Results of the Search for Strange Quark Matter and Q-balls with the SLIM Experiment (2008)
Cecchini, S., Cozzi, M., Di Ferdinando, D., Errico, M., Fabbri, F., Giacomelli, G., ...
The SLIM experiment at the Chacaltaya high altitude laboratory was sensitive to nuclearites and Q-balls, which could be present in the cosmic radiation as possible Dark Matter components. It was...
The treatment and rejection of two "strange" candidate events in the SLIM experiment (2008)
Balestra, S., Cecchini, S., Cozzi, M., Esposti, L. Degli, Di Ferdinando, D., Errico, M., ...
During the analysis of the CR39 Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) of the SLIM experiment exposed at the high altitude lab of Chacaltaya (Bolivia) we observed a sequence of puzzling etch-pits. We made a...
Arrabito, L., Bozza, C., Buontempo, S., Consiglio, L., Cozzi, M., D'Ambrosio, N., ...
The OPERA experiment, designed to conclusively prove the existence of $\rm \nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ oscillations in the atmospheric sector, makes use of a massive lead-nuclear emulsion target to observe...
Electron/pion separation with an Emulsion Cloud Chamber by using a Neural Network (2007)
Arrabito, L., Autiero, D., Bozza, C., Buontempo, S., Caffari, Y., Consiglio, L., ...
We have studied the performance of a new algorithm for electron/pion separation in an Emulsion Cloud Chamber (ECC) made of lead and nuclear emulsion films. The software for separation consists of two...
First events from the CNGS neutrino beam detected in the OPERA experiment (2007)
Acquafredda, R., Agafonova, N., Ambrosio, M., Anokhina, A., Aoki, S., Ariga, A., ...
The OPERA neutrino detector at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory (LNGS) was designed to perform the first detection of neutrino oscillations in appearance mode, through the study of nu_mu to...
Electron/pion separation with an Emulsion Cloud Chamber by using a Neural Network (2007)
Arrabito, L., Autiero, D., Bozza, C., Buontempo, S., Caffari, Y., Consiglio, L., ...
We have studied the performance of a new algorithm for electron/pion separation in an Emulsion Cloud Chamber (ECC) made of lead and nuclear emulsion films. The software for separation consists of two...
Hardware performance of a scanning system for high speed analysis of nuclear emulsions (2006)
Arrabito, L., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Buontempo, S., Consiglio, L., Coppola, D., ...
The use of nuclear emulsions in very large physics experiments is now possible thanks to the recent improvements in the industrial production of emulsions and to the development of fast automated...
Fragmentation studies of high energy ions using CR39 nuclear track detectors (2006)
Togo, V., Balestra, S., Cecchini, S., Di Ferdinando, D., Frutti, M., Giacomelli, G., ...
We report on the measurements of the total charge changing fragmentation cross sections in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions using Fe, Si and Pb incident ions. Several stacks of CR39 nuclear...
Hardware performance of a scanning system for high speed analysis of nuclear emulsions (2006)
Arrabito, L., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Buontempo, S., Consiglio, L., Coppola, D., ...
The use of nuclear emulsions in very large physics experiments is now possible thanks to the recent improvements in the industrial production of emulsions and to the development of fast automated...
Hardware performance of a scanning system for high speed analysis of nuclear emulsions (2006)
Arrabito, L., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Buontempo, S., Consiglio, L., Coppola, D., ...
The use of nuclear emulsions in very large physics experiments is now possible thanks to the recent improvements in the industrial production of emulsions and to the development of fast automated...
Search for spontaneous muon emission from lead nuclei (2005)
Arrabito, L., Autiero, D., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Cecchini, S., Consiglio, L., ...
We describe a possible search for muonic radioactivity from lead nuclei using the base elements ("bricks" composed by lead and nuclear emulsion sheets) of the long-baseline OPERA neutrino experiment....
Search for spontaneous muon emission from lead nuclei (2005)
Arrabito, L., Autiero, D., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Cecchini, S., Consiglio, L., ...
We describe a possible search for muonic radioactivity from lead nuclei using the base elements ("bricks" composed by lead and nuclear emulsion sheets) of the long-baseline OPERA neutrino experiment....
Search for Intermediate Mass Magnetic Monopoles and Nuclearites with the SLIM experiment (2005)
Cecchini, S., Chiarusi, T., Di Ferdinando, D., Cozzi, M., Frutti, M., Giacomelli, G., ...
SLIM is a large area experiment (440 m2) installed at the Chacaltaya cosmic ray laboratory since 2001, and about 100 m2 at Koksil, Himalaya, since 2003. It is devoted to the search for intermediate...
Calibration of the Makrofol Nuclear Track Detector using Relativistic Lead Ions (2005)
Cecchini, S., Chiarusi, T., Cozzi, M., Di Ferdinando, D., Frutti, M., Giacomelli, G., ...
We present the calibration of the Makrofol nuclear detector using Pb ions of 158 AGeV.
High-speed particle tracking in nuclear emulsion by last-generation automatic microscopes (2005)
Armenise, N., De Serio, M., Ieva, M., Muciaccia, M.T., Pastore, A., Simone, S., ...
The technique of nuclear emulsions for high-energy physics experiments is being revived, thanks to the remarkable progress in measurement automation achieved in the past years. The present paper...
Search for spontaneous muon emission from lead nuclei (2005)
Arrabito, L., Autiero, D., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Cecchini, S., Consiglio, L., ...
We describe a possible search for muonic radioactivity from lead nuclei using the base elements ("bricks" composed by lead and nuclear emulsion sheets) of the long-baseline OPERA neutrino experiment....
High-speed particle tracking in nuclear emulsion by last-generation automatic microscopes (2005)
Armenise, N., De Serio, M., Ieva, M., Muciaccia, M.T., Pastore, A., Simone, S., ...
The technique of nuclear emulsions for high-energy physics experiments is being revived, thanks to the remarkable progress in measurement automation achieved in the past years. The present paper...
Search for spontaneous muon emission from lead nuclei (2005)
Arrabito, L., Autiero, D., Barbuto, E., Bozza, C., Cecchini, S., Consiglio, L., ...
We describe a possible search for muonic radioactivity from lead nuclei using the base elements ("bricks" composed by lead and nuclear emulsion sheets) of the long-baseline OPERA neutrino experiment....