GATTI , F.

In the last decade the energy dispersive spectroscopy of nuclear radiation has made impressive progresses by means of small thermal microcalorimeters operating at about 0.1 K. The present status of this technology, which has achieved 2 eV energy resolution, allows to design a true calorimetric experiment for neutrino mass direct determination...

While the Standard Model of particle physics has been extremely successful in explaining the precision data obtained in particle physics experiments, evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model has been obtained in recent years. In particular, the observed neutrino flavor oscillations imply that neutrinos have mass, and that they mix. New...

Particle and radiation detectors have a large number of applications in many different fields like high energy physics, astro-particle physics, nuclear physics, medicine, biology, and even in art and other fields. The article describes the basic interaction processes for typical detectors and their applications used in many different fields....

Here the high timing resolution positron detector designed to be used in the MEG experiment is described. Several technical challenges have been faced to obtain the unprecedented goal resolution of 100 ps FWHM for positrons to be detected in the MEG experiment. Also an overview on past experiments is proposed. The key role of the MEG experiment...