Luigi Cosentino

TL;DR: HADES as discussed by the authors is a versatile magnetic spectrometer aimed at studying dielectron production in pion, proton and heavy-ion-induced collisions, which includes a ring imaging gas Cherenkov detector for electron-hadron discrimination, a tracking system consisting of a set of 6 superconducting coils producing a toroidal field and drift chambers, and a multiplicity and electron trigger array for additional electron hadron discrimination.

TL;DR: The invariant mass spectrum of e{sup +}e{sup -} pairs produced in {sup 12C+{sup 12}C collisions at an incident energy of 2 GeV per nucleon has been measured for the first time as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of the first electrical and optical characterization performed on 1 mm2 total area Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) fabricated in standard silicon planar technology at the STMicroelectronics Catania R&D clean room facility.

TL;DR: The design of the beam line and the experimental hall was based on FLUKA Monte Carlo simulations, aiming at maximizing the neutron flux, reducing the beam halo and minimizing the background from neutrons interacting with the collimator or backscattered in the beam dump as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors illustrate a complete method for the evaluation of gain, dark noise, afterpulsing, cross-talk and detection efficiency of SiPM detectors, and show the application of the method by comparing the performance of their newly developed SiPM (produced by ST Microelectronics) with another sensor present on the market (manufactured by Hamamatsu), and proving that their device is indeed already outstanding.