In order to detect the small distance variations induced by gravitational waves, very sensitive devices must be used. Gravitational wave (GW) detectors are sophisticated interferometers sensitive even to vacuum fluctuations. These latters are responsible for quantum noise (QN). Due to the frequency-dependent response of GW interferometers, QN manifests itself as Radiation Pressure Noise (RPN)...
The foreseen production of cold antihydrogen atoms at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator (AD) opened up the possibility to perform direct measurements of Earth's gravitational acceleration on antimatter bodies. This is one of the goals of the AEgIS collaboration: measure the value of g using a pulsed source of cold antihydrogen and a moiré deflectometer/Talbot-Lau interferometer. The milestones...
Non-neutral plasmas – in the zero temperature limit - can be described in analogy to a $2$-dimensional fluid [1]. We observe the temporal stages of a Kelvin-Helmholtz-like diocotron instability of an antiproton ring. The evolutionary stages are comprised of a linear part during which the instability grows, followed by a collapse of the ring into vortices, and a nonlinear part consisting of...
In 2015, after many years of R&D efforts of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration for the upgrade to the second generation of ground based gravitational wave detectors, for the first time it has been possible a direct observation of a gravitational wave event (GW). In the following years, many other GW events have been detected by both LIGO and Virgo. Nevertheless, in the very near future the present...
The determination of the neutrino mass is one of the major challenges in particle physics today. Experiments, based solely on the kinematics of β-decay, provide a largely model-independent probe to the neutrino mass scale. The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is designed to directly measure the effective electron antineutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2 eV (90% CL). It employs...
The experimental investigation of the low-energy negatively charged kaons interaction with the nuclear matter is very important to understand the strength of the K$^{-}$ nuclei interaction and to provide essential input to the non-perturbative QCD in the strangeness sector. This study has important consequences in various sectors of physics, like nuclear and particle physics, as well as ...
The DAMIC-M (Dark Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment is a low-energy threshold CCD experiment with 1kg of sensitive mass that is sensitive to low-mass dark matter such as WIMPs and interactions with electrons through a hidden sector. It is 10 times larger mass, 50 times lower background, and 10 times lower energy threshold than DAMIC@SNOLAB, allowing it to probe dark matter for...
The recent results of the partial-wave analysis of $J/\psi \to K^+K^-\pi^0$ reaction using $(223.7\pm1.4)\times 10^{6}$ $J/\psi$ decays collected by BESIII Collaboration in 2009 will be presented. The high data quality and unprecedented statistics of the BESIII experiment allowed revealing signals that had not been observed previously in $J/\psi$ decays. The reported results for...
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory is a next-generation neutrino experiment under construction in Southern China. The detector is filled with 20 kton liquid scintillator and will be built in a 700m deep underground laboratory. The central detector is equipped with ~18K 20-inch PMTs and ~25K 3-inch PMTs with the photocathode coverage reaching ~78%. The experiment has been designed to...
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest detector of the ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). It uses a series of fluorescence telescopes and an array of particledetectors at the ground to obtain detailed measurements of the energy spectrum, mass composition and arrival directions of primary cosmic rays (above the energy of 1017 eV) with accuracy not attainable until now.
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The search for anisotropies in the arrival directions of cosmic rays of the highest energies is essential in the on-going effort to identify their sources. After more than 15 years of operation, the exposure of the Pierre Auger Observatory exceeds 100,000 km^2 sr yr and several important scientific findings regarding anisotropy studies on various angular scales have been reported.
In the...
The GERDA experiment, located in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, has been designed to search for the neutrinoless double-beta (0vbb) decay in 76Ge. It used in different stages of the project up to 44 kg of high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors enriched up to about 86% in the isotope 76Ge. The bare detectors were operated in liquid argon, which served in the first...
Neutrino Oscillation Results from the MINOS+ Experiment will be presented.
Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observatory in the northern hemisphere and has entered its thirteenth year of exploring astrophysical phenomena at the highest energies. It covers more than 700 km^2 of the Utah desert and consists of a 1.2 km spaced grid of 507 surface detector (SD) scintillation counters along with three fluorescence detector (FD) sites...
Proton therapy treatments are based on the characteristic depth-dose deposition profile of charged particles (i.e. the Bragg Peak). During treatment, target fragmentation takes place, leading to the production of low-energy, high-charge and therefore short-range fragments along the beam path. The higher-Z fragments produced may have higher biological effectiveness compared to protons, thus...
During the DVCS data-taking in 2016 and 2017, the COMPASS Collaboration at CERN collected a large sample of DIS events with a longitudinally polarized 160 GeV/$c$ muon beam scattering off a liquid hydrogen target. Part of the collected data has been analysed to extract preliminary results for the transverse momentum dependent charged hadron distributions and the azimuthal asymmetries...
Accurate knowledge of thermonuclear reaction rates is a fundamental ingredient in nuclear astrophysics for understanding the energy generation, neutrino production and the synthesis of the elements in stars and during primordial nucleosynthesis. At astrophysical energies, the cross section of nuclear processes is extremely small and the cosmic background prevents their measurement at stellar...
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay that has been able to reach the one-ton scale. The detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a compact cylindrical structure of 19 towers. Following the completion...
During the past 40 years the production of pairs of the J/psi mesons in high energy hadron collisions has been studied by several experiments. Despite the experimental and theoretical effrots, the origin of the process and the relative weight of different production mechanisms still remains unknown. Depending on the energy scale the double J/psi production can be described by single- and...
Borexino is a large solar neutrino detector running at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso since 2007. Neutrinos are detected via their interaction with a 300-ton liquid scintillator target, purified to achieve unprecedented levels of radio-purity. Borexino has detected most of the expected solar neutrino spectrum. In particular, it has measured with refined precision the neutrinos from...
A jet is a group of collimated high energy particles. Its production in high energy collisions has been used to study the QCD evolution in vacuum. The evolution is modified in heavy ion collisions because of the existence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Jets are produced early in the initial hard scattering. As the produced quarks and gluons of the jets travel through the QGP, they lose energy...
Neutrinoless double beta decay searches play a major role in determining neutrino properties. The
MAJORANA Collaboration is operating an ultra-low background, modular high-purity Ge detector array to search for this decay in $^\mathrm{76}$Ge. Located at the 4850-ft level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, the DEMONSTRATOR's goal is to achieve a background rate low enough to support...
The ultra-rare K+ —> pi+nunu decay benefits from a precisely predicted branching ratio in the SM
(8.4 +- 1.0) x 10^{-11}, being almost free from theoretical uncertainties, and most importantly from
a very high sensitivity to a variety of beyond-the-standard-model scenarios, making it one of the best candidates to reveal indirect effects of new physics in the flavour sector.
The NA62...
The dark matter interpretation of the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation signal represents a long standing open question of the Astro-particle physics field. The SABRE experiment aims to test such claim bringing the same detection technique to an unprecedented sensitivity. Based on ultra-low background NaI(Tl) scintillating crystals as DAMA, SABRE features a liquid scintillator veto system,...
The flavour-changing neutral current decay K+ -> pi+ mu+ mu- is induced at the one-loop level in the Standard Model, and is well suited to explore its structure and, possibly, its extensions. The NA62 experiment took data in 2016–2018 with the main goal of measuring the K+ -> pi+ neutrino antineutrino decay. A scaled down di-muon trigger chain was operating along with the main trigger during...
Anisotropic scintillators offer a unique possibility to exploit the so-called directionality approach to investigate the presence of Dark Matter (DM) candidates that induce nuclear recoils. In fact, their use can overcome the difficulties in detecting traces of extremely short nuclear recoils. In this talk, recent measurements on the anisotropic response of a ZnWO$_4$ crystal scintillator to...
The $^{150}$Nd nuclide is one of the most promising to search for double beta decay among 35 naturally occurring double beta isotopes due to the high energy release 3371.38(20) keV and comparatively high isotopic abundance 5.638(28) %. The $2\beta$ transition to the 740.5-keV $0_1^+$ excited level of $^{150}$Sm was observed in few experiments with the half-lives in a wide range $(7 –...
We address the issue of potential superluminal propagation of gravitational waves in back- grounds neighboring the previously suggested bounce [arXiv:1807.08361 [hep-th]] in beyond Horndeski theory. We find that the bouncing solution lies right at the boundary of the region where the gravitational waves propagate at speed exceeding that of light, i.e. that solution suffers superluminality...
Double beta (2$\beta$) decay is one of the most promising ways to search for effects beyond the Standard Model of particles and interactions (SM). Observation of neutrinoless mode of the decay ($0\nu2\beta$) will indicate the Majorana nature of the neutrino (particle is equivalent to its antiparticle), and the lepton number violation. Allowed in the SM two neutrino mode of the decay is the...
A self-organized critical system under influence of turbulent motion of the environment is studied. The system is described by the anisotropic continuous stochastic equation proposed by Hwa and Kardar [{\it Phys. Rev. Lett.} {\bf 62}: 1813 (1989)]. The motion of the environment is modelled by the isotropic Kazantsev--Kraichnan ``rapid-change'' ensemble for an incompressible fluid: it is...
The Identical Bands (IB's) phenomenon is studied theoretically in normal deformed bands. With the Variable Moment of Inertia (VMI) model, the phenomenological analysis of the Superdeformed (SD) identical bands in A~190 mass region are systematically explored. Also, the band head spin of these bands have been predicted using this approach. It was proposed that the truly identical bands, the...
In this talk we present the study of sgoldstino phenomenology for sgoldstino masses 260-1000 GeV. Sgoldstinos are assumed to be produced in proton-proton collisions at the centre-of-mass energies $7-14$ TeV. We consider the impact of sgoldstino mixing with particles from Higgs sector on sgoldstino production cross section and sgoldstino branching ratio. We find a region in parameter space for...
The π+ emission is considered in Au+Au collisions at √s = 19.6 GeV in UrQMD model. The emission duration and time/hypersurface of maximal emission are analyzed within the two methods. The first one is based on the direct study of the pion last collision points in the UrQMD. The second one has utilized the specific approach for correlation femtoscopy analysis, developed and applied earlier for...
We propose an experimental prove of concept for a quantum computer. The idea is to perform an explicit computation of Jones and HOMPLY polynomials for a specific knot. We apply this idea to the linear interferometer device, which is a working model for quantum computer, and in project to a quantum computer on cold atoms.
Fragmentation (or in general, hadronization) is the transition from a colored and energetic parton to a colorless hadron is a rich and dynamical process in QCD quantified by the fragmentation function. Fast moving hadrons (or jets) are produced by the fragmentation of colored quarks or gluons that are produced during hard collisions at short distances. The determination of a characteristic...
