Publications related to Internal conversion

Competitive Dehydrogenation and Backbone Fragmentation of Superhydrogenated PAHs: A Laboratory Study

Superhydrogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been suggested to catalyze the formation of H-2 in certain regions of space, but it remains unclear under which circumstances this mechanism is viable given the reduced carbon backbone stabilit ...

2021

Unconventional time-bandwidth performance of resonant cavities with nonreciprocal coupling

Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Kosmas Tsakmakidis, Ivan Cardea

The time-bandwidth limit is a mathematical tenet that affects all reciprocal resonators, stating that the product of the spectral bandwidth that can couple into a resonant system and its characteristic energy decay time is always equal to 1. Here, we devel ...

2021

Dissipative-coupling-assisted laser cooling: Limitations and perspectives

Alexander Tagantsev

The recently identified possibility of ground-state cooling of a mechanical oscillator in the unresolved sideband regime by combination of the dissipative and dispersive optomechanical coupling under the red sideband excitation [Phys. Rev. A 88, 023850 (20 ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

AMS-100: The next generation magnetic spectrometer in space - An international science platform for physics and astrophysics at Lagrange point 2

Davide Uglietti, Thomas Günther Bretz

The next generation magnetic spectrometer in space, AMS-100, is designed to have a geometrical acceptance of 100 m(2) sr and to be operated for at least ten years at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2. Compared to existing experiments, it will improve the sens ...

2019

Development and validation of a double focalizing magnetic spectrometer for beta spectrum measurements

Guido Haefeli, François Bochud

In the framework of the EMPIR project MetroBeta, the development and optimization of a double focalizing magnetic spectrometer have been realized in order to measure the beta spectra shape. The acquisition is designed to perform, after focalization by the ...

2019

Dynamics of nanoscale systems probed by time-resolved STM-induced luminescence

Anna Maria Roslawska

The efficiency and peculiarities of processes such as surface adsorption or electron-to-photon energy conversion in organic and inorganic structures are determined by the dynamics at the scale of individual molecules, atoms and charges. The timescales of s ...

EPFL2019

Impact of alloy disorder on Auger recombination in single InGaN/GaN core-shell microrods

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Georg Rossbach, Wei Liu

We study the influence of local inhomogeneities on carrier recombination dynamics in single InGaN/GaN core-shell microrods (MRs) by means of time-resolved microphotoluminescence (TRPL) at 10 K. At low carrier density (similar to 10(11) cm(-2)), the carrier ...

2019

Search for CP violation through an amplitude analysis of D-0 K+K-+- decays

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Elena Graverini, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Violaine Bellée, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Sebastian Schulte

A search for CP violation in the Cabibbo-suppressed D-0 K+K-+- decay mode is performed using an amplitude analysis. The measurement uses a sample of pp collisions recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2011 and 2012, corresponding to an integrated luminosi ...

Springer Nature2019

Observation of the decay (B)over-bar(s)(0) -> chi(c2) K+K- in the phi mass region

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Yi Wang, Guido Haefeli, Tatsuya Nakada, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Jean Wicht, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Alessio Ferrari, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, François Fleuret, Vladislav Balagura, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Christoph Frei, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Greig Alan Cowan, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Tommaso Colombo, Brice Emile Maurin, Ian William Marison, Arnaud Merlin Gauthey, Daniel Gallichan, Marilisa Neri, Michael Thompson McCann, Mai Tu Xuan, Matteo Fontana, Simon Van Mulders, Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Severin Stähly, Craig Matthew Smith, Alexandra Bondarenko, Léonard Yannick Maurice Eymann, Adriano Pastore, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Xiao Yuan, Laia Castilla Amorós, Luc Henry, Juan Federico Esteban Müller, Giovanni Veneziano, Basile Schäli, Nandita Aggarwal, Benedikt Sebastian Braun, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani, Thomas Jean Julien Fussinger, Gang Yu

The (B) over bar (0)(s) -> chi(c2) K+ K- decay mode is observed and its branching fraction relative to the corresponding chi(c1) decay mode, in a +/- 15MeV/c(2) window around the phi mass, is found to be B ((B) over bar (0)(s) -> chi(c2) K+ K-)/B((B) over ...

Springer Nature2018

Alternating Delays Achieve Polarization Transfer (ADAPT) to heteronuclei in PHIP experiments

Gabriele Stevanato

A new methodology for producing hyperpolarized C-13 nuclei in small organic systems via parahydrogen induced polarization (PHIP) is proposed: ADAPT (Alternating Delays Achieve Polarization Transfer). The theoretical foundation of the process is investigate ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2017

Observation of the decay B-s(0) -> eta(c)phi and evidence for B-s(0) -> eta(c)pi(+)pi(-)

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Federico Leo Redi, Ilya Komarov, Renato Quagliani, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Guido Andreassi, Violaine Bellée, Maria Vieites Diaz, Olivier Göran Girard, Axel Kuonen, Preema Rennee Pais, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Pavol Stefko, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Albert Puig Navarro

A study of B-s(0) -> eta(c)phi and B-s(0) -> eta(c)pi(+)pi(-) decays is performed using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb(-1), collected with the LHCb detector in Run 1 of the LHC. The observation of the decay B-s(0) -> ...

Springer Nature2017

Model-independent precision constraints on dimension-6 operators

Francesco Riva

We discuss electroweak precision constraints on dimension-6 operators in the effective theory beyond the standard model. We identify the combinations of these operators that are constrained by the pole observables (the W and Z masses and on-shell decays) a ...

Springer Nature2015

Measurement of B-0 -> (Ds-KS0)pi(+) and B+ -> Ds-K+K+ branching fractions

Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, Sun Hee Kim, Tara Nanut, Jun Yong Kim

We report a measurement of the B-0 and B+ meson decays to the (Ds-KS0)pi(+) and Ds-K+K+ final states, respectively, using 657 x 10(6)B (B) over bar pairs collected at the gamma(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) co ...

American Physical Society2015

New solar axion search using the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with He-4 filling

Manuel Gómez Marzoa

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) searches for a -> gamma conversion in the 9 T magnetic field of a refurbished LHC test magnet that can be directed toward the Sun. Two parallel magnet bores can be filled with helium of adjustable pressure to match the ...

American Physical Society2015

Real-time observation of the charge transfer to solvent dynamics

Majed Chergui, Andrea Cannizzo, Olivier Christian Bräm

Intermolecular electron-transfer reactions have a crucial role in biology, solution chemistry and electrochemistry. The first step of such reactions is the expulsion of the electron to the solvent, whose mechanism is determined by the structure and dynamic ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

First Observation of the Decay B(s2)(5840)(0) -> BK-+(-) and Studies of Excited B-s(0) Mesons

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Donal Patrick Hill, Jean Wicht, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Christophe Salzmann, Pierre Jaton, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Joël Bressieux, Songmei Wu, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Anne Keune, Vincent Fave

The properties of the orbitally excited (L =1) B-s(0) states are studied by using 1.0 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV collected with the LHCb detector. The first observation of the B-s2*(5840)(0) meson decaying to B*K-+(-) is reported, and the co ...

American Physical Society2013

Amplitude analysis and branching fraction measurement of (B)over-bar(s)(0) -> J/psi K+K-

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Jean Wicht, Ilya Komarov, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Christophe Salzmann, Pierre Jaton, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Joël Bressieux, Songmei Wu, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Anne Keune, Vincent Fave

An amplitude analysis of the final state structure in the (B) over bar (0)(s) -> J/psi K+K- decay mode is performed using 1.0 fb(-1) of data collected by the LHCb experiment in 7 TeV center-of-mass energy pp collisions produced by the LHC. A modified Dalit ...

American Physical Society2013

Measurement of the CP-Violating Phase phi(s) in the Decay B-s(0) -> J/psi phi

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Vladislav Balagura, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Christophe Salzmann, Pierre Jaton, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Joël Bressieux, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Albert Puig Navarro, Anne Keune, Vincent Fave, Christophe Bauer, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Neal Gauvin

We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in B-s(0) -> J/psi phi decays, using data collected with the LHCb detector at the LHC. The decay time distribution of B-s(0) -> J/psi phi is characterized by the decay widths Gamma(H) an ...

2012

Charge stabilization by reaction center protein immobilized to carbon nanotubes functionalized by amine groups and poly(3-thiophene acetic acid) conducting polymer

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Endre Horvath

A large number of studies have indicated recently that photosynthetic reaction center proteins (RC) bind successfully to nanostructures and their functional activity is largely retained. The major goal of current research is to find the most efficient syst ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2012

Determination of the Sign of the Decay Width Difference in the B-s(0) System

Jian Wang, Olivier Schneider, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Minh Tâm Tran, Michel De Cian, Greig Alan Cowan, Vladislav Balagura, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Julien Rouvinet, Christophe Salzmann, Pierre Jaton, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Joël Bressieux, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Albert Puig Navarro, Anne Keune, Vincent Fave, Christophe Bauer, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Neal Gauvin

The interference between the K+K- S-wave and P-wave amplitudes in B-s(0) -> J/psi K+K- decays with the K+K- pairs in the region around the phi(1020) resonance is used to determine the variation of the difference of the strong phase between these amplitudes ...

2012