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Attaining the PeV frontier of the cosmic ray spectrum in space with HERD

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection facility (HERD) is a calorimetric experiment planned to be launched in 2027. It will be operational for at least 10 years on board the China Space Station. With HERD we will measure the energy flux of cosmic proto ...

E D P SCIENCES2023

Global 'zero particle flux-driven' gyrokinetic analysis of the density profile for a TCV plasma

Olivier Sauter, Stephan Brunner, Gabriele Merlo, Alberto Mariani

The tokamak `a configuration variable (TCV) is a small-sized tokamak, where finite size effects (often called 'rho-star' or 'global' effects) could significantly impact the heat and particle fluxes, leading to discrepancies between gyrokinetic flux-tube re ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Gamma-Blind Fast Neutron Detection for Spent Nuclear Fuel Characterization

Alexander Wolfertz

In this thesis, the development and testing of a system for measuring the axial distribution of fast neutron emission of spent nuclear fuel rods is presented. Emphasis is placed on the novel fast neutron detector used which can reliably work in extremely h ...

EPFL2023

Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Bridging the "terahertz gap" relies upon synthesizing arbitrary waveforms in the terahertz domain enabling applications that require both narrow band sources for sensing and few-cycle drives for classical and quantum objects. However, realization of custom ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Femtolensing by dark matter revisited

Sergey Sibiryakov

Femtolensing of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) has been put forward as an exciting possibility to probe exotic astrophysical objects with masses below 10(-13) solar masses such as small primordial black holes or ultra-compact dark matter minihalos, made up for in ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Development of a new compact gamma-ray spectrometer optimised for runaway electron measurements

Olivier Sauter, Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Yves Martin, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Robin Humphry-Baker, Sun Hee Kim, Federico Nespoli, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Cristian Sommariva, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Mikhail Maslov, Marco Wischmeier, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Liang Yao, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Partha Dutta, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Julio Rodriguez, Vlad Trifa, Li Shuai, Rebecca Hill, Seyed Abbas Mosaddeghi, Lorenzo Martinelli

A new compact gamma-ray spectrometer was developed in order to optimise the measurement of bremsstrahlung radiation emitted from runaway electrons in the MeV range. The detector is based on a cerium doped lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO:Ce) scintil ...

2018

Very-high-energy gamma-ray observations of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2014J with the MAGIC telescopes

Thomas Günther Bretz

Context. In this work we present data from observations with the MAGIC telescopes of SN 2014J detected on January 21 2014, the closest Type Ia supernova since Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes started to operate. Aims. We aim to probe the possibility of ver ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

Thomas Günther Bretz

Aims. We present an extensive study of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 based on a data set collected during the multi-instrument campaign spanning from 2009 March 15 to 2009 August 1, which includes, among other instruments, MAGIC, VERITAS, Whipple 10 m, and Fer ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

Signatures of anisotropic diffusion around PeVatrons in 100 TeV gamma-ray data

Andrii Neronov

The Tibet AS gamma collaboration has reported a diffuse gamma-ray emission signal from the Galactic Plane. We consider the possibility that the diffuse emission from the outer Galactic Plane at the highest energies is produced by cosmic rays spreading from ...

American Physical Society2022

Observations of Sagittarius A* during the pericenter passage of the G2 object with MAGIC

Thomas Günther Bretz

Context. We present the results of a multi-year monitoring campaign of the Galactic center (GC) with the MAGIC telescopes. These observations were primarily motivated by reports that a putative gas cloud (G2) would be passing in close proximity to the supe ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

DARKFLUX: A new tool to analyze indirect-detection spectra of next-generation dark matter models

Emma Elizabeth Tolley

We present DARKFLUX, a software tool designed to analyze indirect-detection signatures for next-generation models of dark matter (DM) with multiple annihilation channels. Version 1.0 of this tool accepts user-generated models with 2 -> 2 tree-level dark ma ...

ELSEVIER2022

Dynamics of cavitation bubbles near granular boundaries

Mohamed Farhat, Davide Bernardo Preso, Armand Baptiste Sieber

We study the dynamics of a cavitation bubble near beds of sand of different grain sizes. We use high-speed imaging to observe the motion of the bubble and the sand for different values of the stand-off parameter gamma (dimensionless bubble-boundary distanc ...

Cambridge University Press2022

First multi-wavelength campaign on the gamma-ray-loud active galaxy IC 310

Thomas Günther Bretz, Udo Bach

Context. The extragalactic very-high-energy gamma-ray sky is rich in blazars. These are jetted active galactic nuclei that are viewed at a small angle to the line-of-sight. Only a handful of objects viewed at a larger angle are so far known to emit above 1 ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

Multiwavelength observations of a VHE gamma-ray flare from PKS 1510-089 in 2015

Thomas Günther Bretz

Context. PKS 1510 089 is one of only a few flat spectrum radio quasars detected in the very-high-energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray band. Aims. We study the broadband spectral and temporal properties of the PKS 1510 089 emission during a high gamma-ray stat ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

MAGIC detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the low-luminosity blazar 1ES 1741+196

Thomas Günther Bretz

We present the first detection of the nearby (z = 0.084) low-luminosity BL Lac object 1ES 1741+196 in the very high energy (E > 100 GeV) band. This object lies in a triplet of interacting galaxies. Early predictions had suggested 1ES 1741+196 to be, along ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

Deep observation of the NGC1275 region with MAGIC: search of diffuse gamma-ray emission from cosmic rays in the Perseus cluster

Thomas Günther Bretz

Clusters of galaxies are expected to be reservoirs of cosmic rays (CRs) that should produce diffuse gamma-ray emission due to their hadronic interactions with the intra-cluster medium. The nearby Perseus cool-core cluster, identified as the most promising ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of the Low-T-c Superconductor (LTS) Winding Pack Design Concepts for the DEMO Toroidal Field (TF) Coil

Kamil Sedlák

Three design concepts, namely, WP#1, WP#2, and WP#3, for the low-T-c superconductor DEMO toroidal field coil was proposed in 2014. This paper is focused on the thermal-hydraulic analysis of all the designs using simplified models, which includes: 1) hydrau ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Teraelectronvolt pulsed emission from the Crab Pulsar detected by MAGIC

Thomas Günther Bretz

Aims. We investigate the extension of the very high-energy spectral tail of the Crab Pulsar at energies above 400 GeV. Methods. We analyzed similar to 320 h of good-quality Crab data obtained with the MAGIC telescope from February 2007 to April 2014. Resul ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

Search for heavy neutral leptons in W plus . mu plus mu +/- jet decays

Jian Wang, Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Zhirui Xu, Yiming Li, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yi Wang, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tatsuya Nakada, Christoph Frei, Mark Tobin, Frédéric Blanc, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, François Fleuret, Mirco Dorigo, Liupan An, Elena Graverini, Renato Quagliani, Hang Yin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Michel De Cian, Vladimir Macko, Federico Leo Redi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Sebastian Schulte, Tommaso Colombo, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Tara Nanut, Minh Tâm Tran, Violaine Bellée, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Pavol Stefko, Pietro Marino, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Guido Andreassi, Luca Pescatore, Preema Rennee Pais, Maxime Schubiger, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Thi Dung Nguyen, Olivier Göran Girard, Mâu Chung Nguyên, Axel Kuonen, Vincenzo Battista, Conor Thomas Fitzpatrick, Brice Emile Maurin

A search is performed for heavy neutrinos in the decay of a W boson into two muons and a jet. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 3.0 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV collected ...

SPRINGER2021

FIRST NuSTAR OBSERVATIONS OF MRK 501 WITHIN A RADIO TO TeV MULTI-INSTRUMENT CAMPAIGN

Xin Chen, Thomas Günther Bretz

We report on simultaneous broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar Markarian 501 between 2013 April 1 and August 10, including the first detailed characterization of the synchrotron peak with Swift and NuSTAR. During the campaign, the nearby BL La ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015