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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, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Antonio Sunjerga

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

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

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

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

Design and temporal issues in Soil Bioengineering structures for the stabilisation of shallow soil movements

Giovanni De Cesare, Massimiliano Schwarz

In the last decades, soil bioengineering has gained considerable popularity worldwide, especially in hillslope, riverbank, and earth embankment stabilisation works. The use of plants as a building material transfers the plant multifunctionality within engi ...

2021

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

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

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

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

Thomas Günther Bretz, Davide Uglietti

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

Escaping alpha-particle monitor for burning plasmas

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

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

Roberto Gargiani, Olivier Schneider, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Yong Chan Choi, Alexandra Bondarenko, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Chunmin Zhang, Jun Yong Kim, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Martin Lubej, Lei Li, Ji Hyun Kim, Yiming Li, Xiao Wang

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

A 5x5 SPADnet Digital SiPM Tile for PET Applications

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Gabor Nemeth

SPADnet is a sensor platform for the detection and processing of gamma photons generated in a PET system. SPADnet uses the novel technique of deferred coincidence detection, whereas timestamps associated with gamma events and their energy are routed at hig ...

2015

Measurement of the exclusive gamma production cross-section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV and 8 TeV

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Alessandro Mapelli, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Cédric Potterat, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Julien Rouvinet, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Bastien Luca Muster, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Liang Sun, Thibaud Humair, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Jessica Prisciandaro, Ilya Komarov, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Maurizio Martinelli, Jian Wang, Liupan An, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Luca Pescatore, Adam Davis, Pietro Marino, , , , , , , ,

MAGIC reveals a complex morphology within the unidentified gamma-ray source HESS J1857+026

Thomas Günther Bretz

Aims. HESS J1857+026 is an extended TeV gamma-ray source that was discovered by H. E. S. S. as part of its Galactic plane survey. Given its broadband spectral energy distribution and its spatial coincidence with the young energetic pulsar PSR J1856+0245, t ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Definition of the radiation fields for the JET gamma-ray spectrometer diagnostics

Patrick Blanchard

The JET gamma-ray diagnostics system provides information on the behaviour of fast particles within the tokamak plasma. Information on the spatial distribution of the interacting fast particles is obtained from the gamma-ray cameras, while energy distribut ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

Design and operation of FACT - the first G-APD Cherenkov telescope

Mathieu Ribordy, Camille Haller, Thomas Günther Bretz, Werner Lustermann

The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is designed to detect cosmic gamma-rays with energies from several hundred GeV up to about 10 TeV using the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. In contrast to former or existing telescopes, the camera of the ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

The simultaneous low state spectral energy distribution of 1ES 2344+514 from radio to very high energies

Thomas Günther Bretz

Context. BL Lacertae objects are variable at all energy bands on time scales down to minutes. To construct and interpret their spectral energy distribution (SED), simultaneous broad-band observations are mandatory. Up to now, the number of objects studied ...

Edp Sciences S A2013

Gamma-ray spectrometric measurements of fission rate ratios between fresh and burnt fuel following irradiation in a zero-power reactor

Rakesh Chawla

The gamma-ray activity from short-lived fission products has been measured in fresh and burnt UO2 fuel samples after irradiation in a zero-power reactor. For the first time, short-lived gamma-ray activity from fresh and burnt fuel has been compared and fre ...

Elsevier2013

An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in gamma-ray bursts

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

Very energetic astrophysical events are required to accelerate cosmic rays to above 10(18) electronvolts. GRBs (c-ray bursts) have been proposed as possible candidate sources(1-3). In the GRB 'fireball' model, cosmic-ray acceleration should be accompanied ...

2012

Time-Dependent Searches For Point Sources Of Neutrinos With The 40-String And 22-String Configurations Of Icecube

Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen, Matthias Wolf

This paper presents four searches for flaring sources of neutrinos using the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, a search is performed over the entire parameter space of energy, direction, and time with sensitivity to neutrino flares lasting be ...

2012