Publications de Simone Gargiulo

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Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Simone Gargiulo

Amer Physical Soc2024

Microstructured plastic scintillators for pencil beam profiling in proton-therapy accelerators

Arnaud Bertsch, Alessandro Mapelli, Fabrizio Carbone, Simone Gargiulo, Veronica Leccese

A novel beam profiler based on microstructured scintillation resin is presented. The detector consists of a bundle of waveguides, featuring an active area of 30 x 30 mm2 with a fill factor of 50% and a pitch of 400 mu m. This configuration is obtained by c ...

Elsevier2024

Revisiting the Excitation of the Low-Lying ^{181m}Ta Isomer in Optical Laser-Generated Plasma

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Benoît Guilhem Michel Binh Truc, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Paolo Usai, Simone Gargiulo, Veronica Leccese

The excitation of the ^{181m}Ta isomer in the laser-plasma scenario was claimed to have been observed more than two decades ago. However, the reported experimental findings-and the respective high excitation rate-were later questioned as they could not be ...

2024

Generation and control of localized terahertz fields in photoemitted electron plasmas

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo

Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and out-of-equilibr ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Electromagnetic processes of nuclear excitation: from direct photoabsorption to free electron and muon capture

Simone Gargiulo

In the vast expanse of the Universe and on our planet, nuclei exist in a state of excitement. These excited nuclear states (isomers) can persist for varying periods, from fractions of a second to billions of years and beyond, before decaying to their groun ...

EPFL2023

One-Dimensional "Ghost Imaging" in Electron Microscopy of Inelastically Scattered Electrons

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Ebrahim Karimi, Simone Gargiulo

Entanglement and correlation are at the basis of quantummechanicsand have been used in optics to create a framework for "ghostimaging". We propose that a similar scheme can be used in anelectron microscope to exploit the correlation of electrons with theco ...

2023

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy Nanoscale Imaging of Femtosecond Plasma Dynamics

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Luca Piazza, Ivan Madan, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo

Understanding and actively controlling the spatiotemporal dynamics of nonequilibrium electron clouds is fundamental for the design of light and electron sources, high power electronic devices, and plasma-based applications. However, electron clouds evolve ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Light-Induced Metastable Hidden Skyrmion Phase in the Mott Insulator Cu2OSeO3

Thomas La Grange, Arnaud Magrez, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Benoît Guilhem Michel Binh Truc, Simone Gargiulo, Phoebe Marie Tengdin

The discovery of a novel long-lived metastable skyrmion phase in the multiferroic insulator Cu2OSeO3 visualized with Lorentz transmission electron microscopy for magnetic fields below the equilibrium skyrmion pocket is reported. This phase can be accessed ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Charge Dynamics in Semiconductors

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Kangpeng Wang, Simone Gargiulo

The ultrafast dynamics of charge carriers in solids plays a pivotal role in emerging optoelectronics, photonics, energy harvesting, and quantum technology applications. However, the investigation and direct visualization of such nonequilibrium phenomena re ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Imaging the Ultrafast Coherent Control of a Skyrmion Crystal

Arnaud Magrez, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Dirk Grundler, Ivan Madan, Ping Che, Thomas Schönenberger, Priya Ranjan Baral, Alexey Sapozhnik, Simone Gargiulo

Exotic magnetic textures emerging from the subtle interplay between thermodynamic and topological fluctuation have attracted intense interest due to their potential applications in spintronic devices. Recent advances in electron microscopy enable the imagi ...

American Physical Society2022

Nuclear Excitation by Free Muon Capture

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Simone Gargiulo

Efficient excitation of nuclei via exchange of a real or virtual photon has a fundamental importance for nuclear science and technology development. Here, we present a mechanism of nuclear excitation based on the capture of a free muon into the atomic orbi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Dynamical Control of Nuclear Isomer Depletion via Electron Vortex Beams

Fabrizio Carbone, Simone Gargiulo

Some nuclear isomers are known to store a large amount of energy over long periods of time, with a very high energy-to-mass ratio. Here, we describe a protocol to achieve the external control of the isomeric nuclear decay by using electron vortex beams who ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Ultrafast Transverse Modulation of Free Electrons by Interaction with Shaped Optical Fields

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Alexey Sapozhnik, Simone Gargiulo, Veronica Leccese, Phoebe Marie Tengdin

Spatiotemporal electron-beam shaping is a bold frontier of electron microscopy. Over the past decade, shaping methods evolved from static phase plates to low-speed electrostatic and magnetostatic displays. Recently, a swift change of paradigm utilizing lig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Gabriele Berruto, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Francesco Barantani, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo

We probe plasma dynamics with nm-fs resolution through electron spectroscopy performed in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope. This approach would allow to disentangle the dynamic evolution of plasma parameters and observe previously inaccessible ...

IEEE2021

The quantum future of microscopy: Wave function engineering of electrons, ions, and nuclei

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Simone Gargiulo

The ability to manipulate particles has always been a fundamental aspect for developing and improving scattering and microscopytechniques used for material investigations. So far, microscopy applications have mostly relied on a classical treatment of the e ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020

Nanoscale-femtosecond dielectric response of Mott insulators captured by two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy

Thomas La Grange, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Gabriele Berruto, Francesco Barantani, Simone Gargiulo

Characterizing and controlling the out-of-equilibrium state of nanostructured Mott insulators hold great promises for emerging quantum technologies while providing an exciting playground for investigating fundamental physics of strongly-correlated systems. ...

Nature Research2020