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Piero Spillantini
Researcher at University of Florence
Publications - 147
Citations - 8555
Piero Spillantini is an academic researcher from University of Florence. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cosmic ray & PAMELA detector. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 147 publications receiving 8250 citations. Previous affiliations of Piero Spillantini include Radboud University Nijmegen & Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
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An anomalous positron abundance in cosmic rays with energies 1.5-100 GeV
O. Adriani,G. C. Barbarino,G. A. Bazilevskaya,Roberto Bellotti,Mirko Boezio,E. A. Bogomolov,Lorenzo Bonechi,M. Bongi,V. Bonvicini,S. Bottai,A. Bruno,F. Cafagna,D. Campana,Per Carlson,Marco Casolino,G. Castellini,M. P. De Pascale,G. De Rosa,N. De Simone,V. Di Felice,A. M. Galper,L. A. Grishantseva,Petter Hofverberg,S. V. Koldashov,S. Y. Krutkov,A. N. Kvashnin,A. A. Leonov,V. Malvezzi,L. Marcelli,W. Menn,V. V. Mikhailov,E. Mocchiutti,Silvio Orsi,G. Osteria,P. Papini,Mark Pearce,P. Picozza,Marco Ricci,S. B. Ricciarini,M. Simon,Roberta Sparvoli,Piero Spillantini,Y. I. Stozhkov,Andrea Vacchi,E. Vannuccini,G. I. Vasilyev,S. A. Voronov,Y. T. Yurkin,G. Zampa,N. Zampa,V. G. Zverev +50 more
TL;DR: It is found that the positron fraction increases sharply over much of that range, in a way that appears to be completely inconsistent with secondary sources, and is concluded that a primary source, be it an astrophysical object or dark matter annihilation, is necessary.
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New measurement of the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio up to 100 GeV in the cosmic radiation.
O. Adriani,G. C. Barbarino,G. A. Bazilevskaya,Roberto Bellotti,Mirko Boezio,E. A. Bogomolov,Lorenzo Bonechi,M. Bongi,V. Bonvicini,S. Bottai,A. Bruno,F. Cafagna,D. Campana,P. Carlson,Marco Casolino,G. Castellini,M. P. De Pascale,G. De Rosa,D. Fedele,A. M. Galper,L. A. Grishantseva,Petter Hofverberg,A. A. Leonov,S. V. Koldashov,S. Y. Krutkov,A. N. Kvashnin,V. Malvezzi,L. Marcelli,W. Menn,V. V. Mikhailov,M. Minori,E. Mocchiutti,M. Nagni,S. Orsi,G. Osteria,P. Papini,Mark Pearce,P. Picozza,Marco Ricci,S. B. Ricciarini,M. Simon,Roberta Sparvoli,Piero Spillantini,Y. I. Stozhkov,E. Taddei,Andrea Vacchi,E. Vannuccini,G. I. Vasilyev,S. A. Voronov,Y. T. Yurkin,G. Zampa,N. Zampa,V. G. Zverev +52 more
TL;DR: A new measurement of the cosmic-ray antiproton-to-proton flux ratio between 1 and 100 GeV is presented, which is a tenfold improvement in statistics with respect to all previously published data.
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The construction of the L3 experiment
Bernardo Adeva,M. Aguilar-Benitez,H. Akbari,J. Alcaraz,Alberto Aloisio,J. Alvarez-Taviel,George Alverson,Mariagrazia Alviggi,H. Anderhub,A. L. Anderson,A. M. Angelov,T. Angelov,Georgy Antchev,L. Antonov,D. Antreasyan,A. Arefiev,Ivan Atanasov,B. Auroy,R. Ayad,O. L. Ayranov,T. Azemoon,Tariq Aziz,U. Bachmann,P. Bähler,J. A. Bakken,L. Baksay,H. Baldinger,R. C. Ball,J. Ballansat,S. Banerjee,J. Bao,G. Barbier,Luciano Barone,G. Basti,A. Bay,F. Beauvais,U. Becker,R. Beissel,S. Bendig,P. Bene,J. Berdugo,P. Berges,M. Berthet,Y. Bertsch,B. L. Betev,Adrian Biland,A. Bischoff,M. Bischops,R. Bizzarri,J. J. Blaising,M. Blanc,P. Blömeke,Barry Blumenfeld,G. J. Bobbink,M. Bocciolini,K. D. Boffin,W. Böhlen,A. Böhm,T. Böhringer,H. Bonnefon,C. Bopp,B. Borgia,K. Bosseler,J. F. Bottolier,M. Bourquin,D. Boutigny,P. Bowditch,J. G. Branson,D. Braun,Ian Brock,F. Bruyant,M. Buchholz,B. Bücken,W. Bulgeroni,R. Burel,J. D. Burger,C. Burgos,J. P. Burq,L. Caiazzo,M. Caillat,B. Camberlin,D. Campana,C. Camps,V. Canale,M. Capell,F. Carbonara,Federico Carminati,A. M. Cartacci,Marcos Cerrada,F. Cesaroni,Y. H. Chang,J. W. Chapman,M. Chemarin,A. Chen,Cheng Chen,H. F. Chen,H. S. Chen,Mingshui Chen,M. L. Chen,S. R. Chendvankar,G. Chevenier,S. Chidzik,G. Chiefari,C.Y. Chien,François Chollet,M. Chumakov,Carlo Civinini,I. Clare,Robert Clare,G. Coignet,Nicanor Colino,V. Commichau,G. Conforto,P. Cristofori,F. Crijns,X. Y. Cui,T.S. Dai,Raffaello D'Alessandro,M. K. Daniel,X. De Bouard,B. Debye,G. Decreuse,A. Degré,Konrad Deiters,E. Dénes,Peter Denes,F. DeNotaristefani,M. Deutschmann,M. Dhina,B. Didierjean,Marcella Diemoz,M. Dietrich,H. A. Dimitrov,C. Dionisi,Fridolin Dittus,M. Dohmen,R. Dolin,J. F. Donahue,A. Donat,E. Drago,K. H. Dreger,T. Driever,G. Dromby,P. Duinker,I. Duran,M. Elkacimi,H. Elmamouni,A. Engler,F. J. Eppling,F.C. Erné,I. Erne,H. Esser,P. Extermann,R. Fabbretti,G. Faber,Speranza Falciano,T. Falk,S. J. Fan,M. Favre,Jean Fay,S. Feher,J. Fehlmann,M. Feldmann,H. Fenker,Thomas Ferguson,M. Fernandez,F. Ferroni,H. S. Fesefeldt,J. H. Field,J. M. Figarola,C. F. Figueroa,G. A. Filipov,B. Foligné,G. Forconi,T. Foreman,V. Franzke,W. Frei,K. Freudenreich,W. Friebel,M. Fukushima,G. Gaillard,M. Gailloud,Yu. Galaktionov,Elisabetta Gallo,S. N. Ganguli,D. Garelick,S. S. Gau,G. Gavrilov,E. Gennari,Simonetta Gentile,M. Gettner,C. Girard,M. J. Glaubman,Steven Goldfarb,Z. F. Gong,E. Gonzalez,A. Gordeev,Yu. Gorodkov,P. Göttlicher,Corinne Goy,M. Goyot,Giorgio Gratta,A. Grimes,C. Grinnell,M. Gruenewald,M. Guanziroli,S. Guerra,C. Guillon,A. Gurtu,D. Güsewell,H. R. Gustafson,M. Haensli,M. Haan,Ch. Haller,Thomas Hamacher,H. Hammers,K. Hangarter,S. Hancke,M. Harris,D. Harting,F.G. Hartjes,C. F. He,A. Heavey,Thomas Hebbeker,M. Hebert,Ryan Heller,Ch Helmrath,J. Herrmann,G. Herten,U. Herten,Alain Hervé,H. Hesser,G. Hilgers,K. Hilgers,H. Hofer,M. Hofer,T. Hofer,F. Hoffmann,U. Horisberger,István T. Horváth,L.S. Hsu,G. Hu,Bernard Ille,M. M. Ilyas,G. Improta,V. Innocente,E. Isiksal,E. Jagel,B. N. Jin,L. W. Jones,M. Jongmanns,H. Jung,Philip Kaaret,O. Kaelin,W. Kaestli,Yu. Kamyshkov,D.H. Kaplan,Waclaw Karpinski,Y. Karyotakis,W. Kertzer,Valentin V. Khoze,G. Kirchhoff,W. Kittel,A. Klimentov,P. F. Klok,M. Kollek,M. Koller,A. C. König,Oliver Kornadt,V. Koutsenko,R. W. Kraemer,V.R. Krastev,A. Kratel,W. Krenz,A. Kuhn,A. Kunin,S. Kwan,J.C. Lacotte,M. LaMarra,G. Landi,Wolfgang Lange,K. Lanius,D. Lanske,S. Lanzano,J. M. Le Goff,J. C. Le Marec,D. Lea,M. Lebeau,P. Lebrun,Pierre Lecomte,J. Lecoq,P. Le Coultre,I. Leedom,A. Leger,F. Lehmann,L. Leistam,R. Leiste,E. Lejeune,B. Leoni,J. Lettry,X. Leytens,C. Li,H. T. Li,L. Li,P. J. Li,Xinxin Li,J. Y. Liao,Z. Y. Lin,F. L. Linde,D. Linnhofer,E. Loftin,Wolfgang Lohmann,S. Lökös,Egidio Longo,Y. S. Lu,J.M. Lubbers,K. Lübelsmeyer,Claudio Luci,D. Luckey,X. Lue,Lamberto Luminari,G. Lunadei,F. Lürken,H. Ma,W. G. Ma,M. MacDermott,N. Madjar,R. Magahiz,M. Maire,P. K. Malhotra,A. Malinin,C. Maña,F. Manna,G. Manto,Y.F. Mao,M. Maolinbay,P. Marchesini,A. Marchionni,M. Markwalder,P. Marsden,J.P. Martin,L. Martinez,H. U. Martyn,F. Marzano,V. Marzullo,F. Masciocchi,G.G.G. Massaro,L. Massonnet,T. Matsuda,G. Maurelli,Kajari Mazumdar,P. McBride,G. Medici,H. Meier,Th. Meinholz,Marcel Merk,R. Mermod,Leonardo Merola,Marco Meschini,W. J. Metzger,M. Micke,U. Micke,G.B. Mills,J. Mnich,M. Moeller,A. Molinero,L. Montanet,B. Monteleoni,R. Montino,G. Morand,R. Morand,S. Morganti,V. Morgunov,R. Mount,M. Moynot,P. Mugnier,W. Nägeli,Elemer Nagy,M. Napolitano,S. Neboux,Harvey B Newman,C. Neyer,K. Nguyen,L. Niessen,A. Nikitin,W.-D. Nowak,M. Okle,P. Olmos,J. Onvlee,D. Osborne,J. Ossmann,D. Pandoulas,H. Paprotny,A. Parmentola,G. Passeggio,G. Paternoster,S. Patricelli,Y.J. Pei,Y. Peng,D. Perret-Gallix,J. Perrier,E. Perrin,G. Perrot,P. Petitpas,P. Petschner,A. Pevsner,J. Pier-Amory,Marco Pieri,G. Pierschel,P. A. Piroué,V. Plyaskin,M. Pohl,V. Pojidaev,C. Pols,T. Ponomareff,J. Potyka,N. Produit,P. Prokofiev,F. Pruja,G. Pütz,J.M. Qian,R. Raghavan,Panos A Razis,Kenneth Francis Read,P. Reddick,K. Reissmann,D. Ren,S. Reucroft,D. Rey,M. Reynaud,X. Ricadonna,J.P. Richeux,C. Rippich,U. Rinsche,R. Rocco,Sandra Consuegra Rodríguez,B. P. Roe,M. Röhner,S. Röhner,Th. Rombach,L. Romero,Jérôme Rose,Ulf Roser,S. Rosier-Lees,J. A. Rubio,W. Ruckstuhl,Hans Rykaczewski,P. Sahuc,J. Salicio,S. Saran,G. Sauvage,A. Savin,T.P. Schaad,B. Schafheitle,Valery Schegelsky,A. Schetkovsky,F. Schild,R. Schillsott,P. Schmitt,D.W. Schmitz,P. Schmitz,M. Schneegans,M. Schneider,E. Schneevogt,M. Schöntag,D. J. Schotanus,H. Schuijlenburg,Reinhard W. Schulte,A. Schultz von Dratzig,K. Schultze,J. Schwenke,G. Schwering,Crisostomo Sciacca,P.G. Seiler,J.C. Sens,I. Sheer,V.G. Shevchenko,S. Shevchenko,X.R. Shi,K.D. Shmakov,V. Shoutko,E. Shumilov,R. Siedling,Nikita Smirnov,V. Souvorov,C. Souyri,I. Spangler,T. Spickermann,B. Spiess,Piero Spillantini,R. Starosta,M. Steuer,D. P. Stickland,B. Stöhr,Howard A. Stone,K. Strauch,K. Sudhakar,R. L. Sumner,H. Suter,R.B. Sutton,H. Szczesny,J. Tang,X. W. Tang,E. Tarkovsky,A. Tavenrath,V. Tchudakov,J.M. Thenard,E. Thomas,T. Thon,H. Thuerig,M. Thulen,Charles Timmermans,Samuel C.C. Ting,S. M. Ting,F. Tonisch,Y.P. Tong,M. Tonutti,S. C. Tonwar,Jozsef Toth,W. Toth,G. Trowitzsch,K. L. Tung,J. Ulbricht,L. Urbán,E. Valente,R. T. Van de Walle,H. van der Graaf,V. Vanzanella,M. Vergain,I. Vetlitsky,H. Vey,G. Viertel,M. Vivargent,Hans J. Vogel,S. Volkov,M. Vollmar,H. von Gunten,I. Vorobiev,An.A. Vorobyov,Laurent Vuilleumier,S. Waldmeier,W. Walk,W. Wallraff,C. Y. Wang,G. H. Wang,J.H. Wang,Qian Wang,Xl Wang,Y. F. Wang,Zhe Wang,D. Wassenberg,D. Wegmann,R. Weill,T.J. Wenaus,P. Wenger,J. Wenninger,M. White,R. Wilhelm,Carlos Willmott,H. P. Wirth,F. Wittgenstein,R.J. Wu,S. X. Wu,Ying Wu,Bolek Wyslouch,F. Y. Xi,Zhenghao Xu,Z. L. Xue,D. S. Yan,K. D. Yanev,Bz Yang,C. G. Yang,K.S. Yang,Q.Y. Yang,Z.Q. Yang,C. H. Ye,S. C. Yeh,Z. W. Yin,C. Zabounidis,L. Zehnder,Y. Zeng,D.H. Zhang,S.Y. Zhang,Zp Zhang,B. Zhou,J. F. Zhou,Z. P. Zhou,R. Y. Zhu,Antonino Zichichi,M. Zofka,J. Zoll +590 more
TL;DR: The L3 experiment as discussed by the authors is one of the six large detectors designed for the new generation of electron-positron accelerators, which is the only detector that concentrates its efforts on limited goals of measuring electrons, muons and photons.
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PAMELA - A Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics
P. Picozza,A. M. Galper,G. Castellini,O. Adriani,F. Altamura,M. Ambriola,G. C. Barbarino,A. Basili,G. A. Bazilevskaja,R. Bencardino,Mirko Boezio,E. A. Bogomolov,Lorenzo Bonechi,M. Bongi,L. Bongiorno,V. Bonvicini,F. Cafagna,D. Campana,P. Carlson,Marco Casolino,C. De Marzo,M. P. De Pascale,G. De Rosa,D. Fedele,Petter Hofverberg,S. V. Koldashov,S. Yu. Krutkov,A. N. Kvashnin,J. Lund,J. Lundquist,O. Maksumov,V. Malvezzi,L. Marcelli,W. Menn,V. V. Mikhailov,M. Minori,S. Misin,E. Mocchiutti,A. Morselli,N. N. Nikonov,S. Orsi,Giuseppe Osteria,P. Papini,Mark Pearce,Marco Ricci,S. B. Ricciarini,M. F. Runtso,S. Russo,M. Simon,Roberta Sparvoli,Piero Spillantini,Yu. I. Stozhkov,E. Taddei,Andrea Vacchi,E. Vannuccini,S. A. Voronov,Y. T. Yurkin,Gianluigi Zampa,N. Zampa,V. G. Zverev +59 more
TL;DR: The PAMELA experiment is a satellite-borne apparatus designed to study charged particles in the cosmic radiation with a particular focus on antiparticles as discussed by the authors, which is mounted on the Resurs DK1 satellite that was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on June 15th 2006.
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Cosmic-Ray Electron Flux Measured by the PAMELA Experiment between 1 and 625 GeV
O. Adriani,G. C. Barbarino,G. A. Bazilevskaya,Roberto Bellotti,Mirko Boezio,E. A. Bogomolov,M. Bongi,V. Bonvicini,S. V. Borisov,S. Bottai,A. Bruno,F. Cafagna,D. Campana,R. Carbone,P. Carlson,Marco Casolino,G. Castellini,L. Consiglio,M. P. De Pascale,C. De Santis,N. De Simone,V. Di Felice,A. M. Galper,William Gillard,L. A. Grishantseva,Giovanna Jerse,A. V. Karelin,S. V. Koldashov,S. Y. Krutkov,A. N. Kvashnin,A. A. Leonov,V. V. Malakhov,V. Malvezzi,L. Marcelli,A. G. Mayorov,W. Menn,V. V. Mikhailov,E. Mocchiutti,André Monaco,Nicola Mori,N. N. Nikonov,G. Osteria,F. Palma,P. Papini,Mark Pearce,P. Picozza,C. Pizzolotto,Marco Ricci,S. B. Ricciarini,Laura Rossetto,Ritabrata Sarkar,M. Simon,Roberta Sparvoli,Piero Spillantini,Steven Stochaj,J. C. Stockton,Y. I. Stozhkov,Andrea Vacchi,E. Vannuccini,G. I. Vasilyev,S. A. Voronov,Juan Wu,Y. T. Yurkin,G. Zampa,N. Zampa,V. G. Zverev +65 more
TL;DR: New results regarding negatively charged electrons between 1 and 625 GeV performed by the satellite-borne experiment PAMELA are presented, this is the first time that cosmic-ray e⁻ have been identified above 50 GeV.