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Author Alekhin, S. et al; Hernandez, P.
Title A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case Type Journal Article
Year 2016 Publication Reports on Progress in Physics Abbreviated Journal Rep. Prog. Phys.
Volume (down) 79 Issue 12 Pages 124201 - 137pp
Keywords beyond the standard model physics; intensity frontier experiment; hidden sectors; heavy neutral leptons; dark photons
Abstract This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (search for hidden particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale, inaccessible to the LHC experiments, and to study tau neutrino physics. The same proton beam setup can be used later to look for decays of tau-leptons with lepton flavour number non-conservation, tau -> 3 μand to search for weakly-interacting sub-GeV dark matter candidates. We discuss the evidence for physics beyond the standard model and describe interactions between new particles and four different portals-scalars, vectors, fermions or axion-like particles. We discuss motivations for different models, manifesting themselves via these interactions, and how they can be probed with the SHiP experiment and present several case studies. The prospects to search for relatively light SUSY and composite particles at SHiP are also discussed. We demonstrate that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the standard model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation.
Address [Alekhin, Sergey] DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany, Email: oleg.ruchayskiy@cern.ch
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0034-4885 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000387025400001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2852
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Author Gimenez-Alventosa, V.; Gimenez, V.; Ballester, F.; Vijande, J.; Andreo, P.
Title Monte Carlo calculation of beam quality correction factors for PTW cylindrical ionization chambers in photon beams Type Journal Article
Year 2020 Publication Physics in Medicine and Biology Abbreviated Journal Phys. Med. Biol.
Volume (down) 65 Issue 20 Pages 205005 - 11pp
Keywords TRS 398; Monte Carlo; dosimetry; ionization chambers; MV photon beams
Abstract The beam quality correction factork(Q)for megavoltage photon beams has been calculated for eight PTW (Freiburg, Germany) ionization chambers (Farmer chambers PTW30010, PTW30011, PTW30012, and PTW30013, Semiflex 3D chambers PTW31021, PTW31010, and PTW31013, and the PinPoint 3D chamber PTW31016). Simulations performed on the widely used NE-2571 ionization chamber have been used to benchmark the results. The Monte Carlo code PENELOPE/penEasy was used to calculate the absorbed dose to a point in water and the absorbed dose to the active air volume of the chambers for photon beams in the range 4 to 24 MV. Of the nine ionization chambers analysed, only five are included in the current version of the International Code of Practice for dosimetry based on standards of absorbed dose to water (IAEA TRS 398). The values reported in this work agree with those in the literature within the uncertainty estimates and are to be included in the average values of the data obtained by different working groups for the forthcoming update of TRS 398.
Address [Gimenez-Alventosa, Vicent] Univ Politecn Valencia, CSIC, Ctr Mixto, Inst Instrumentac Imagen Mol I3M, Valencia, Spain, Email: javier.vijande@uv.es
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Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0031-9155 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000576070000001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration no
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4556
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Author n_TOF Collaboration (Guerrero, C. et al); Domingo-Pardo, C.; Tain, J.L.
Title Study of Photon Strength Function of Actinides: the Case of (235)U, (238)Np and (241)Pu Type Journal Article
Year 2011 Publication Journal of the Korean Physical Society Abbreviated Journal J. Korean Phys. Soc.
Volume (down) 59 Issue 2 Pages 1510-1513
Keywords Photon/Gamma strength functions; Pygmy; Scissor mode; n_TOF; Total absorption calorimeter; TAC; Neutron capture
Abstract The decay from excited levels in medium and heavy nuclei can be described in a statistical approach by means of Photon Strength Functions and Level Density distributions. The study of electromagnetic cascades following neutron capture based on the use of high efficiency detectors has been shown to be well suited for probing the properties of the Photon Strength Function of heavy (high level density) and/or radioactive (high background) nuclei. In this work we have investigated for the first time the validity of the recommended PSF of actinides, in particular (235)U, (238)Np and (241)Pu. Our study includes the search for resonance structures in the PSF below S(n) and draws conclusions regarding their existence and their characteristics in terms of energy, width and electromagnetic nature.
Address [Guerrero, C; Alvarez-Velarde, F; Ano-Ott, DC; Martinez, T; Mendoza, E; Villamarin, D] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Technol CIE, Madrid, Spain, Email: carlos.guerrero@ciemat.es
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Publisher Korean Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0374-4884 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000294080700013 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ elepoucu @ Serial 731
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Author Olmo, G.J.; Rosa, J.L.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.; Saez-Chillon Gomez, D.
Title Shadows and photon rings of regular black holes and geonic horizonless compact objects Type Journal Article
Year 2023 Publication Classical and Quantum Gravity Abbreviated Journal Class. Quantum Gravity
Volume (down) 40 Issue 17 Pages 174002 - 37pp
Keywords black holes; compact objects; photon rings; shadows; metric-affine gravity; Born-Infeld gravity; regular solutions
Abstract The optical appearance of a body compact enough to feature an unstable bound orbit, when surrounded by an accretion disk, is expected to be dominated by a luminous ring of radiation enclosing a central brightness depression typically known as the shadow. Despite observational limitations, the rough details of this picture have been now confirmed by the results of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration on the imaging of the M87 and Milky Way supermassive central objects. However, the precise characterization of both features-ring and shadow-depends on the interaction between the background geometry and the accretion disk, thus being a fertile playground to test our theories on the nature of compact objects and the gravitational field itself in the strong-field regime. In this work we use both features in order to test a continuous family of solutions interpolating between regular black holes and horizonless compact objects, which arise within the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld theory of gravity, a viable extension of Einstein's general relativity (GR). To this end we consider seven distinctive classes of such configurations (five black holes and two traversable wormholes) and study their optical appearances under illumination by a geometrically and optically thin accretion disk, emitting monochromatically with three analytic intensity profiles previously suggested in the literature. We build such images and consider the sub-ring structure created by light rays crossing the disk more than once and existing on top of the main ring of radiation. We discuss in detail the modifications as compared to their GR counterparts, the Lyapunov exponents of unstable nearly-bound orbits, as well as the differences between black hole and traversable wormholes for the three intensity profiles. In addition we use the claim by the EHT Collaboration on the radius of the bright ring acting (under proper calibrations) as a proxy for the radius of the shadow itself to explore the parameter space of our solutions compatible with such a result.
Address [Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Valencia, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain, Email: drubiera@ucm.es
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Publisher IOP Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0264-9381 ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:001043720300001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5600
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Author Navarro, P.; Gimeno, B.; Alvarez Melcon, A.; Arguedas Cuendis, S.; Cogollos, C.; Diaz-Morcillo, A.; Gallego, J.D.; Garcia Barcelo, J.M.; Golm, J.; Irastorza, I.G.; Lozano Guerrero, A.J.; Garay, C.P.
Title Wide-band full-wave electromagnetic modal analysis of the coupling between dark-matter axions and photons in microwave resonators Type Journal Article
Year 2022 Publication Physics of the Dark Universe Abbreviated Journal Phys. Dark Universe
Volume (down) 36 Issue Pages 101001 - 14pp
Keywords Axion detection; Axion field; Axion-photon interaction; BI-RME 3D; Broad-band analysis; Dark matter; Full wave analysis; Haloscope; Microwave resonator; Modal technique
Abstract The electromagnetic coupling axion-photon in a microwave cavity is revisited with the Boundary Integral-Resonant Mode Expansion (BI-RME) 3D technique. Such full-wave modal technique has been applied for the rigorous analysis of the excitation of a microwave cavity with an axion field. In this scenario, the electromagnetic field generated by the axion-photon coupling can be assumed to be driven by equivalent electrical charge and current densities. These densities have been inserted in the general BI-RME 3D equations, which express the RF electromagnetic field existing within a cavity as an integral involving the Dyadic Green's functions of the cavity (under Coulomb gauge) as well as such densities. This method is able to take into account any arbitrary spatial and temporal variation of both magnitude and phase of the axion field. Next, we have obtained a simple network driven by the axion current source, which represents the coupling between the axion field and the resonant modes of the cavity. With this approach, it is possible to calculate the extracted and dissipated RF power as a function of frequency along a broad band and without Cauchy-Lorentz approximations, obtaining the spectrum of the electromagnetic field generated in the cavity, and dealing with modes relatively close to the axion resonant mode. Moreover, with this technique we have a complete knowledge of the signal extracted from the cavity, not only in magnitude but also in phase. This can be an interesting issue for future analysis where the axion phase is an important parameter.
Address [Navarro, P.; Melcon, A. alvarez; Diaz-Morcillo, A.; Barcelo, J. M. Garcia; Guerrero, A. J. Lozano] Tech Univ Cartagena, Dept Informat & Commun Technol, Cartagena 30203, Spain, Email: pablonm.ct.94@gmail.com;
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Publisher Elsevier Place of Publication Editor
Language English Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes WOS:000791333100001 Approved no
Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes
Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5218
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