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Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory

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Mountaintop Gamma Ray Observations of Three Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray Flashes at the Säntis Tower, Switzerland With Coincident Radio Waveforms

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi

We report on the mountain top observation of three terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) that occurred during the summer storm season of 2021. To our knowledge, these are the first TGFs observed in a mountaintop environment and the first published European ...

2024

Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Low-Power Nuclear Research Reactors

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari

Gamma-ray spectroscopy is an effective technique for radioactive material characterization, routine inventory verification, nuclear safeguards, health physics, and source search scenarios. Gamma-ray spectrometers typically cannot be operated in the immedia ...

MDPI2024

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

Chiara Perrina

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

Hadronic nature of high-energy emission from the Galactic ridge

Andrii Neronov

We show that the IceCube observation of the Galactic neutrino-flux component confirms the hint of detection of neutrinos from the Galactic ridge (the inner part of the Milky Way disk within the Galactic longitude IlI < 30(degrees)), previously reported by ...

American Physical Society2023

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

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

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

SiGe Time Resolving Pixel Detectors for High Energy Physics and Medical Imaging

Fulvio Martinelli

In the last years, sub-nanosecond time-resolved particle detectors have been object of research by many companies and institutes since they represent an efficient tool to improve the performance of detecting systems for various applications such as High En ...

EPFL2022

Detectability of Large Correlation Length Inflationary Magnetic Field with Cherenkov Telescopes

Andrii Neronov

Magnetic fields occupying the voids of the large scale structure may be a relic from the Early Universe originating from either Inflation or from cosmological phase transitions. We explore the possibility of identifying the inflationary origin of the void ...

2022

Modeling the response of a diamond detector in the zero power reactor CROCUS

Andreas Pautz, Mathieu Hursin, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Pavel Frajtag

The present manuscript documents the development of a practical calculation scheme to model the response of a diamond detector in the mixed (neutron and gamma) radiation field of the CROCUS experimental reactor at EPFL. The model is shown to perform reason ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Delayed gamma fraction determination in the zero power reactor CROCUS

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Tom Mager

Gamma rays are an inextricable part of a nuclear reactor's radiation field, and as such require characterization for dose rate estimations required for the radiation protection of personnel, material choices, and the design of nuclear facilities. Most comm ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2021

Plasma heating and generation of energetic D ions with the 3-ion ICRF + NBI scenario in mixed H-D plasmas at JET-ILW

Henri Weisen, Javier García Hernández

Dedicated experiments were conducted in mixed H-D plasmas in JET to demonstrate the efficiency of the 3-ion ICRF scenario for plasma heating, relying on injected fast NBI ions as the resonant ion component. Strong core localization of the RF power depositi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Diagnostic of fast-ion energy spectra and densities in magnetized plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Jan Horacek, Jonathan Graves, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, David Pfefferlé, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin

The measurement of the energy spectra and densities of alpha-particles and other fast ions are part of the ITER measurement requirements, highlighting the importance of energy-resolved energetic-particle measurements for the mission of ITER. However, it ha ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Escaping alpha-particle monitor for burning plasmas

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

This paper presents a diagnostic system, gamma-ray alpha-particle monitor (GRAM), for continuous monitoring of deuterium-tritium fusion alpha-particles in the MeV energy range escaped from the plasma to the first wall. The diagnostic is based on the detect ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

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

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

Search for the rare decay of B+ -> l(+)nu e gamma with improved hadronic tagging

Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, Sun Hee Kim, Roberto Gargiani, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Yong Chan Choi, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Linlin Cao, Martin Lubej, Taoufiq Harach, Wondwossen Wubie Eshetu, Mithilesh Nayak, Jiayun Shen, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Tao Yang, Mia Primorac

We present the result of the search for the rare B meson decay of B+ -> l(+)nu e gamma with l = e, mu. For the search the full data set recorded by the Belle experiment of 711 fb(-1) integrated luminosity near the Upsilon(4S) resonance is used. Signal cand ...

American Physical Society2018

Measurement of eta(c) (1S), eta(c)(2S), and nonresonant eta 'pi(+)pi(-) production via two-photon collisions

Mingkui Wang, Olivier Schneider, Chao Wang, Yiming Li, Tara Nanut, Jun Yong Kim, Roberto Gargiani, Alexandra Bondarenko, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Chunmin Zhang, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Yong Chan Choi, Martin Lubej, Wondwossen Wubie Eshetu, Johannes Julius Thomas Marinus Swartjes

We report the measurement of gamma gamma -> eta(c) (1S) -> eta(c) (2S) -> eta'pi(+)pi(-) with eta' decays to gamma rho and eta pi(+)pi(-) using 941 fb(-1) of data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+)e(-) collider. The eta(c) ...

American Physical Society2018

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

Limits to dark matter annihilation cross-section from a combined analysis of MAGIC and Fermi-LAT observations of dwarf satellite galaxies

Thomas Günther Bretz

We present the first joint analysis of gamma-ray data from the MAGIC Cherenkov telescopes and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to search for gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in dwarf satellite galaxies. We combine 158 hours of Segue 1 ob ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Publications associées (29)

Mountaintop Gamma Ray Observations of Three Terrestrial Gamma‐Ray Flashes at the Säntis Tower, Switzerland With Coincident Radio Waveforms

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Amirhossein Mostajabi

2024

Limits to dark matter annihilation cross-section from a combined analysis of MAGIC and Fermi-LAT observations of dwarf satellite galaxies

Thomas Günther Bretz

Iop Publishing Ltd2016