Carlo Rubbia

Resonance capture cross section of 207Pb (2006)

Domingo-Pardo, C, Abbondanno, U, Aerts, G, Alvarez-Pol, H, Alvarez-Velarde, F, Andrzejewski, J, ...

The radiative neutron capture cross section of 207Pb has been measured at the CERN neutron time of flight installation n_TOF using the pulse height weighting technique in the resolved energy region....

New measurement of neutron capture resonances of 209Bi (2006)

Domingo-Pardo, C, Domingo-Pardo, C, Abbondanno, U, Aerts, G, Alvarez-Pol, H, Alvarez-Velarde, F, ...

The neutron capture cross section of Bi209 has been measured at the CERN n TOF facility by employing the pulse-height-weighting technique. Improvements over previous measurements are mainly because...

Performance Of A Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Exposed To The WANF Neutrino Beam (2006)

Arneodo, F, Benetti, P, Bonesini, M, Boschetti, B, Bueno, A, ...

We present the results of the first exposure of a Liquid Argon TPC to a multi-GeV neutrino beam. The data have been collected with a 50 liters ICARUS-like chamber located between the CHORUS and NOMAD...

Measurement of Through-Going Particle Momentum By Means Of Multiple Scattering With The ICARUS T600 TPC (2006)

Ankowski, A, Antonello, M, Aprili, P, Arneodo, F, Badertscher, A, Baiboussinov, B, ...

The ICARUS collaboration has demonstrated, following the operation of a 600 ton (T600) detector at shallow depth, that the technique based on liquid Argon TPCs is now mature. The study of rare...

Beam Cooling with ionisation losses (2006)

Rubbia, Carlo, Ferrari, A, Kadi, Y, Vlachoudis, V

A novel type of particle "cooling", called Ionization Cooling, is applicable to slow (v of the order of 0.1c) ions stored in a small ring. The many traversals through a thin foil enhance the nuclear...

First Commissioning Results of the n_TOF Facility at CERN (2004)

Borcea, C, Buono, S, Cennini, P, Dahlfors, M, Dangendorf, V, Ferrari, A, ...

n_TOF, the new neutron time of flight facility at CERN, is now operational and has been commisioned.

Measurement of the muon decay spectrum with the ICARUS liquid Argon TPC (2003)

Amoruso, S, Antonello, M, Aprili, P, Arneodo, F, Badertscher, A, Baiboussinov, B, ...

Examples are given which prove the ICARUS detector quality through relevant physics measurements. We study the muon decay energy spectrum from a sample of stopping muon events acquired during the...

Results from the Commissioning of the n-TOF Spallation Neutron Source at CERN (2002)

Borcea, C, Cennini, P, Dahlfors, M, Ferrari, A, García-Muñoz, G, Haefner, P, ...

The new neutron time-of-flight facility (n_TOF) has been built at CERN and is now operational. The facility is intended for the measurement of neutron induced cross sections of relevance to...

Proton driver optimization for new generation neutrino superbeams to search for sub-leading numu->nue oscillations ($\theta_{13}$ angle) (2002)

Ferrari, A, Rubbia, André, Rubbia, Carlo, Sala, P

We perform a systematic study of particle production and neutrino yields for different incident proton energies $E_p$ and baselines $L$, with the aim of optimizing the parameters of a neutrino beam...

Radioprotection calculations for the TRADE experiment (2002)

Zanini, L, Ferrari, A, Herrera-Martínez, A, Kadi, Y, Rubbia, Carlo, Burgio, N, ...

The TRADE project is based on the coupling of, in a sub-critical configuration, of a 115 MeV, 2 mA proton cyclotron with a TRIGA research reactor at the ENEA Casaccia centre (Rome). Detailed...

A Comprehensive Study of the nTOF Background at CERN (2002)

Ferrari, A, Rubbia, Carlo, Vlachoudis, V

The first experimental measurements performed at the nTOF1,2 facility at CERN have unveiled an important background, 50 to 100 times higher than expected.3 This background has consequences on capture...

Radiological Impact of the TRIGA Accelerator-Driven Experiment (TRADE) (2002)

Herrera-Martínez, A, Ferrari, A, Kadi, Y, Zanini, L, Parks, G T, Rubbia, Carlo, ...

The TRADE project, which is part of the European Roadmap towards the development of Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS), foresees the coupling of a 110 MeV, 2 mA proton cyclotron with the core of a 1 MW...

Radioprotection and Shielding Aspects of the nTOF Spallation Source (2002)

Vlachoudis, V, Borcea, C, Buono, S, Cennini, P, Dahlfors, M, Ferrari, A, ...

The neutron Time of Flight (nTOF) facility at CERN is a high flux neutron source obtained by the spallation of 20 GeV/c protons onto a solid lead target. The first experimental measurements performed...

Liquid argon imaging: a novel detection technology (2002)

Kirkby, Jasper, Rubbia, Carlo

Ionisation electrons may drift over large distances (meters) in a volume of highly purified liquid argon (O2 equivalent less than 0.1 ppb!) under the action of an electric field. With an appropriate...

An analytic approach to the energy amplifier (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

The theory of Nuclear Reactors cannot be applied immediately to the Energy Amplifier. Indeed the spatial distribution of the neutron flux is expected to be radically different in the two cases. While...

The ICARUS 50 1 LAr TPC in the CERN $\nu$ beam (2000)

Arneodo, F, Cavanna, F, De Mitri, I, Mazza, D, Parlati, S, Petrera, S, ...

The 50 litre liquid Argon TPC is a detector built and successfully operated at CERN for R&D purposes within the ICARUS programme. In the year 1997 it has been exposed at the CERN neutrino beam for...

SPS/PS Meeting, pt. A (2000)

Gabrielse, G, Di Lella, L, Ragazzi, S, Revol, Jean Pierre Charles, Rubbia, Carlo, Strolin, P

1. Status report from PS196 : G. Gabrielse. 2. A search programme of explicit neutrino-oscillations with the ICARUS detector at large distances (SPSLC 96-58/P304) : C. Rubbia. 3. Status report from...

Salam Memorial (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

by T.W.B. KIBBLE / Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London. Recollections of Abdus Salam at Imperial College I shall give a personal account of Professor Salam's life and work from the...

Neutrons in a highly diffusive medium: a new propulsion tool for deep space exploration? (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

The recently completed TARC Experiment at the CERN-PS has shown how it is possible to confine neutrons by diffusion in a limited volume of a highly transparent medium for very long times (tens of...

Leon VAN HOVE's 65th birthday (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo, Jacob, Maurice René Michel, Kittel, E W

- Introduction to this celebration by C. RUBBIA, Director-General of CERN. - Tribute to L. VAN HOVE by M. JACOB. - Interplay between Experimental and Theoretical Physics by W. KITTEL. "la physique...

SCHOPPER Fest (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo, Bondi, H, Soergel, Volker

Chairman : V. SOERGEL. - Welcome address by C. RUBBIA. - The political role of scientific projects : Europe and beyond by Sir H. BONDI.

Simon VAN DER MEER Fest, 1 (2000)

Amaldi, H, Rubbia, Carlo, Steinberger, Jack

Friday 23 November saw two memorable events at CERN. In the morning there was a private visit by Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav HAVEL to the laboratory where he met Director General Carlo RUBBIA...

DG's Staff Meeting (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

Information about the results achieved during the year 1990: results of the Committee of Council and Finance Committee, wages questions, organisation matters...

Festschrift Charpak (Georges) on his 65th birthday (2000)

Lehmann, Pierre, Lederman, Leon Max, Rubbia, Carlo, Saudinos, Jean

On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Georges Charpak and of his retirement, the Director-General and the EP Division invite you to a symposium in his h. Chairman : P. Lehmann. - Opening address :...

The inauguration of LEP. The meal at the CERN's restaurant (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo, Riesenhuber, M

Addresses around the lunch table from : - Prof. Carlo RUBBIA, Director-General of CERN. - Mr. RIESENHUBER, German Research Minister. and also the Research Ministers from Finland, United States and...

The inauguration of the LEP (2000)

Carreras, Rafel, Delamuraz, Jean Pascal, Mitterrand, F, Rubbia, Carlo

- introduction to the particle physics and to the collider by R. CARRERAS. - arrival of the various official delegations. - Addresses from : - Prof. Carlo RUBBIA, Director-General of CERN. - His...

LP-HEP 91 opening (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

Session 1 Award of the second EPS Prize in High Energy Physics

Rôle des medias dans le domaine scientifique (2000)

De Closets, F, Charpak, Georges, Curien, Hubert, Meijers, H, Moosleitner, G P, Patermann, C, ...

Promotion de la science dans les mŽdias - crŽation d'un rŽseau europŽen de sources scientifiques - Pourquoi la science a la presse qu'elle mŽrite. - IntŽgration des mŽdias scientifiques de...

Status Report on the Energy Amplifier (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

0ne year after its first presentation,the Energy Amplifier (EA) Project holds its promises for a environmentally acceptable form of energy extraction from nuclei, namely to eliminate or at least...

DG Staff Meeting (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

On the 15th of july 1989, the LEP will go on and this is a great success for CERN. C. RUBBIA presents the situation of CERN in the world.

LHC Seminar (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

Perspectives of a Hadron Collider in the LEP tunnel.

Special Session (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

The LHC Project and CERN's Future

The inauguration of LEP, the meal at CERN's restaurant No. 2: videotapes : CERN, Geneva, 13 Nov 1989 (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo, Riesenhuber, M

Addresses around the lunch table from : - Prof. Carlo RUBBIA, Director-General of CERN. - Mr. RIESENHUBER, German Research Minister.

An energy amplifier driven by an accelerator: a safer and inexhaustible nuclear energy source (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

A simple and pratical possibility of extracting energy from heavy nuclei with the help of accelerator induced nuclear cascades will be described.

Simon VAN DER MEER Fest, 3 (2000)

Amaldi, H, Rubbia, Carlo, Steinberger, Jack

Friday 23 November saw two memorable events at CERN. In the morning there was a private visit by Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav HAVEL to the laboratory where he met Director General Carlo RUBBIA...

Symposium Festschrift Wu (C S) on his 80th birthday (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo, Deutsch, M

Welcome by C. Rubbia Interacting Strongly with Weak Interactions by M. DEUTSCH

European Science Media Conference (2000)

Curien, Hubert, Durant, J, Patermann, C, Rubbia, Carlo

Discussion leader : Antonio RUBERTI. - Following of the final discussion of this conference.

Sir John ADAMS Memorial (2000)

Citron, A, Levaux, P, Rubbia, Carlo, Schopper, Herwig Franz, Wüster, H O

Conference given by friends of Sir John ADAMS, to honour the memory of the former general director of CERN.

Search for single high tranverse momentum electrons from proton-antiproton collisions at 540 GeV collision energy (UA1 collaboration) (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

A search for large transverse momentum electrons accompanied by significant transverse missing energy (neutrino) has been performed on a sample of events accumulated during the last collider run,...

Colloquium RUBBIA and van der MEER (2000)

Rubbia, Carlo

After the attribution of the Nobel Prize of Physics to S. van der MEER and C. RUBBIA, the two physicists describe their respective works that valueted them this reward.

Carlo Rubbia's 65th birthday (1999)

Charpak, Georges, 't Hooft, Gerardus, Astbury, Alan, Fitch, Val Logsdon, Kerman, A, Rubbia, Carlo, ...

Welcome by G. Charpak; Kaon Physics and CP Violation by V. Fitch (University of Princeton); Neutrino Physics by K. Winter (CERN); Vector Bosons and Standard Model (theory)by G 't Hooft (University...

Experimental Verification of Neutron Phenomenology in Lead and Transmutation by Adiabatic Resonance Crossing in Accelerator Driven Systems (1999)

Abánades, A, Aleixandre, J, Andriamonje, Samuel A, Angelopoulos, Angelos, Apostolakis, Alcibiades J, Arnould, H, ...

Energy and space distributions of spallation neutrons (from 2.5 and 3.57 GeV/c CERN proton beams) slowing down in a 3.3 x 3.3 x 3 m3 lead volume and neutron capture rates on long-lived fission...

A High Resolution Spallation Driven Facility at the CERN-PS to Measure Neutron Cross Sections in the Interval from 1 eV to 250 MeV: a Relative Performance Assessment (1998)

Rubbia, Carlo, Andriamonje, Samuel A, Bouvet-Bensimon, D, Buono, S, Cappi, R, Cennini, P, ...

In the proposed facility with 24 GeV PS beam on a Lead target, the number of produced neutrons exceeds 760 per proton. In comparison, with a LINAC (GELINA) one currently obtains only about 0.05...

Status report of the energy amplifier concept (1997)

Rubbia, Carlo

We report the main results of study performed at CERN over the last three years by few people and with shoe-string funding on the potential impact of new Accelerators technologies in the field of...

Fast neutron incineration in the energy amplifier as alternative to geologic storage: the case of Spain (1997)

Rubbia, Carlo, Buono, S, Kadi, Y, Rubio, Juan Antonio

In previous reports [1][2] we have presented the conceptual design of a fast neutron driven sub-critical device (Energy Amplifier) designed both for energy amplification (production) and for the...

A tentative programme towards a full scale energy amplifier (1996)

Rubbia, Carlo, Rubio, Juan Antonio

We present a proposal of a full scale demonstration plant of the Energy Amplifier (EA), following the conceptual design of Ref. [1]. Unlike the presently on going CERN experiments, reaction rates...

A preliminary estimate of the economic impact of the energy amplifier (1996)

Fernández, R, Mandrillon, P, Rubbia, Carlo, Rubio, Juan Antonio

The basic concept and the applicability of the Energy Amplifier (EA) have been exhaustively described elsewhere (Refs. [1] to [4]). The EA is essentially a source of high quality heat, produced by...

Il dilemma nucleare (1987)

Rubbia, Carlo

Il dilemma nucleare, Carlo Rubbia, Nino Criscenti. . - Milano. NALUAF000464, Sperling & Kupfer. NAEDAF004701, 1987.

Il dilemma nucleare (1987)

Rubbia, Carlo

Il dilemma nucleare, Carlo Rubbia. . - Milano. NALUAF000464, Sperling & Kupfer. NAEDAF004701, 1987.

Il dilemma nucleare (1987)

Rubbia, Carlo

Il dilemma nucleare, Carlo Rubbia. . - Milano. NALUAF000464, Sperling & Kupfer. NAEDAF004701, 1987.

Il dilemma nucleare (1987)

Rubbia, Carlo

Il dilemma nucleare, Carlo Rubbia, con Nino Crescenti. . - Milano. NALUAF00001079, Sperling & Kupfer. NAEDAF004701, 1987.

Last week we reviewed the 1984 Nobel laureates in medicine: immunologists (1985)

Eugene Garfield, Carlo Rubbia, R. Bruce, Merrifield Is Awarded, Niels K. Jerne, ...

prizewinners in physics and chemistry are discussed. The 1984 physics prize was shared by