Condensed Matter (Apr 2019)

X-ray Detectors for Kaonic Atoms Research at DAΦNE

  • Catalina Curceanu,
  • Aidin Amirkhani,
  • Ata Baniahmad,
  • Massimiliano Bazzi,
  • Giovanni Bellotti,
  • Carolina Berucci,
  • Damir Bosnar,
  • Mario Bragadireanu,
  • Michael Cargnelli,
  • Alberto Clozza,
  • Raffaele Del Grande,
  • Carlo Fiorini,
  • Francesco Ghio,
  • Carlo Guaraldo,
  • Mihail Iliescu,
  • Masaiko Iwasaki,
  • Paolo Levi Sandri,
  • Johann Marton,
  • Marco Miliucci,
  • Pavel Moskal,
  • Szymon Niedźwiecki,
  • Shinji Okada,
  • Dorel Pietreanu,
  • Kristian Piscicchia,
  • Alessandro Scordo,
  • Hexi Shi,
  • Michal Silarski,
  • Diana Sirghi,
  • Florin Sirghi,
  • Magdalena Skurzok,
  • Antonio Spallone,
  • Hideyuki Tatsuno,
  • Oton Vazquez Doce,
  • Eberhard Widmann,
  • Johann Zmeskal

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat4020042
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
p. 42

Abstract

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This article presents the kaonic atom studies performed at the INFN National Laboratory of Frascati (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell’INFN, LNF-INFN) since the opening of this field of research at the DA Φ NE collider in early 2000. Significant achievements have been obtained by the DA Φ NE Exotic Atom Research (DEAR) and Silicon Drift Detector for Hadronic Atom Research by Timing Applications (SIDDHARTA) experiments on kaonic hydrogen, which have required the development of novel X-ray detectors. The 2019 installation of the new SIDDHARTA-2 experiment to measure kaonic deuterium for the first time has been made possible by further technological advances in X-ray detection.

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