sam…

physics.ins-det2023

A Plastic Scintillation Muon Veto for Sub-Kelvin Temperatures

A. Erhart, V. Wagner, A. Wex +59

Rare-event search experiments located on-surface, such as short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments, are often limited by muon-induced background events. Highly efficient muon ve…

physics.ins-det2023

Beam test, simulation, and performance evaluation of PbF and PWO-UF crystals with SiPM readout for a semi-homogeneous calorimeter prototype with longitudinal segmentation

C. Cantone, S. Carsi, S. Ceravolo +15

Crilin (Crystal Calorimeter with Longitudinal Information) is a semi-homogeneous, longitudinally segmented electromagnetic calorimeter based on high-, ultra-fast crystals with U…

physics.ins-det2023★ 2 cited

Absolute spectral metrology of XFEL pulses using diffraction in crystals

Ilia Petrov, Liubov Samoylova, Sarlota Birnsteinova +13

At modern X-ray sources, such as synchrotrons and X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs), it is important to measure the absolute value of the photon energy directly. Here, a method fo…

physics.ins-det2022

Exploring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor neutrinos with the NUCLEUS experiment

The NUCLEUS collaboration, C. Goupy, H. Abele +59

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to perform a high-precision measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) at the EdF Chooz B nuclear power plant in France. CEvNS…

physics.ins-det2022★ 25 cited

BULLKID: Monolithic array of particle absorbers sensed by Kinetic Inductance Detectors

A. Cruciani, L. Bandiera, M. Calvo +15

We introduce BULLKID, an innovative phonon detector consisting of an array of dices acting as particle absorbers sensed by multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs). The dice…

physics.ins-det2022★ 3 cited

A high-performance custom photodetection system to probe the light yield enhancement in oriented crystals

M. Soldani, L. Bandiera, L. Bomben +16

Scintillating homogeneous detectors represent the state of the art in electromagnetic calorimetry. Moreover, the currently neglected crystalline nature of the most common inorganic…

physics.ins-det2020★ 13 cited

Innovative remotely-controlled bending device for thin silicon and germanium crystals

D. De Salvador, S. Carturan, A. Mazzolari +10

Steering of negatively charged particle beams below 1 GeV has demonstrated to be possible with thin bent silicon and germanium crystals. A newly designed mechanical holder was used…

physics.ins-det2018★ 39 cited

Strong reduction of the effective radiation length in an axially oriented scintillator crystal

L. Bandiera, V. V. Tikhomirov, M. Romagnoni +14

We measured a considerable increase of the emitted radiation by 120 GeV/c electrons in an axially oriented lead tungstate scintillator crystal, if compared to the case in which the…