Publications related to Total absorption spectroscopy

Measurement of the K+ → π+γγ decay

Alessandro Mapelli, Radoslav Marchevski, Alina Kleimenova

A sample of 3984 candidates of the K+ -> pi(+)gamma gamma decay, with an estimated background of 291 +/- 14 events, was collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN during 2017-2018. In order to describe the observed di-photon mass spectrum, the next-to-leadin ...

Elsevier2024

Characterization of a flexible a-Si:H detector for in vivo dosimetry in therapeutic x-ray beams

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Matthew James Large

BackgroundThe increasing use of complex and high dose-rate treatments in radiation therapy necessitates advanced detectors to provide accurate dosimetry. Rather than relying on pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) measurements alone, many countries are now ...

Wiley2024

A Fast Ion Loss Detector for the TCV Tokamak

Lorenzo Stipani

A Fast Ion Loss Detector (FILD) was designed, assembled, installed and commissioned for TCV. This is a radially positionable, scintillator based detector that provides information on the 2D fast-ion velocity space lost at the probe's location. The collecte ...

EPFL2021

Spin cascade and doming in ferric hemes: Femtosecond X-ray absorption and X-ray emission studies

Majed Chergui, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Wojciech Gawelda, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Frederico Alves Lima, Dominik Kinschel, Oliviero Cannelli, Jérémy Raymond Jean Maurice Rouxel, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Samuel Menzi

The structure-function relationship is at the heart of biology, and major protein deformations are correlated to specific functions. For ferrous heme proteins, doming is associated with the respiratory function in hemoglobin and myoglobins. Cytochrome c (C ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

The instrument suite of the European Spallation Source

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Paul Gregory Freeman, Markus Strobl, Ursula Bengaard Hansen, Michael Müller

An overview is provided of the 15 neutron beam instruments making up the initial instrument suite of the European Spallation Source (ESS), and being made available to the neutron user community. The ESS neutron source consists of a high-power accelerator a ...

2020

Synthesis, reactivity, and environmental relevance of uranyl(V) complexes

Radmila Faizova

Knowledge of fundamental chemical properties of all environmentally relevant uranium species is essential to understand environmental uranium mobility and develop novel remediation strate-gies. A myriad of uranium(VI) and uranium(IV) compounds has been stu ...

EPFL2020

Optimized Electrolyte Loading and Active Film Thickness for Sandwich Polymer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells

Frank Nüesch, Roland Hany, Matthias Diethelm

Effects of ion concentration and active layer thickness play a critical role on the performance of light-emitting electrochemical cells. Expanding on a pioneering materials system comprising the super yellow (SY) polymer and the electrolyte trimethylolprop ...

2019

Charge-carrier Dynamics in Metal Oxides and Hybrid Lead Perovskites investigated by Time-Resolved UV and X-ray Spectroscopy

Thomas Charles Henry Rossi

In modern ultrafast optoelectronic technologies based on wide band gap insulators, the non-equilibrium dynamics of photogenerated charges plays a major role. Unravelling the mechanisms of interaction between these charge carriers and their environment is c ...

EPFL2018

The new versatile general purpose surface-muon instrument (GPS) based on silicon photomultipliers for μSR measurements on a continuous-wave beam

Kamil Sedlák

We report on the design and commissioning of a new spectrometer for muon-spin relaxation/rotation studies installed at the Swiss Muon Source (SμS) of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland). This new instrument is essentially a new design and replac ...

2017

Excited state X-ray absorption spectroscopy: Probing both electronic and structural dynamics

Majed Chergui, Simon Neville

We investigate the sensitivity of X-ray absorption spectra, simulated using a general method, to properties of molecular excited states. Recently, Averbukh and co-workers [M. Ruberti et al., J. Chem. Phys. 140, 184107 (2014)] introduced an efficient and ac ...

American Institute of Physics2016

Band-gap tuning of lead halide perovskite using a single step spin-coating deposition process

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

In this paper, we present a study of the structural and optical properties of organic-inorganic halide-based perovskite semiconductors with band gaps varying from NIR to visible at room temperature. Thin films of nanocrystalline CH3NH3PbI3 with different c ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

A 5x5 SPADnet Digital SiPM Tile for PET Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, 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 CP-Violating Phase phi(s) in the Decay B-s(0) -> J/psi phi

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Michel De Cian, Christophe Salzmann, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Jian Wang, Anne Keune, Yi Zhang, Vincent Fave, Lei Zhang, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Vladislav Balagura, Cédric Potterat, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Pierre Jaton, Joël Bressieux, Albert Puig Navarro, Christophe Bauer, Neal Gauvin, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco,

Comparison of measured and calculated reaction rate distributions in an scwr-like test lattice

Rakesh Chawla

High resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy measurements were performed on 61 rods of an SCWR-like fuel lattice, after irradiation in the central test zone of the PROTEUS zero-power research reactor at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. The derived rea ...

Elsevier2011

Observation of a Charmoniumlike Enhancement in the γγ→ωJ/ψ Process

Olivier Schneider, Remi Léandre Albert Louvot, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Ji Hyun Kim, Jing Li

We report the results of a search for a charmoniumlike state produced in the process gamma gamma -> omega J/psi in the 3.9-4.2 GeV = c(2) mass region. We observe a significant enhancement, which is well described by a resonant shape with mass M = (3915 +/- ...

2010

Time-Resolved Optical and X-Ray Spectroscopy of Rhenium Based Molecular Complexes

Amal El Nahhas

The photocycle of rhenium carbonyl complexes, type facial-[Re(L)(CO)3(diimine)]n [L=halide / n=0, L=4-Ethyl-pyridine (Etpy)- Imidazole (ImH) /n=+1, diimine= bpy , 10- phenanthroline (phen), 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bpy (dmb)] was studied using a set of ultrafast ...

EPFL2010

Observation of Bs0 -> Ds()+ Ds()- using e+e- collisions and a determination of the Bs-Bsbar width difference Delta Gamma_s

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Remi Léandre Albert Louvot, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Vladislav Balagura, Jean Wicht, Ji Hyun Kim

We have made the first observation of B-s(0) -> D-s(()()+) D-s(()()-) decays using 23.6 fb(-1) of data recorded by the Belle experiment running on the Y(5S) resonance. The branching fractions are measured to be B(B-s(0) -> Ds+Ds-) = (1.03(-0.32-0.25)(+0. ...

2010

Charge disproportionation in RNiO3 perovskites (R=rare earth) from high-resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Marco Grioni, Joël Mesot, François Vernay

High-resolution x-ray absorption measurements reveal a rare-earth-dependent splitting of the Ni K edge in the insulating, charge-disproportionated state of the whole RNiO3 perovskite family. The splitting is five times larger for LuNiO3 [2.5(1) eV] than fo ...

2009

Optimised non-invasive method to determine 238U-captures-to-total-fissions in reactor fuel

Rakesh Chawla, Fabian Jatuff

High-resolution gamma spectroscopy was performed on individual fuel rods of a fresh, highly heterogeneous Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) fuel assembly, after irradiation at low power in the PROTEUS reactor at PSI, to determine the ratio of neutron captures in ...

Elsevier2006