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1. Elemental fragmentation cross sections for a 16O beam of 400 MeV/u kinetic energy interacting with a graphite target using the FOOT ΔE-TOF detectors

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M. Toppi, A. Sarti, A. Alexandrov, B. Alpat, G. Ambrosi, S. Argirò, R. A Diaz, M. Barbanera, N. Bartosik, G. Battistoni, N. Belcari, S. Biondi, M. G. Bisogni, M. Bon, G. Bruni, P. Carra, F. Cavanna, P. Cerello, E. Ciarrocchi, A. Clozza, S. Colombi, G. De Lellis, A. De Gregorio, A. Del Guerra, M. De Simoni, A. Di Crescenzo, B. Di Ruzza, M. Donetti, Y. Dong, M. Durante, V. Ferrero, E. Fiandrini, C. Finck, E. Fiorina, M. Fischetti, M. Francesconi, M. Franchini, G. Franciosini, G. Galati, L. Galli, G. Giraudo, R. Hetzel, E. Iarocci, M. Ionica, A. Iuliano, K. Kanxheri, A.C. Kraan, C. La Tessa, M. Laurenza, A. Lauria, E. L Torres, M. Marafini, M. Massa, C. Massimi, I. Mattei, A. Meneghetti, A. Mengarelli, R. Mirabelli, A. Moggi, M.C. Montesi, M.C. Morone, M. Morrocchi, S. Muraro, F. Murtas, A. Muscato, A. Pastore, N. Pastrone, V. Patera, F. Pennazio, F. Peverini, P. Placidi, M. Pullia, L. Ramello, C. Reidel, R. Ridolfi, V. Rosso, C. Sanelli, G. Sartorelli, O. Sato, S. Savazzi, L. Scavarda, A. Schiavi, C. Schuy, E. Scifoni, A. Sciubba, A. Sécher, M. Selvi, L. Servoli, G. Silvestre, M. Sitta, R. Spighi, E. Spiriti, G. Sportelli, A. Stahl, S. Tomassini, F. Tommasino, V. Tioukov, G. Traini, A. Trigilio, S.M. Valle, M. Vanstalle, U. Weber, R. Zarrella, A. Zoccoli, and M. Villa

Subjects
fragmentation, cross section, timing detectors, particle therapy, space radioprotection, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The study of nuclear fragmentation plays a central role in many important applications: from the study of Particle Therapy (PT) up to radiation protection for space (RPS) missions and the design of shielding for nuclear reactors. The FragmentatiOn Of Target (FOOT) collaboration aims to study the nuclear reactions that describe the interactions with matter of different light ions (like H1, He4, C12, O16) of interest for such applications, performing double differential fragmentation cross section measurements in the energy range of interest for PT and RPS. In this manuscript, we present the analysis of the data collected in the interactions of an oxygen ion beam of 400 MeV/u with a graphite target using a partial FOOT setup, at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research facility in Darmstadt. During the data taking the magnets, the silicon trackers and the calorimeter foreseen in the final FOOT setup were not yet available, and hence precise measurements of the fragments kinetic energy, momentum and mass were not possible. However, using the FOOT scintillator detectors for the time of flight (TOF) and energy loss (ΔE) measurements together with a drift chamber, used as beam monitor, it was possible to measure the elemental fragmentation cross sections. The reduced detector set-up and the limited available statistics allowed anyway to obtain relevant results, providing statistically significant measurements of cross sections eagerly needed for PT and RPS applications. Whenever possible the obtained results have been compared with existing measurements helping in discriminating between conflicting results in the literature and demonstrating at the same time the proper functioning of the FOOT ΔE-TOF system. Finally, the obtained fragmentation cross sections are compared to the Monte Carlo predictions obtained with the FLUKA software.

Published
2022
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2. Charge identification of fragments with the emulsion spectrometer of the FOOT experiment

Author

Maria Ionica, Eleuterio Spiriti, P. Carra, N. Bartosik, L. Scavarda, Osamu Sato, Adele Lauria, G. Silvestre, Alberto Del Guerra, Giovanni Ambrosi, Valeri Tioukov, Maria Cristina Montesi, Maria Giuseppina Bisogni, Nadia Pastrone, Alberto Clozza, S. Savazzi, M. Pullia, Alessandra Pastore, Antonio Zoccoli, M. Vanstalle, A. Moggi, E. Bellinzona, V. Lante, Elisa Fiorina, Antonia Di Crescenzo, A. Secher, Ilaria Mattei, Stefano Argiro, Giovanni De Lellis, Antonio Iuliano, Giuliana Galati, Chiara La Tessa, V. Gentile, Gaia Franciosini, Matteo Morrocchi, Luciano Ramello, R. Ridolfi, Giacomo Traini, Silvia Muraro, M. Selvi, Francesco Pennazio, Marco Francesconi, Michela Marafini, Alessio Sarti, A.C. Kraan, Marco Durante, M. Toppi, Pisana Placidi, S. Colombi, F. Raffaelli, C. Finck, Andrey Alexandrov, Christoph Schuy, Valeria Rosso, Adalberto Sciubba, Keida Kanxheri, Behcet Alpat, Nicola Belcari, Leonello Servoli, Sandro Tomassini, Achim Stahl, Angelo Schiavi, Giancarlo Sportelli, Ulrich Weber, Benedetto Di Ruzza, Luca Galli, R. Spighi, E. Iarocci, Martina Laurenza, Roberto Zarrella, Graziano Bruni, Raul Arteche Diaz, S. M. Valle, Y. Dong, Veronica Ferrero, R. Hetzel, Riccardo Faccini, Ernesto Lopez Torres, Silvia Biondi, Giuseppe Battistoni, Mario Sitta, M. Fischetti, Micol De Simoni, E. Scifoni, M. C. Morone, Giuseppe Giraudo, Marco Donetti, Gabriella Sartorelli, Vincenzo Patera, Federica Murtas, Alberto Mengarelli, Francesco Tommasino, E. Fiandrini, Esther Ciarrocchi, Mauro Villa, Matteo Franchini, Piergiorgio Cerello, Cristian Massimi, C. Sanelli, Galati G., Alexandrov A., Alpat B., Ambrosi G., Argiro S., Diaz R.A., Bartosik N., Battistoni G., Belcari N., Bellinzona E., Biondi S., Bisogni M.G., Bruni G., Carra P., Cerello P., Ciarrocchi E., Clozza A., Colombi S., Guerra A.D., Simoni M.D., Di Crescenzo A., Ruzza B.D., Donetti M., Dong Y., Durante M., Faccini R., Ferrero V., Fiandrini E., Finck C., Fiorina E., Fischetti M., Francesconi M., Franchini M., Franciosini G., Galli L., Gentile V., Giraudo G., Hetzel R., Iarocci E., Ionica M., Iuliano A., Kanxheri K., Kraan A.C., Lante V., Tessa C.L., Laurenza M., Lauria A., Torres E.L., Marafini M., Massimi C., Mattei I., Mengarelli A., Moggi A., Montesi M.C., Morone M.C., Morrocchi M., Muraro S., Murtas F., Pastore A., Pastrone N., Patera V., Pennazio F., Placidi P., Pullia M., Raffaelli F., Ramello L., Ridolfi R., Rosso V., Sanelli C., Sarti A., Sartorelli G., Sato O., Savazzi S., Scavarda L., Schiavi A., Schuy C., Scifoni E., Sciubba A., Secher A., Selvi M., Servoli L., Silvestre G., Sitta M., Spighi R., Spiriti E., Sportelli G., Stahl A., Tioukov V., Tomassini S., Tommasino F., Toppi M., Traini G., Valle S.M., Vanstalle M., Villa M., Weber U., Zarrella R., Zoccoli A., De Lellis G., De Lellis, Giovanni, Di Crescenzo, Antonia, Montesi, Maria Cristina, Lauria, Adele, Iuliano, Antonio, and Durante, Marco

Subjects
Materials science, Spectrometer, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics, QC1-999, Settore FIS/07, Analytical chemistry, General Physics and Astronomy, Charge (physics), 01 natural sciences, Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), particle therapy, nuclear emulsion, fragmentation, 0103 physical sciences, Emulsion, ddc:530, Nuclear emulsion, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics
Abstract

Open physics 19(1), 383 - 394 (2021). doi:10.1515/phys-2021-0032, Published by de Gruyter, Berlin

Published
2021

3. THE FOOT EXPERIMENT: FRAGMENTATION MEASUREMENTS IN PARTICLE THERAPY

Author

E. Bellinzona, Nadia Pastrone, Alessandro Pastore, E. López Torres, M. Selvi, L. Alunni Solestizi, Pisana Placidi, E. Iarocci, F. Ferroni, Silvia Muraro, C. La Tessa, M. C. Morone, E. Spiriti, M. Ionica, P. Cerello, Y. Dong, R. Arteche Diaz, A. Zoccoli, A. Secher, Giuliana Galati, V. Lante, Elisa Fiorina, Christoph Schuy, M. De Simoni, M. Vanstalle, Luciano Ramello, K. Kanxheri, Stefano Argiro, S. M. Valle, M. Donetti, M. Garbini, A. C. Kraan, R. Ridolfi, Alberto Mengarelli, Marco Durante, N. Bartosik, A. Moggi, Valeria Rosso, M. Emde, Giacomo Traini, Angelo Schiavi, F. Raffaeli, Niccolò Camarlinghi, M. Pullia, M. Francesconi, G. De Lellis, L. Scavarda, M. Franchini, Mario Sitta, M. Villa, E. Fiandrini, M. Rovituso, Ilaria Mattei, R. Faccini, Alberto Clozza, S. Savazzi, Gabriella Sartorelli, Graziano Bruni, Matteo Morrocchi, Esther Ciarrocchi, Vincenzo Patera, A. Di Crescenzo, A. Sciubba, A. Del Guerra, G. Ambrosi, Valeri Tioukov, M. Fischetti, Veronica Ferrero, E. Scifoni, Francesco Pennazio, Livio Narici, Osamu Sato, Alessio Sarti, Adele Lauria, Francesco Tommasino, S. Colombi, Giancarlo Sportelli, M. G. Bisogni, A. Stahl, V. Gentile, S. Bianucci, R. Mirabelli, Leonello Servoli, U. Weber, Luca Galli, R. Spighi, Nicola Belcari, M. Marafini, A. Embriaco, C. Sanelli, S. Tommasini, C. Finck, Maria Cristina Montesi, P. Carra, G. Silvestre, A. Alexandrov, R. Hetzel, Silvia Biondi, Giuseppe Battistoni, Giuseppe Giraudo, A. Alexandrov, L. Alunni Solestizi, G. Ambrosi, S. Argirò, R. Arteche Diaz, N. Bartosik, G. Battistoni, N. Belcari, E. Bellinzona, S. Bianucci, S. Biondi, M. G. Bisogni, G. Bruni, N. Camarlinghi, P. Carra, P. Cerello, E. Ciarrocchi, A. Clozza, S. Colombi, G. De Lellis, A. Del Guerra, M. De Simoni, A. Di Crescenzo, M. Donetti, Y. Dong, M. Durante, A. Embriaco, M. Emde, R. Faccini, V. Ferrero, F. Ferroni, E. Fiandrini, C. Finck, E. Fiorina, M. Fischetti, M. Francesconi, M. Franchini, G. Galati, L. Galli, M. Garbini, V. Gentile, G. Giraudo, R. Hetzel, E. Iarocci, M. Ionica, K. Kanxheri, A. C. Kraan, V. Lante, A. Lauria, C. La Tessa, E. Lopez Torres, M. Marafini, I. Mattei, A. Mengarelli, R. Mirabelli, A. Moggi, M. C. Montesi, M. C. Morone, M. Morrocchi, S. Muraro, L. Narici, A. Pastore, N. Pastrone, V. Patera, F. Pennazio, P. Placidi, M. Pullia, F. Raffaeli, L. Ramello, R. Ridolfi, V. Rosso, M. Rovituso, C. Sanelli, A. Sarti, G. Sartorelli, O. Sato, S. Savazzi, L. Scavarda, A. Schiavi, C. Schuy, E. Scifoni, A. Sciubba, A. Sécher, M. Selvi, L. Servoli, G. Silvestre, M. Sitta, R. Spighi, E. Spiriti, G. Sportelli, A. Stahl, V. Tioukov, S. Tommasini, F. Tommasino, G. Traini, S. M. Valle, M. Vanstalle, M. Villa, U. Webe, A. Zoccoli, Alexandrov, A., Alunni Solestizi, L., Ambrosi, G., Argirò, S., Arteche Diaz, R., Bartosik, N., Battistoni, G., Belcari, N., Bellinzona, E., Bianucci, S., Biondi, S., Bisogni, M. G., Bruni, G., Camarlinghi, N., Carra, P., Cerello, P., Ciarrocchi, E., Clozza, A., Colombi, S., De Lellis, G., Del Guerra, A., De Simoni, M., Di Crescenzo, A., Donetti, M., Dong, Y., Durante, M., Embriaco, A., Emde, M., Faccini, R., Ferrero, V., Ferroni, F., Fiandrini, E., Finck, C., Fiorina, E., Fischetti, M., Francesconi, M., Franchini, M., Galati, G., Galli, L., Garbini, M., Gentile, V., Giraudo, G., Hetzel, R., Iarocci, E., Ionica, M., Kanxheri, K., Kraan, A. C., Lante, V., Lauria, A., La Tessa, C., Lopez Torres, E., Marafini, M., Mattei, I., Mengarelli, A., Mirabelli, R., Moggi, A., Montesi, M. C., Morone, M. C., Morrocchi, M., Muraro, S., Narici, L., Pastore, A., Pastrone, N., Patera, V., Pennazio, F., Placidi, P., Pullia, M., Raffaeli, F., Ramello, L., Ridolfi, R., Rosso, V., Rovituso, M., Sanelli, C., Sarti, A., Sartorelli, G., Sato, O., Savazzi, S., Scavarda, L., Schiavi, A., Schuy, C., Scifoni, E., Sciubba, A., Sécher, A., Selvi, M., Servoli, L., Silvestre, G., Sitta, M., Spighi, R., Spiriti, E., Sportelli, G., Stahl, A., Tioukov, V., Tommasini, S., Tommasino, F., Traini, G., Valle, S. M., Vanstalle, M., Villa, M., Weber, U., and Zoccoli, A.

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Particle therapy, Materials science, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, medicine.medical_treatment, Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs, Physics::Medical Physics, Media Technology, medicine, Fragmentation (computing), Nuclear Experiment, fragmentation, hadrotherapy, cross section, Settore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali, Ambientali, Biol.e Medicin)
Abstract

Charged Particle Therapy (CPT) is a powerful radiotherapy technique for the treatment of deep-seated tumours characterized by a large dose released in the Bragg peak area (corresponding to the tumour region) and a small dose delivered to the surrounding healthy tissues. The precise measurement of the fragments produced in the nuclear interactions of charged particle beams with patient tissues is a crucial task to improve the clinical treatment plans. The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment is an international project, funded by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), aimed to study the dose released by the tissues and particle beams fragmentation. The target (16O, 12C) fragmentation induced by 150-400 MeV/n proton beams will be studied via the inverse kinematic approach, where 16O and 12C therapeutic beams collide on graphite and hydrocarbon target to provide the cross section on Hydrogen. A table-top detector is being developed and it includes a drift chamber as a beam monitor upstream of the target to measure the beam direction, a magnetic spectrometer based on silicon pixel and strip detectors, a scintillating crystal calorimeter able to stop the heavier produced fragments, and a ΔE detector, with TOF capability, for the particle identification. A setup based on the concept of the “Emulsion Cloud Chamber”, coupled with the interaction region of the electronic FOOT setup, will complement the physics program by measuring lighter charged fragments to extend the angular acceptance up to about 70 degrees. In this work, the experimental design and the requirements of the FOOT experiment will be discussed and preliminary results on the emulsion spectrometer tests will be presented.

Published
2019

4. Measurement of 12C Fragmentation Cross Sections on C, O, and H in the Energy Range of Interest for Particle Therapy Applications

Author

E. Spiriti, P. Cerello, G. De Lellis, Alberto Mengarelli, Angelo Schiavi, M. Francesconi, Nicola Belcari, L. Scavarda, E. Iarocci, F. Ferroni, C. La Tessa, Sandro Tomassini, Cristian Massimi, Giancarlo Sportelli, R. Ridolfi, Nadia Pastrone, A. Embriaco, P. Carra, M. Pullia, G. Silvestre, Silvia Muraro, Giacomo Traini, M. Marafini, M. Emde, S. Colombi, E. Catanzani, G. Ambrosi, A. Di Crescenzo, C. Sanelli, Francesco Tommasino, Francesco Pennazio, Y. Dong, Leonello Servoli, R. Mirabelli, M. Rovituso, Alberto Clozza, S. Savazzi, C. Schuy, Alessio Sarti, A. Del Guerra, Luca Galli, C. Finck, Matteo Franchini, E. Fiandrini, A. Alexandrov, S. M. Valle, M. Ionica, R. Hetzel, Sebastian Hild, Silvia Biondi, Giuseppe Battistoni, Esther Ciarrocchi, Valeria Rosso, Mario Sitta, Maria Cristina Montesi, R. Faccini, A. Stahl, Antonio Zoccoli, V. Lante, Elisa Fiorina, M. Vanstalle, Vincenzo Patera, A. Secher, A. Sciubba, M. Fischetti, M. De Simoni, E. Scifoni, N. Bartosik, Graziano Bruni, Luciano Ramello, M. Selvi, Stefano Argiro, M. C. Morone, A. C. Kraan, Niccolò Camarlinghi, Mauro Villa, L. Alunni Solestizi, K. Kanxheri, Ilaria Mattei, Matteo Morrocchi, V. Gentile, Veronica Ferrero, Osamu Sato, Adele Lauria, M. Donetti, M. Toppi, Pisana Placidi, R. Spighi, Maria Giuseppina Bisogni, Marco Durante, G. Sartorelli, Ulrich Weber, Alessandro Pastore, T. Valeri, E. Lopez Torres, L. Narici, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia (INFN, Sezione di Perugia), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Politecnico di Torino = Polytechnic of Turin (Polito), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Département Recherches Subatomiques (DRS-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi di Ferrara (UniFE), Department of Materials [ETH Zürich] (D-MATL), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Biophysics Department [Darmstadt], Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Bologna, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna (INFN, Sezione di Bologna), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)-Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), University of York [York, UK], Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Dipartimento di Energetica, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Italy, Mattei, I., Bisogni, M. G., Bruni, G., Camarlinghi, N., Carra, P., Catanzani, E., Ciarrocchi, E., Cerello, P., Clozza, A., Colombi, S., De Lellis, G., Alexandrov, A., Del Guerra, A., De Simoni, M., Di Crescenzo, A., Donetti, M., Dong, Y., Durante, M., Embriaco, A., Emde, M., Faccini, R., Ferrero, V., Alunni Solestizi, L., Ferroni, F., Fiandrini, E., Finck, C., Fiorina, E., Fischetti, M., Francesconi, M., Franchini, M., Galli, L., Gentile, V., Hetzel, R., Ambrosi, G., Hild, S., Iarocci, E., Ionica, M., Kanxheri, K., Kraan, A. C., Lante, V., Lauria, A., La Tessa, C., Lopez Torres, E., Massimi, C., Argiro, S., Marafini, M., Mengarelli, A., Mirabelli, R., Montesi, M. C., Morone, M. C., Morrocchi, M., Muraro, S., Narici, L., Pastore, A., Pastrone, N., Bartosik, N., Patera, V., Pennazio, F., Placidi, P., Pullia, M., Ramello, L., Ridolfi, R., Rosso, V., Rovituso, M., Sanelli, C., Sartorelli, G., Battistoni, G., Sato, O., Savazzi, S., Scavarda, L., Schiavi, A., Schuy, C., Scifoni, E., Sciubba, A., Secher, A., Selvi, M., Servoli, L., Belcari, N., Silvestre, G., Sitta, M., Spighi, R., Spiriti, E., Sportelli, G., Stahl, A., Tomassini, S., Tommasino, F., Traini, G., Toppi, M., Biondi, S., Valeri, T., Valle, S. M., Vanstalle, M., Villa, M., Weber, U., Zoccoli, A., Sarti, A., Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Ferrara = University of Ferrara (UniFE), Dipartimento di Fisica [Bologna], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), and Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome] (UNIROMA)

Subjects
Materials science, Proton, Radiation therapy clinical/preclinical evaluation/application studies, Analytical chemistry, Scintillator, scintillators radiation detector, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Radiation therapy studie, 0103 physical sciences, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Range (particle radiation), Settore FIS/04, scintillators radiation detectors for medical applications, Settore FIS/07, Center (category theory), therapy imaging clinical/preclinical evaluation/application studies, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Charged particle, Deuterium, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-MED-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Medical Physics [physics.med-ph], therapy imaging
Abstract

In a carbon ion treatment the nuclear fragmentationof both target and beam projectiles impacts on the dose releasedon the tumor and on the surrounding healthy tissues. Carbon ionfragmentation occurring inside the patient body has to be stud-ied in order to take into account this contribution. These dataare also important for the development of the range monitoringtechniques with charged particles. The production of chargedfragments generated by carbon ion beams of 115-353 MeV/ukinetic energy impinging on carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen tar-gets has been measured at the CNAO particle therapy center(Pavia, Italy). The use of thin targets of graphite (C), PMMA(C2O5H8) and polyvinyl-toluene [plastic scintillator (PS), CbHa]allowed to measure fragments production cross sections, exploit-ing a time-of-flight (ToF) technique. PS detectors have been usedto perform the ToF measurements, while LYSO crystals havebeen used for the deposited energy measurement and to performparticle identification. Cross sections have been measured at 90◦and 60◦with respect to the beam direction. The measured pro-ton, deuteron, and triton differential production cross sectionson C, O, and H, obtained exploiting the target subtraction strat-egy, are presented here as a function of the fragment kineticenergy.

Published
2020

5. FOOT: a new experiment to measure nuclear fragmentation at intermediate energies

Author

M. Pullia, E. Iarocci, Nadia Pastrone, C. La Tessa, M. Emde, M. Rovituso, Alberto Clozza, C. Sanelli, M. C. Morone, A. Di Crescenzo, G. Ambrosi, L. Narici, Giancarlo Sportelli, Veronica Ferrero, Francesco Tommasino, Matteo Franchini, Maria Cristina Montesi, M. Ionica, Stefano Argiro, Niccolò Camarlinghi, R. Faccini, Mauro Villa, Gabriella Sartorelli, Antonio Zoccoli, L. Galli, M. Vanstalle, K. Kanxheri, Christoph Schuy, Esther Ciarrocchi, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, Marco Durante, Valeria Rosso, M. Selvi, Ilaria Mattei, M. Sitta, M. Garbini, Uli Weber, Matteo Morrocchi, Giacomo Traini, Marco Francesconi, Piergiorgio Cerello, Eleuterio Spiriti, Nicola Belcari, S. Brambilla, L. Ramello, R. Hetzel, C. Finck, Andrey Alexandrov, Silvia Biondi, Giuseppe Battistoni, Osamu Sato, Adele Lauria, M. Marafini, Giuseppe Giraudo, R. Mirabelli, R. Spighi, F. Ferroni, Silvia Muraro, Leonello Servoli, Achim Stahl, S. M. Valle, G. De Lellis, Graziano Bruni, Angelo Schiavi, Alessio Sarti, Maria Giuseppina Bisogni, E. Scifoni, Alessandra Pastore, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Valle, S.M., Alexandrov, A., Ambrosi, G., Argirò, S., Battistoni, G., Belcari, N., Biondi, S., Bisogni, M.G., Bruni, G., Brambilla, S., Camarlinghi, N., Cerello, P., Ciarrocchi, E., Clozza, A., De Lellis, G., Di Crescenzo, A., Durante, M., Emde, M., Faccini, R., Ferrero, V., Ferroni, F., Finck, C., Francesconi, M., Franchini, M., Galli, L., Garbini, M., Giraudo, G., Hetzel, R., Iarocci, E., Ionica, M., Kanxheri, K., Lauria, A., La Tessa, C., Marafini, M., Mattei, I., Mirabelli, R., Montesi, M.C., Morone, M.C., Morrocchi, M., Muraro, S., Narici, L., Pastore, A., Pastrone, N., Patera, V., Pullia, M., Ramello, L., Rosso, V., Rovituso, M., Sanelli, C., Sarti, A., Sartorelli, G., Sato, O., Schiavi, A., Schuy, C., Scifoni, E., Sciubba, A., Selvi, M., Servoli, L., Sitta, M., Spighi, R., Spiriti, E., Sportelli, G., Stahl, A., Tommasino, F., Traini, G., Vanstalle, M., Villa, M., Weber, U., Zoccoli, A., Valle, S. M., Bisogni, M. G., Montesi, M. C., and Morone, M. C.

Subjects
Materials science, Tracking detector, medicine.medical_treatment, Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs, Physics::Medical Physics, Bragg peak, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), Hadrontherapy, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, lcsh:Science, lcsh:Science (General), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Particle therapy, cross section, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Projectile, Settore FIS/04, Settore FIS/07, Nuclear fragmentation, Scintillating detectors, Charged particle, Time of flight, Physics::Accelerator Physics, lcsh:Q, Beam (structure), lcsh:Q1-390
Abstract

Summary: Charged particle therapy exploits proton or 12C beams to treat deep-seated solid tumors. Due to the advantageous characteristics of charged particles energy deposition in matter, the maximum of the dose is released to the tumor at the end of the beam range, in the Bragg peak region. However, the beam nuclear interactions with the patient tissues induces fragmentation both of projectile and target nuclei and needs to be carefully taken into account. In proton treatments, target fragmentation produces low energy, short range fragments along all the beam range, which deposit a non negligible dose in the entry channel. In 12C treatments the main concern is represented by long range fragments due to beam fragmentation that release their dose in the healthy tissues beyond the tumor. The FOOT experiment (FragmentatiOn Of Target) of INFN is designed to study these processes, in order to improve the nuclear fragmentation description in next generation Treatment Planning Systems and the treatment plans quality. Target (16O and 12C nuclei) fragmentation induced by –proton beams at therapeutic energies will be studied via an inverse kinematic approach, where 16O and 12C therapeutic beams impinge on graphite and hydrocarbon targets to provide the nuclear fragmentation cross section on hydrogen. Projectile fragmentation of 16O and 12C beams will be explored as well. The FOOT detector includes a magnetic spectrometer for the fragments momentum measurement, a plastic scintillator for ΔE and time of flight measurements and a crystal calorimeter to measure the fragments kinetic energy. These measurements will be combined in order to make an accurate fragment charge and isotopic identification. Keywords: Hadrontherapy, Nuclear fragmentation cross sections, Tracking detectors, Scintillating detectors

Published
2019

6. Ion charge separation with new generation of nuclear emulsion films

Author

E. Bellinzona, Alberto Mengarelli, M. Villa, E. Fiandrini, F. Raffaelli, Y. Dong, M. Ionica, Esther Ciarrocchi, Marco Francesconi, Nadia Pastrone, Francesco Pennazio, P. Carra, R. Spighi, Alessio Sarti, Antonio Zoccoli, M. Pullia, F. Ferroni, Pisana Placidi, M. Vanstalle, G. Silvestre, M. Emde, C. La Tessa, S. Muraro, L. Narici, M. C. Morone, A.C. Kraan, Marco Durante, R. Arteche Diaz, A. Di Crescenzo, L. Alunni Solestizi, Valeria Rosso, A. Secher, Niccolò Camarlinghi, L. Ramello, Nicola Belcari, E. Iarocci, L. Galli, M. De Simoni, Riccardo Faccini, E. Lopez Torres, C. Finck, Mario Sitta, M. Rovituso, G. De Lellis, M. Marafini, Marco Donetti, Gabriella Sartorelli, V. Gentile, S. Bianucci, Vincenzo Patera, Alberto Clozza, S. Savazzi, M. Fischetti, C. Sanelli, S. M. Valle, A. Sciubba, Osamu Sato, Adele Lauria, E. Scifoni, A. Embriaco, M. Selvi, Ambrosi Giovanni, Maria Cristina Montesi, Francesco Tommasino, Matteo Franchini, Veronica Ferrero, S. Colombi, K. Kanxheri, Christoph Schuy, Uli Weber, Leonello Servoli, A. Alexandrov, Achim Stahl, Stefano Argiro, A. Moggi, R. Mirabelli, Ilaria Mattei, Matteo Morrocchi, M. Garbini, R. Ridolfi, Giacomo Traini, L. Scavarda, Eleuterio Spiriti, Piergiorgio Cerello, V. Lante, Elisa Fiorina, R. Hetzel, Alessandra Pastore, Silvia Biondi, Giuseppe Battistoni, A. Del Guerra, Giuseppe Giraudo, G. Galati, N. Bartosik, Valeri Tioukov, Graziano Bruni, Sandro Tomassini, Giancarlo Sportelli, M. G. Bisogni, A. Schiavi, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montesi M.C., Lauria A., Alexandrov A., Solestizi L.A., Giovanni A., Argiro S., Diaz R.A., Bartosik N., Battistoni G., Belcari N., Bellinzona E., Bianucci S., Biondi S., Bisogni M.G., Bruni G., Camarlinghi N., Carra P., Cerello P., Ciarrocchi E., Clozza A., Colombi S., Guerra A.D., Simoni M.D., Crescenzo A.D., Donetti M., Dong Y., Durante M., Embriaco A., Emde M., Faccini R., Ferrero V., Ferroni F., Fiandrini E., Finck C., Fiorina E., Fischetti M., Francesconi M., Franchini M., Galati G., Galli L., Garbini M., Gentile V., Giraudo G., Hetzel R., Iarocci E., Ionica M., Kanxheri K., Kraan A.C., Lante V., Tessa C.L., Torres E.L., Marafini M., Mattei I., Mengarelli A., Mirabelli R., Moggi A., Morone M.C., Morrocchi M., Muraro S., Narici L., Pastore A., Pastrone N., Patera V., Pennazio F., Placidi P., Pullia M., Raffaelli F., Ramello L., Ridolfi R., Rosso V., Rovituso M., Sanelli C., Sarti A., Sartorelli G., Sato O., Savazzi S., Scavarda L., Schiavi A., Schuy C., Scifoni E., Sciubba A., Secher A., Selvi M., Servoli L., Silvestre G., Sitta M., Spighi R., Spiriti E., Sportelli G., Stahl A., Tioukov V., Tomassini S., Tommasino F., Traini G., Valle S.M., Vanstalle M., Villa M., Weber U., Zoccoli A., Lellis G.D., Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montesi, M. C., Lauria, A., Alexandrov, A., Solestizi, L. Alunni, Giovanni, Ambrosi, Argirò, S., Diaz, R. Arteche, Bartosik, N., Battistoni, G., Belcari, N., Bellinzona, E., Bianucci, S., Biondi, S., Bisogni, M. G., Bruni, G., Camarlinghi, N., Carra, P., Cerello, P., Ciarrocchi, E., Clozza, A., Colombi, S., Guerra, A. Del, Simoni, M. De, Crescenzo, A. Di, Donetti, M., Dong, Y., Durante, M., Embriaco, A., Emde, M., Faccini, R., Ferrero, V., Ferroni, F., Fiandrini, E., Finck, C., Fiorina, E., Fischetti, M., Francesconi, M., Franchini, M., Galati, G., Galli, L., Garbini, M., Gentile, V., Giraudo, G., Hetzel, R., Iarocci, E., Ionica, M., Kanxheri, K., Kraan, A. C., Lante, V., Tessa, C. La, Torres, E. Lopez, Marafini, M., Mattei, I., Mengarelli, A., Mirabelli, R., Moggi, A., Morone, M. C., Morrocchi, M., Muraro, S., Narici, L., Pastore, A., Pastrone, N., Patera, V., Pennazio, F., Placidi, P., Pullia, M., Raffaelli, F., Ramello, L., Ridolfi, R., Rosso, V., Rovituso, M., Sanelli, C., Sarti, A., Sartorelli, G., Sato, O., Savazzi, S., Scavarda, L., Schiavi, A., Schuy, C., Scifoni, E., Sciubba, A., Sécher, A., Selvi, M., Servoli, L., Silvestre, G., Sitta, M., Spighi, R., Spiriti, E., Sportelli, G., Stahl, A., Tioukov, V., Tomassini, S., Tommasino, F., Traini, G., Valle, S. M., Vanstalle, M., Villa, M., Weber, U., Zoccoli, A., and Lellis, G. De

Subjects
Health Physics and Radiation Effects, Materials science, QC1-999, General Physics and Astronomy, 29.40.Rg, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Ion, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Charge identification, 0103 physical sciences, charged particles therapy, nuclear emulsions, Nuclear emulsion, ddc:530, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 42.62.Be, Nuclear Experiment, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Settore FIS/04, Physics, Settore FIS/07, Chemical physics
Abstract

In hadron therapy, the accelerated ions, interacting with the body of the patient, cause the fragmentation of both projectile and target nuclei. The fragments interact with the human tissues depositing energy both in the entrance channel and in the volume surrounding the tumor. The knowledge of the fragments features is crucial to determine the energy amount deposited in the human body, and - hence - the damage to the organs and to the tissues around the tumor target. The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment aims at studying the fragmentation induced by the interaction of a proton beam (150-250 MeV/n) inside the human body. The FOOT detector includes an electronic setup for the identification of Z ≥ 3 fragments integrated with an emulsion spectrometer to measure Z ≤ 3 fragments. Charge identification by nuclear emulsions is based on the development of techniques of controlled fading of the particle tracks inside the nuclear emulsion, that extend the dynamical range of the films developed for the tracking of minimum ionising particles. The controlled fading strongly depends on temperature, relative humidity and treatment duration. In this study the performances in terms of charge separation of proton, helium and carbon particles, obtained on a batch of new emulsion films produced in Japan are reported.

Published
2019

7. FOOT CDR V3-1

Author

Alexandrov, Andrey, Ambrosi, S. Argiro, Battistoni, Giuseppe, Belcari, Nicola, Biondi, Silvia, Giuseppina, Maria Bisogni, Bruni, Graziano, S. Brambilla, Camarlinghi, Niccolò, Cerello, Piergiorgio, Ciarrocchi, Esther, Clozza, Alberto, Lellis, Giovanni De, Crescenzo, Antonia Di, Durante, Marco, Emde, Faccini, Riccardo, Ferrero, Veronica, Ferroni, Fernando, Finck, Christian, M. Francesconi, M. Franchini, L. Galli, M. Garbini, Giraudo, Giuseppe, Hetzel, E. Iarocci, M. Ionica, Kanxheri, Keida, Lauria, Adele, Tessa, Chiara La, Marafini, Michela, Mattei, Ilaria, R. Mirabelli, M. C. Montesi, Morone, Maria Cristina, Morrocchi, Matteo, Muraro, Silvia, L. Narici, Paramatti, Riccardo, A. Pastore, N. Pastrone, Patera, Vincenzo, Peroni, Cristiana, Pullia, Marco, L. Ramello, V. Rosso, M. Rovituso, Sanelli, Claudio, Sarti, Alessio, G Sartorelli, O. Sato, Schiavi, Angelo, C. Schuy, Scifoni, Emanuele, A. Sciubba, Selvi, Marco, Servoli, Leonello, Sitta, Mario, R. Spighie, Spiriti, Eleuterio, Sportelli, Giancarlo, A. Stahl, Testa, Marianna, Tioukov, Valeri, Tommasino, Francesco, G. Traini, Valle, Serena Marta, Vanstalle, Marie, Villa, Mauro, U Weber, and Zoccoli, Antonio

Published
2018
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8. Secondary radiation measurements for particle therapy applications: prompt photons produced by

Author

I, Mattei, F, Bini, F, Collamati, E, De Lucia, P M, Frallicciardi, E, Iarocci, C, Mancini-Terracciano, M, Marafini, S, Muraro, R, Paramatti, V, Patera, L, Piersanti, D, Pinci, A, Rucinski, A, Russomando, A, Sarti, A, Sciubba, E, Solfaroli Camillocci, M, Toppi, G, Traini, C, Voena, and G, Battistoni

Subjects
Photons, Proton Therapy, Humans, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Scintillation Counting, Heavy Ion Radiotherapy, Linear Energy Transfer, Helium, Carbon, Relative Biological Effectiveness
Abstract

Charged particle beams are used in particle therapy (PT) to treat oncological patients due to their selective dose deposition in tissues with respect to the photons and electrons used in conventional radiotherapy. Heavy (Z 1) PT beams can additionally be exploited for their high biological effectiveness in killing cancer cells. Nowadays, protons and carbon ions are used in PT clinical routines. Recently, interest in the potential application of helium and oxygen beams has been growing. With respect to protons, such beams are characterized by their reduced multiple scattering inside the body, increased linear energy transfer, relative biological effectiveness and oxygen enhancement ratio. The precision of PT demands online dose monitoring techniques, crucial to improving the quality assurance of any treatment: possible patient mis-positioning and biological tissue changes with respect to the planning CT scan could negatively affect the outcome of the therapy. The beam range confined in the irradiated target can be monitored thanks to the neutral or charged secondary radiation emitted by the interactions of hadron beams with matter. Among these secondary products, prompt photons are produced by nuclear de-excitation processes, and at present, different dose monitoring and beam range verification techniques based on prompt-γ detection are being proposed. It is hence of importance to perform γ yield measurement in therapeutic-like conditions. In this paper we report on the yields of prompt photons produced by the interaction of helium, carbon and oxygen ion beams with a poly-methyl methacrylate (PMMA) beam stopping target. The measurements were performed at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT) with beams of different energies. An LYSO scintillator, placed at [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] with respect to the beam direction, was used as the photon detector. The obtained γ yields for the carbon ion beams are compared with results from the literature, while no other results from helium and oxygen beams have been published yet. A discussion on the expected resolution of a slit camera detector is presented, demonstrating the feasibility of a prompt-γ-based monitoring technique for PT treatments using helium, carbon and oxygen ion beams.

Published
2017

9. The FOOT (Fragmentation Of Target) Experiment

Author

M. Garbini, Angelo Schiavi, Giacomo Traini, Valery Tioukov, Esther Ciarrocchi, Alessandra Pastore, Cristiana Peroni, Luciano Ramello, M. Franchini, M. Vanstalle, M. C. Morone, Niccolò Camarlinghi, Riccardo Paramatti, Nadia Pastrone, Giancarlo Sportelli, M. G. Bisogni, Alessio Sarti, Michela Marafini, C. Sanelli, Emanuele Scifoni, A. Zoccoli, Graziano Bruni, E. Iarocci, C. Finck, Andrey Alexandrov, Gabriella Sartorelli, Vincenzo Patera, M. Selvi, Christoph Schuy, M. Pullia, Piergiorgio Cerello, Maria Cristina Montesi, Sergio Brambilla, Marco Durante, Mario Sitta, Marianna Testa, Valeria Rosso, Eleuterio Spiriti, Silvia Biondi, Giuseppe Battistoni, Stefano Argiro, Keida Kanxheri, Leonello Servoli, Chiara La Tessa, Nicola Belcari, Riccardo Faccini, Marco Francesconi, Livio Narici, Luca Galli, Antonia Di Crescenzo, Francesco Tommasino, Giuseppe Giraudo, R. Spighi, F. Ferroni, Ilaria Mattei, Matteo Morrocchi, R. Mirabelli, Giovanni De Lellis, M. Rovituso, Adalberto Sciubba, Alberto Clozza, Silvia Muraro, Osamu Sato, Adele Lauria, Veronica Ferrero, S. M. Valle, Ulrich Weber, M. Villa, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, medicine.medical_treatment, Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs, Physics::Medical Physics, Bragg peak, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Ion, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Nuclear Experiment, Hadron therapy nuclear fragmentation, Physics, Particle therapy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Projectile, Settore FIS/07, Charged particle, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Beam (structure)
Abstract

Particle therapy uses protons or $^{12}$C beams for the treatment of deep-seated solid tumors. Due to the features of the energy deposition of charged particles in matter, a limited amount of dose is released to the healthy tissue in the beam entrance region, while the maximum of the dose is released to the tumor at the end of the beam range, in the Bragg peak region. However nuclear interactions between beam and patient tissues induce fragmentation both of projectile and target. This has to be carefully taken into account since different ions have different effectiveness in producing a biological damage. par In $^{12}$C treatments the main concern are long range forward emitted secondary ions produced in projectile fragmentation that release dose in the healthy tissue after the tumor. Instead, in a proton treatment, the target fragmentation produces low energy, short range fragments along all the beam range. The FOOT experiment (FragmentatiOn Of Target) is designed to study these processes. Target nuclei ($^{16}$O, $^{12}$C) fragmentation induced by 150-250 MeV proton beam will be studied by means of the inverse kinematic approach: $^{16}$O,$^{12}$C therapeutic beams, at the quoted kinetic energy per nucleon, collide on graphite and hydrocarbons target. The cross section on Hydrogen can be then extracted by subtraction. This configuration explores also the projectile fragmentation of these O and C beams, or other ions of therapeutic interest, such as $^4$He for instance. The detector includes a magnetic spectrometer based on silicon pixel and strip detectors, a scintillating crystal calorimeter able to stop the heavier produced fragments, and a $\Delta E$ detector, with TOF capability, to achieve the needed energy resolution and particle identification. In addition to the electronic apparatus, an alternative setup based on the concept of the "Emulsion Cloud Chamber", coupled with the interaction region of the electronic FOOT setup, will provide the measurement of lighter charged fragments: protons, deuterons, tritons and Helium nuclei. The FOOT data taking is foreseen in the available experimental rooms existing in the presently operational charged particle therapy facilities in Europe, and possibly at GSI. An initial phase with the emulsion setup will start in early 2018, while the complete electronic detector will take data starting in 2019. In this work a general description of the FOOT experiment and of its expected performances is presented.

Published
2017

10. Measurement of charged particle yields from PMMA irradiated by a 220 MeV/u12Cbeam

Author

Fabiano Bini, S. Fiore, E. De Lucia, Michela Marafini, Pablo G. Ortega, Christoph Schuy, Luca Piersanti, Francesco Collamati, Alessio Sarti, C. La Tessa, F. Bellini, E. Iarocci, F. Ferroni, C. Voena, Marco Durante, Ilaria Mattei, M. Vanstalle, R. Faccini, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Piersanti, L., Bellini, F., Bini, F., Collamati, F., De Lucia, E., Durante, M., Faccini, R., Ferroni, F., Fiore, S., Iarocci, E., La Tessa, C., Marafini, M., Mattei, I., Patera, V., Ortega, P. G., Sarti, A., Schuy, C., Sciubba, A., Vanstalle, M., and Voena, C.

Subjects
medicine.medical_treatment, Physics::Medical Physics, LYSO, Dose profile, Bragg peak, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Lyso, Particle identification, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, hadrontherapy, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Radiometry, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Physics, Particle therapy, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, dose monitoring, carbon ion beam, lyso, drift chamber, Carbon, Charged particle, Atomic physics, Monte Carlo Method, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The radiation used in hadrontherapy treatments interacts with the patient body producing secondary particles, either neutral or charged, that can be used for dose and Bragg peak monitoring and to provide a fast feedback on the treatment plans. Recent results obtained from the authors on simplified setups (mono-energetic primary beams interacting with homogeneous tissue-like target) have already indicated the correlation that exists between the flux of these secondaries coming from the target (e.g. protons and photons) and the position of the primary beam Bragg peak. In this paper, the measurements of charged particle fluxes produced by the interaction of a 220 MeV/u carbon ion beam at GSI, Darmstadt, with a polymethyl methacrylate target are reported. The emission region of protons (p), deuterons (d) and tritons (t) has been characterized using a drift chamber while the particle time-of-flight, used to compute the kinetic energy spectra, was measured with a LYSO scintillator. The energy released in the LYSO crystal was used for particle identification purposes. The measurements were repeated with the setup at 60° and 90° with respect to the primary beam direction. The accuracy on the fragments emission profile reconstruction and its relationship with the Bragg peak position have been studied. Based on the acquired experimental evidence, a method to monitor the dose profile and the position of the Bragg peak inside the target is proposed. © 2014 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.

Published
2014

11. Search for diffuse neutrino flux from astrophysical sources with MACRO

Author

Ioannis Katsavounidis, R. Caruso, D. Levin, F. Guarino, G. Sirri, P. Pistilli, B. C. Choudhary, R. Pazzi, S. Petrera, M. Giorgini, D. G. Michael, Maurizio Spurio, A. Surdo, C. W. Walter, F. Cafagna, M. De Vincenzi, E. Kearns, Hyun-Chul Kim, I. De Mitri, F.J. Ronga, C. Satriano, Maximiliano Sioli, C. R. Bower, L. R. Sulak, P. Serra, G. Auriemma, Gregory Tarle, M. Brigida, J. Reynoldson, Teresa Montaruli, C. De Marzo, M. N. Mazziotta, V. Togo, A. Rainò, C. Forti, M. J. Longo, S. Cecchini, Np Longley, R. Steinberg, A. Rrhioua, G. Giacomelli, C. Bemporad, J. A. Musser, C. E. Lane, C. Favuzzi, C. W. Peck, Roberto Bellotti, M. Vakili, D. Martello, L. Patrizii, V. Popa, Yvonne Becherini, A. Di Credico, D. Campana, Fabrizio Cei, R. Antolini, S. Kyriazopoulou, R.M. Heinz, Alec Habig, F. Maaroufi, G. de Cataldo, Donato Nicolo, G. Osteria, G. Battistoni, G. Mancarella, Kate Scholberg, R. C. Webb, M. Ambrosio, E. Lamanna, G. C. Barbarino, C. Bloise, P. Fusco, D. Bakari, R. Nolty, A. Marzari-Chiesa, M. Spinetti, Marco Monteno, Andrea Carlo Marini, L. Perrone, Annarita Margiotta, Eugenio Scapparone, G. Giannini, Barry C. Barish, N. Giglietto, H. Dekhissi, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, C. Orth, O. Erriquez, G. Mandrioli, M. Cozzi, A. A. Grillo, S. Coutu, M. Calicchio, Halina Bilokon, Erik Katsavounidis, S. L. Mufson, V. Chiarella, P. Monacelli, M. Carboni, J. L. Stone, F. Loparco, Paolo Lipari, M. Grassi, J. Derkaoui, P. Spinelli, Kael Hanson, P. Bernardini, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, A. Baldini, O. Palamara, E. Iarocci, Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Auriemma G., Bakari D., Baldini A., Barbarino G.C., Barish B.C., Battistoni G., Becherini Y., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bloise C., Bower C., Brigida M., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Carboni M., Caruso R., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Choudhary B.C., Coutu S., Cozzi M., de Cataldo G., Dekhissi H., de Marzo C., de Mitri I., Derkaoui J., de Vincenzi M., di Credico A., Erriquez O., Favuzzi C., Forti C., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini G., Giglietto N., Giorgini M., Grassi M., Grillo A., Guarino F., Gustavino C., Habig A., Hanson K., Heinz R., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Katsavounidis I., Kearns E., Kim H., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Lane C., Levin D.S., Lipari P., Longley N.P., Longo M.J., Loparco F., Maaroufi F., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Margiotta A., Marini A., Martello D., Marzari-Chiesa A., Mazziotta M.N., Michael D.G., Monacelli P., Montaruli T., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nicolo D., Nolty R., Orth C., Osteria G., Palamara O., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C.W., Perrone L., Petrera S., Pistilli P., Popa V., Raino A., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Rrhioua A., Satriano C., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Serra P., Sioli M., Sirri G., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steinberg R., Stone J.L., Sulak L.R., Surdo A., Tarle G., Togo V., Vakili M., Walter C.W., Webb R., Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Bakari, D, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Becherini, Y, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Brigida, M, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Caruso, R, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, Cozzi, M, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Katsavounidis, I, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Loparco, F, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiotta, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Perrone, L, Petrera, S, Pistilli, P, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Rrhioua, A, Satriano, C, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serra, P, Sioli, M, Sirri, G, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Vakili, M, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., M., Ambrosio, Bernardini, Paolo, Martello, Daniele, DE MITRI, Ivan, Perrone, Lorenzo, Mancarella, Giovanni, Macro, Collaboration, R., Antolini, G., Auriemma, D., Bakari, A., Baldini, Barbarino, Giancarlo, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, Y., Becherini, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, C., Bloise, C., Bower, M., Brigida, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, R., Caruso, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, B. C., Choudhary, S., Coutu, M., Cozzi, G. D., Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C. D., Marzo, I. D., Mitri, J., Derkaoui, M. D., Vincenzi, A. D., Credico, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, A., Grillo, Guarino, Fausto, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, N. P., Longley, M. J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroufi, G., Mancarella, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, D., Martello, A., Marzari Chiesa, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolo, R., Nolty, C., Orth, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, L., Perrone, S., Petrera, P., Pistilli, V., Popa, A., Raino, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, A., Rrhioua, C., Satriano, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, P., Serra, M., Sioli, G., Sirri, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarle, V., Togo, M., Vakili, C. W., Walter, and R., Webb

Subjects
HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, grbs, FOS: Physical sciences, PROPAGATION, Astrophysics, agns, LIMIT, neutrino, AGN, Neutrino oscillation, DETECTOR, Astroparticle physics, Physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, GRB, Solar neutrino problem, Neutrino, AGNs, GRBs, Neutrino detector, Measurements of neutrino speed, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy
Abstract

Many galactic and extragalactic astrophysical sources are currently considered promising candidates as high energy neutrino emitters. Astrophysical neutrinos can be detected as upward-going muons produced in charged-current interactions with the medium surrounding the detector. The expected neutrino fluxes from various models start to dominate on the atmospheric neutrino background at neutrino energies above some tens of TeV. We present the results of a search for an excess of high energy upward-going muons among the sample of data collected by MACRO during ~5.8 years of effective running time. No significant evidence for this signal was found. As a consequence, an upper limit on the flux of upward-going muons from high-energy neutrinos was set at the level of 1.7 10^(-14) cm^(-2) s^(-1) sr^(-1). The corresponding upper limit for the diffuse neutrino flux was evaluated assuming a neutrino power law spectrum. Our result was compared with theoretical predictions and upper limits from other experiments., 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables

Published
2003

12. Precision measurement of σ(e+e−→π+π−γ)/σ(e+e−→μ+μ−γ) and determination of the π+π− contribution to the muon anomaly with the KLOE detector

Author

A. Di Domenico, P. Lukin, S. Mueller, P. Gauzzi, A. De Santis, Marco Schioppa, F. Loddo, O. Erriquez, M. Wolke, W. Kluge, P. Ciambrone, E. Dané, F. Nguyen, D. Babusci, Francesca Curciarello, Barbara Sciascia, W. Wislicki, M. Martini, D. Domenici, G. Felici, F. Ceradini, A. Passeri, Vincenzo Patera, Li Caldeira Balkeståhl, Eryk Czerwiński, Andrzej Kupsc, D. Moricciani, Giuseppe Mandaglio, G. Fanizzi, P. Branchini, J. Zdebik, S. Miscetti, S. Giovannella, J. Lee-Franzini, I. Prado Longhi, R. Versaci, P. De Simone, G. Bencivenni, M. Mascolo, I. Sarra, Cecilia Taccini, V. De Leo, G. Giardina, E. De Lucia, F. Bossi, I. Balwierz-Pytko, Davide Badoni, G. De Robertis, P. Franzini, L. Iafolla, G. Venanzoni, S. Fiore, Tord Johansson, Bo Höistad, L. Tortora, Lena Heijkenskjöld, E. Graziani, Marek Jacewicz, Antonio Budano, A. Ranieri, C. F. Redmer, E. Iarocci, Cesare Bini, F. Happacher, Gianfranco Morello, F. Gonnella, C. Bloise, G. Capon, P. Santangelo, R. Messi, C. Di Donato, Paweł Moskal, M. Martemianov, and Michał Silarski

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Electron–positron annihilation, Hadron, Form factor (quantum field theory), 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Pion, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Lepton, Dimensionless quantity
Abstract

We have measured the ratio cr (e(+)e(-) -> pi(+)pi(-)gamma)/sigma(e(+)e(-) -> mu(+)mu(-)gamma), with the KLOE detector at DA Phi NE for a total integrated luminosity of similar to 240 pb(-1). From this ratio we obtain the cross section sigma (e(+)e(-) -> pi(+)pi(-)gamma). From the cross section we determine the pion form factor vertical bar F-pi vertical bar(2) and the two-pion contribution to the muon anomaly a(mu) for 0.592< M-pi pi < 0.975 GeV, Delta(pi pi) a(mu) = (385.1 +/- 1.1(stat) +/- 2.7(sys+theo)) x 10(-10). This result confirms the current discrepancy between the Standard Model calculation and the experimental measurement of the muon anomaly. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Published
2013

13. Measurement of fragmentation cross sections ofC12ions on a thin gold target with the FIRST apparatus

Author

H. Simon, A. Boudard, D. Juliani, A.H. Kummali, G. Ickert, Piernicola Oliva, Giacomo Cuttone, Paola Sala, D. Nicolosi, A. Brunetti, R. Introzzi, Y. Leifels, Dario Rossi, Christoph Schuy, F. Balestra, M. Toppi, M. A. G. Alvarez, A. Paoloni, Z. Abou-Haidar, E. Iarocci, R. Rescigno, G. Battistoni, N. Randazzo, H. Younis, J. Krimmer, R. Pleskac, S. Leray, Andrea Bocci, C. Scheidenberger, M. Durante, C. Agodi, B. Golosio, Alessio Sarti, F. Marchetto, V. Monaco, R. Sacchi, N. Kurz, S. Tropea, M. De Napoli, Valeria Sipala, S. Salvador, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, T. T. Bohlen, G.A.P. Cirrone, M. Rousseau, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Concettina Sfienti, V. Rosso, Felice Iazzi, E. Spiriti, M. Labalme, M. Vanstalle, J. P. Fernández-García, Roberto Cirio, M. Carpinelli, F. Romano, A. Le Fèvre, Thomas Aumann, M. C. Morone, Ch. Finck, and Luca Piersanti

Subjects
Physics, Particle therapy, Ion beam, Applied physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, medicine.medical_treatment, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, Ion, Nuclear physics, Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), 0103 physical sciences, Electromagnetic shielding, medicine, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract

A detailed knowledge of the light ions interaction processes with matter is of great interest in basic and applied physics. As an example, particle therapy and space radioprotection require highly accurate fragmentation cross-section measurements to develop shielding materials and estimate acute and late health risks for manned missions in space and for treatment planning in particle therapy. The Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy experiment at the Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion research (GSI) was designed and built by an international collaboration from France, Germany, Italy, and Spain for studying the collisions of a C12 ion beam with thin targets. The collaboration's main purpose is to provide the double-differential cross-section measurement of carbon-ion fragmentation at energies that are relevant for both tumor therapy and space radiation protection applications. Fragmentation cross sections of light ions impinging on a wide range of thin targets are also essential to validate the nuclear models implemented in MC simulations that, in such an energy range, fail to reproduce the data with the required accuracy. This paper presents the single differential carbon-ion fragmentation cross sections on a thin gold target, measured as a function of the fragment angle and kinetic energy in the forward angular region (θ≲6∘), aiming to provide useful data for the benchmarking of the simulation softwares used in light ions fragmentation applications. The C12 ions used in the measurement were accelerated at the energy of 400 MeV/nucleon by the SIS (heavy ion synchrotron) GSI facility.

Published
2016

14. Secondary radiation measurements for particle therapy applications: prompt photons produced by $^{4}$He, $^{12}$C and $^{16}$O ion beams in a PMMA target

Author

Riccardo Paramatti, E. Iarocci, Fabiano Bini, A. Russomando, Vincenzo Patera, Silvia Muraro, Alessio Sarti, A. Sciubba, M. Marafini, M. Toppi, P.M. Frallicciardi, G. Battistoni, D. Pinci, E. De Lucia, Carlo Mancini-Terracciano, Francesco Collamati, E. Solfaroli Camillocci, C. Voena, Antoni Rucinski, Luca Piersanti, Giacomo Traini, and Ilaria Mattei

Subjects
Range (particle radiation), Materials science, Particle therapy, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, medicine.medical_treatment, Physics::Medical Physics, Linear energy transfer, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Heavy Ion Radiotherapy, Physics - Medical Physics, Charged particle, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Relative biological effectiveness, medicine, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Irradiation, Medical Physics (physics.med-ph), Atomic physics, Proton therapy
Abstract

Charged particle beams are used in Particle Therapy (PT) to treat oncological patients due to their selective dose deposition in tissues and to their high biological effect in killing cancer cells with respect to photons and electrons used in conventional radiotherapy. Nowadays, protons and carbon ions are used in PT clinical routine but, recently, the interest on the potential application of helium and oxygen beams is growing due to their reduced multiple scattering inside the body and increased linear energy transfer, relative biological effectiveness and oxygen enhancement ratio. The precision of PT demands for online dose monitoring techniques, crucial to improve the quality assurance of treatments. The beam range confined in the irradiated target can be monitored thanks to the neutral or charged secondary radiation emitted by the interactions of hadron beams with matter. Prompt photons are produced by nuclear de-excitation processes and, at present, different dose monitoring and beam range verification techniques based on the prompt {\gamma} detection have been proposed. It is hence of importance to perform the {\gamma} yield measurement in therapeutical-like conditions. In this paper we report the yields of prompt photons produced by the interaction of helium, carbon and oxygen ion beams with a PMMA target. The measurements were performed at the Heidelberg Ion-beam Therapy center (HIT) with beams of different energies. A LYSO scintillator has been used as photon detector. The obtained {\gamma} yields for $^{12}$C ion beams are compared with results from literature, while no other results from $^{4}$He and $^{16}$O beams have been published yet. A discussion on the expected resolution of a slit camera detector is presented, demonstrating the feasibility of a prompt-{\gamma} based monitoring technique for PT treatments using helium, carbon and oxygen ion beams., Comment: Submitted to PMB

Published
2016

15. Study of the time and space distribution of emitters from carbon ion beam irradiation on PMMA

Author

A. Paoloni, S. Fiore, A. Di Domenico, G.A.P. Cirrone, F. Bellini, E. De Lucia, Fabrizio Romano, Francesco Collamati, P. Gauzzi, E. Iarocci, F. Ferroni, C. Voena, Luca Piersanti, R. Faccini, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, Giacomo Cuttone, M. Marafini, C. Agodi, Alessio Sarti, M. De Napoli, and Ilaria Mattei

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photon, Annihilation, Materials science, Proton, Physics::Medical Physics, Bragg peak, Ion, Positron, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Irradiation, Atomic physics, Instrumentation, Beam (structure)
Abstract

Proton and carbon ion therapy is an emerging technique used for the treatment of solid cancers. The monitoring of the dose delivered during such treatments and the on-line knowledge of the Bragg peak position is still a matter of research. A possible technique exploits the collinear 511 keV photons produced by positrons annihilation from β + emitters created by the beam. This paper reports rate measurements of the 511 keV photons emitted after the interactions of a 80 MeV / u fully stripped carbon ion beam at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS) of INFN, with a poly-methyl methacrylate target. The time evolution of the β + rate was parametrized and the dominance of 11C emitters over the other species (13N, 15O, 14O) was observed, measuring the fraction of carbon ions activating β + emitters to be ( 10.3 ± 0.7 ) × 10 - 3 . The average depth in the PMMA of the positron annihilation from β + emitters was also measured, D β + = 5.3 ± 1.1 mm , to be compared to the expected Bragg peak depth D Bragg = 11.0 ± 0.5 mm obtained from simulations.

Published
2012

16. Search for a vector gauge boson in ϕ meson decays with the KLOE detector

Author

Anna Bozena Kowalewska, A. Ranieri, E. Iarocci, A. Di Domenico, Cesare Bini, Barbara Sciascia, M. Martini, C. Bloise, P. Ciambrone, Cecilia Taccini, I. Prado Longhi, Vincenzo Patera, Andrzej Kupsc, P. Franzini, Giuseppe Mandaglio, G. Venanzoni, L. Iafolla, S. Fiore, Bo Höistad, G. De Robertis, Marco Schioppa, A. Sciubba, F. Bossi, E. Graziani, D. Domenici, C. F. Redmer, Davide Badoni, G. Bencivenni, S. A. Bulychjev, L. Tortora, R. Messi, M. Matsyuk, S. Giovannella, G. Felici, Jarosław Zdebik, D. Babusci, F. Ceradini, G. De Zorzi, V. Bocci, Eryk Czerwiński, Marek Jacewicz, I. Sarra, J. Lee-Franzini, I. Balwierz, G. Capon, O. Erriquez, Antonio Budano, A. Passeri, R. Versaci, Michał Silarski, F. Archilli, F. Happacher, Stefania Antonia Stucci, E. De Lucia, Tord Johansson, G. Giardina, D. Moricciani, S. Miscetti, Li Caldeira Balkeståhl, F. Nguyen, Magnus Wolke, P. Gauzzi, V. Kulikov, F. Loddo, Gianfranco Morello, F. Gonnella, E. Dané, P. Branchini, C. Di Donato, M. Mascolo, Paweł Moskal, M. Martemianov, P. Santangelo, Pierluigi Campana, W. Wislicki, A. De Santis, G. Fanizzi, Archilli, F, Ceradini, Filippo, and PRADO LONGHI, Ivan

Subjects
Dark forces, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Meson, Electron–positron annihilation, e+e− collisions, Hadron, Elementary particle, $e ^{+} e^{−}$ collisions, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, gauge vector boson, 010306 general physics, Boson, Physics, Gauge boson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Phi meson, 3. Good health, dark forces, Physics::Accelerator Physics, e+e- collisions, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Gauge vector boson, Lepton
Abstract

The existence of a light dark force mediator has been tested with the KLOE detector at DAPHNE. This particle, called U, is searched for using the decay chain phi-->etaU, eta-->pi+pi-pi0, U-->e+e-. No evidence is found in 1.5 fb-1 of data. The resulting exclusion plot covers the mass range 5, Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures

Published
2012

17. Observation of the rare η→e+e−e+e− decay with the KLOE experiment

Author

E. De Lucia, R. Messi, Marco Schioppa, A. Di Domenico, Flavio Archilli, A. Ranieri, V. Bocci, Paweł Moskal, M. Martemianov, P. Massarotti, Vincenzo Patera, Andrzej Kupsc, C. Bloise, Stefan E. Müller, E. Iarocci, Barbara Sciascia, M. Martini, F. Ceradini, B. Di Micco, A. Sciubba, M. Napolitano, L. Tortora, Michał Silarski, P. De Simone, S. Meola, J. Lee-Franzini, P. Santangelo, G. Felici, O. Erriquez, D. Domenici, M. A. Matsyuk, Marek Jacewicz, I. Balwierz, Claudio Gatti, F. Bossi, I. Prado Longhi, Magnus Wolke, P. Gauzzi, F. Loddo, Gianfranco Morello, M. Moulson, A. De Santis, S. Miscetti, Simona Serena Bocchetta, S. A. Bulychjev, S. Giovannella, C. Di Donato, G. De Robertis, Antonio Budano, T. Spadaro, W. Wiślicki, D. Babusci, G. Venanzoni, G. Xu, R. Versaci, A. Denig, Pierluigi Campana, Davide Badoni, A. Passeri, P. Ciambrone, G. Bencivenni, G. De Zorzi, F. Ambrosino, T. Capussela, Massimo Antonelli, Eryk Czerwiński, I. Sarra, Cecilia Taccini, F. Happacher, Tord Johansson, A. Antonelli, S. Fiore, Bo Höistad, E. Graziani, P. Franzini, Cesare Bini, D. Moricciani, Jarosław Zdebik, E. Dané, G. Capon, M. Palutan, F. Gonnella, F. Nguyen, P. Branchini, M. Dreucci, G. Fanizzi, and V. V. Kulikov

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Branching fraction, Electron–positron annihilation, 0103 physical sciences, Radiation, 010306 general physics, 01 natural sciences
Abstract

We report the first observation of the rare η → e + e − e + e − ( γ ) decay based on 1.7 fb − 1 collected by the KLOE experiment at the DAΦNE ϕ-factory. The selection of the e + e − e + e − final state is fully inclusive of radiation. We have identified 362 ± 29 events resulting in a branching ratio of ( 2.4 ± 0.2 stat + bckg ± 0.1 syst ) × 10 − 5 .

Published
2011

18. Measurements of atmospheric muon neutrino oscillations, global analysis of the data collected with MACRO detector

Author

Giuseppe Osteria, U. Denni, Annarita Margiotta, C. Bloise, P. Fusco, M. Spinetti, G. de Cataldo, Andrea Carlo Marini, D. Bakari, Maximiliano Sioli, C. E. Lane, V. Chiarella, V. Togo, P. Spinelli, Kael Hanson, R. Pazzi, C. Satriano, M. N. Mazziotta, C. W. Peck, J. Derkauoi, M. Giorgini, Gregory Tarle, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, C. W. Walter, E. Kearns, D. Levin, P. Monacelli, E. Iarocci, D. G. Michael, A. Mengucci, G. Battistoni, G. Mancarella, G. C. Barbarino, Maurizio Spurio, S. Coutu, D. Cosson, R.M. Heinz, J. Reynoldson, Teresa Montaruli, C. Forti, Frederic Jean Ronga, M. Grassi, G. Giannini, E. Lamanna, R. Nolty, B. C. Choudhary, M. De Vincenzi, G. Giacomelli, Shahid Manzoor, Roberto Bellotti, S P Mikheyev, A. Rainò, N. Giglietto, R. Steinberg, J. L. Stone, F. Loparco, Alec Habig, M. Vakili, C. Bemporad, F. Maaroufi, F. Guarino, G. Mandrioli, Halina Bilokon, Paolo Lipari, A. Frani, V. Popa, Hyun-Chul Kim, C. Orth, S. L. Mufson, M. Brigida, S. Petrera, R. Antolini, Donato Nicolo, L. Patrizii, A. A. Grillo, M. Ambrosio, M. J. Longo, A. Marzari-Chiesa, Marco Monteno, Yvonne Becherini, Fabrizio Cei, D. Martello, Ioannis Katsavounidis, S. Cecchini, C. Favuzzi, F. Cafagna, A. Di Credico, S. Kyriazopoulou, R. C. Webb, I. De Mitri, C. R. Bower, C. De Marzo, J. A. Musser, L. Perrone, H. Dekhissi, Kate Scholberg, P. Bernardini, M. Carboni, A. Surdo, D. Campana, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, A. Baldini, O. Palamara, B. C. Barish, E. Katsavounidis, L. R. Sulak, Macro, Collaboration, Guarino, Fausto, Barbarino, Giancarlo, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, D., Bakari, A., Baldini, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, Y., Becherini, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, Bernardini, Paolo, H., Bilokon, C., Bloise, C., Bower, M., Brigida, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, M., Carboni, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, B. C., Choudhary, D., Cosson, S., Coutu, G., De Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C., De Marzo, DE MITRI, Ivan, U., Denni, J., Derkauoi, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, A., Frani, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, M. J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroui, Mancarella, Giovanni, G., Mandrioli, S., Manzoor, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, Martello, Daniele, A., Marzari Chiesa, M. N., Mazziotta, A., Mengucci, D. G., Michael, S., Mikheyev, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolo', R., Nolty, C., Orth, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, Perrone, Lorenzo, S., Petrera, V., Popa, A., Raino', J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, C., Satriano, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, M., Sioli, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarle', V., Togo, M., Vakili, C. W., Walter, R., Webb, M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, D. Bakari, A. Baldini, G. C. Barbarino, B. C. Barish, G. Battistoni, Y. Becherini, R. Bellotti, C. Bemporad, P. Bernardini, H. Bilokon, C. Bloise, C. Bower, M. Brigida, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, M. Carboni, S. Cecchini, bF. Cei, V. Chiarella, B. C. Choudhary, D. Cosson, S. Coutu, G. De Cataldo, H. Dekhissi, C. De Marzo, I. De Mitri, U. Denni, J. Derkauoi, M. De Vincenzi, A. Di Credico, C. Favuzzi, C. Forti, A. Frani, P. Fusco, G. Giacomelli, G. Giannini, N. Giglietto, M. Giorgini, M. Grassi, A. Grillo, F. Guarino, C. Gustavino, A. Habig, K. Hanson, R. Heinz, E. Iarocci, E. Katsavounidi, I. Katsavounidi, E. Kearn, H. Kim, S. Kyriazopoulou, E. Lamanna, C. Lane, D. S. Levin, P. Lipari, M. J. Longo, F. Loparco, F. Maaroufi, G. Mancarella, G. Mandrioli, S. Manzoor, A. Margiotta, A. Marini, D. Martello, A. Marzari-Chiesa, M. N. Mazziotta, A. Mengucci, D. G. Michael, S. Mikheyev, P. Monacelli, T. Montaruli, M. Monteno, S. Mufson, J. Musser, D. Nicolo, R. Nolty, C. Orth, G. Osteria, O. Palamara, V. Patera, L. Patrizii, R. Pazzi, C. W. Peck, L. Perrone, S. Petrera, V. Popa, l A. Rain`o, J. Reynoldson, F. Ronga, C. Satriano, K. Scholberg, A. Sciubba, M. Sioli, M. Sitta, nP. Spinelli, M. Spinetti, M. Spurio, R. Steinberg, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, A. Surdo, G. Tarle’, V. Togo, M. Vakili, C. W. Walter, R. Webb, Giannini, Gianrossano, P., Bernardini, G., DE CATALDO, C., DE MARZO, I., DE MITRI, J., Derkaoui, DE VINCENZI, Mario, A., DI CREDICO, Alec, Habig, CHARLES E., Lane, F., Maaroufi, G., Mancarella, D., Martello, A., MARZARI CHIESA, S., Mikheev, STUART L., Mufson, D., Nicolo, L., Perrone, A., Raino, and G., Tarle

Subjects
oscillazione di flavour, Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Neutrini atmosferici, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, MACRO, muon neutrino, Nuclear physics, Muon neutrino, neutrino oscillation, Macro, Neutrino oscillation, Engineering (miscellaneous), Charged current, Astroparticle physics, Physics, neutrino oscillations, atmospheric neutrino, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Detector, esperimento sotterraneo, macro detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Atmospheric neutrino
Abstract

The final analysis of atmospheric neutrino events collected with the MACRO detector is presented. Three different classes of events, generated by neutrinos in different energy ranges, are studied looking at rates, angular distributions and estimated energies. The results are consistent for all the subsamples and indicate a flux deficit that depends on energy and path…length of neutrinos. The no…-oscillation hypothesis is excluded at about 5 standard deviations, while the hypothesis of muon neutrino oscillating in tau neutrino gives a satisfactory description of all data. The parameters with highest probability in a two flavour scenario are maximum mixing and Delta m^2 = 0.0023 eV^2. This result is independent of the absolute normalization of the atmospheric neutrino fluxes. The data can also be used to put experimental constrain on this normalization.

Published
2004

19. Performance of the MACRO streamer tube system in the search for magnetic monopoles

Author

S. Coutu, E. Kearns, A. Rainò, Np Longley, Lawrence Sulak, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, A. Marzari-Chiesa, C. Bemporad, G. Ludlam, C. Orth, V. Chiarella, C. W. Peck, F.J. Ronga, P. Monacelli, L. Patrizii, G. Mandrioli, V. Bisi, E. Lamanna, M. N. Mazziotta, M. Mittelbrunn, R. Baker, Marco Monteno, C. Bloise, M. Goretti, M. Severi, P. Fusco, C. Favuzzi, G. Osteria, S. Parlati, Andrea Carlo Marini, M. G. Castellano, F. Tassoni, G. Battistoni, S. Cecchini, Alec Habig, R.M. Heinz, Roberto Bellotti, C. W. Walter, A. Hawthorne, P. Serra-Lugaresi, R. Nolty, A. Corona, P. Guarnaccia, F. Guarino, Kael Hanson, L. Miller, D. Levin, C. Okada, H. G. Giannini, R. Steinberg, M. Spinetti, J. Reynoldson, Teresa Montaruli, D. G. Michael, Vincenzo Patera, F. Sartogo, C. Forti, C. Eane, M. De Vincenzi, N. D. Pignatano, F. Cafagna, M. J. Longo, Marco Grassi, G. Giacomelli, J. T. Hong, C. Satriano, Donato Nicolo, G. Auriemma, Gregory Tarle, A. A. Grillo, A. Baldini, P. Spinelli, I. De Mitri, S P Mikheyev, C. R. Bower, V. Valente, D. Martello, A. Sciubba, S. Petrera, V. Togo, Paolo Lipari, C. De Marzo, G. C. Barbarino, O. Palamara, M. Ambrosio, Fabrizio Cei, J. A. Musser, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, Eugenio Scapparone, A. Di Credico, R. Antolini, G. de Cataldo, S. Kyriazopoulou, P. Pistilli, R. Pazzi, V. Popa, R. C. Webb, E. Iarocci, Maurizio Spurio, A. Surdo, D. Campana, M. Carboni, J. L. Stone, Barry C. Barish, L. Satta, H. Dekhissi, N. Giglietto, G. Mancarella, Kate Scholberg, R. Liu, M. Calicchio, U. Rubizzo, Halina Bilokon, O. Erriquez, Erik Katsavounidis, P. Bernardini, S. L. Mufson, A. Margiotta-Neri, A. Sanzgiri, Y. Lu, Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Auriemma G., Baker R., Baldini A., Barbarino G.C., Barish B.C., Battistoni G., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bisi V., Bloise C., Bower C., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Carboni M., Castellano M., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Corona A., Coutu S., De Cataldo G., Dekhissi H., De Marzo C., De Mitri I., De Vincenzi M., Di Credico A., Erriquez O., Favuzzi C., Forti C., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini H.G., Giglietto N., Goretti M., Grassi M., Grillo A., Guarino F., Guarnaccia P., Gustavino C., Habig A., Hanson K., Hawthorne A., Heinz R., Hong J.T., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Kearns E., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Eane C., Levin D.S., Lipari P., Liu R., Longley N.P., Longo M.J., Lu Y., Ludlam G., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Margiotta-Neri A., Marini A., Martello D., Marzari-Chiesa A., Mazziotta M.N., Michael D.G., Mikheyev S., Miller L., Mittelbrunn M., Monacelli P., Montaruli T., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nicolo D., Nolty R., Okada C., Orth C., Osteria G., Palamara O., Parlati S., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C.W., Petrera S., Pignatano N.D., Pistilli P., Popa V., Raino A., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Rubizzo U., Sanzgiri A., Sartogo F., Satriano C., Satta L., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Serra-Lugaresi P., Severi M., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steinberg R., Stone J.L., Sulak L.R., Surdo A., Tarle G., Tassoni F., Togo V., Valente V., Walter C.W., Webb R., M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, G., Auriemma, R., Baker, A., Baldini, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, V., Bisi, C., Bloise, C., Bower, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, M., Castellano, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, A., Corona, S., Coutu, G., De Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C., De Marzo, DE MITRI, Ivan, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, H. G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Goretti, M., Grassi, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, P., Guarnaccia, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, A., Hawthorne, R., Heinz, J. T., Hong, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Eane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, R., Liu, N. P., Longley, M. J., Longo, Y., Lu, G., Ludlam, Mancarella, Giovanni, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta Neri, A., Marini, Martello, Daniele, A., Marzari Chiesa, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, S., Mikheyev, L., Miller, M., Mittelbrunn, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicoló, R., Nolty, C., Okada, C., Orth, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, S., Parlati, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, S., Petrera, N. D., Pignatano, P., Pistilli, V., Popa, A., Rainó, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, U., Rubizzo, A., Sanzgiri, F., Sartogo, C., Satriano, L., Satta, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, P., Serra Lugaresi, M., Severi, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarlé, F., Tassoni, V., Togo, V., Valente, C. W., Walter, R., Webb, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bisi, V, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Castellano, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Corona, A, Coutu, S, Decataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, Demarzo, C, Demitri, I, Devincenzi, M, Dicredico, A, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Goretti, M, Grassi, M, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Guarnaccia, P, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Hawthorne, A, Heinz, R, Hong, Jt, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Kearns, E, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Liu, R, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Lu, Y, Ludlam, G, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiottaneri, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzarichiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Mikheyev, S, Miller, L, Mittelbrunn, M, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Okada, C, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Palamara, O, Parlati, S, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Petrera, S, Pignatano, Nd, Pistilli, P, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Rubizzo, U, Sanzgiri, A, Sartogo, F, Satriano, C, Satta, L, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serralugaresi, P, Severi, M, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Tassoni, F, Togo, V, Valente, V, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., Barbarino, Giancarlo, and Guarino, Fausto

Subjects
Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Lattice, Detector, Magnetic monopole, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Time resolution, MACRO, Gran Sasso, Computational physics, Nuclear physics, Tube (fluid conveyance), Macro
Abstract

We describe the techniques chosen to search tor magnetic monopoles using the MACRO streamer tube sub-system. The hardware and the details of the analysis procedures will be discussed also. The results for slowly moving monopoles are reported from a first data taking period using only part of the detector. © 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Published
1995

20. The FIRST experiment at GSI

Author

G. Ickert, A. Bocci, Herbert A. Simon, C. Agodi, Francesco Romano, A. Paoloni, M. Carpinelli, M. Rousseau, Eleuterio Spiriti, Christoph Schuy, C. Finck, C. Scheidenberger, Alessio Sarti, J. Krimmer, Roberto Sacchi, Yvonne Leifels, Valeria Sipala, Z. Abou-Haidar, M. C. Morone, N. Kurz, Luca Piersanti, Felice Iazzi, H. Younis, Piernicola Oliva, D. M. Rossi, Giacomo Cuttone, Marco Durante, M. Labalme, C. Sfienti, J. M. Quesada, L. Stuttge, R. Pleskac, S. Leray, V. Monaco, G.A.P. Cirrone, Antonio Brunetti, E. Iarocci, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, S. Tropea, Paola Sala, M. A. G. Alvarez, J. P. Fernández-García, G. Raciti, María Isabel Gallardo, A. Le Fèvre, D. Juliani, R. Introzzi, Giuseppe Battistoni, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Flavio Marchetto, Thomas Aumann, A. Boudard, M. De Napoli, Nunzio Randazzo, Bruno Golosio, T. T. Bohlen, R., Pleskac, Z., Abou Haidar, C., Agodi, M. A. G., Alvarez, T., Aumann, G., Battistoni, A., Bocci, T. T., Böhlen, A., Boudard, A., Brunetti, M., Carpinelli, G. A. P., Cirrone, M. A., Cortes Giraldo, G., Cuttone, M., De Napoli, Durante, Marco, J. P., Fernández García, C., Finck, B., Golosio, M. I., Gallardo, E., Iarocci, F., Iazzi, G., Ickert, R., Introzzi, D., Juliani, J., Krimmer, N., Kurz, M., Labalme, Y., Leifel, A., Le Fevre, S., Leray, F., Marchetto, V., Monaco, M. C., Morone, P., Oliva, A., Paoloni, L., Piersanti, J. M., Quesada, G., Raciti, N., Randazzo, F., Romano, D., Rossi, M., Rousseau, R., Sacchi, P., Sala, A., Sarti, C., Scheidenberger, C., Schuy, A., Sciubba, C., Sfienti, H., Simon, V., Sipala, E., Spiriti, L., Stuttge, S., Tropea, H., Youni, V., Patera, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pleskac, R, Abou Haidar, Z, Agodi, C, Alvarez, M, Aumann, T, Battistoni, G, Bocci, A, Bohlen, T, Boudard, A, Brunetti, A, Carpinelli, M, Cirrone, G, Cortes Giraldo, M, Cuttone, G, De Napoli, M, Durante, M, Fernandez Garcia, J, Finck, C, Golosio, B, Gallardo, M, Iarocci, E, Iazzi, F, Ickert, G, Introzzi, R, Juliani, D, Krimmer, J, Kurz, N, Labalme, M, Leifels, Y, Le Fevre, A, Leray, S, Marchetto, F, Monaco, V, Morone, M, Oliva, P, Paoloni, A, Piersanti, L, Quesada, J, Raciti, G, Randazzo, N, Romano, F, Rossi, D, Rousseau, M, Sacchi, R, Sala, P, Sarti, A, Scheidenberger, C, Schuy, C, Sciubba, A, Sfienti, C, Simon, H, Sipala, V, Spiriti, E, Stuttge, L, Tropea, S, Younis, H, and Patera, V

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Ion beam, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, medicine.medical_treatment, Nuclear physics, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Scintillator, Elementary-particle, FIRST, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Wire chamber, Dipole magnet, Fragmentation, PARTICLE THERAPY, hadrontherapy, fragmentation, nuclear physics, elementary-particle, instrumentation, experimental methods, Hadrontherapy, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Neutron detection, ddc:530, Gaseous detector, ION-BEAM, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, DETECTOR, Instrumentation, GEANT4, FLUKA CODE, FRAGMENTATION, BENCHMARKING, RADIOTHERAPY, TRANSPORT, Physics, Particle therapy, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Experimental methods, Detector, Settore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali, Ambientali, Biol.e Medicin)
Abstract

The FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) experiment at the SIS accelerator of GSI laboratory in Darmstadt has been designed for the measurement of ion fragmentation cross-sections at different angles and energies between 100 and 1000 MeV/nucleon. Nuclear fragmentation processes are relevant in several fields of basic research and applied physics and are of particular interest for tumor therapy and for space radiation protection applications. The start of the scientific program of the FIRST experiment was on summer 2011 and was focused on the measurement of 400 MeV/nucleon 12C beam fragmentation on thin (8 mm) graphite target. The detector is partly based on an already existing setup made of a dipole magnet (ALADiN), a time projection chamber (TP-MUSIC IV), a neutron detector (LAND) and a time of flight scintillator system (TOFWALL). This pre-existing setup has been integrated with newly designed detectors in the Interaction Region, around the carbon target placed in a sample changer. The new detectors are a scintillator Start Counter, a Beam Monitor drift chamber, a silicon Vertex Detector and a Proton Tagger scintillator system optimized for the detection of light fragments emitted at large angles. In this paper we review the experimental setup, then we present the simulation software, the data acquisition system and finally the trigger strategy of the experiment., This work has been supported by the European Community FP7 - Capacities, contract ENSAR n° 262010. This work was also supported by Junta de Andalucia and the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion Contracts P07-FQM-02894, FIS2008-04189 and FPA2008-04972-C03.

Published
2012

21. Performance of upstream interaction region detectors for the FIRST experiment at GSI

Author

Valeria Sipala, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, C. Finck, M. C. Morone, Felice Iazzi, D. M. Rossi, Z. Abou-Haidar, María Isabel Gallardo, Piernicola Oliva, L. Stuttge, A. Boudard, M. Anelli, J. Krimmer, Herbert A. Simon, Marco Durante, Valeria Rosso, J. M. Quesada, R. Introzzi, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, R. Pleskac, V. Monaco, G.A.P. Cirrone, E. Iarocci, Thomas Aumann, T. T. Bohlen, Francesco Romano, Paola Sala, Flavio Marchetto, A Le F{èvre, A. Paoloni, Nunzio Randazzo, M. A. G. Alvarez, M. Carpinelli, Eleuterio Spiriti, C Sfienti, Bruno Golosio, Yvonne Leifels, A. Bocci, Antonio Brunetti, Giacomo Cuttone, N. Kurz, M. Labalme, Luca Piersanti, M. Rousseau, S. Tropea, H. Younis, C. Agodi, Alessio Sarti, G. Ickert, Christoph Schuy, J. P. Fernández-García, Roberto Sacchi, S. Leray, M. De Napoli, D. Juliani, Giuseppe Battistoni, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Z., Abou Haidar, C., Agodi, M. A. G., Alvarez, M., Anelli, T., Aumann, G., Battistoni, A., Bocci, T. T., Böhlen, A., Boudard, A., Brunetti, M., Carpinelli, G. A. P., Cirrone, M. A., Cortes Giraldo, G., Cuttone, M., De Napoli, Durante, Marco, J. P., Fernández García, C., Finck, M. I., Gallardo, B., Golosio, E., Iarocci, F., Iazzi, G., Ickert, R., Introzzi, D., Juliani, J., Krimmer, N., Kurz, M., Labalme, Y., Leifel, A., Le F{èvre, S., Leray, F., Marchetto, V., Monaco, M. C., Morone, P., Oliva, A., Paoloni, V., Patera, L., Piersanti, R., Pleskac, J. M., Quesada, N., Randazzo, F., Romano, D., Rossi, V., Rosso, M., Rousseau, R., Sacchi, P., Sala, A., Sarti, C., Schuy, A., Sciubba, C., Sfienti, H., Simon, V., Sipala, E., Spiriti, L., Stuttge, S., Tropea, H., Younis, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Abou Haidar, Z, Agodi, C, Alvarez, M, Anelli, M, Aumann, T, Battistoni, G, Bocci, A, Bohlen, T, Boudard, A, Brunetti, A, Carpinelli, M, Cirrone, G, Cortes Giraldo, M, Cuttone, G, De Napol, I, Durante, M, Fernandez Garcia, J, Finck, C, Gallardo, M, Golosio, B, Iarocci, E, Iazzi, F, Ickert, G, Introzzi, R, Juliani, D, Krimmer, J, Kurz, N, Labalme, M, Leifels, Y, Le Fevre, A, Leray, S, Marchetto, F, Monaco, V, Morone, M, Oliva, P, Paoloni, A, Patera, V, Piersanti, L, Pleskac, R, Quesada, J, Randazzo, N, Romano, F, Rossi, D, Rosso, V, Rousseau, M, Sacchi, R, Sala, P, Sarti, A, Schuy, C, Sciubba, A, Sfienti, C, Simon, H, Sipala, V, Spiriti, E, Stuttge, L, Tropea, S, and Younis, H

Subjects
Wire chambers (MWPC, gas and liquid scintillators), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 29.40.Mc, 29.40.Cs, 29.40.Gx, Electron, FIRST, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Wire chambers(MWPC, Thin-gap chambers, drift chambers, drift tubes, proportional, chambers etc), Gaseous detectors, Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors), 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 0302 clinical medicine, chambers etc), Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, drift tubes, Mathematical Physics, Physics, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Carbon-12, Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators), Charged particle, Wire chambers (MWPC, Thin-gap chambers, drift chambers, drift tubes, proportional chambers etc), proportional chambers etc), proportional chambers etc) Particle tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors) Scintillators, Scintillators, article tracking detectors (Gaseous detectors), gas and liquid scintillators) Gaseous detectors, Wire chambers(MWPC, Thin-gap chambers, drift chambers, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Wirechambers(MWPC,Thin-gapchambers,driftchambers,drifttubes,proportional chambers etc), Particle detector, Ion, proportional, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Gaseous detector, ddc:610, 010306 general physics, Settore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali, Ambientali, Biol.e Medicin), Measuring instrument, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Beam (structure), particle tracking detectors (gaseous detectors), scintillators, wire chambers(mwpc, thin-gap chambers, wire chambers (mwpc, gaseous detectors
Abstract

Open Access.-- et al., The FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) experiment at GSI has been designed to study carbon fragmentation, measuring 12C double differential cross sections (∂2σ/∂θ∂E) for different beam energies between 100 and 1000 MeV/u. The experimental setup integrates newly designed detectors in the, so called, Interaction Region around the graphite target. The Interaction Region upstream detectors are a 250 μm thick scintillator and a drift chamber optimized for a precise measurement of the ions interaction time and position on the target. In this article we review the design of the upstream detectors along with the preliminary results of the data taking performed on August 2011 with 400 MeV/u fully stripped carbon ion beam at GSI. Detectors performances will be reviewed and compared to those obtained during preliminary tests, performed with 500 MeV electrons (at the BTF facility in the INFN Frascati Laboratories) and 80 MeV/u protons and carbon ions (at the INFN LNS Laboratories in Catania)., This work has been supported by the European Community FP7 - Capacities, contract ENSAR nº 262010. This work was also supported by Junta de Andalucia and the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion Contracts P07-FQM-02894, FIS2008-04189 and FPA2008-04972-C03.

Published
2012

22. Nuclearite search with the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso

Author

M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, C. Aramo, G. Auriemma, A. Baldini, G. C. Barbarino, B. C. Barish, G. Battistoni, R. Bellotti, C. Bemporad, H. Bilokon, V. Bisi, C. Bloise, C. Bower, S. Bussino, F. Cafagna, M. Calicchio, D. Campana, M. Carboni, M. Castellano, S. Cecchini, F. Cei, V. Chiarella, B. C. Choudhary, S. Coutu, L. D. Benedictis, G. D. Cataldo, H. Dekhissi, E. D. Marzo, J. Derkaoui, M. D. Vincenzi, A. D. Credico, O. Erriquez, C. Favuzzi, C. Forti, P. Fusco, G. Giacomelli, G. Giannini, N. Giglietto, M. Giorgini, M. Grassi, L. Gray, A. Grillo, F. Guarino, P. Guarnaccia, C. Gustavino, A. Habig, K. Hanson, R. Heinz, Y. Huang, E. Iarocci, E. Katsavounidis, E. Kearns, H. Kim, S. Kyriazopoulou, E. Lamanna, C. Lane, T. Lari, D. S. Levin, P. Lipari, N. P. Longley, M. J. Longo, F. Maaroufi, G. Mandrioli, S. Manzoor, A. Margiotta, A. Marini, A. Marzari Chiesa, M. N. Mazziotta, D. G. Michael, S. Mikheyev, L. Miller, P. Monacelli, T. Montaruli, M. Monteno, S. Mufson, J. Musser, D. Nicolo, C. Orth, G. Osteria, M. Ouchrif, O. Palamara, V. Patera, L. Patrizii, R. Pazzi, C. W. Peck, S. Petrera, P. Pistilli, V. Popa, V. Pugliese, A. Raino, A. Rastelli, J. Reynoldson, F. Ronga, U. Rubizzo, C. Satriano, L. Satta, E. Scapparone, K. Scholberg, A. Sciubba, P. Serra, M. Severi, M. Sioli, M. Sitta, P. Spinelli, M. Spinetti, M. Spurio, R. Steinberg, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, A. Surdo, G. Tarle, V. Togo, D. Ugolotti, M. Vakili, C. W. Walter, R. Webb, BERNARDINI, Paolo, DE MITRI, Ivan, MANCARELLA, Giovanni, MARTELLO, Daniele, PERRONE, Lorenzo, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, C., Aramo, G., Auriemma, A., Baldini, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, Bernardini, Paolo, H., Bilokon, V., Bisi, C., Bloise, C., Bower, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, M., Castellano, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, B. C., Choudhary, S., Coutu, L. D., Benedicti, G. D., Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, E. D., Marzo, DE MITRI, Ivan, J., Derkaoui, M. D., Vincenzi, A. D., Credico, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, L., Gray, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, P., Guarnaccia, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, Y., Huang, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, T., Lari, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, N. P., Longley, M. J., Longo, F., Maaroufi, Mancarella, Giovanni, G., Mandrioli, S., Manzoor, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, Martello, Daniele, A., Marzari Chiesa, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, S., Mikheyev, L., Miller, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolo, C., Orth, G., Osteria, M., Ouchrif, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, Perrone, Lorenzo, S., Petrera, P., Pistilli, V., Popa, V., Pugliese, A., Raino, A., Rastelli, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, U., Rubizzo, C., Satriano, L., Satta, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, P., Serra, M., Severi, M., Sioli, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarle, V., Togo, D., Ugolotti, M., Vakili, C. W., Walter, R., Webb, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Aramo, C, Auriemma, G, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bisi, V, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Castellano, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, De Benedictis, L, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, E, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Gray, L, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Guarnaccia, P, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Huang, Y, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Lari, T, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Manzoor, S, Margiotta, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Mikheyev, S, Miller, L, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Ouchrif, M, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Perrone, L, Petrera, S, Pistilli, P, Popa, V, Pugliese, V, Raino, A, Rastelli, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Rubizzo, U, Satriano, C, Satta, L, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serra, P, Severi, M, Sioli, M, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Ugolotti, D, Vakili, M, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., and M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, C. Aramo, G. Auriemma, A. Baldini, G. C. Barbarino, B. C. Barish, G. Battistoni, R. Bellotti, C. Bemporad, P. Bernardini, H. Bilokon, V. Bisi, C. Bloise, C. Bower, S. Bussino, F. Cafagna, M. Calicchio, D. Campana, M. Carboni, M. Castellano, S. Cecchini, F. Cei, V. Chiarella, B. C. Choudhary, S. Coutu, L. De Benedictis, G. De Cataldo, H. Dekhissi, C. De Marzo, I. De Mitri, J. Derkaoui, M. De Vincenzi, A. Di Credico, O. Erriquez, C. Favuzzi, C. Forti, P. Fusco, G. Giacomelli, G. Giannini , N. Giglietto, M. Giorgini, M. Grassi, L. Gray, A. Grillo, F. Guarino, P. Guarnaccia, C. Gustavino, A. Habig, K. Hanson, R. Heinz, Y. Huang, E. Iarocci, E. Katsavounidis, E. Kearns, H. Kim, S. Kyriazopoulou, E. Lamanna, C. Lane, T. Lari, D. S. Levin, P. Lipari, N. P. Longley, M. J. Longo, F. Maarou, G. Mancarella, G. Mandrioli, S. Manzoor, A. Margiotta, A. Marini, D. Martello, A. Marzari-Chiesa, M. N. Mazziotta, D. G. Michael, S. Mikheyev, L. Miller, P. Monacelli, T. Montaruli, M. Monteno, S. Mufson, J. Musser, D. Nicolo, C. Orth, G. Osteria, M. Ouchrif, O. Palamara, V. Patera, L. Patrizii, R. Pazzi, C. W. Peck, L. Perrone, S. Petrera, P. Pistilli, V. Popa, V. Pugliese, A. Raino, A. Rastelli, J. Reynoldson, F. Ronga, U. Rubizzo, C. Satriano, L. Satta, E. Scapparone, K. Scholberg, A. Sciubba, P. Serra, M. Severi, M. Sioli, M. Sitta, P. Spinelli, M. Spinetti, M. Spurio, R. Steinberg, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, A. Surdo, G. Tarlè, V. Togo, D. Ugolotti, M. Vakili, C. W. Walter, R. Webb

Subjects
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), MACRO, Engineering (miscellaneous), Gran Sasso
Abstract

In this paper we present the results of a search for nuclearites in the penetrating cosmic radiation using the scintillator and track-etch subdetectors of the MACRO apparatus. The analyses cover the beta = v/c range at the detector depth (3700 hg/cm(2)) 10(-5) < beta < 1; for beta = 2 x 10(-3) the flux limit is 2.7 x 10(-16) cm(-2)s(-1)sr(-1) for an isotropic flux of nuclearites, and twice this value for a flux of downgoing nuclearites.

Published
2000

23. Atmospheric neutrino oscillations from upward throughgoing muon multiple scattering in MACRO

Author

M. Carboni, D. Campana, A. Surdo, M. Giorgini, Vincenzo Patera, G. Giannini, C. Bloise, E. Kearns, C. Forti, M. Spinetti, A. Sciubba, S. Cecchini, C. Favuzzi, A. Baldini, A. Rrhioua, G. Giacomelli, M. De Vincenzi, J. L. Stone, O. Palamara, B. C. Barish, N. Giglietto, Mario Sitta, R.M. Heinz, E. Iarocci, C. Satriano, A. Di Credico, Annarita Margiotta, L. R. Sulak, Gregory Tarle, C. Gustavino, S P Mikheyev, Ashavani Kumar, F. Loparco, S. Kyriazopoulou, G. de Cataldo, D. Bakari, A. Rainò, D. Levin, C. Bemporad, R. Caruso, R. C. Webb, E. Katsavounidis, C. Orth, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, P. Serra, V. Popa, P. Bernardini, G. Mandrioli, Tommaso Chiarusi, M. Grassi, Yvonne Becherini, Fabrizio Cei, G. Sirri, C. W. Walter, M. Brigida, Michael J. Longo, Donato Nicolo, Giuseppe Osteria, Kate Scholberg, F. Cafagna, M. N. Mazziotta, D. Martello, Hyun-Chul Kim, A. Marzari-Chiesa, Marco Monteno, A. A. Grillo, Alec Habig, I. De Mitri, M. Cozzi, J. Derkaoui, Ioannis Katsavounidis, F. Maaroufi, G. C. Barbarino, P. Spinelli, Kael Hanson, P. Fusco, C. R. Bower, L. Perrone, Maximiliano Sioli, C. De Marzo, Eugenio Scapparone, R. Antolini, V. Togo, J. A. Musser, H. Dekhissi, Andrea Carlo Marini, Paolo Lipari, M. Vakili, Roberto Bellotti, G. Mancarella, R. Nolty, C. W. Peck, J. Reynoldson, Teresa Montaruli, R. Pazzi, S. Coutu, Frederic Jean Ronga, S. L. Mufson, B. C. Choudhary, Shahid Manzoor, D. G. Michael, S. Petrera, Maurizio Spurio, R. Steinberg, M. Ambrosio, V. Chiarella, M. Calicchio, Halina Bilokon, P. Monacelli, E. Lamanna, G Battistoni, C. E. Lane, L. Patrizii, Barbarino, Giancarlo, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Bakari, D, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Becherini, Y, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Brigida, M, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, E, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Caruso, R, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Chiarusi, T, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, Cozzi, M, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Grillo, A, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Katsavounidis, I, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kumar, A, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longo, Mj, Loparco, F, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Manzoor, S, Margiotta, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Mikheyev, S, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Perrone, L, Petrera, S, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Rrhioua, A, Satriano, C, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serra, P, Sioli, M, Sirri, G, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Vakili, M, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Bakari D., Baldini A., Barbarino G.C., Barish B.C., Battistoni G., Becherini Y., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bloise C., Bower C., Brigida M., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Carboni M., Caruso R., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Chiarusi T., Choudhary B.C., Coutu S., Cozzi M., de Cataldo G., Dekhissi H., de Marzo C., de Mitri I., Derkaoui J., de Vincenzi M., di Credico A., Favuzzi C., Forti C., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini G., Giglietto N., Giorgini M., Grassi M., Grillo A., Gustavino C., Habig A., Hanson K., Heinz R., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Katsavounidis I., Kearns E., Kim H., Kumar A., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Lane C., Levin D.S., Lipari P., Longo M.J., Loparco F., Maaroufi F., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Manzoor S., Margiotta A., Marini A., Martello D., Marzari-Chiesa A., Mazziotta M.N., Michael D.G., Mikheyev S., Monacelli P., Montaruli T., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nicolo D., Nolty R., Orth C., Osteria G., Palamara O., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C.W., Perrone L., Petrera S., Popa V., Raino A., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Rrhioua A., Satriano C., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Serra P., Sioli M., Sirri G., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steinberg R., Stone J.L., Sulak L.R., Surdo A., Tarle G., Togo V., Vakili M., Walter C.W., Webb R., Bernardini, Paolo, Martello, Daniele, DE MITRI, Ivan, Mancarella, Giovanni, Perrone, Lorenzo, and Macro, Collaboration

Subjects
Astroparticle physics, Physics, Elastic scattering, Particle physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Scattering, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, MACRO, Gran Sasso, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Massless particle, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Physique des particules élémentaires, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Lepton
Abstract

The energy of atmospheric neutrinos detected by MACRO was estimated using multiple coulomb scattering of upward throughgoing muons. This analysis allows a test of atmospheric neutrino oscillations, relying on the distortion of the muon energy distribution. These results have been combined with those coming from the upward throughgoing muon angular distribution only. Both analyses are independent of the neutrino flux normalization and provide strong evidence, above the 4 sigma level, in favour of neutrino oscillations., 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B

Published
2003
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24. Measurement of the decoherence function with the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso

Author

G. Ludlam, Paolo Giubellino, Pierluigi Campana, Roberto Bellotti, C. Bemporad, S. Coutu, C. Forti, S. L. Nutter, Massimo Masera, E. Lamanna, G. Giacomelli, L. Foti, J. T. Hong, G. Rosa, Marco Monteno, S. Klein, E. Kearns, A. Marzari Chiesa, D. G. Michael, V. Valente, E. Iarocci, G. DeCataldo, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, J. Petrakis, P. Matteuzzi, M. Spinetti, C. Okada, V. Togo, Giuseppe Osteria, M. Ambrosio, S. Parlati, J. L. Stone, Edward Diehl, Pio Pistilli, P. Serra Lugaresi, F.J. Ronga, M. De Vincenzi, W. A. Worstell, M. Severi, C. W. Walter, Steven Ahlen, F. Cafagna, C. E. Lane, V. Bisi, C. Lee, C. Chiera, R.M. Heinz, G. Battistoni, C. Satriano, G. Auriemma, Alec Habig, M. Grassi, P. Green, N. Giglietto, Gregory Tarle, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, Paolo Lipari, G. Mandrioli, F. Guarino, P. Spinelli, L. Miller, G. Mancarella, D. Levin, A. Corona, Erik Katsavounidis, J. Reynoldson, L. Patrizii, G. Liu, V. Chiarella, S. L. Mufson, G. C. Barbarino, N. D. Pignatano, R. Steinberg, A. Margiotta-Neri, A. Cobis, J. A. Musser, Eugenio Scapparone, O. Palamara, A. A. Grillo, Lawrence Sulak, C. W. Peck, A. Di Credico, S. Kyriazopoulou, P. Monacelli, R. C. Webb, M. J. Longo, Fabrizio Cei, S. Cecchini, C. Bloise, P. Fusco, S. Petrera, Andrea Carlo Marini, F. Predieri, C. Favuzzi, D. Martello, M. Calicchio, Halina Bilokon, L. Ramello, R. Pazzi, A. Marin, D. Ficenec, O. Erriquez, Maurizio Spurio, M. Carboni, A. Surdo, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, A. Baldini, G. Giannini, R. Antolini, C. DeMarzo, J. Steele, Barry C. Barish, Kate Scholberg, P. Bernardini, R. Liu, H. Dekhussi, D. Campana, Robert A. Cormack, L. Satta, S., Ahlen, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, G., Auriemma, A., Baldini, G., Barbarino, B., Barish, G., Battistoni, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, V., Bisi, C., Bloise, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, P., Campana, M., Carboni, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, C., Chiera, A., Cobi, R., Cormack, A., Corona, S., Coutu, G., Decataldo, H., Dekhussi, C., Demarzo, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, E., Diehl, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, D., Ficenec, C., Forti, L., Foti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, P., Giubellino, M., Grassi, P., Green, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, R., Heinz, J., Hong, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, S., Klein, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, C., Lee, D., Levin, P., Lipari, G., Liu, R., Liu, M., Longo, G., Ludlam, Mancarella, Giovanni, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta Neri, A., Marin, A., Marini, Martello, Daniele, A., Chiesa, M., Masera, P., Matteuzzi, D., Michael, L., Miller, P., Monacelli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, S., Nutter, C., Okada, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, S., Parlati, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C., Peck, J., Petraki, S., Petrera, N., Pignatano, P., Pistilli, F., Predieri, L., Ramello, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, G., Rosa, C., Satriano, L., Satta, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, P., Lugaresi, M., Severi, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, J., Steele, R., Steinberg, J., Stone, L., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarlé, V., Togo, V., Valente, C., Walter, R., Webb, W., Worstell, Barbarino, Giancarlo, Guarino, Fausto, The MACRO, Collaboration, Ahlen, S, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bisi, V, Bloise, C, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Campana, P, Carboni, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Chiera, C, Cobis, A, Cormack, R, Corona, A, Coutu, S, Decataldo, G, Dekhussi, H, Demarzo, C, Devincenzi, M, Dicredico, A, Diehl, E, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Ficenec, D, Forti, C, Foti, L, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giubellino, P, Grassi, M, Green, P, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Heinz, R, Hong, Jt, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Kearns, E, Klein, S, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Lee, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Liu, G, Liu, R, Longo, Mj, Ludlam, G, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiottaneri, A, Marin, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Chiesa, Am, Masera, M, Matteuzzi, P, Michael, Dg, Miller, L, Monacelli, P, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nutter, S, Okada, C, Osteria, G, Palamara, O, Parlati, S, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Petrakis, J, Petrera, S, Pignatano, Nd, Pistilli, P, Predieri, F, Ramello, L, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Rosa, G, Satriano, C, Satta, L, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Lugaresi, P, Severi, M, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steele, J, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Valente, V, Walter, Cw, Webb, R, Worstell, W., Ahlen S., Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Auriemma G., Baldini A., Barbarino G.C., Barish B.C., Battistoni G., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bisi V., Bloise C., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Campana P., Carboni M., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Chiera C., Cobis A., Cormack R., Corona A., Coutu S., DeCataldo G., Dekhussi H., DeMarzo C., De Vincenzi M., Di Credico A., Diehl E., Erriquez O., Favuzzi C., Ficenec D., Forti C., Foti L., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini G., Giglietto N., Giubellino P., Grassi M., Green P., Grillo A., Guarino F., Gustavino C., Habig A., Heinz R., Hong J.T., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Kearns E., Klein S., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Lane C., Lee C., Levin D.S., Lipari P., Liu G., Liu R., Longo M.J., Ludlam G., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Margiotta-Neri A., Marin A., Marini A., Martello D., Chiesa A.M., Masera M., Matteuzzi P., Michael D.G., Miller L., Monacelli P., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nutter S., Okada C., Osteria G., Palamara O., Parlati S., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C.W., Petrakis J., Petrera S., Pignatano N.D., Pistilli P., Predieri F., Ramello L., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Rosa G., Satriano C., Satta L., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Lugaresi P.S., Severi M., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steele J., Steinberg R., Stone J.L., Sulak L.R., Surdo A., Tarle G., Togo V., Valente V., Walter C.W., Webb R., and Worstell W.

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Quantum decoherence, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, MACRO, Particle detector, Gran Sasso, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Macro, Nuclear Experiment, Zenith
Abstract

A measurement of the underground muon decoherence function has been performed using the multiple muon events collected by the MACRO detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory. A detector-independent analysis is presented for different zenith regions and rock depths; this allows direct comparison with any model of hadronic interactions. The measured decoherence function is compared with the predictions of a Monte Carlo simulation based on data taken by recent collider experiments. © 1992 The American Physical Society.

Published
1992

25. Performance of the reconstruction algorithms of the FIRST experiment pixel sensors vertex detector

Author

Herbert A. Simon, A. Paoloni, M. Carpinelli, E. Iarocci, M. Labalme, Nunzio Randazzo, M. Vanstalle, Paola Sala, Felice Iazzi, D. Juliani, Bruno Golosio, M. De Napoli, Giacomo Cuttone, R. Pleskac, Giuseppe Battistoni, Marco Durante, J. Krimmer, Antonio Brunetti, J. M. Quesada, D. M. Rossi, A. Bocci, Valeria Sipala, Piernicola Oliva, N. Kurz, G. Ickert, V. Monaco, Yvonne Leifels, C. Sfienti, M. A. G. Alvarez, R. Rescigno, M. C. Morone, A. Le Fèvre, Flavio Marchetto, Thomas Aumann, M. Rousseau, Z. Abou-Haidar, J. Baudot, H. Younis, T. T. Böhlen, G.A.P. Cirrone, C. Scheidenberger, Vincenzo Patera, Roberto Sacchi, A. Sciubba, María Isabel Gallardo, Luca Piersanti, A. Boudard, S. Tropea, Fabrizio Romano, R. Introzzi, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, C. Agodi, Eleuterio Spiriti, S. Leray, Ch. Finck, Alessio Sarti, Christoph Schuy, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Rescigno, R, Finck, C, Juliani, D, Spiriti, E, Baudot, J, Abou Haidar, Z, Agodi, C, Alvarez, M, Aumann, T, Battistoni, G, Bocci, A, Boehlen, T, Boudard, A, Brunetti, A, Carpinelli, M, Cirrone, G, Cortes Giraldo, M, Cuttone, G, De Napoli, M, Durante, M, Gallardo, M, Golosio, B, Iarocci, E, Iazzi, F, Ickert, G, Introzzi, R, Krimmer, J, Kurz, N, Labalme, M, Leifels, Y, Le Fevre, A, Leray, S, Marchetto, F, Monaco, V, Morone, M, Oliva, P, Paoloni, A, Patera, V, Piersanti, L, Pleskac, R, Quesada, J, Randazzo, N, Romano, F, Rossi, D, Rousseau, M, Sacchi, R, Sala, P, Sarti, A, Scheidenberger, C, Schuy, C, Sciubba, A, Sfienti, C, Simon, H, Sipala, V, Tropea, S, Vanstalle, M, Younis, H, and Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Monte Carlo method, Physics::Medical Physics, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Particle detector, Clustering, Surface discharges, Clustering, CMOS active pixel sensors, Pixel sensors, Reconstruction algorithms, Vertex detectors, Vertexing, CMOS active pixel sensor, Vertex detector, ddc:530, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Cluster analysis, Reconstruction algorithms, Instrumentation, Pixel sensors, Physics, Pixel, Tracking, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, CMOS technology, Vertexing, VERTEX DETECTOR, Charged particle, Semiconductor detector, Vertex detectors, Measuring instrument, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-MED-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Medical Physics [physics.med-ph], CMOS active pixel sensors, Algorithm
Abstract

R.Rescigno et al., Hadrontherapy treatments use charged particles (e.g. protons and carbon ions) to treat tumors. During a therapeutic treatment with carbon ions, the beam undergoes nuclear fragmentation processes giving rise to significant yields of secondary charged particles. An accurate prediction of these production rates is necessary to estimate precisely the dose deposited into the tumours and the surrounding healthy tissues. Nowadays, a limited set of double differential carbon fragmentation cross-section is available. Experimental data are necessary to benchmark Monte Carlo simulations for their use in hadrontherapy. The purpose of the FIRST experiment is to study nuclear fragmentation processes of ions with kinetic energy in the range from 100 to 1000 MeV/u. Tracks are reconstructed using information from a pixel silicon detector based on the CMOS technology. The performances achieved using this device for hadrontherapy purpose are discussed. For each reconstruction step (clustering, tracking and vertexing), different methods are implemented. The algorithm performances and the accuracy on reconstructed observables are evaluated on the basis of simulated and experimental data.

Published
2014

26. The measurement of upward going muons using the MACRO detector

Author

D. Martello, D. Campana, A. M. Baldini, P. Lipari, P. Pistilli, Kate Scholberg, Kael Hanson, Shahid Manzoor, C.W. Peck, P. Monacelli, L. De Benedictis, D.G. Michael, J. Musser, M. Ambrosio, O. Erriquez, S. L. Mufson, M. Sitta, L.R. Sulak, G. Giannini, G. Battistoni, M. Carboni, G. Giacomelli, O. Palamara, F. Cafagna, E. Iarocci, C. Gustavino, Marco Grassi, M. Calicchio, R. Pazzi, L. Gray, A. Sciubba, G. Tarle, L. Satta, S P Mikheyev, G.C. Barbarino, E. Lamanna, G. Osteria, S. Kyriazopoulou, S. Coutu, C. Orth, A. Marini, A. Sanzgiri, S. Cecchini, U. Rubizzo, Maurizio Spurio, C. Mazzotta, P. Bernardini, M. Castellano, J. Reynoldson, A. Di Credico, C. Aramo, N.P. Longley, F. Guarino, P. Spinelli, Teresa Montaruli, A. Marzari-Chiesa, F. Ronga, N. Giglietto, A. Hawthorne, G. Auriemma, G. Cunti, M. J. Longo, A. Habig, R.M. Heinz, Donato Nicolo, V. Bisi, C. W. Walter, E. Kearns, H. Bilokon, H. Dekhissi, V. Pugliese, V. Chiarella, P. Serra-Lugaresi, C. Favuzzi, M. Spinetti, M. Monteno, M.N. Mazziotta, L. Miller, D. Levin, C. Okada, R. Steinberg, Vincenzo Patera, E. Katsavounidis, A. Rainó, S. Petrera, S. Bussino, R. C. Webb, C. Bemporad, R. Nolty, G. Mandrioli, M. Severi, G. Mancarella, B.C. Barish, A. A. Grillo, C. Lane, C. Forti, V. Togo, G. De Cataldo, Eugenio Scapparone, M. De Vincenzi, V. Popa, P. Fusco, J.L. Stone, Maximiliano Sioli, C. R. Bower, C. Satriano, A. Surdo, A. Margiotta Neri, P. Guarnaccia, C. Bloise, C. De Marzo, R. Antolini, F. Maaroufi, L. Patrizii, I De Mitri, Fabrizio Cei, and R. Bellotti

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Solar neutrino problem, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Neutrino detector, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Zenith
Abstract

The upward-going muon flux (Eμ > 1 GeV) has been measured with the underground detector MACRO at LNGS. The total number of measured events is compatible at the 8% c.l. with the expected one. Moreover, the zenith angular distribution of the measured flux does not match the expectation showing a deficit in the vertical direction where the apparatus performance is best known. Assuming an oscillation hypothesis with parameters in the range recently suggested to solve the atmospheric neutrino problem, the agreement increases, but not significantly. The results of an indirect dark matter search for a signal of WIMPs from the core of the Sun and of the Earth are given. Neutrino astronomy with MACRO is giving interesting results regarding possible high energy neutrino emission from pointlike sources and coincidences of neutrino events with γ-ray bursts.

Published
1999

27. The cosmic ray proton,helium and CNO fluxes in the 100 TeV energy region from TeV muons and EAS atmospheric Cherenkov light observations of MACRO and EAS-TOP

Author

G. Giannini, F. Maaroufi, Ioannis Katsavounidis, G. C. Barbarino, G. Mandrioli, N. Giglietto, G. Mancarella, J. Reynoldson, Eugenio Scapparone, M. De Vincenzi, L. Perrone, Teresa Montaruli, Gregory Tarle, L. R. Sulak, G. Battistoni, M. Cozzi, L. Patrizii, G. Cini, Hyun-Chul Kim, A. A. Grillo, V. Popa, Pietro Antonioli, F.J. Ronga, M. Ambrosio, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, F. Arneodo, H. Dekhissi, R. Nolty, S. Cecchini, Carlo Vigorito, A. Chiavassa, S. L. Mufson, M. Spinetti, C. Favuzzi, Donato Nicolo, M. Iacovacci, I. De Mitri, M. Vakili, R. Antolini, M. Giorgini, M. J. Longo, B. C. Choudhary, C. Satriano, G. de Cataldo, G. Navarra, C. R. Bower, R.M. Heinz, R. Caruso, E. Katsavounidis, F. Guarino, Kate Scholberg, Giuseppe Osteria, A. Marzari-Chiesa, D. Martello, E. Kearns, S. Petrera, P. Fusco, Marco Monteno, J. L. Stone, C. De Marzo, S. Valchierotti, O. Saavedra, J. Derkaoui, A. Stamerra, Vincenzo Patera, M. E. Bertaina, L. Bergamasco, C. Forti, P. Spinelli, Andrea Carlo Marini, Kael Hanson, Marco Aglietta, C. Orth, F. Loparco, R. Pazzi, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, J. A. Musser, A. Sciubba, Np Longley, G. Giacomelli, M. Brigida, A. Baldini, P. Galeotti, C. E. Lane, O. Erriquez, Maurizio Spurio, O. Palamara, B. C. Barish, S. Vernetto, P. L. Ghia, D. Campana, C. W. Peck, G. Sirri, E. Lamanna, Tommaso Chiarusi, Alec Habig, M. Grassi, D. G. Michael, M. Carboni, A. Rainò, C. Morello, C. Bemporad, W. Fulgione, F. Cafagna, R. Steinberg, M. N. Mazziotta, Maximiliano Sioli, Yvonne Becherini, Fabrizio Cei, G. Mannocchi, A. Di Credico, S. Kyriazopoulou, P. Vallania, V. Togo, Bruno Alessandro, Roberto Bellotti, D. Levin, A. Surdo, R. C. Webb, P. Bernardini, B. D'Ettorre Piazzoli, Antonella Castellina, Annarita Margiotta, Carlotta Castagnoli, M. Calicchio, Halina Bilokon, V. Chiarella, P. Monacelli, S. Coutu, G. C. Trinchero, E. Iarocci, G. Di Sciascio, Paolo Lipari, C. W. Walter, Aglietta M., Alessandro B., Antonioli P., Arneodo F., Bergamasco L., Bertaina M., Castagnoli C., Castellina A., Chiavassa A., Cini G., D'Ettorre Piazzoli B., di Sciascio G., Fulgione W., Galeotti P., Ghia P. L., Iacovacci M., Mannocchi G., Morello C., Navarra G., Saavedra O., Stamerra A., Trinchero G. C., Valchierotti S., Vallania P., Vernetto S., Vigorito C., Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Baldini A., Barbarino G. C., Barish B. C., Battistoni G., Becherini Y., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bower C., Brigida M., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Carboni M., Caruso R., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Chiarusi T., Choudhary B. C., Coutu S., Cozzi M., de Cataldo G., Dekhissi H., de Marzo C., de Mitri I., Derkaoui J., de Vincenzi M., di Credico A., Erriquez O., Favuzzi C., Forti C., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini G., Giglietto N., Giorgini M., Grassi M., Grillo A., Guarino F., Gustavino C., Habig A., Hanson K., Heinz R., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Katsavounidis I., Kearns E., Kim H., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Lane C., Levin D. S., Lipari P., Longley N. P., Longo M. J., Loparco F., Maaroufi F., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Margiotta A., Marini A., Martello D., Marzari-Chiesa A., Mazziotta M. N., Michael D. G., Monacelli P., Montaruli T., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nicolò D., Nolty R., Orth C., Osteria G., Palamara O., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C. W., Perrone L., Petrera S., Popa V., Rainò A., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Satriano C., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Sioli M., Sirri G., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steinberg R., Stone J. L., Sulak L. R., Surdo A., Tarlé G., Togo V., Vakili M., Walter C. W., Webb R., M., Aglietta, B., Alessandro, P., Antonioli, F., Arneodo, L., Bergamasco, M., Bertaina, C., Castagnoli, A., Castellina, A., Chiavassa, G., Cini, B., D'Ettorre Piazzoli, G., Di Sciascio, W., Fulgione, P., Galeotti, P. L., Ghia, M., Iacovacci, G., Mannocchi, C., Morello, G., Navarra, O., Saavedra, A., Stamerra, G. C., Trinchero, S., Valchierotti, P., Vallania, S., Vernetto, C., Vigorito, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, A., Baldini, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, Y., Becherini, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, Bernardini, Paolo, H., Bilokon, C., Bower, M., Brigida, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, R., Caruso, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, T., Chiarusi, B. C., Choudhary, S., Coutu, M., Cozzi, G., De Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C., De Marzo, DE MITRI, Ivan, J., Derkaoui, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, N. P., Longley, M. J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroufi, Mancarella, Giovanni, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, Martello, Daniele, A., Marzari Chiesa, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolo', R., Nolty, C., Orth, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, Perrone, Lorenzo, S., Petrera, V., Popa, A., Raino', J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, C., Satriano, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, M., Sioli, G., Sirri, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarle', V., Togo, M., Vakili, C. W., Walter, R., Webb, D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, Benedetto, Iacovacci, Michele, Aglietta, M, Alessandro, B, Antonioli, P, Arneodo, F, Bergamasco, L, Bertaina, M, Castagnoli, C, Castellina, A, Chiavassa, A, Cini, G, Piazzoli, Bd, Di Sciascio, G, Fulgione, W, Galeotti, P, Ghia, Pl, Iacovacci, M, Mannocchi, G, Morello, C, Navarra, G, Saavedra, O, Stamerra, A, Trinchero, Gc, Valchierotti, S, Vallania, P, Vernetto, S, Vigorito, C, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Becherini, Y, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bower, C, Brigida, M, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Caruso, R, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Chiarusi, T, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, Cozzi, M, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Katsavounidis, I, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Loparco, F, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiotta, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Perrone, L, Petrera, S, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Satriano, C, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Sioli, M, Sirri, G, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Vakili, M, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., Guarino, Fausto, Barbarino, Giancarlo, Macro, and EAS TOP, Collaborations

Subjects
Proton, EAS-TOP, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, chemistry.chemical_element, Cosmic ray, MACRO, Nuclear physics, Raggi cosmici, cosmic rays, Cosmic rays, composition, high energies, extensive air showers, underground muons, Cherenkov radiation, Helium, Astroparticle physics, Physics, Muon, Cherenkov detectors, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sciami estesi, chemistry, Muoni sotterranei, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nucleon, Composizione
Abstract

The primary cosmic ray (CR) proton, helium and CNO fluxes in the energy range 80-300 TeV are studied at the National Gran Sasso Laboratories by means of EAS-TOP (Campo Imperatore, 2005 m a.s.l.) and MACRO (deep underground, 3100 m w.e., the surface energy threshold for a muon reaching the detector being E-mu(th) approximate to 1.3 TeV). The measurement is based on: (a) the selection of primaries based on their energy/nucleon (i.e., with energy/nucleon sufficient to produce a muon with energy larger than 1.3 TeV) and the reconstruction of the shower geometry by means of the muons recorded by MACRO in the deep underground laboratories; (b) the detection of the associated atmospheric Cherenkov light (C.l.) signals by means of the C.l. detector of EAS-TOP. The C.l. density at core distance r > 100 m is directly related to the total primary energy E-0. Proton and helium ("p + He") and proton, helium and CNO ("p + He + CNO") primaries are thus selected at E-0 approximate to 80 TeV, and at E-0 similar or equal to 250 TeV, respectively. Their flux is measured: J(p+He)(80 TeV) = (1.8 +/- 0.4) x 10(-6) m(-1)-s(-1) sr(-1) TeV-1, and J(p+He+CNO)(250 TeV) = (1.1 +/- 0.3) x 10(-7) m(-2)-s(-1) sr(-1) TeV-1, their relative weights being J(p+He)(J(p+He+CNO)) over bar (250 TeV) = 0.78 +/- 0.17. By using the measurements of the proton spectrum obtained from the direct experiments and hadron flux data in the atmosphere, we obtain for the relative weights of the three components at 250 TeV: J(p) : J(He) : J(CNO) = (0.20 +/- 0.08) : (0.58 +/- 0.19) : (0.22 +/- 0.17). This corresponds to the dominance of helium over proton primaries at 100-1000 TeV, and a possible non-negligible contribution from CNO. The lateral distribution of Cherenkov light in Extensive Air Showers (EASs), which is related to the rate of energy deposit of the primary in the atmosphere, is measured for a selected proton and helium primary beam, and good agreement is found when compared with the one calculated with the CORSIKA/QGSJET simulation model. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Published
2004

28. Search for stellar gravitational collapses with the MACRO detector

Author

M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, D. Bakari, A. Baldini, G. C. Barbarino, B. C. Barish, G. Battistoni, Y. Becherini, R. Bellotti, C. Bemporad, H. Bilokon, C. Bloise, C. Bower, M. Brigida, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, M. Carboni, S. Cecchini, F. Cei, V. Chiarella, B. C. Choudhary, D. Cosson, S. Coutu, G. De Cataldo, H. Dekhissi, C. De Marzo, U. Denni, J. Derkauoi, M. De Vincenzi, A. Di Credico, C. Favuzzi, C. Forti, A. Frani, P. Fusco, G. Giacomelli, G. Giannini, N. Giglietto, M. Giorgini, M. Grassi, A. Grillo, F. Guarino, C. Gustavino, A. Habig, K. Hanson, R. Heinz, E. Iarocci, E. Katsavounidis, I. Katsavounidis, E. Kearns, H. Kim, S. Kyriazopoulou, E. Lamanna, C. Lane, D. S. Levin, P. Lipari, M. J. Longo, F. Loparco, F. Maaroui, G. Mandrioli, S. Manzoor, A. Margiotta, A. Marini, A. Marzari Chiesa, M. N. Mazziotta, A. Mengucci, D. G. Michael, S. Mikheyev, P. Monacelli, T. Montaruli, M. Monteno, S. Mufson, J. Musser, D. Nicolo', R. Nolty, C. Orth, G. Osteria, O. Palamara, V. Patera, L. Patrizii, R. Pazzi, C. W. Peck, S. Petrera, V. Popa, A. Raino', J. Reynoldson, F. Ronga, C. Satriano, K. Scholberg, A. Sciubba, M. Sioli, M. Sitta, P. Spinelli, M. Spinetti, M. Spurio, R. Steinberg, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, A. Surdo, G. Tarle', V. Togo, M. Vakili, C. W. Walter, R. Webb, BERNARDINI, Paolo, DE MITRI, Ivan, MANCARELLA, Giovanni, MARTELLO, Daniele, PERRONE, Lorenzo, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, D., Bakari, A., Baldini, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, Y., Becherini, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, Bernardini, Paolo, H., Bilokon, C., Bloise, C., Bower, M., Brigida, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, M., Carboni, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, B. C., Choudhary, D., Cosson, S., Coutu, G., De Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C., De Marzo, DE MITRI, Ivan, U., Denni, J., Derkauoi, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, A., Frani, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, M. J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroui, Mancarella, Giovanni, G., Mandrioli, S., Manzoor, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, Martello, Daniele, A., Marzari Chiesa, M. N., Mazziotta, A., Mengucci, D. G., Michael, S., Mikheyev, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolo', R., Nolty, C., Orth, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, Perrone, Lorenzo, S., Petrera, V., Popa, A., Raino', J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, C., Satriano, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, M., Sioli, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarle', V., Togo, M., Vakili, C. W., Walter, and R., Webb

Subjects
neutrino, MACRO, Collasso stellare gravitazionale, supernova galattica, esperimento sotterraneo
Abstract

We present the final results of the search for stellar gravitational collapses obtained by the MACRO experiment. The detector was active for a stellar collapse search for more than 11 years and it was sensitive to collapses occurring all over in our galaxy for 8.6 years. A real time system for a prompt recognition of neutrino bursts was developed and was operating on-line for almost the whole life of the experiment. No signal compatible with a neutrino burst from a galactic supernova was observed.

Published
2004

29. Search for stellar gravitational collapses with the MACRO detector

Author

F. Maaroufi, D. G. Michael, Maximiliano Sioli, F. Loparco, C. Satriano, Chiarella, Gregory Tarle, C. Forti, Maurizio Spurio, G. Giacomelli, J. Derkaoui, R Pazzi, E. Lamanna, Donato Nicolo, Np Longley, Kate Scholberg, P. Spinelli, Halina Bilokon, Kael Hanson, R. Steinberg, C. E. Lane, A. Di Credico, L. Perrone, Alec Habig, M. Cozzi, M. Ambrosio, S. Kyriazopoulou, G. Mancarella, J. Reynoldson, Teresa Montaruli, A. Marzari-Chiesa, F.J. Ronga, D. Levin, C. W. Walter, Marco Monteno, H. Dekhissi, E. Iarocci, C. Bloise, Jl Stone, P. Fusco, R. C. Webb, R.M. Heinz, M. Vakili, Andrea Carlo Marini, G. Battistoni, L. R. Sulak, G. C. Barbarino, M. Spinetti, S. L. Mufson, Patera, G. Sirri, M. J. Longo, Roberto Bellotti, Annarita Margiotta, P. Bernardini, Paolo Lipari, C. W. Peck, M. Giorgini, Eugenio Scapparone, R. Nolty, Giuseppe Osteria, M. De Vincenzi, D. Martello, Fabrizio Cei, E. Katsavounidis, M. Grassi, A. Rainò, F. Cafagna, Mn Mazziotta, M. Brigida, C. Bemporad, I. De Mitri, C. R. Bower, E. Kearns, M. Carboni, C. De Marzo, D. Campana, J. A. Musser, Popa, A. Surdo, Ioannis Katsavounidis, C. Orth, A. Sciubba, A. Baldini, O. Palamara, B. C. Barish, B. C. Choudhary, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, S. Petrera, S. Cecchini, C. Favuzzi, G. de Cataldo, S. Coutu, Togo, Hyun-Chul Kim, R. Antolini, G. Giannini, N. Giglietto, P. Monacelli, G. Mandrioli, L. Patrizii, A. A. Grillo, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Brigida, M, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, Cozzi, M, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Grillo, A, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Katsavounidis, I, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Loparco, F, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiotta, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Perrone, L, Petrera, S, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Satriano, C, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Sioli, M, Sirri, G, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Vakili, M, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., Barbarino, Giancarlo, Russo, Stefano, M., Ambrosio, M. Ambrosio, R. Antolini, A. Baldini, G. C. Barbarino, B. C. Barish, G. Battistoni, R. Bellotti, C. Bemporad, P. Bernardini, H. Bilokon, C. Bloise, C. Bower, M. Brigida, S. Bussino, F. Cafagna, D. Campana, M. Carboni, S. Cecchini, F. Cei, V. Chiarella, B. C. Choudhary, S.Coutu, M. Cozzi, G. De Cataldo, H. Dekhi, C. De Marzo, I. De Mitri, J. Derkaoui, M. De Vincenzi, A. Di Credico, C. Favuzzi, C. Forti, P. Fusco, G. Giacomelli, G. Giannini, N. Giglietto, M. Giorgini, M. Grassi, A. Grillo, C.Gustavino, A. Habig, K. Hanson, R. Heinz, E. Iarocci, E. Katsavounidi, I. Katsavounidi, E. Kearn, H. Kim, S. Kyriazopoulou, E. Lamanna, C. Lane, D. S. Levin, P. Lipari, N. P. Longley, M. J. Longo, F. Loparco, F. Maaroufi, G. Mancarella, G. Mandrioli, A. Margiotta, A. Marini, D. Martello, A. Marzari-Chiesa, M. N. Mazziotta, D. G. Michael, P. Monacelli, T. Montaruli, M. Monteno, S. Mufson, J. Musser, D. Nicolo', R. Nolty, C. Orth, G. Osteria, O. Palamara, V. Patera, L. Patrizii, R. Pazzi, C. W. Peck, L. Perrone, S. Petrera, V. Popa, A. Raino', J. Reynoldson, F. Ronga, C. Satriano, E. Scapparone, K. Scholberg, A. Sciubba, M. Sioli, G. Sirri, M. Sitta, P. Spinelli, M. Spinetti, M. Spurio, R. Steinberg, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, A. Surdo, G. Tarle', V. Togo, M. Vakili, C. W. Walter, and R. Webb

Subjects
Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Signal, Galaxy, Gravitation, Supernova, Gravitational collapse, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Neutrino, Macro, Engineering (miscellaneous), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the final results of the search for stellar gravitational collapses obtained by the MACRO experiment. The detector was active for a stellar collapse search for more than 11 years and it was sensitive to collapses occurring all over in our galaxy for 8.6 years. A real time system for a prompt recognition of neutrino bursts was developed and was operating on-line for almost the whole life of the experiment. No signal compatible with a neutrino burst from a galactic supernova was observed.

Published
2004

30. The cosmic ray proton, helium and CNO fluxes in the 100-TeV energy region from TeV muons and EAS atmospheric Cherenkov light observations of MACRO and EAS-TOP

Author

M. AGLIETTA, B. ALESSANDRO, P. ANTONIOLI, F. ARNEODO, L. BERGAMASCO, M. BERTAINA, C. CASTAGNOLI, A. CASTELLINA, A. CHIAVASSA, G. CINI CASTAGNOLI, B. D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, G. DI SCIASCIO, W. FULGIONE, P. GALEOTTI, P. L. GHIA, M. IACOVACCI, G. MANNOCCHI, C. MORELLO, G. NAVARRA, O. SAAVEDRA, A. STAMERRA, G. C. TRINCHERO, S. VALCHIEROTTI, P. VALLANIA, S. VERNETTO, C. VIGORITO, M. AMBROSIO, R. ANTOLINI, A. BALDINI, G. C. BARBARINO, B. C. BARISH, G. BATTISTONI, Y. BECHERINI, R. BELLOTTI, C. BEMPORAD, P. BERNARDINI, H. BILOKON, C. BOWER, M. BRIGIDA, BUSSINO, Severino Angelo Maria, F. CAFAGNA, M. CALICCHIO, D. CAMPANA, M. CARBONI, R. CARUSO, S. CECCHINI, F. CEI, V. CHIARELLA, T. CHIARUSI, B. C. CHOUDHARY, S. COUTU, M. COZZI, G. DE CATALDO, H. DEKHISSI, C. DE MARZO, I. DE MITRI, J. DERKAOUI, A. DI CREDICO, O. ERRIQUEZ, C. FAVUZZI, C. FORTI, P. FUSCO, G. GIACOMELLI, G. GIANNINI, N. GIGLIETTO, M. GIORGINI, M. GRASSI, A. GRILLO, F. GUARINO, C. GUSTAVINO, ALEC HABIG, K. HANSON, R. HEINZ, E. IAROCCI, E. KATSAVOUNIDIS, I. KATSAVOUNIDIS, E. KEARNS, H. KIM, S. KYRIAZOPOULOU, E. LAMANNA, CHARLES E. LANE, D. S. LEVIN, P. LIPARI, N. P. LONGLEY, M. J. LONGO, F. LOPARCO, F. MAAROUFI, G. MANCARELLA, G. MANDRIOLI, A. MARGIOTTA, A. MARINI, D. MARTELLO, A. MARZARI CHIESA, M. N. MAZZIOTTA, D. G. MICHAEL, P. MONACELLI, T. MONTARULI, M. MONTENO, STUART L. MUFSON, J. MUSSER, D. NICOLO, R. NOLTY, C. ORTH, G. OSTERIA, O. PALAMARA, V. PATERA, L. PATRIZII, R. PAZZI, C. W. PECK, L. PERRONE, S. PETRERA, V. POPA, A. RAINO, J. REYNOLDSON, F. RONGA, C. SATRIANO, E. SCAPPARONE, K. SCHOLBERG, A. SCIUBBA, M. SIOLI, G. SIRRI, M. SITTA, P. SPINELLI, M. SPINETTI, M. SPURIO, R. STEINBERG, J. L. STONE, L. R. SULAK, A. SURDO, G. TARLE, V. TOGO, M. VAKILI, C. W. WALTER, R. WEBB, DE VINCENZI, Mario, M., Aglietta, B., Alessandro, P., Antonioli, F., Arneodo, L., Bergamasco, M., Bertaina, C., Castagnoli, A., Castellina, A., Chiavassa, G., CINI CASTAGNOLI, B., D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, G., DI SCIASCIO, W., Fulgione, P., Galeotti, P. L., Ghia, M., Iacovacci, G., Mannocchi, C., Morello, G., Navarra, O., Saavedra, A., Stamerra, G. C., Trinchero, S., Valchierotti, P., Vallania, S., Vernetto, C., Vigorito, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, A., Baldini, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, Y., Becherini, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, C., Bower, M., Brigida, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, R., Caruso, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, T., Chiarusi, B. C., Choudhary, S., Coutu, M., Cozzi, G., DE CATALDO, H., Dekhissi, C., DE MARZO, I., DE MITRI, J., Derkaoui, DE VINCENZI, Mario, A., DI CREDICO, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, C., Gustavino, Alec, Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, CHARLES E., Lane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, N. P., Longley, M. J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroufi, G., Mancarella, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, D., Martello, A., MARZARI CHIESA, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, STUART L., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolo, R., Nolty, C., Orth, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, L., Perrone, S., Petrera, V., Popa, A., Raino, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, C., Satriano, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, M., Sioli, G., Sirri, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarle, V., Togo, M., Vakili, C. W., Walter, and R., Webb

Subjects
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

The primary cosmic ray (CR) proton, helium and CNO fluxes in the energy range 80-300 TeV are studied at the National Gran Sasso Laboratories by means of EAS-TOP (Campo Imperatore, 2005 m a.s.l.) and MACRO (deep underground, 3100 m w.e., the surface energy threshold for a muon reaching the detector being Eμth~1.3 TeV). The measurement is based on: (a) the selection of primaries based on their energy/nucleon (i.e., with energy/nucleon sufficient to produce a muon with energy larger than 1.3 TeV) and the reconstruction of the shower geometry by means of the muons recorded by MACRO in the deep underground laboratories; (b) the detection of the associated atmospheric Cherenkov light (C.l.) signals by means of the C.l. detector of EAS-TOP. The C.l. density at core distance r>100 m is directly related to the total primary energy E0. Proton and helium (``p+He'') and proton, helium and CNO (``p+He+CNO'') primaries are thus selected at E0~=80 TeV, and at E0~=250 TeV, respectively. Their flux is measured: Jp+He(80TeV)=(1.8+/-0.4)×10-6 m-2s-1sr-1TeV-1, and Jp+He+CNO(250TeV)=(1.1+/-0.3)×10-7 m-2s-1sr-1TeV-1, their relative weights being: Jp+He/Jp+He+CNO(250TeV)=0.78+/-0.17. By using the measurements of the proton spectrum obtained from the direct experiments and hadron flux data in the atmosphere, we obtain for the relative weights of the three components at 250 TeV: Jp:JHe:JCNO=(0.20+/-0.08):(0.58+/-0.19):(0.22+/-0.17). This corresponds to the dominance of helium over proton primaries at 100-1000 TeV, and a possible non-negligible contribution from CNO. The lateral distribution of Cherenkov light in Extensive Air Showers (EASs), which is related to the rate of energy deposit of the primary in the atmosphere, is measured for a selected proton and helium primary beam, and good agreement is found when compared with the one calculated with the CORSIKA/QGSJET simulation model.

Published
2004

31. The Primary cosmic ray composition between 10**15 and 10**16 eV from extensive air showers electromagnetic and TeV muon data

Author

M. AGLIETTA, B. ALESSANDRO, P. ANTONIOLI, F. ARNEODO, L. BERGAMASCO, M. BERTAINA, C. CASTAGNOLI, A. CASTELLINA, A. CHIAVASSA, G. CINI, B. D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, G. DI SCIASCIO, W. FULGIONE, P. GALEOTTI, P. L. GHIA, M. IACOVACCI, G. MANNOCCHI, C. MORELLO, G. NAVARRA, O. SAAVEDRA, A. STAMERRA, G. C. TRINCHERO, S. VALCHIEROTTI, P. VALLANIA, S. VERNETTO, C. VIGORITO, M. AMBROSIO, R. ANTOLINI, A. BALDINI, G. C. BARBARINO, B. C. BARISH, GIUESEPP BATTISTONI, R. BELLOTTI, C. BEMPORAD, P. BERNARDINI, H. BILOKON, C. BLOISE, C. BOWER, M. BRIGIDA, F. CAFAGNA, D. CAMPANA, M. CARBONI, S. CECCHINI, F. CEI, B. C. CHOUDHARY, S. COUTU, G. DE CATALDO, H. DEKHISSI, C. DE MARZO, I. DE MITRI, A. DI CREDICO, C. FORTI, P. FUSCO, G. GIACOMELLI, G. GIANNINI, N. GIGLIETTO, M. GIORGINI, M. GRASSI, A. GRILLO, C. GUSTAVINO, ALEC HABIG, K. HANSON, R. HEINZ, E. IAROCCI, E. KATSAVOUNIDIS, I. KATSAVOUNIDIS, E. KEARNS, H. KIM, S. KYRIAZOPOULOU, E. LAMANNA, CHARLES E. LANE, D. S. LEVIN, P. LIPARI, M. J. LONGO, F. LOPARCO, F. MAAROUFI, G. MANCARELLA, G. MANDRIOLI, A. MARGIOTTA, A. MARINI, D. MARTELLO, A. MARZARI CHIESA, M. N. MAZZIOTTA, D. G. MICHAEL, P. MONACELLI, T. MONTARULI, M. MONTENO, STUART L. MUFSON, J. MUSSER, D. NICOLO, R. NOLTY, C. ORTH, G. OSTERIA, O. PALAMARA, V. PATERA, L. PATRIZII, R. PAZZI, C. W. PECK, L. PERRONE, S. PETRERA, V. POPA, A. RAINO, J. REYNOLDSON, F. RONGA, C. SATRIANO, E. SCAPPARONE, K. SCHOLBERG, A. SCIUBBA, M. SIOLI, M. SITTA, P. SPINELLI, M. SPINETTI, M. SPURIO, R. STEINBERG, J. L. STONE, L. R. SULAK, A. SURDO, G. TARLE, V. TOGO, M. VAKILI, C. W. WALTER, R. WEBB, DE VINCENZI, Mario, M., Aglietta, B., Alessandro, P., Antonioli, F., Arneodo, L., Bergamasco, M., Bertaina, C., Castagnoli, A., Castellina, A., Chiavassa, G., Cini, B., D'ETTORRE PIAZZOLI, G., DI SCIASCIO, W., Fulgione, P., Galeotti, P. L., Ghia, M., Iacovacci, G., Mannocchi, C., Morello, G., Navarra, O., Saavedra, A., Stamerra, G. C., Trinchero, S., Valchierotti, P., Vallania, S., Vernetto, C., Vigorito, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, A., Baldini, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, Giuesepp, Battistoni, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, C., Bloise, C., Bower, M., Brigida, F., Cafagna, D., Campana, M., Carboni, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, B. C., Choudhary, S., Coutu, G., DE CATALDO, H., Dekhissi, C., DE MARZO, I., DE MITRI, DE VINCENZI, Mario, A., DI CREDICO, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, A., Grillo, C., Gustavino, Alec, Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, CHARLES E., Lane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, M. J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroufi, G., Mancarella, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, D., Martello, A., MARZARI CHIESA, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, STUART L., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolo, R., Nolty, C., Orth, G., Osteria, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, L., Perrone, S., Petrera, V., Popa, A., Raino, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, C., Satriano, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, M., Sioli, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarle, V., Togo, M., Vakili, C. W., Walter, and R., Webb

Published
2004

32. KLOE results in flavour physics and prospects for KLOE-2

Author

E. Czerwiński, D. Babusci, D. Badoni, I. Balwierz, G. Bencivenni, C. Bini, C. Bloise, V. Bocci, F. Bossi, P. Branchini, A. Budano, L. Caldeira Balkeståhl, G. Capon, F. Ceradini, P. Ciambrone, E. Dané, E. De Lucia, G. De Robertis, A. De Santis, A. Di Domenico, C. Di Donato, R. Di Salvo, D. Domenici, O. Erriquez, G. Fanizzi, A. Fantini, G. Felici, S. Fiore, P. Franzini, P. Gauzzi, G. Giardina, S. Giovannella, F. Gonnella, E. Graziani, F. Happacher, B. Höistad, L. Iafolla, E. Iarocci, M. Jacewicz, T. Johansson, A. Kupść, J. Lee-Franzini, B. Leverington, F. Loddo, G. Mandaglio, M. Martemianov, M. Martini, M. Mascolo, R. Messi, S. Miscetti, G. Morello, D. Moricciani, P. Moskal, F. Nguyen, A. Passeri, V. Patera, I. Prado Longhi, A. Ranieri, C.F. Redmer, P. Santangelo, I. Sarra, M. Schioppa, B. Sciascia, M. Silarski, C. Taccini, L. Tortora, G. Venanzoni, R. Versaci, W. Wiślicki, M. Wolke, and J. Zdebik

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, KLOE-2, Detector, Flavour, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, flavour, Nuclear physics, Interferometry, CP, Quantum state, KLOE, Quantum interference, Homogeneous space, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, CPT, Quantum
Abstract

The ϕ-factory DAΦNE offers a possibility to select pure kaon beams, charged and neutral ones. In particular, neutral kaons from ϕ → K S K L are produced in pairs and the detection of a K S ( K L ) tags the presence of a K L ( K S ) . This allows to perform precise measurements of kaon properties by means of KLOE detector. Another advantage of a ϕ-factory consists in fact that the neutral kaon pairs are produced in a pure quantum state ( J P C = 1 − − ) , which allows to investigate CP and CPT symmetries via quantum interference effects, as well as the basic principles of quantum mechanics. A review of the most recent results of the KLOE experiment at DAΦNE using pure kaon beams or via quantum interferometry is presented together with prospects for kaon physics at KLOE–2.

Published
2013

33. Experiment FIRST: Fragmentation of 12C beam at 400 MeV/u

Author

J. Krimmer, Roberto Sacchi, A.H. Kummali, D. M. Rossi, G. Ickert, A. Le Fèvre, B. Liu, Thomas Aumann, C. Finck, J. P. Fernández-García, Christoph Schuy, C. Agodi, M. Rousseau, L. Stuttge, M. C. Morone, F. Balestra, R. Pleskac, Alessio Sarti, E. Iarocci, R. Introzzi, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Antonio Brunetti, Eleuterio Spiriti, A. Boudard, Giacomo Cuttone, A. Lavagno, G.A.P. Cirrone, Adalberto Sciubba, Nunzio Randazzo, Francesco Romano, Yvonne Leifels, N. Kurz, Paola Sala, Valeria Sipala, Flavio Marchetto, Bruno Golosio, Vincenzo Patera, Herbert A. Simon, Felice Iazzi, C. Sfienti, S. Samuel, M. Carpinelli, A. Bocci, Marco Durante, S. Tropea, M. Toppi, A. Paoloni, M. A. G. Alvarez, Valeria Rosso, T.T. Boohlen, M. Labalme, Piernicola Oliva, Z. Abou-Haidar, C. Scheidenberger, H. Younis, D. Nicolosi, M. De Napoli, D. Juliani, Giuseppe Battistoni, Luciano Piersanti, Vincenzo Monaco, S. Leray, Introzzi, R, Abou Haidar, Z, Agodi, C, Alvarez, M, Aumann, T, Balestra, F, Battistoni, G, Bocci, A, Böhlen, T, Boudard, A, Brunetti, A, Carpinelli, M, Cirrone, G, Cortés Giraldo, M, Cuttone, G, De Napoli, M, Durante, M, Fernández Garcia, J, Finck, C, Golosio, B, Iarocci, E, Iazzi, F, Ickert, G, Juliani, D, Krimmer, J, Kummali, A, Kurz, N, Labalme, M, Lavagno, A, Leifels, Y, Le Févre, A, Leray, S, Liu, B, Marchetto, F, Monaco, V, Morone, M, Nicolosi, D, Oliva, P, Paoloni, A, Patera, V, Piersanti, L, Pleskac, R, Randazzo, N, Romano, F, Rossi, D, Rosso, V, Rousseau, M, Sacchi, R, Sala, P, Samuel, S, Sarti, A, Scheidenberger, C, Schuy, C, Sciubba, A, Sfienti, C, Simon, H, Sipala, V, Spiriti, E, Stuttge, L, Toppi, M, Tropea, S, and Younis, H

Subjects
Physics, Photomultiplier, Photon, business.industry, Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs, Physics::Medical Physics, Radiation, Kinetic energy, FIRST, Ion Fragmentation, Ion, Time of Flight Wall, Nuclear physics, Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), Hadrontherapy, Space and Aircraft Radiation Protection, Radiation protection, Nuclear Experiment, business, Projectile fragmentation
Abstract

The knowledge about fragmentation processes in ion-ion interactions is fundamental in hadrontherapy and radiation protection in space missions. Hadrontherapy, based on 12C, features many advantages with respect to conventional radiation therapy with photons due to the possibility to shape the dose delivery region in tissues but side effects of the projectile fragmentation in healthy tissues are not negligible. NASA recently pointed out that measurements for some light ions and kinetic energies are missing in nuclear fragmentation databases. FIRST experiment aims to measure the fragmentation doubledifferential cross section of 12C in the energy range 100-1000 MeV/u on several elements, constituents of organic tissues and electronic devices, in order to fill some of the mentioned lack of information on light ions. A first set of data has been taken in 2011 at GSI (Darmstadt), using 12C beam at 400 MeV/u on C and Au targets. About 3·107 events with C target and 5 × 106 with Au target were recorded. Together with these data other sets of runs have been collected to calibrate the forward part of the whole experimental setup, the ToF-Wall. The calibration procedure and the detector performances, which fit the experiment requirements for what concerns efficiency, resolution and stability, will be illustrated. Moreover, some preliminary results concerning the 12C-12C elastic scattering, in agreement with the Rutherford model, will be presented.

Published
2013

34. Searches for magnetic monopoles with the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso

Author

Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, O. Palamara, M. Carboni, B. C. Barish, J. Musser, P. Bernardini, James R. Stone, Ana Maria Marin, A. Hawthorne, M. G. Castellano, G. Battistoni, C. W. Peck, C. Rossi, J. L. Stone, Kael Hanson, M. Ambrosio, S. L. Mufson, L. Satta, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, G. Tarle, A. Margiotta-Neri, P. Pistilli, M. Severi, V. Valente, A. Rainò, R. Nolty, R. Pazzi, V. Chiarella, Marco Grassi, P. Serra Lugaresi, P. Guarnaccia, Edward Diehl, F. Sartogo, A. Sanzgiri, J. Petrakis, L. R. Sulak, G. Osteria, P. Monacelli, C. Bemporad, S. Coutu, V. Bisi, J. T. Hong, S. P. Ahlen, J. Reynoldson, R. Baker, Roberto Bellotti, F. Cafagna, R.M. Heinz, Y. Lu, Fabrizio Cei, Np Longley, G. C. Barbarino, Mario Sitta, D. G. Michael, C. Gustavino, Donato Nicolo, A. Di Credico, Maurizio Spurio, A. Surdo, M. Mittelbrun, E. Katsavounidis, S. Parlati, S. Kyriazopoulou, Paolo Lipari, M. Spinetti, C. Forti, Eugenio Scapparone, C. E. Lane, V. Popa, G. Ludlam, R. C. Webb, Marco Monteno, S. Petrera, T. Bosio, P. F. Spada, R. Fantini, M. Sioli, G. Giacomelli, I. De Mitri, A. M. Baldini, C. Orth, C. R. Bower, C. Favuzzi, M. De Vincenzi, G.L. Sanzani, C. De Marzo, C. Satriano, M. Calicchio, G. Auriemma, M. J. Longo, F. Guarino, D. Campana, Halina Bilokon, G. Liu, S P Mikheyev, Mn Mazziotta, D. Martello, Kate Scholberg, R. Liu, W. A. Worstell, E. Iarocci, C. W. Walter, Robert A. Cormack, H. Dekhissi, A. A. Grillo, U. Rubizzo, B. Pavesi, T. Montaruli, O. Erriquez, L. Patrizii, G. Mandrioli, F.J. Ronga, M. Goretti, A. Corona, R. Antolini, G. de Cataldo, L. Miller, D. Levin, G. Giannini, N. D. Pignatano, N. Giglietto, V. Togo, P. Matteuzzi, S. Cecchini, Alec Habig, G. Mamcarella, C. Okada, E. Kearns, A. Marzari-Chiesa, E. Lamanna, P. Spinelli, R. Steinberg, C. Bloise, P. Fusco, Andrea Carlo Marini, Paul J. Green, Ahlen, S, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bisi, V, Bloise, C, Bosio, T, Bower, C, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Castellano, M, Carboni, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Cormak, R, Corona, A, Coutu, S, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Diehl, E, Erriquez, O, Fantini, R, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Goretti, M, Grassi, M, Green, P, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Hawthorne, A, Heinz, R, Hong, Jt, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Kearns, E, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Liu, G, Liu, R, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Lu, Y, Ludlam, G, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiotta Neri, A, Marin, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Matteuzzi, P, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Mikheyev, S, Miller, L, Mittelbrun, M, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Okada, C, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Palamara, O, Parlati, S, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Petrakis, J, Petrera, S, Pignatano, N, Pistilli, P, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Rossi, C, Rubizzo, U, Sanzani, G, Sanzgiri, A, Sartogo, F, Satriano, C, Satta, L, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serra Luganesi, P, Severi, M, Sioli, M, Sitta, M, Spada, Pf, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Valente, V, Walter, Cw, Webb, R, and Worstell, W.

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Range (particle radiation), Magnetic monopole, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Flux, MACRO, Scintillator, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Relativistic particle, Nuclear physics, Planar, Macro, Underground detector
Abstract

MACRO is a large area multiple component detector located deep underground in Hall B of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. Its active components consist of tanks of liquid scintillator and planes of limited streamer tubes. In addition, there are two planar areas covered with passive track-etch plastics. The full detector measures 72 m × 12 m × 9.6 m providing a large sensitive area for the detection of penetrating particles. Multiple electronics systems provide triggering on particles over a wide range of velocities, in particular, for slowly moving massive particles such as grand unified magnetic monopoles. MACRO is sensitive to relativistic particles as well as ones whose velocities are as low as 10 −4 c. Various portions of the MACRO detector have been operational since 1989. Various data sets have been analyzed and although no monopoles have been found, stringent flux limits have been set using a variety of techniques. This paper summarizes the capabilities of MACRO for monopole detection and presents some experimental results which have been obtained to date.

Published
1996

35. Charged and Neutral Particles Production from 80 MeV/u 12C ion beam on a PMMA target

Author

S. Fiore, G. Battistoni, Luciano Piersanti, A. Paoloni, C. Agodi, F. Bellini, Alessio Sarti, Giacomo Cuttone, R. Faccini, Vincenzo Patera, Francesco Collamati, A. Sciubba, C. Voena, G.A.P. Cirrone, Ilaria Mattei, P. Gauzzi, E. Iarocci, F. Ferroni, M. De Napoli, Silvia Muraro, E. De Lucia, Michela Marafini, E. Vitale, A. Di Domenico, and Fabrizio Romano

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear physics, Hadron therapy, Photon, Ion beam, Homogeneous, Carbon ion beam, Physics::Medical Physics, Dosimetry, Atomic physics, Methacrylate
Abstract

We have measured the properties of the secondary particles produced in the interaction of carbon ion beams with homogeneous targets, in order to reconstruct the profile of the dose delivered in an hadron therapy treatment. Our measurements have been done with a 80 MeV/u fully stripped carbon ion beam at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), Catania, with a Poly-methyl methacrylate target (PMMA). Both the neutral and the charged component of the secondaries have been measured, the neutral component including prompt photons and s+-annihilation photons (γ-PET).

Published
2012

36. The Upstream Detectors of the FIRST Experiment at GSI

Author

Alessio Sarti, A. Paoloni, Luca Piersanti, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, M. Anelli, and E. Iarocci

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear engineering, Detector, Beam monitor, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy(all), Space radiation, Hadron therapy, Time of flight, Elementary particle and nuclear physics experimental methods and instrumentation, Fragmentation, Beam (structure)
Abstract

FIRST (FragmentationofIonsRelevantforSpaceandTherapy)isanexperimentdevotedtoaprecise measurementofion fragmentation for space radiation protection and hadron therapyapplications. Afirst run dedicated to the fragmentation of fully stripped 12 Cions on a thin graphite target has been already performed during August 2011 at GSI. The experiment is composed of already existing detectors complemented by a newly designed interaction region, including the so -called Upstream Detectors: a Start Counter and a Beam Monitor. The Start Counter is used to trigger the beam and to give a precise time reference for time of flight measurements, while the Beam Monitor is needed to track ions before their interaction in the target. In this paper we present their description and the results of the tests performed on different beams to validate their performances before the installation at GSI.

Published
2012

37. FIRST experiment: Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy

Author

Eleuterio Spiriti, A. Foti, M. C. Morone, E. Iarocci, M. Bondì, G. Ickert, G.A.P. Cirrone, Ch. Finck, Andrea Lavagno, Francesco Romano, D. Juliani, C. Agodi, María Isabel Gallardo, J. Krimmer, Giuseppe Battistoni, Felice Iazzi, R. Introzzi, Giacomo Cuttone, Valeria Rosso, J. M. Quesada, Paola Sala, T. T. Bohlen, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, Piernicola Oliva, Valeria Sipala, M. De Napoli, V. Monaco, A. Le Fèvre, D. Nicolosi, Roberto Sacchi, Nunzio Randazzo, Thomas Aumann, M Cavallaro, R. Pleskac, Bruno Golosio, Francesco Cappuzzello, M. A. G. Alvarez, S. Leray, N. Kurz, Z. Abou-Haidar, Concettina Sfienti, Alessio Sarti, A. Bocci, J. P. Fernández-García, Luca Piersanti, M. Rousseau, S. Tropea, Flavio Marchetto, Herbert A. Simon, Antonio Brunetti, Yvonne Leifels, A. Boudard, A. Paoloni, Marco Durante, M. Carpinelli, C. Scheidenberger, Christoph Schuy, F. Balestra, M Labalme, L. Stuttge, Vincenzo Patera, Daniele Carbone, A. Sciubba, H. Younis, D. M. Rossi, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Agodi, C, Abou Haidar, Z, Alvarez, M, Aumann, T, Balestra, F, Battistoni, G, Bocci, A, Bohlen, T, Bondi, M, Boudard, A, Brunetti, A, Carpinelli, M, Cappuzzello, F, Cavallaro, M, Carbone, D, Cirrone, G, Cortes Giraldo, M, Cuttone, G, De Napoli, M, Durante, M, Fernandez Garcia, J, Finck, C, Foti, A, Gallardo, M, Golosio, B, Iarocci, E, Iazzi, F, Ickert, G, Introzzi, R, Juliani, D, Krimmer, J, Kurz, N, Labalme, M, Lavagno, A, Leifels, Y, Le Fevre, A, Leray, S, Marchetto, F, Monaco, V, Morone, M, Nicolosi, D, Oliva, P, Paoloni, A, Patera, V, Piersanti, L, Pleskac, R, Quesada, J, Randazzo, N, Romano, F, Rossi, D, Rosso, V, Rousseau, M, Sacchi, R, Sala, P, Sarti, A, Scheidenberger, C, Schuy, C, Sciubba, A, Sfienti, C, Simon, H, Sipala, V, Spiriti, E, Stuttge, L, Tropea, S, Younis, H, Agodi, C., Abou-Haidar, Z., Alvarez, M. A. G., Aumann, T., Balestra, F., Battistoni, G., Bocci, A., Bohlen, T. T., Bondi, M., Boudard, A., Brunetti, A., Carpinelli, M., Cappuzzello, F., Cavallaro, M., Carbone, D., Cirrone, G. A. P., Cortes-Giraldo, M. A., Cuttone, G., Napoli, M. D., Durante, M., Fernandez-Garcia, J. P., Finck, C., Foti, A., Gallardo, M. I., Golosio, B., Iarocci, E., Iazzi, F., Ickert, G., Introzzi, R., Juliani, D., Krimmer, J., Kurz, N., Labalme, M., Lavagno, A., Leifels, Y., Fevre, A. L., Leray, S., Marchetto, F., Monaco, V., Morone, M. C., Nicolosi, D., Oliva, P., Paoloni, A., Patera, V., Piersanti, L., Pleskac, R., Quesada, J. M., Randazzo, N., Romano, F., Rossi, D., Rosso, V., Rousseau, M., Sacchi, R., Sala, P., Sarti, A., Scheidenberger, C., Schuy, C., Sciubba, A., Sfienti, C., Simon, H., Sipala, V., Spiriti, E., Stuttge, L., Tropea, S., and Younis, H.

Subjects
History, Silicon detector, Applied physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Scintillator, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Space radiation, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Education, Ion, Experimental apparatu, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0302 clinical medicine, Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), 0103 physical sciences, Neutron detection, ddc:530, Silicon Vertex Detector, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Scintillation counter, Radiation protection, Physics, Detector, Nuclear fragmentation, Computer Science Applications, International collaboration, Protection application, Magnet, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-MED-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Medical Physics [physics.med-ph], Scientific program, International cooperation, Nucleon, Interaction region
Abstract

International audience; Nuclear fragmentation processes are relevant in different fields of basic research and applied physics and are of particular interest for tumor therapy and for space radiation protection applications. The FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) experiment at SIS accelerator of GSI laboratory in Darmstadt, has been designed for the measurement of different ions fragmentation cross sections at different energies between 100 and 1000 MeV/nucleon. The experiment is performed by an international collaboration made of institutions from Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The experimental apparatus is partly based on an already existing setup made of the ALADIN magnet, the MUSIC IV TPC, the LAND2 neutron detector and the TOFWALL scintillator TOF system, integrated with newly designed detectors in the interaction Region (IR) around the carbon removable target: a scintillator Start Counter, a Beam Monitor drift chamber, a silicon Vertex Detector and a Proton Tagger for detection of light fragments emitted at large angles (KENTROS). The scientific program of the FIRST experiment started on summer 2011 with the study of the 400 MeV/nucleon 12C beam fragmentation on thin (8mm) carbon target.

Published
2012

38. The KENTROS Detector for Identification and Kinetic Energy Measurements of Nuclear Fragments at Polar Angles Between 5 and 90 Degrees

Author

C. Agodi, C. Scheidenberger, Francesco Cappuzzello, J. P. Fernández-García, A. Boudard, Alessio Sarti, Daniele Carbone, N. Randazzo, H. Younis, Antonio Brunetti, N. Kurtz, Giacomo Cuttone, F. Marchetto, M. Rousseau, María Isabel Gallardo, C. Sfienti, E. Iarocci, Paola Sala, R. Introzzi, J. Krimmer, G.A.P. Cirrone, Dario Rossi, D. Juliani, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, A. Paoloni, Piernicola Oliva, Christoph Schuy, F. Balestra, M. A. G. Alvarez, E. Spiriti, M. Labalme, Vincenzo Patera, Y. Leifels, C. Finck, A. Sciubba, G. Battistoni, M. De Napoli, Roberto Sacchi, Giuseppina Raciti, M. Bondì, H. Simon, A. Le Fèvre, S. Leray, Valeria Sipala, Manuela Cavallaro, Thomas Aumann, R. Pleskac, G. Ickert, M. C. Morone, L. Stuttge, Felice Iazzi, Marco Durante, Valeria Rosso, J. M. Quesada, V. Monaco, Fabrizio Romano, Luca Piersanti, D. Nicolosi, M. Carpinelli, Bruno Golosio, Z. Abou-Haidar, A. Bocci, T. T. Bohlen, S. Tropea, De Napoli, M, Agodi, C, Brunetti, A, Golosio, B, Nicolosi, D, Oliva, P, Sipala, V, Abou Haidar, Z, Alvarez, M, Aumann, T, Balestra, F, Battistoni, G, Bocci, A, Bohlen, T, Bondi, M, Boudard, A, Carbone, D, Cappuzzello, F, Carpinelli, M, Cavallaro, M, Cirrone, G, Cortes Giraldo, M, Cuttone, G, Durante, M, Fernandez Garcia, J, Finck, C, Gallardo, M, Iarocci, E, Iazzi, F, Introzzi, R, Ickert, G, Juliani, D, Krimmer, J, Kurtz, N, Labalme, M, Leifels, Y, Le Fevre, A, Leray, S, Marchetto, F, Monaco, V, Morone, M, Paoloni, A, Patera, V, Piersanti, L, Pleskac, R, Quesada, J, Raciti, G, Randazzo, N, Romano, F, Rossi, D, Rosso, V, Rousseau, M, Sacchi, R, Sala, P, Sarti, A, Scheidenberger, C, Schuy, C, Sciubba, A, Sfienti, C, Simon, H, Spiriti, E, Stuttge, L, Tropea, S, and Younis, H

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Scintillator, Kinetic energy, Nuclear fragment, Nuclear physics, Experiment, Laboratory frame, Physics, Kinetic, Double differential, Detector, Nuclear fragmentation, Time resolution, Settore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali, Ambientali, Biol.e Medicin), Charged particle, Time of flight, Nuclear physic, Compact detector, Scintillation counter, Polar, Energy deposition, Medical imaging, Polar coordinate system, Radiation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Time of flight measurement
Abstract

KENTROS (Kinetic ENergy and Time Resolution Optimized on Scintillator) is a relatively compact detector that has been projected and constructed in the framework of the INFN FRAG and TPS experiments. KENTROS has been designed for energy deposition and time of flight measurements of charged particles. The detector ensures an angular coverage from about 5 degrees up to about 90 degrees polar angle in the laboratory frame. Recently KENTROS has been used as part of the FIRST experiment, devoted to measure double differential fragmentation cross sections, with the aim to detect light fragments produced in the nuclear fragmentation process.

Published
2012

39. The FIRST experiment for nuclear fragmentation measurements at GSI

Author

C. Agodi, N. Kurz, M. Rousseau, Alessio Sarti, A. Bocci, S. Leray, D. Juliani, Giuseppe Battistoni, M. Carpinelli, L. Stuttge, M. C. Morone, H. Simon, T. T. Bohlen, F. Iazzi, Luciano Piersanti, Piernicola Oliva, C. Scheidenberger, R. Introzzi, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, R. Pleskac, I. Leifels, Z. Abou-Haidar, Flavio Marchetto, C. Sfienti, C. Finck, S. Tropea, Marco Durante, Paola Sala, J. M. Quesada, Vincenzo Patera, M. Labalme, M. De Napoli, R. Sacchi, Nunzio Randazzo, Bruno Golosio, Eleuterio Spiriti, M. A. G. Alvarez, Dario Rossi, J. Krimmer, G. Ickert, V. Monaco, Giacomo Cuttone, Christoph Schuy, A. Le Fèvre, Valeria Sipala, Thomas Aumann, A. Boudard, E. Iarocci, Francesco Romano, G.A.P. Cirrone, Giovanni Luca Masala, A. Paoloni, Antonio Brunetti, Adalberto Sciubba, Y. Hannan, Golosio, B, Abou Haidar, Z, Agodi, C, Alvarez, M, Aumann, T, Battistoni, G, Bocci, A, Böhlen, T, Boudard, A, Brunetti, A, Carpinelli, M, Cirrone, G, Cortes Giraldo, M, Cuttone, G, De Napoli, M, Durante, M, Finck, C, Hannan, Y, Iarocci, E, Iazzi, F, Ickert, G, Introzzi, R, Juliani, D, Krimmer, J, Kurz, N, Labalme, M, Leifels, I, Le Fevre, A, Leray, S, Marchetto, F, Masala, G, Monaco, V, Morone, M, Oliva, P, Paoloni, A, Patera, V, Piersanti, L, Pleskac, R, Quesada, J, Randazzo, N, Romano, F, Rossi, D, Rousseau, M, Sacchi, R, Sala, P, Sarti, A, Scheidenberger, C, Schuy, C, Sciubba, A, Sfienti, C, Simon, H, Sipala, V, Spiriti, E, Stuttge, L, Tropea, S, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), and Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Energy ranges, Double differential cross sections, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Double differential cross section, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Ion, Nuclear physics, 03 medical and health sciences, Hadron therapy, 0302 clinical medicine, Data acquisition, Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), Basic research, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Germany, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, Gold target, Physics, Experimental apparatus, Radiation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Nuclear fragmentation, Space radiation, Settore FIS/07 - Fisica Applicata(Beni Culturali, Ambientali, Biol.e Medicin), Polar angles, Protection application, Space radiations, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Radiology
Abstract

International audience; Nuclear fragmentation processes are relevant in different fields of physics concerning both basic research and applications. FIRST (Fragmentation of Ions Relevant for Space and Therapy) is an experiment aimed at the measurement of double differential cross sections (DDCS), with respect to kinetic energy and scattering polar angle, of nuclear fragmentation processes relevant for hadron therapy and for space radiation protection applications, in the energy range between 100 and 1000 MeV/u. The experiment was mounted at the GSI laboratories of Darmstadt, in Germany. A first data taking was performed in August 2011, using 400 MeV/u 12C on carbon and gold targets. In this work we present a description of the experimental apparatus and some figures from the data acquisition and from the preliminary work on data analysis.

Published
2012

40. Search for lightly ionizing particles with the MACRO detector

Author

Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, B. C. Choudhary, S. Coutu, A. Marzari-Chiesa, R.M. Heinz, F. Cei, L. Satta, D. G. Michael, Kate Scholberg, F.J. Ronga, Marco Monteno, S. Petrera, P. Bernardini, L. R. Sulak, V. Togo, G. Mandrioli, M. Vakili, R. Steinberg, M. N. Mazziotta, A. Di Credico, P. Serra, D. Campana, P. Pistilli, M. Ambrosio, S. Kyriazopoulou, R. Pazzi, J. L. Stone, D. Bakari, M. Carboni, R. C. Webb, F. Loparco, C. Bloise, M. Brigida, P. Fusco, Andrea Carlo Marini, Paolo Lipari, L. Perrone, V. Chiarella, Barry C. Barish, Roberto Bellotti, Giuseppe Osteria, V. Popa, Maurizio Spurio, M. Ouchrif, C. W. Peck, H. Dekhissi, P. Monacelli, Donato Nicolo, F. Cafagna, I. De Mitri, Ioannis Katsavounidis, C. W. Walter, C. R. Bower, L. Patrizii, Alec Habig, M. Grassi, E. Vilela, C. De Marzo, J. Derkaoui, J. A. Musser, G. Mancarella, J. Reynoldson, P. Spinelli, A. Rainò, Kael Hanson, Teresa Montaruli, Maximiliano Sioli, C. Bemporad, Np Longley, C. Orth, F. Guarino, C. E. Lane, V. Bisi, Lindsey Gray, D. Levin, G. Battistoni, R. Nolty, E. Iarocci, M. Calicchio, Annarita Margiotta, Halina Bilokon, Erik Katsavounidis, S. L. Mufson, F. Maaroufi, M. J. Longo, D. Martello, C. Forti, G. Giacomelli, L. Miller, S P Mikheyev, M. Spinetti, M. Giorgini, E. Kearns, C. Okada, E. Lamanna, C. Satriano, G. Auriemma, Gregory Tarle, G. C. Barbarino, Eugenio Scapparone, M. De Vincenzi, G. Giannini, N. Giglietto, G. de Cataldo, O. Erriquez, A. A. Grillo, Hyun-Chul Kim, R. Antolini, S. Cecchini, C. Favuzzi, A. Surdo, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, A. Baldini, O. Palamara, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, G., Auriemma, D., Bakari, A., Baldini, Barbarino, Giancarlo, B., Barish, G., Battistoni, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, V., Bisi, C., Bloise, C., Bower, M., Brigida, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, B., Choudhary, S., Coutu, G., De Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C., De Marzo, I., De Mitri, J., Derkaoui, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, L., Gray, A., Grillo, Guarino, Fausto, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, D., Levin, P., Lipari, N., Longley, M., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroufi, G., Mancarella, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, D., Martello, A., Marzari Chiesa, M., Mazziotta, D., Michael, S., Mikheyev, L., Miller, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolò, R., Nolty, C., Orth, C., Okada, G., Osteria, M., Ouchrif, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C., Peck, L., Perrone, S., Petrera, P., Pistilli, V., Popa, A., Rainò, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, C., Satriano, L., Satta, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, P., Serra, M., Sioli, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J., Stone, L., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarlè, V., Togo, M., Vakili, E., Vilela, C., Walter, R., Webb, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Bakari, D, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bisi, V, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Brigida, M, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Gray, L, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Katsavounidis, I, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Loparco, F, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiotta, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Mikheyev, S, Miller, L, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Orth, C, Okada, C, Osteria, G, Ouchrif, M, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Perrone, L, Petrera, S, Pistilli, P, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Satriano, C, Satta, L, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serra, P, Sioli, M, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Vakili, M, Vilela, E, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., Perrone, Lorenzo, Macro, Collaboration, G. C., Barbarino, B. C., Barish, Bernardini, Paolo, B. C., Choudhary, G. D., Cataldo, C. D., Marzo, DE MITRI, Ivan, M. D., Vincenzi, A. D., Credico, F., Guarino, D. S., Levin, N. P., Longley, M. J., Longo, Mancarella, Giovanni, Martello, Daniele, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, D., Nicolo, C. W., Peck, A., Raino, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, G., Tarle, C. W., Walter, Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Auriemma G., Bakari D., Baldini A., Barbarino G.C., Barish B.C., Battistoni G., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bisi V., Bloise C., Bower C., Brigida M., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Carboni M., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Choudhary B.C., Coutu S., De Cataldo G., Dekhissi H., De Marzo C., De Mitri I., Derkaoui J., De Vincenzi M., Di Credico A., Erriquez O., Favuzzi C., Forti C., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini G., Giglietto N., Giorgini M., Grassi M., Gray L., Grillo A., Guarino F., Gustavino C., Habig A., Hanson K., Heinz R., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Katsavounidis I., Kearns E., Kim H., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Lane C., Levin D.S., Lipari P., Longley N.P., Longo M.J., Loparco F., Maaroufi F., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Margiotta A., Marini A., Martello D., Marzari-Chiesa A., Mazziotta M.N., Michael D.G., Mikheyev S., Miller L., Monacelli P., Montaruli T., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nicolo D., Nolty R., Orth C., Okada C., Osteria G., Ouchrif M., Palamara O., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C.W., Perrone L., Petrera S., Pistilli P., Popa V., Raino A., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Satriano C., Satta L., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Serra P., Sioli M., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steinberg R., Stone J.L., Sulak L.R., Surdo A., Tarle G., Togo V., Vakili M., Vilela E., Walter C.W., and Webb R.

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Charge (physics), Elementary particle, Cosmic ray, MACRO, Electron, Electric charge, Gran Sasso, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Ionization, Atomic physics
Abstract

A search for lightly ionizing particles has been performed with the MACRO detector. This search was sensitive to particles with charges between $\fractional{5}$$e$ and close to the charge of an electron, with $\beta$ between approximately 0.25 and 1.0. Unlike previous searches both single track events and tracks buried within high multiplicity muon showers were examined. In a period of approximately one year no candidates were observed. Assuming an isotropic flux, for the single track sample this corresponds to a 90% C.L. upper flux limit $\Phi \leq 9.2 \times 10^{-15} cm^{-2} sec^{-1} sr^{-1}$ ., Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D.; References Added

Published
2000

41. Low energy atmospheric muon neutrinos in MACRO

Author

I. De Mitri, C. R. Bower, L. Patrizii, C. De Marzo, F. Cei, S. Cecchini, J. A. Musser, F. Maaroufi, C. Favuzzi, Paolo Lipari, A. Di Credico, Np Longley, C. E. Lane, J. Derkaoui, V. Popa, S. Kyriazopoulou, D. Bakari, P. Spinelli, M. Giorgini, Kael Hanson, Erik Katsavounidis, O. Erriquez, R. C. Webb, C. W. Peck, S. L. Mufson, M. Ouchrif, D. Martello, G. de Cataldo, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, E. Kearns, M. Brigida, Roberto Bellotti, J. L. Stone, G. Sirri, M. Carboni, Donato Nicolo, D. Campana, F. Loparco, P. Pistilli, C. Forti, C. Bloise, P. Serra, F. Cafagna, P. Fusco, G. Giacomelli, M. Calicchio, R. Pazzi, E. Iarocci, Halina Bilokon, Annarita Margiotta, Andrea Carlo Marini, S P Mikheyev, A. Surdo, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, Maurizio Spurio, L. Satta, E. Vilela, D. G. Michael, Michael J. Longo, A. Marzari-Chiesa, L. R. Sulak, G. Battistoni, Marco Monteno, G. Giannini, G. Mandrioli, Lindsey Gray, M. Ambrosio, R. Nolty, M. Spinetti, Ioannis Katsavounidis, M. Grassi, M. N. Mazziotta, R. Steinberg, Kate Scholberg, R.M. Heinz, P. Bernardini, V. Chiarella, F. Guarino, N. Giglietto, Giuseppe Osteria, V. Bisi, P. Monacelli, Vincenzo Patera, S. Coutu, A. Sciubba, Hyun-Chul Kim, A. A. Grillo, C. Orth, A. Baldini, O. Palamara, B. C. Choudhary, V. Togo, C. W. Walter, A. Rainò, R. Antolini, S. Petrera, C. Bemporad, G. Mancarella, J. Reynoldson, Teresa Montaruli, Frederic Jean Ronga, L. Perrone, Barry C. Barish, H. Dekhissi, L. Miller, D. Levin, M. Vakili, G. C. Barbarino, Maximiliano Sioli, Eugenio Scapparone, M. De Vincenzi, C. Satriano, G. Auriemma, Gregory Tarle, Alec Habig, E. Lamanna, M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, G., Auriemma, D., Bakari, A., Baldini, Barbarino, Giancarlo, B. C., Barish, G., Battistoni, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, V., Bisi, C., Bloise, C., Bower, M., Brigida, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, B. C., Choudhary, S., Coutu, G., De Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C., De Marzo, I., De Mitri, J., Derkaoui, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, L., Gray, A., Grillo, Guarino, Fausto, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, D. S., Levin, P., Lipari, N. P., Longley, M. J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Maaroufi, G., Mancarella, G., Mandrioli, A., Margiotta, A., Marini, D., Martello, A., Marzari Chiesa, M. N., Mazziotta, D. G., Michael, S., Mikheyev, L., Miller, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicolò, R., Nolty, C., Orth, G., Osteria, M., Ouchrif, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C. W., Peck, L., Perrone, S., Petrera, P., Pistilli, V., Popa, A., Rainò, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, C., Satriano, L., Satta, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, P., Serra, M., Sioli, G., Sirri, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J. L., Stone, L. R., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarlè, V., Togo, M., Vakili, E., Vilela, C. W., Walter, R., Webb, Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Auriemma G., Bakari D., Baldini A., Barbarino G.C., Barish B.C., Battistoni G., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bisi V., Bloise C., Bower C., Brigida M., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Carboni M., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Choudhary B.C., Coutu S., De Cataldo G., Dekhissi H., De Marzo C., De Mitri I., Derkaoui J., De Vincenzi M., Di Credico A., Erriquez O., Favuzzi C., Forti C., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini G., Giglietto N., Giorgini M., Grassi M., Gray L., Grillo A., Guarino F., Gustavino C., Habig A., Hanson K., Heinz R., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Katsavounidis I., Kearns E., Kim H., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Lane C., Levin D.S., Lipari P., Longley N.P., Longo M.J., Loparco F., Maaroufi F., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Margiotta A., Marini A., Martello D., Marzari-Chiesa A., Mazziotta M.N., Michael D.G., Mikheyev S., Miller L., Monacelli P., Montaruli T., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nicolom D., Nolty R., Orth C., Osteria G., Ouchrif M., Palamara O., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C.W., Perrone L., Petrera S., Pistilli P., Popa V., Rainoa A., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Satriano C., Satta L., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Serra P., Sioli M., Sirri G., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steinberg R., Stone J.L., Sulak L.R., Surdo A., Tarle G., Togo V., Vakili M., Vilela E., Walter C.W., Webb R., Bernardini, Paolo, Martello, Daniele, DE MITRI, Ivan, Perrone, Lorenzo, Macro, Collaboration, Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Bakari, D, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bisi, V, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Brigida, M, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, M, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Gray, L, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Katsavounidis, I, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Loparco, F, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Margiotta, A, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Michael, Dg, Mikheyev, S, Miller, L, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Nolty, R, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Ouchrif, M, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Perrone, L, Petrera, S, Pistilli, P, Popa, V, Raino, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Satriano, C, Satta, L, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serra, P, Sioli, M, Sirri, G, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Vakili, M, Vilela, E, Walter, Cw, and Webb, R.

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics, Nuclear, Physics, Particles & Fields, Muon, Detector, Particles & Fields, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, MACRO, Gran Sasso, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Nuclear, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Event (particle physics), Charged current, Mixing (physics)
Abstract

We present the measurement of two event samples induced by atmospheric $\nu_\mu$ of average energy $ \bar {E}_\nu \sim 4 GeV$. In the first sample, the neutrino interacts inside the MACRO detector producing an upward-going muon leaving the apparatus. The ratio of the number of observed to expected events is $ 0.57 \pm0.05_{stat} \pm0.06_{syst} \pm0.14_{theor}$ with an angular distribution similar to that expected from the Bartol atmospheric neutrino flux. The second is a mixed sample of internally produced downward-going muons and externally produced upward-going muons stopping inside the detector. These two subsamples are selected by topological criteria; the lack of timing information makes it impossible to distinguish stopping from downgoing muons. The ratio of the number of observed to expected events is $0.71 \pm 0.05_{stat} \pm0.07_{syst} \pm0.18_{theor}$ . Using the ratio of the two subsamples (for which most theoretical uncertainties cancel) we can test the pathlength dependence of the oscillation hypothesis. The probability of agreement with the no-oscillation hypothesis is 5% . The deviations of our observations from the expectations has a preferred interpretation in terms of $\nu_\mu$ oscillations with maximal mixing and $\Delta m^2 \sim 10^{-3} \div 10^{-2} eV^2$. These parameters are in agreement with our results from upward throughgoing muons, induced by $\nu_\mu$ of much higher energies., Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B

Published
2000
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42. Measurement of prompt photons and gamma PET from 80 MeV/u carbon beam on PMMA target

Author

A. Paoloni, C. Agodi, E. Iarocci, F. Ferroni, I. Mattei, Michela Marafini, Alessio Sarti, E. De Lucia, S. Fiore, F. Bellini, A. Di Domenico, Giacomo Cuttone, Fabrizio Romano, Francesco Collamati, P. Gauzzi, Luciano Piersanti, R. Faccini, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, M. De Napoli, G.A.P. Cirrone, and C. Voena

Subjects
Physics, gamma pet, Photon, prompt photons, Ion beam, hadrontherapy, carbon ion beam, lyso, nai, Lyso, Imaging phantom, Particle detector, Ion, Nuclear physics, Dosimetry, Beam (structure)
Abstract

The measurements performed using a fully stripped carbon ions beam of 80MeV/u impinging on a Poly-methyl methacrylate (PMMA) phantom at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS) dell'INFN in Catania, Italy, are shown. The study of the neutral particles production from the fragmentation of the Carbon Projectiles plays a crucial role in the present development and delivery of therapeutical beams for hadron therapy. Measurements performed monitoring PMMA phantoms are fundamental to validate MC simulations and confirm expected performances of detectors used for monitoring purposes. The feasibility of online dose monitoring has been investigated using LYSO detectors for prompt photons and NaI crystals for β+ decays.

Published
2011

43. U boson searches at KLOE

Author

Eryk Czerwiński, I. Sarra, Cecilia Taccini, S. Fiore, Bo Höistad, E. Graziani, S. A. Bulychjev, P. Franzini, Jarosław Zdebik, P. Gauzzi, G. Fanizzi, S. Miscetti, G. De Zorzi, Marek Jacewicz, Gianfranco Morello, L. Tortora, V. V. Kulikov, Antonio Budano, G. Capon, W. Wislicki, I. Balwierz, Paweł Moskal, Magnus Wolke, F. Loddo, C. Bloise, R. Versaci, I. Prado Longhi, A. Di Domenico, F. Bossi, M. Martemianov, Michał Silarski, Filippo Ceradini, G. Venanzoni, D. Moricciani, O. Erriquez, A. Ranieri, Vincenzo Patera, F. Gonnella, F. Happacher, G. Bencivenni, Andrzej Kupsc, Juliet Lee-Franzini, G. De Robertis, Paolo Santangelo, Pierluigi Campana, M. A. Matsyuk, A. Sciubba, Paolo Ciambrone, E. Iarocci, Barbara Sciascia, M. Martini, R. Messi, P. Branchini, Marco Schioppa, T. Johansson, S. Giovannella, Davide Badoni, V. Bocci, G. Felici, E. De Lucia, Flavio Archilli, D. Domenici, C. Di Donato, Cesare Bini, A. Passeri, F. Nguyen, E. Dané, A. De Santis, and D. Babusci

Subjects
Physics, History, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Gauge (firearms), 01 natural sciences, Computer Science Applications, Education, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Low energy, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, 010306 general physics, Boson
Abstract

The existence of a secluded gauge sector could explain several puzzling astrophysical observations. This hypothesis can be tested at low energy e+e- colliders such as DAPHNE. Preliminary results obtained with KLOE data and perpectives for the KLOE-2 run, where a larger data sample is expected, are discussed., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures

Published
2011
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44. Corrigendum: Charged particles flux measurement from PMMA irradiated by 80 MeV u−1carbon ion beam (Phys. Med. Biol.57 5667)

Author

Francesco Collamati, Luca Piersanti, S. Fiore, Michela Marafini, R. Faccini, C. Agodi, E. Iarocci, E. Vitale, Alessio Sarti, F. Ferroni, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, Silvia Muraro, A. Paoloni, C. Voena, Giacomo Cuttone, G. Battistoni, G. A. P. Cirrone, P. Gauzzi, E. De Lucia, I. Mattei, M. De Napoli, F. Bellini, A. Di Domenico, and Fabrizio Romano

Subjects
Materials science, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Carbon ion beam, Flux, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Irradiation, Atomic physics, Charged particle
Published
2014

45. 175: Measurements of Carbon ion fragmentation on thin C and Au targets from the FIRST collaboration at GSI

Author

Paola Sala, D. M. Rossi, T. T. Bohlen, M. A. G. Alvarez, Roberto Sacchi, C. Sfienti, A. Boudard, N. Randazzo, R. Introzzi, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, B. Liu, E. Spiriti, M. Labalme, Felice Iazzi, H. Younis, S. Leray, A. Paoloni, G. Battistoni, Andrea Lavagno, A.H. Kummali, Marco Durante, Bruno Golosio, Luciano Piersanti, Valeria Rosso, V. Monaco, Giacomo Cuttone, C. Agodi, M. Rousseau, A. Bocci, D. Juliani, M. Carpinelli, Piernicola Oliva, Antonio Brunetti, R. Pleskac, Christoph Schuy, Alessio Sarti, F. Balestra, L. Stuttge, J. Krimmer, C. Finck, Z. Abou-Haidar, C. Scheidenberger, N. Kurz, A. Le Fèvre, G. Ickert, Thomas Aumann, S. Tropea, Herbert A. Simon, S. Samuel, Yvonne Leifels, E. Iarocci, Fabrizio Romano, M. De Napoli, D. Nicolosi, F. Marchetto, M. Toppi, M. C. Morone, G.A.P. Cirrone, Valeria Sipala, J. P. Fernández-García, Vincenzo Patera, and A. Sciubba

Subjects
Carbon ion, Oncology, Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), Chemistry, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Hematology, Photochemistry
Published
2014

46. Limits on dark matter WIMPs using upward-going muons in the MACRO detector

Author

Paolo Lipari, G. de Cataldo, M. Ambrosio, G. Tarle, P. Bernardini, Edward Diehl, F. Guarino, D. G. Michael, J. L. Stone, L. Satta, Shahid Manzoor, P. Serra-Lugaresi, J. Derkaoui, P. Spinelli, Kael Hanson, M. Spinetti, M. Carboni, V. Bisi, Donato Nicolo, F. Cei, B. C. Choudhary, C. Mazzotta, R.M. Heinz, E. Kearns, M. Giorgini, F. Cafagna, A. Margiotta Neri, G. C. Barbarino, G. Mancarella, G. Giannini, Kate Scholberg, Yichen Huang, Np Longley, Carla Aramo, C. Favuzzi, M. Severi, R. Steinberg, I. De Mitri, Lindsey Gray, D. Martello, S. Petrera, C. R. Bower, C. E. Lane, E. Iarocci, A. A. Grillo, N. Giglietto, C. W. Walter, C. De Marzo, Vincenzo Patera, Armando Rastelli, P. Pistilli, R. Pazzi, A. Rainò, C. W. Peck, M. Calicchio, J. A. Musser, A. Sciubba, C. Orth, Halina Bilokon, L. De Benedictis, C. Bemporad, A. Marzari-Chiesa, S. Cecchini, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, A. Di Credico, Eugenio Scapparone, Elisa Bernardini, Hyun-Chul Kim, S. Kyriazopoulou, O. Palamara, B. C. Barish, F. Maaroufi, Alec Habig, J. Reynoldson, G. Osteria, Teresa Montaruli, Frederic Jean Ronga, E. Lamanna, V. Popa, S. Coutu, G. Battistoni, Maurizio Spurio, A. Surdo, R. C. Webb, Marco Monteno, Maximiliano Sioli, Ioannis Katsavounidis, H. Dekhissi, R. Antolini, P. Guarnaccia, M. N. Mazziotta, Michael J. Longo, V. Togo, C. Bloise, S. L. Mufson, P. Fusco, V. Chiarella, L. Patrizii, Marco Grassi, Andrea Carlo Marini, G. Mandrioli, L. Miller, D. Levin, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, P. Monacelli, A. Sanzgiri, A. Baldini, D. Ugolotti, O. Erriquez, Roberto Bellotti, C. Forti, G. Giacomelli, T. Lari, S P Mikheyev, Marcello Castellano, M. Ouchrif, M. Vakili, M. De Vincenzi, C. Satriano, G. Auriemma, E. Katsavounidis, L. R. Sulak, D. Campana, Ambrosio M., Antolini R., Aramo C., Auriemma G., Baldini A., Barbarino G.C., Barish B.C., Battistoni G., Bellotti R., Bemporad C., Bernardini E., Bernardini P., Bilokon H., Bisi V., Bloise C., Bower C., Bussino S., Cafagna F., Calicchio M., Campana D., Carboni M., Castellano M., Cecchini S., Cei F., Chiarella V., Choudhary B.C., Coutu S., De Benedictis L., De Cataldo G., Dekhissi H., De Marzo C., De Mitri I., Derkaoui J., De Vincenzi M., Di Credico A., Diehl E., Erriquez O., Favuzzi C., Forti C., Fusco P., Giacomelli G., Giannini G., Giglietto N., Giorgini M., Grassi M., Gray L., Grillo A., Guarino F., Guarnaccia P., Gustavino C., Habig A., Hanson K., Heinz R., Huang Y., Iarocci E., Katsavounidis E., Katsavounidis I., Kearns E., Kim H., Kyriazopoulou S., Lamanna E., Lane C., Lari T., Levin D.S., Lipari P., Longley N.P., Longo M.J., Maaroufi F., Mancarella G., Mandrioli G., Manzoor S., Margiotta Neri A., Marini A., Martello D., Marzari-Chiesa A., Mazziotta M.N., Mazzotta C., Michael D.G., Mikheyev S., Miller L., Monacelli P., Montaruli T., Monteno M., Mufson S., Musser J., Nicolo D., Orth C., Osteria G., Ouchrif M., Palamara O., Patera V., Patrizii L., Pazzi R., Peck C.W., Petrera S., Pistilli P., Popa V., Raino A., Rastelli A., Reynoldson J., Ronga F., Sanzgiri A., Satriano C., Satta L., Scapparone E., Scholberg K., Sciubba A., Serra-Lugaresi P., Severi M., Sioli M., Sitta M., Spinelli P., Spinetti M., Spurio M., Steinberg R., Stone J.L., Sulak L.R., Surdo A., Tarle G., Togo V., Ugolotti D., Vakili M., Walter C.W., Webb R., Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Aramo, C, Auriemma, G, Baldini, A, Barbarino, Gc, Barish, Bc, Battistoni, G, Bellotti, R, Bemporad, C, Bernardini, E, Bernardini, P, Bilokon, H, Bisi, V, Bloise, C, Bower, C, Bussino, Severino Angelo Maria, Cafagna, F, Calicchio, R, Campana, D, Carboni, M, Castellano, M, Cecchini, S, Cei, F, Chiarella, V, Choudhary, Bc, Coutu, S, De Benedictis, L, De Cataldo, G, Dekhissi, H, De Marzo, C, De Mitri, I, Derkaoui, J, De Vincenzi, M, Di Credico, A, Diehl, E, Erriquez, O, Favuzzi, C, Forti, C, Fusco, P, Giacomelli, G, Giannini, G, Giglietto, N, Giorgini, M, Grassi, M, Gray, L, Grillo, A, Guarino, F, Guarnaccia, P, Gustavino, C, Habig, A, Hanson, K, Heinz, R, Huang, Y, Iarocci, E, Katsavounidis, E, Katsavounidis, I, Kearns, E, Kim, H, Kyriazopoulou, S, Lamanna, E, Lane, C, Lari, T, Levin, D, Lipari, P, Longley, Np, Longo, Mj, Maaroufi, F, Mancarella, G, Mandrioli, G, Manzoor, S, Neri, Am, Marini, A, Martello, D, Marzari Chiesa, A, Mazziotta, Mn, Mazzotta, C, Michael, Dg, Mikheyev, S, Miller, L, Monacelli, P, Montaruli, T, Monteno, M, Mufson, S, Musser, J, Nicolo, D, Orth, C, Osteria, G, Ouchrif, M, Palamara, O, Patera, V, Patrizii, L, Pazzi, R, Peck, Cw, Petrera, S, Pistilli, P, Popa, V, Raino, A, Rastelli, A, Reynoldson, J, Ronga, F, Sanzgiri, A, Satriano, C, Satta, L, Scapparone, E, Scholberg, K, Sciubba, A, Serra Lugaresi, P, Severi, M, Sioli, M, Sitta, M, Spinelli, P, Spinetti, M, Spurio, M, Steinberg, R, Stone, Jl, Sulak, Lr, Surdo, A, Tarle, G, Togo, V, Ugolotti, D, Vakili, M, Walter, Cw, Webb, R., M., Ambrosio, R., Antolini, C., Aramo, G., Auriemma, A., Baldini, G., Barbarino, B., Barish, G., Battistoni, R., Bellotti, C., Bemporad, E., Bernardini, P., Bernardini, H., Bilokon, V., Bisi, C., Bloise, C., Bower, S., Bussino, F., Cafagna, M., Calicchio, D., Campana, M., Carboni, M., Castellano, S., Cecchini, F., Cei, V., Chiarella, B., Choudhary, S., Coutu, L., De Benedicti, G., De Cataldo, H., Dekhissi, C., De Marzo, DE MITRI, Ivan, J., Derkaoui, M., De Vincenzi, A., Di Credico, E., Diehl, O., Erriquez, C., Favuzzi, C., Forti, P., Fusco, G., Giacomelli, G., Giannini, N., Giglietto, M., Giorgini, M., Grassi, L., Gray, A., Grillo, F., Guarino, P., Guarnaccia, C., Gustavino, A., Habig, K., Hanson, R., Heinz, Y., Huang, E., Iarocci, E., Katsavounidi, I., Katsavounidi, E., Kearn, H., Kim, S., Kyriazopoulou, E., Lamanna, C., Lane, T., Lari, D., Levin, P., Lipari, N., Longley, M., Longo, F., Maaroufi, Mancarella, Giovanni, G., Mandrioli, S., Manzoor, A., Margiotta Neri, A., Marini, Martello, Daniele, A., Marzari Chiesa, M., Mazziotta, C., Mazzotta, D., Michael, S., Mikheyev, L., Miller, P., Monacelli, T., Montaruli, M., Monteno, S., Mufson, J., Musser, D., Nicoló, C., Orth, G., Osteria, M., Ouchrif, O., Palamara, V., Patera, L., Patrizii, R., Pazzi, C., Peck, S., Petrera, P., Pistilli, V., Popa, A., Rainò, A., Rastelli, J., Reynoldson, F., Ronga, A., Sanzgiri, C., Satriano, L., Satta, E., Scapparone, K., Scholberg, A., Sciubba, P., Serra Lugaresi, M., Severi, M., Sioli, M., Sitta, P., Spinelli, M., Spinetti, M., Spurio, R., Steinberg, J., Stone, L., Sulak, A., Surdo, G., Tarlè, V., Togo, D., Ugolotti, M., Vakili, C., Walter, R., Webb, Barbarino, Giancarlo, and Guarino, Fausto

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Supersymmetry, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), WIMP, Weakly interacting massive particles, Neutralino, Physics::Space Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino, MACRO: Gran Sasso, Light dark matter
Abstract

We perform an indirect search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using the MACRO detector to look for neutrino-induced upward-going muons resulting from the annihilation of WIMPs trapped in the Sun and Earth. The search is conducted in various angular cones centered on the Sun and Earth to accommodate a range of WIMP masses. No significant excess over the background from atmospheric neutrinos is seen and limits are placed on the upward-going muon fluxes from Sun and Earth. These limits are used to constrain neutralino particle parameters from supersymmetric theory, including those suggested by recent results from DAMA/NaI., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

Published
1999

47. High statistics measurement of the underground muon pair separation at Gran Sasso

Author

D. Martello, Maximiliano Sioli, M. Calicchio, S. Mufson, R. Heinz, P. Fusco, I. Katsavounidis, C. Gustavino, M. Giorgini, U. Rubizzo, N. Giglietto, C. Favuzzi, F. Guarino, G. Battistoni, M. Carboni, M. N. Mazziotta, R. Pazzi, A. Surdo, E. Katsavounidis, G. Tarlè, G. de Cataldo, S. Petrera, P. Lipari, V. Togo, I. De Mitri, B. C. Choudhary, L. Miller, M. De Vincenzi, S. Kyriazopoulou, D. G. Michael, A. Di Credico, G. Mancarella, O. Palamara, P. Spinelli, Kael Hanson, Shahid Manzoor, P. Serra-Lugaresi, Armando Rastelli, M. Vakili, E. Scapparone, M. Grassi, O. Erriquez, F. Maaroufi, H. Kim, R. Steinberg, C. De Marzo, M. Ouchrif, Maurizio Spurio, J. A. Musser, C. Mazzotta, G. Osteria, S. Cecchini, A. Rainò, G. Auriemma, C. Bemporad, Adalberto Sciubba, F. Ronga, R. Antolini, Roberto Bellotti, P. Pistilli, T. Lari, D. Campana, Y. Huang, E. Kearns, J. Derkaoui, M. J. Longo, A. A. Grillo, D. S. Levin, C. Aramo, E. Lamanna, L. Satta, L. Gray, Alec Habig, J. L. Stone, A. Marzari-Chiesa, F. Loparco, G. Giannini, V. Popa, C. W. Walter, C. Orth, Elisa Bernardini, C. Forti, M. Ambrosio, Kate Scholberg, Vincenzo Patera, B. C. Barish, C. Satriano, M. Monteno, J. Reynoldson, C. Bower, F. Cafagna, C. Bloise, L. Patrizii, Teresa Montaruli, H. Bilokon, C. Lane, G. Giacomelli, F. Cei, S. Mikheyev, A. Margiotta Neri, H. Dekhissi, P. Monacelli, M. Severi, A. Baldini, S. Bussino, Marcello Castellano, R. C. Webb, A. Marini, M. Spinetti, N. P. Longley, L. R. Sulak, C. W. Peck, S. Coutu, D. Ugolotti, E. Iarocci, V. Chiarella, G. Mandrioli, V. Bisi, M. Sitta, P. Bernardini, D. Nicoló, G. C. 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Subjects
Physics, Systematic error, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Meson, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Hadron, Nuclear Theory, FOS: Physical sciences, Function (mathematics), High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Monte carlo code, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Special care, MACRO: Gran Sasso, Nuclear Experiment, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

We present a measurement of the underground decoherence function using multi-muon events observed in the MACRO detector at Gran Sasso at an average depth of 3800 hg/cm**2. Muon pair separations up to 70 m have been measured, corresponding to parent mesons with P_t < 1-2GeV/c. The accuracy of the measurement is such that the possible contribution of rare processes, such as mu + N ----> mu + N + mu- + mu+, can be experimentally studied. The measured decoherence function is compared with the predictions of the hadronic interaction model of the HEMAS Monte Carlo code. Good agreement is obtained. We interpret this agreement to indicate that no anomalous P_t components in soft hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus collisions are required by the MACRO experimental data., 38 pages, Latex, 10 figures, Corrected typos

Published
1999

48. Proposal for taking data with the KLOE-2 detector at the DAPHNE collider upgraded in energy

Author

D. Babusci, C. Bini, F. Bossi, G. Isidori, D. Moricciani, F. Nguyen, P. Raimondi, G. Venanzoni, D. Alesini, F. Archilli, D. Badoni, R. Baldini-Ferroli, M. Bellaveglia, G. Bencivenni, M. Bertani, M. Biagini, C. Biscari, C. Bloise, V. Bocci, R. Boni, M. Boscolo, P. Branchini, A. Budano, S.A. Bulychjev, B. Buonomo, P. Campana, G. Capon, M. Castellano, F. Ceradini, E. Chiadroni, P. Ciambrone, L. Cultrera, E. Czerwinski, E. Dane', G. Delle Monache, E. De Lucia, T. Demma, G. De Robertis, A. De Santis, G. De Zorzi, A. Di Domenico, C. Di Donato, B. Di Micco, E. Di Pasquale, G. Di Pirro, R. Di Salvo, D. Domenici, A. Drago, M. Esposito, O. Erriquez, G. Felici, M. Ferrario, L. Ficcadenti, D. Filippetto, S. Fiore, P. Franzini, G. Franzini, A. Gallo, G. Gatti, P. Gauzzi, S. Giovannella, A. Ghigo, F. Gonnella, E. Graziani, S. Guiducci, F. Happacher, B. Hoistad, E. Iarocci, M. Jacewicz, T. Johansson, W. Kluge, V.V. Kulikov, A. Kupsc, J. Lee Franzini, C. Ligi, F. Loddo, P. Lukin, F. Marcellini, C. Marchetti, M.A. Martemianov, M. Martini, M.A. Matsyuk, G. Mazzitelli, R. Messi, C. Milardi, M. Mirazzita, S. Miscetti, G. Morello, P. Moskal, S. Müeller, S. Pacetti, G. Pancheri, E. Pasqualucci, A. Passeri, M. Passera, V. Patera, A.D. Polosa, M. Preger, L. Quintieri, A. Ranieri, P. Rossi, C. Sanelli, P. Santangelo, I. Sarra, M. Schioppa, B. Sciascia, M. Serio, F. Sgamma, M. Silarski, B. Spataro, A. Stecchi, A. Stella, S. Stucci, C. Taccini, S. Tomassini, L. Tortora, C. Vaccarezza, R. Versaci, W. Wislicki, M. Wolke, J. Zdebik, and M. Zobov

Subjects
Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

This document reviews the physics program of the KLOE-2 detector at DAFNE upgraded in energy and provides a simple solution to run the collider above the Φ-peak (up to 2, possibly 2.5 GeV). It is shown how a precise measurement of the multihadronic cross section in the energy region up to 2 (possibly 2.5) GeV will have a major impact on the tests of the Standard Model through a precise determination of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the effective fine-structure constant at the MZ scale. With a luminosity of about 10^32 cm^-2 s^-1, DAFNE upgraded in energy can perform a scan in the region from 1 to 2.5 GeV in one year by collecting an integrated luminosity of 20 pb^-1 (corresponding to a few days of data taking) for single point, assuming an energy step of 25 MeV. A few years of data taking in this region would provide important tests of QCD and effective theories by γγ physics with open thresholds for pseudo-scalar (like the η'), scalar (f_0, f_0' , etc...) and axial-vector (a1, etc...) mesons; vector-mesons spectroscopy and baryon form factors, tests of CVC, and searches for exotics. In the final part of the document a technical solution for the energy upgrade of DAFNE is proposed.

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2010
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49. Physics with the KLOE-2 experiment at the upgraded DAFNE

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Eryk Czerwiński, I. Sarra, R. Lehnert, S. Fiore, Bo Höistad, Francesco Giacosa, S. A. Bulychjev, C. Taccini, S. Giovannella, F. Ceradini, Henryk Czyz, G. De Robertis, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr, Stefan E. Müller, B. Di Micco, Jarosław Zdebik, G. V. Fedotovich, Luca Tortora, Rouven Essig, Marek Jacewicz, C. Bloise, Sarben Sarkar, Nikolaos Mavromatos, A. Passeri, Antonio Budano, G. Capon, S. Ivashyn, W. Wislicki, S. Miscetti, Paweł Moskal, P. Gauzzi, Philip Schuster, V. Kulikov, F. Loddo, F. Archilli, G. Felici, R. Versaci, F. Bossi, Natalia Toro, A. Di Domenico, P. De Simone, Federico Mescia, M. Martemianov, Michał Silarski, Diogo Boito, D. Babusci, G. Venanzoni, R. A. Bertlmann, P.A. Lukin, D. Moricciani, O. Erriquez, V. Bocci, Joaquim Prades, A. Ranieri, Vincenzo Patera, F. Gonnella, Fred Jegerlehner, F. Happacher, G. D’Ambrosio, Andrzej Kupsc, Tord Johansson, P. Ciambrone, M. A. Matsyuk, Adalberto Sciubba, E. Passemar, Paolo Franzini, G. Amelino-Camelia, Barbara Sciascia, M. Martini, R. Messi, Michael J. Reece, P. Branchini, Marco Schioppa, E. Graziani, P. Santangelo, Davide Badoni, Lina Quintieri, G. De Zorzi, L.-T. Wang, E. Iarocci, W. Kluge, Juliet Lee-Franzini, E. De Lucia, Cesare Bini, D. Domenici, P. Campana, Rafel Escribano, Michael R. Pennington, F. Nguyen, M. Wolke, C. Di Donato, E. Dané, G. Bencivenni, M. Passera, S. Eidelman, A. De Santis, G. Morello, Jose Bernabeu, Amelino Camelia, G, Archilli, F, Babusci, D, Badoni, D, Bencivenni, G, Bernabeu, J, Bertlmann, R, Boito, D, Bini, C, Bloise, C, Bocci, V, Bossi, F, Branchini, P, Budano, A, Bulychjev, S, Campana, P, Capon, G, Ceradini, Filippo, Ciambrone, P, Czerwinski, E, Czyz, H, D'Ambrosio, G, Dane, E, De Lucia, E, De Robertis, G, De Santis, A, De Simone, P, De Zorzi, G, Di Domenico, A, Di Donato, C, DI MICCO, Biagio, Domenici, D, Eidelman, S, Erriquez, O, Escribano, R, Essig, R, Fedotovich, Gv, Felici, G, Fiore, S, Franzini, P, Gauzzi, P, Giacosa, F, Giovannella, S, Gonnella, F, Graziani, E, Happacher, F, Hiesmayr, Bc, Hoistad, B, Iarocci, E, Ivashyn, S, Jacewicz, M, Jegerlehner, F, Johansson, T, Lee Franzini, J, Kluge, W, Kulikov, Vv, Kupsc, A, Lehnert, R, Loddo, F, Lukin, P, Martemianov, Ma, Martini, M, Matsyuk, Ma, Mavromatos, Ne, Mescia, F, Messi, R, Miscetti, S, Morello, G, Moricciani, D, Moskal, P, Mueller, S, Nguyen, F, Passemar, E, Passera, M, Passeri, A, Patera, V, Pennington, M, Prades, J, Quintieri, L, Ranieri, A, Reece, M, Santangelo, P, Sarkar, S, Sarra, I, Schioppa, M, Schuster, Pc, Sciascia, B, Sciubba, A, Silarski, M, Taccini, C, Toro, N, Tortora, L, Venanzoni, G, Versaci, R, Wang, Lt, Wislicki, W, Wolke, M, Zdebik, J., and Universitat de Barcelona

Subjects
Particle physics, Field theory (Physics), Meson, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Scalar (mathematics), Hadron, Continuum (design consultancy), 01 natural sciences, Partícules (Física nuclear), Standard Model, Gamma gamma, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 0103 physical sciences, Radiative transfer, Mesons (Nuclear physics), Teoria quàntica, Mesons (Física nuclear), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Nuclear Experiment, Particles (Nuclear physics), Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Time evolution, Teoria de camps (Física), Física, Kaons, 3. Good health, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Quantum theory, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

Investigation at a $\phi$--factory can shed light on several debated issues in particle physics. We discuss: i) recent theoretical development and experimental progress in kaon physics relevant for the Standard Model tests in the flavor sector, ii) the sensitivity we can reach in probing CPT and Quantum Mechanics from time evolution of entangled kaon states, iii) the interest for improving on the present measurements of non-leptonic and radiative decays of kaons and eta/eta$^\prime$ mesons, iv) the contribution to understand the nature of light scalar mesons, and v) the opportunity to search for narrow di-lepton resonances suggested by recent models proposing a hidden dark-matter sector. We also report on the $e^+ e^-$ physics in the continuum with the measurements of (multi)hadronic cross sections and the study of gamma gamma processes., Comment: 60 pages, 41 figures; added affiliation for one of the authors; added reference to section 6

Published
2010

50. Observation of the shadowing of cosmic rays by the Moon using a deep underground detector

Author

A. Di Credico, G. de Cataldo, S. Kyriazopoulou, G. Mandrioli, M. Grassi, U. Rubizzo, M. Giorgini, C. Mazzotta, M. Severi, R. C. Webb, R.M. Heinz, Giuseppe Osteria, V. Pugliese, E. Kearns, C. W. Walter, F.J. Ronga, Erik Katsavounidis, S. L. Mufson, G. Giannini, H. Dekhissi, L. Gray, A. A. Grillo, C. Forti, B. C. Choudhary, N. Giglietto, J. L. Stone, P. Serra-Lugaresi, J. Derkaoui, P. Spinelli, Kael Hanson, G. Giacomelli, D. Ugolotti, M. Vakili, Hyun-Chul Kim, L. Satta, C. Orth, Kate Scholberg, Yichen Huang, S. Cecchini, L. R. Sulak, P. Bernardini, S P Mikheyev, C. Favuzzi, Mario Sitta, C. Gustavino, R. Antolini, Marcello Castellano, L. De Benedictis, Maximiliano Sioli, F. Maaroufi, D. Campana, M. Spinetti, F. Cafagna, A. Margiotta Neri, I. De Mitri, C. R. Bower, C. De Marzo, M. J. Longo, M. N. Mazziotta, J. A. Musser, S. Petrera, G. Mancarella, G. C. Barbarino, J. Reynoldson, F. Guarino, Carla Aramo, Teresa Montaruli, D. Martello, L. Miller, D. Levin, D. Nicoló, M. Ouchrif, Shahid Manzoor, M. Calicchio, Halina Bilokon, Roberto Bellotti, F. Cei, Eugenio Scapparone, A. Marzari-Chiesa, Severino Angelo Maria Bussino, Marco Monteno, M. Carboni, C. Bemporad, A. Surdo, Alec Habig, O. Palamara, R. Pazzi, O. Erriquez, Maurizio Spurio, Vincenzo Patera, A. Sciubba, A. Baldini, B. C. Barish, G. Battistoni, M. De Vincenzi, A. Rainò, P. Guarnaccia, C. Satriano, G. Auriemma, V. Popa, Gregory Tarle, M. Ambrosio, E. Iarocci, C. W. Peck, V. Bisi, S. Coutu, C. Bloise, P. Fusco, Paolo Lipari, Andrea Carlo Marini, D. G. Michael, V. Togo, R. Steinberg, V. Chiarella, P. Monacelli, L. Patrizii, P. Pistilli, E. Lamanna, Np Longley, C. E. 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Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Flux, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, Statistical analysis, Angular resolution, High Energy Physics::Experiment, MACRO: Gran Sasso
Abstract

Using data collected by the MACRO experiment during the years 1989-1996, we show evidence for the shadow of the moon in the underground cosmic ray flux with a significance of 3.6 sigma. This detection of the shadowing effect is the first by an underground detector. A maximum-likelihood analysis is used to determine that the angular resolution of the apparatus is 0.9+/-0.3 degrees. These results demonstrate MACRO's capabilities as a muon telescope by confirming its absolute pointing ability and quantifying its angular resolution., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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1998

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