Particles, Volume 8, Issue 2

Hollow electron beams are a promising tool for generating coherent radiation in various frequency ranges. Hollow beams have unique properties, including increased stability and the ability to achieve high current densities without significant deterio...

Nuclear density functional theory (DFT) is able to reproduce the saturation properties of nuclear matter, as well as properties of finite nuclei. Consequently, the DFT calculations are applicable to nuclei across a wide range of masses on the nuclear...

The Belle II experiment has collected a 364 fb⁻¹ sample of collisions at the ${\rm Y}\left(4S\right)$ resonance. This dataset, with its low particle multiplicity and well-constrained initial state, provides an ideal environment for studying semileptonic a...

In ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the study of muons from kaon (K) and pion ($\pi$) decays provides insights into hadron production and propagation in the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). This paper investigates muon yields from K and $\pi$ de...

In this work we consider the problem of determining the identity of hadrons at high energies based on the topology of their energy depositions in dense matter, along with the time of the interactions. Using GEANT4 simulations of a homogeneous lead tu...

This study investigates the masses and quadrupole deformations of even-Z nuclei within the range $8⩽Z⩽104$ using the triaxial relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov model (TRHB) with the PC-PK1 density functional. For odd-mass nuclei, the...

We performed the microscopic calculation of $\beta$-decay properties for waiting-point nuclei with neutron-closed magic shells. Allowed Gamow–Teller (GT) and first-forbidden (FF) transitions were simulated using a schematic model (SM) for waitin...

By chiral effects, one understands the manifestations of chiral gauge anomaly and of gravitational chiral anomaly in hydrodynamics. In the last two to three years, our understanding of chiral effects has considerably changed. Here, we present a mini-...

Building on the successful demonstration of hypernuclear spectroscopy using heavy-ion beams, the HypHI Collaboration is shifting its focus to investigating proton- and neutron-rich hypernuclei. A crucial component of this research is the implementati...

The TomOpt software package is designed to optimise the geometric configuration and the specifications of detectors intended for muon scattering tomography, an imaging technique exploiting cosmic-ray muons. The software employs an end-to-end differen...

FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH-RT) is a cancer treatment delivering high-dose radiation within microseconds, reducing side-effects on healthy tissues. Implementing this technology at the PBP-CMU Electron Linac Laboratory poses challenges in ensuring radia...

We simulate hadrons impinging on a homogeneous lead tungstate (${\mathrm{PbWO}}_4$) calorimeter using GEANT4 software to investigate how the resulting light yield and its temporal structure, as detected by an array of light-sensitive sensors, can be processed by a...

Timing measurements are critical for the detectors at the future HL-LHC, to resolve reconstruction ambiguity when the number of simultaneous interactions reaches up to 200 per bunch crossing. The ATLAS collaboration therefore builds a new High-Granul...

Particle detectors at accelerators generate large amounts of data, requiring analysis to derive insights. Collisions lead to signal pile-up, where multiple particles produce signals in the same detector sensors, complicating individual signal identif...

Machine learning methods are being introduced at all stages of data reconstruction and analysis in various high-energy physics experiments. We present the development and application of convolutional neural networks with modified autoencoder architec...

Recent advances in machine learning have opened new avenues for optimizing detector designs in high-energy physics, where the complex interplay of geometry, materials, and physics processes has traditionally posed a significant challenge. In this wor...

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS), using electromagnetic signals, enables continuous positioning throughout the entire surface of the Earth. However, underwater and underground environments significantly restrict the propagation of electr...

The Pierre Auger Observatory, the world’s largest ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic ray (CR) detector, plays a crucial role in multi-messenger astroparticle physics with its high sensitivity to UHE photons and neutrinos. Recent Auger Observatory s...

Our objective is to test the published models of partonic energy loss, particularly those describing the energy loss mechanisms of quarks traversing nuclear matter, within the framework of semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. Our methodological...

Muon tomography leverages the small, continuous flux of cosmic rays produced in the upper atmosphere to measure the density of unknown volumes. The multiple Coulomb scattering that muons undergo when passing through the material can either be leverag...

We investigated the reaction Q-value ($Q_{\alpha }$) for the $\alpha$ decay of Tl, Bi, and At isotopes using the deformed relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum (DRHBc) with the covariant density functional PC-PK1. The $\alpha$ decay half...

The Cryo-PoF project is an R&D project funded by the Italian Insitute for Nuclear Research (INFN) in Milano-Bicocca (Italy). The technology at the basis of the project is Power over Fiber (PoF). By sending laser light through an optical fiber, th...

We study the application of a neural network architecture for identifying charged particle trajectories via unsupervised learning of delays and synaptic weights using a spike-time-dependent plasticity rule. In the considered model, the neurons receiv...

Information field theory (IFT) provides a powerful framework for reconstructing continuous fields from noisy and sparse data. Based on Bayesian statistics, IFT allows for the approximation of posterior distributions over field-like parameter spaces i...

This study employs Monte Carlo (MC) models and thermal-statistical analysis to investigate the production mechanisms of strange ($K_S^0$, $\mathrm{\Lambda }$) and multi-strange ($\mathrm{\Xi }$, $\mathrm{\Omega }$) hadrons in high-multiplicity proton–proton collisions. Through sys...

Bubble nuclei, characterized by a depletion in nucleon density at the nuclear center, are investigated within the atomic number range $71\le Z\le 80$ using the Deformed Relativistic Hartree–Bogoliubov theory in continuum. This study extends previ...

The increased particle flux expected at the HL-LHC poses a serious challenge for the ATLAS detector performance, especially in the forward region. The High-Granularity Timing Detector (HGTD), featuring novel Low-Gain Avalanche Detector silicon techno...

Analysis of the (i) charge balance function and (ii) fluctuations of the net electric charge of hadrons in $Pb$+$Pb$ collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair was performed within a two-component hydjet++ model. It is shown that neith...