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  • 7Be(n,alpha) and 7Be(n,p) cross-section measurement for the cosmological lithium problem at the n TOF facility at CERN 

    Barbagallo, Massimo; Colonna, Nicola; Aberle, O.; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Casanovas Hoste, Adrià; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban (EDP Sciences, 2016)
    Comunicació de congrés
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    The Cosmological Lithium Problem refers to the large discrepancy between the abundance of primordial 7Li predicted by the standard theory of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the value inferred from the so-called “Spite plateau” ...

  • All-flavor search for a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with nine years of ANTARES data 

    Albert, A.; André, Michel; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, G.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel (2018-01-20)
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    The ANTARES detector is at present the most sensitive neutrino telescope in the northern hemisphere. The highly significant cosmic neutrino excess observed by the Antarctic IceCube detector can be studied with ANTARES, ...

  • All-sky search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW170104 with the Antares neutrino telescope: The ANTARES Collaboration 

    Albert, A.; André, Michel; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, G.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel (2017-12-28)
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    © 2017, The Author(s). Advanced LIGO detected a significant gravitational wave signal (GW170104) originating from the coalescence of two black holes during the second observation run on January 4th, 2017. An all-sky ...

  • ANTARES constrains a blazar origin of two IceCube PeV neutrino events 

    Adrian Martinez, Silvia; Albert, Andreas; André, Michel (2015-04-01)
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    Context. The source(s) of the neutrino excess reported by the IceCube Collaboration is unknown. The TANAMI Collaboration recently reported on the multiwavelength emission of six bright, variable blazars which are positionally ...

  • A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude 

    Rowlinson, A.; O'Sullivan, Michael; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, G.; Avgitas, T.; Bertin, V.; Puricelli, Stefano; Coniglione, R.; Gleixner, A; Lefèvre, Dominique; Michael, Turner; Pellegrino, Carlo; Piattelli, P.; Sanchez Losa, Agustín; Schnabel, J.; Trovato, A.; Zúñiga Román, Juan; Elejabarrieta, María Jesús; Schrenk, Bernhard; Hahn, James K.; Lamanna, G.; Moulin, Eric; Moya Señas, Ignacio; Santangelo, A; Schulz, André; Vink, J; Wagner, Peter; Yang, Rong; Zaborov, D.; André, Michel (2017-08-01)
    Article
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    We report on the discovery of a new fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 150215, with the Parkes radio telescope on 2015 February 15. The burst was detected in real time with a dispersion measure (DM) of 1105.6 ± 0.8 pc cm-3, a ...

  • A remarkable recurrent nova in M 31: The predicted 2014 outburst in X-rays with Swift 

    Henze, Martin; Ness, J.; Darnley, M. J.; Bode, M. F.; Williams, S. C.; Shafter, A. W.; Sala Cladellas, Glòria; Kato, M.; Hachisu, I.; Hernanz Carbó, Margarita (2015-08-01)
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    Context. The M 31 nova M31N 2008-12a was recently found to be a recurrent nova (RN) with a recurrence time of about one year. This is by far the fastest recurrence time scale of any known RN.; Aims. Our optical monitoring ...

  • Astrophysical parameter determination using chaotic orbital regions 

    Nicolás Álvarez, Jorge (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-02-27)
    Projecte Final de Màster Oficial
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    The goal of this thesis is to show that chaotic orbits of a dynamical system are advantageous (compared with regularnes) to determine the characteristic parameters of the system, and to give an estimate about the behaviour ...

  • A Trojan horse approach to the production of 18F in Novae 

    la Cognata, M; Pizzone, R; José Pont, Jordi; Hernanz Carbó, Margarita; Cherubini, S; Gulino, M; Rapisarda, G; Spitaleri, C (2017-09-01)
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    Crucial information on nova nucleosynthesis can be potentially inferred from ¿-ray signals powered by 18F decay. Therefore, the reaction network producing and destroying this radioactive isotope has been extensively studied ...

  • Beta-decay half-lives and beta-delayed neutron emission probabilities for several isotopes of Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, and Bi, beyond N = 126 

    Caballero-Folch, R.; Domingo-Pardo, C; Agramunt Ros, Jorge; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere (2017-06-23)
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    Background: There have been measurements on roughly 230 nuclei that are beta-delayed neutron emitters. They range from 8He up to 150La. Apart from 210Tl, with a branching ratio of only 0.007%, no other neutron emitter has ...

  • Characterisation of the Hamamatsu photomultipliers for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope 

    Aiello, S; Ameli, F; André, Michel; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, G.; Ardid Ramírez, Miguel; Avgitas, T.; Bertin, V.; Bormuth, R.; Bouwhuis, M.C.; Puricelli, Stefano; Cherubini, Silvio; Coniglione, R.; Mannheim, Karl; Morganti, Michele; Pellegrino, Carlo; Piattelli, P.; Real, Del; Santangelo, A; Sharma, Aniruddh; Trovato, A.; Zaborov, D.; Zúñiga Román, Juan (2018-05-01)
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    The Hamamatsu R12199-02 3-inch photomultiplier tube is the photodetector chosen for the first phase of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope. About 7000 photomultipliers have been characterised for dark count rate, timing spread ...

  • Characteristics and energy dependence of recurrent galactic cosmic-ray flux depressions and of a forbush decrease with LISA Pathfinder 

    Armano, M.; Audley, H.; Baird, J.; Bassan, M.; Benella, S.; Lobo, J.A.; Ramos Castro, Juan José (2018-02-16)
    Article
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    Galactic cosmic-ray (GCR) energy spectra observed in the inner heliosphere are modulated by the solar activity, the solar polarity and structures of solar and interplanetary origin. A high counting rate particle detector ...

  • Commissioning of the BRIKEN beta-delayed neutron detector for the study of exotic neutron-rich nuclei 

    Tolosa-Delgado, Alvaro; Agramunt Ros, Jorge; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Tarifeño Saldivia, Ariel Esteban (EDP Sciences, 2018)
    Comunicació de congrés
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    Beta-delayed neutron emission (Beta-n) is a form of radioactive decay in which an electron, an anti-neutrino and one or more neutrons are emitted. This process arises if the energy window of the decay Q_Beta is greater ...

  • Discovery of Cl-34g,Cl-m(p,gamma)Ar-35 resonances activated at classical nova temperatures 

    Fry, C.; Wrede, Christopher; Bishop, Shawn M.; Brown, B. A.; Chen, Alan A.; Faestermann, Thomas; Hertenberger, R.; Parikh, Anuj Ramesh; Perez Loureiro, D; Wirth, Hans Friedrich; Garcia, A.; Ortez, Ronaldo (2015-01-13)
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    Background: The thermonuclear Cl-34g,Cl-m(p,gamma)Ar-35 reaction rates are unknown due to a lack of experimental nuclear physics data. Uncertainties in these rates translate to uncertainties in S-34 production in models ...

  • Distorsiones de espacio-tiempo y los viajes interestelares 

    Martín Cabezón, Rubén (2009-10-20)
    Audiovisual
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    Desde que a principios del siglo XX la Relatividad General hiciera su aparición, nuestra comprensión de la gravedad, una de las fuerzas más primordiales (y poco comprendida), ha aumentado considerablemente. Esta teoría ...

  • Ernst K. Zinner (1937-2015) 

    Nittler, L.; José Pont, Jordi (2017)
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  • Experiments with neutron beams for the astrophysical s process 

    Lederer, Claudia; Altstadt, Sebastian; Andrzejewski, Józef; Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Gómez Hornillos, María Belén (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2013)
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    Neutron capture cross sections are the key nuclear physics input to study the slow neutron capture process, which is responsible for forming about half of the elemental abundances above Fe. Stellar neutron capture cross ...

  • First all-flavor neutrino pointlike source search with the ANTARES neutrino telescope 

    André, Michel; Anghinolfi, Marco; Anton, G.; Avgitas, T.; Bertin, V.; Bormuth, R.; Puricelli, Stefano; Coniglione, R.; Lefèvre, Dominique; Michael, Turner; Pellegrino, Carlo; Piattelli, P.; Sanchez Losa, Agustín; Trovato, A.; Zúñiga Román, Juan (2017-10-03)
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    A search for cosmic neutrino sources using the data collected with the ANTARES neutrino telescope between early 2007 and the end of 2015 is performed. For the first time, all neutrino interactions—charged- and neutral-current ...

  • First measurement of several beta-delayed neutron emitting isotopes beyond N=126 

    Calviño Tavares, Francisco; Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere; Algora, A.; Benlliure, J.; Bowry, M.; Cortes, G.; Dillmann, I.; Estradé, A.; Farinon, F.; Geissel, H.; Gelletly, W.; Heil, M.; Kurcewicz, J.; Marganiec, J.; Nociforo, C.; Pietri, S.; Prochazka, A.; Maurice, S.; Rubio, B.; Smith, K.M; Tain, J. L.; Weick, H.; Woody, R.W. (2016-06-29)
    Article
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    The beta-delayed neutron emission probabilities of neutron rich Hg and Tl nuclei have been measured together with beta-decay half-lives for 20 isotopes of Au, Hg, Tl, Pb, and Bi in the mass region N greater than or similar ...

  • First measurement of the 34S(p,gamma)35Cl reaction rate through indirect methods for presolar nova grains 

    Gillespie, S; Parikh, A.; Barton, C; Faestermann, Thomas; José Pont, Jordi; Hertenberger, R.; Wirth, Hans Friedrich; de Séréville, N; Riley, J; Williams, M (AMER PHYSICAL SOC, 2017-08-02)
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    Sulphur isotopic ratio measurements may help to establish the astrophysical sites in which certain presolar grains were formed. Nova model predictions of the 34S/32S ratio are, however, unreliable due to the lack of an ...

  • First study on the feasibility of stellar flares detection with GPS 

    Martínez Cid, David (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-09)
    Treball Final de Grau
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    The overionization generated by solar flares on the Earth ionosphere is a very active field of research. In this TFG it is intended to develop a first study the feasibility of the detection of stellar bursts by means of a ...