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...
Magnetic Monopole Search at high altitude with the SLIM experiment (2008)
Balestra, S., Cecchini, S., Cozzi, M., Errico, M., Fabbri, F., Giacomelli, G., ...
The SLIM experiment was a large array of nuclear track detectors located at the Chacaltaya high altitude Laboratory (5230 m a.s.l.). The detector was in particular sensitive to Intermediate Mass...
Cecchini, S., Chiarusi, T., Giacomelli, G., Giorgini, M., Kumar, A., Mandrioli, G., ...
We present new measurements of the total and partial fragmentation cross sections in the energy range 0.3-10 A GeV of 56Fe, 28Si and 12C beams on polyethylene, CR39 and aluminum targets. The...
Searches for Magnetic Monopoles, Nuclearites and Q-balls (2007)
Giacomelli, G., Manzoor, S., Medinaceli, E., Patrizii, L.
The Searches for classical Dirac Magnetic Monopoles (MMs) at accelerators, for GUT superheavy MMs in the penetrating cosmic radiation and for Intermediate Mass IMMs at high altitudes are discussed....
Nuclear Track Detectors for Environmental Studies and Radiation Monitoring (2006)
Manzoor, S., Balestra, S., Cozzi, M., Errico, M., Giacomelli, G., Giorgini, M., ...
Several improvements were made for Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) used for environmental studies and for particle searches. A new method was used to determine the bulk etch rate of CR39 and Makrofol...
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...
Nuclear Track Detectors for Particle Searches (2006)
Manzoor, S., Balestra, S., Cozzi, M., Errico, M., Giacomelli, G., Giorgini, M., ...
In this paper we report a search for intermediate mass magnetic monopoles and nuclearites using CR39 and Makrofol Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) of the SLIM large area experiment, 440 m^2 exposed at...
Bulk Etch Rate Measurements and Calibrations of Plastic Nuclear Track Detectors (2006)
Balestra, S., Cozzi, M., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, R., Giorgini, M., Kumar, A., ...
New calibrations of CR39 and Makrofol nuclear track detectors have been obtained using 158 A GeV Pb (82+) and In (49+) ions; a new method for the bulk etch rate determination, using both cone height...
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...
Rare Particle Searches with the high altitude SLIM experiment (2006)
Balestra, S., Cecchini, S., Fabbri, F., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, R., Giorgini, M., ...
The search for rare particles in the cosmic radiation remains one of the main aims of non-accelerator particle astrophysics. Experiments at high altitude allow lower mass thresholds with respect to...
Search for nuclearites with the SLIM detector (2006)
Balestra, S., Cecchini, S., Giacomelli, G., Giacomelli, R., Giorgini, M., Manzoor, S., ...
The strange quark matter (SQM) may be the ground state of QCD; nuggets of SQM could be present in cosmic rays (CR). SLIM is a large area experiment, using CR39 and Makrofol track etch detectors,...
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...
Cosmic ray abundance measurements with the CAKE balloon experiment (2005)
Cecchini, S., Chiarusi, T., Giacomelli, G., Manzoor, S., Medinaceli, E., Patrizii, L., ...
We present the results from the CAKE (Cosmic Abundance below Knee Energy) balloon experiment which uses nuclear track detectors. The final experiment goal is the determination of the charge spectrum...
Time variations in the deep underground muon flux measured by MACRO (2005)
Becherini, Y., Cecchini, S., Cozzi, M., Dekhissi, H., Derkaoui, J., Giacomelli, G., ...
More than 30 million of high-energy muons collected with the MACRO detector at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory have been used to search for flux variations of different natures. Two kinds of...
Search for massive rare particles with the SLIM experiment (2005)
Balestra, S., Cecchini, S., Fabbri, F., Giacomelli, G., Kumar, A., Manzoor, S., ...
The search for magnetic monopoles in the cosmic radiation remains one of the main aims of non-accelerator particle astrophysics. Experiments at high altitude allow lower mass thresholds with respect...
Search for exotic contributions to atmospheric neutrino oscillations (2005)
Battistoni, G., Becherini, Y., Cecchini, S., Cozzi, M., Dekhissi, H., Esposito, L., ...
The energy spectrum of neutrino-induced upward-going muons in MACRO was analysed in terms of relativity principles violating effects, keeping standard mass-induced atmospheric neutrino oscillations...
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 nuclearites with the SLIM detector (2005)
Balestra, S., Cecchini, S., Giacomelli, G., Giorgini, M., Kumar, A., Mandrioli, G., ...
We discuss the properties of cosmic ray nuclearites, from the point of view of their search with large nuclear track detector arrays exposed at different altitudes, in particular with the SLIM...
Battistoni, G., Becherini, Y., Cecchini, S., Cozzi, M., Dekhissi, H., Esposito, L. S., ...
Neutrino-induced upward-going muons in MACRO have been analysed in terms of relativity principles violating effects, keeping standard mass-induced atmospheric neutrino oscillations as the dominant...
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.
Time correlations of high energy muons in an underground detector (2005)
Becherini, Y., Cecchini, S., Chiarusi, T., Cozzi, M., Dekhissi, H., Derkaoui, J., ...
We present the result of a search for correlations in the arrival times of high energy muons collected from 1995 till 2000 with the streamer tube system of the complete MACRO detector at the...
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 nucleon decays induced by GUT magnetic monopoles with the MACRO experiment (2002)
Battistoni, G., Mufson, S., Nicolò, D., Choudhary, B.C., Maaroufi, F., Lamanna, E., ...
The interaction of a Grand Unification Magnetic Monopole with a nucleon can lead to a barion-number violating process in which the nucleon decays into a lepton and one or more mesons (catalysis of...
Fragmentation of very high energy heavy ions (2001)
A stack of CR39 (C12H18O7)n nuclear track detectors with a Cu target was exposed to a 158 A GeV lead ion beam at the CERN-SPS, in order to study the fragmentation properties of lead nuclei....
Fragmentation of very high energy heavy ions (2001)
A stack of CR39 (C12H18O7)n nuclear track detectors with a Cu target was exposed to a 158 A GeV lead ion beam at the CERN-SPS, in order to study the fragmentation properties of lead nuclei....
Fragmentation of very high energy heavy ions (2001)
A stack of CR39 (C12H18O7)n nuclear track detectors with a Cu target was exposed to a 158 A GeV lead ion beam at the CERN-SPS, in order to study the fragmentation properties of lead nuclei....
Search for nuclearites with the MACRO detector at Grand Sasso (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
The measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino flux using MACRO (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
Neutrino astronomy with the MACRO detector (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
Indirect search for Wimps with the MACRO detector (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
An improved analysis of the underground muon decoherence observed in MACRO (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
Measurement of underground muon energies using a TRD in MACRO (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
A sky survey using muons in the MACRO detector (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
The search for a sideral anisotropy in the underground muon intensity as seen by MACRO (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...
Real time supernova neutrino burst detection with MACRO (1998)
Ambrosio, M, Antolini, R, Auriemma, G, Baker, R, Baldini, A, Barbarino, G C, ...