In-medium nuclear interactions of low-energy hadrons

E Friedman, A Gal - Physics Reports, 2007 - Elsevier
Exotic atoms provide a unique laboratory for studying strong interactions and nuclear
medium effects at zero kinetic energy. Experimental and theoretical developments of the last …

Physics at CERN's antiproton decelerator

M Hori, J Walz - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility of CERN began operation in 1999 to serve
experiments for studies of CPT invariance by precision laser and microwave spectroscopy of …

Precision spectroscopy of light exotic atoms

D Gotta - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2004 - Elsevier
The new era in X-ray spectroscopy of exotic atoms is based on high-resolution reflection-
type crystal spectrometers, state-of-the-art X-ray detectors, and sophisticated set-ups to stop …

Periodic interference structures in the timelike proton form factor

A Bianconi, E Tomasi-Gustafsson - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
An intriguing and elusive feature of the timelike hadron form factor is the possible presence
of an imaginary part associated to rescattering processes. We find evidence of that in the …

[HTML][HTML] Limits on antiproton-nuclei annihilation cross sections at∼ 125 keV

H Aghai-Khozani, D Barna, M Corradini… - Nuclear Physics A, 2021 - Elsevier
Some experimental limits on the annihilation cross sections σ ann of antiprotons on carbon,
palladium, and platinum targets were determined at the previously unexplored kinetic …

Phenomenological analysis of near-threshold periodic modulations of the proton timelike form factor

A Bianconi, E Tomasi-Gustafsson - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We have recently highlighted the presence of a periodically oscillating 10% modulation in
the BABAR Collaboration data on the proton timelike form factors, expressing the deviations …

Large nuclear scattering effects in antiproton transmission through polymer and metal-coated foils

K Nordlund, M Hori, D Sundholm - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We simulate the deceleration and transmission of antiprotons with keV-scale kinetic
energies through polymer foils using a molecular dynamics approach, which includes a …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of the antiproton–nucleus annihilation cross-section at low energy

H Aghai-Khozani, A Bianconi, M Corradini, R Hayano… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
Systematic measurements of the annihilation cross sections of low energy antinucleons
were performed at CERN in the 80's and 90's. However the antiproton data on medium …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of the antiproton–nucleus annihilation cross section at 5.3 MeV

A Bianconi, M Corradini, M Hori, M Leali, EL Rizzini… - Physics Letters B, 2011 - Elsevier
Antiproton annihilation cross sections on medium-heavy and heavy nuclear targets are
measured for the first time at 5.3 MeV kinetic energy at the Antiprotons Decelerator facility of …

Theoretical analysis of antineutron-nucleus data needed for antineutron mirrors in neutron-antineutron oscillation experiments

KV Protasov, V Gudkov, EA Kupriyanova… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The values of the antineutron-nucleus scattering lengths, and, in particular, their imaginary
parts, are needed to evaluate the feasibility of using neutron mirrors in laboratory …