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Augier C, Baulieu G, Belov V, Bergé L, Billard J, Bres G, Bret J.L, Broniatowski A, Calvo M, Cazes A, Chaize D, Chala M, Chapellier M, Chaplinsky L, Chemin G, Chen R, Colas J, Cudmore E, De Jesus M, de Marcillac P, Dumoulin L, Exshaw O, Ferriol S, Figueroa-Feliciano E, Filippini JB, Formaggio JA, Fuard S, Gascon J, Giuliani A, Goupy J, Goy C, Guerin C, Guy E, Harrington P, Hertel SA, Heusch M, Hong Z, Ianigro JC, Jin Y, Juillard A, Karaivanov D, Kazarcev S, Lamblin J, Lattaud H, Li M, Lubashevskiy A, Marnieros S, Martini N, Mayer DW, Minet J, Monfardini A, Mounier F, Novati V, Olivieri E, Oriol C, Mateo LO, Patel PK, Perbet E, Pinckney HD, Poda DV, Ponomarev D, Rarbi F, Real JS, Redon T, Reyes FC, Robert A, Rozov S, Rozova I, Scorza S, Schmidt B, Shevchik Y, Soldner T, Stachurska J, Stutz A, Vagneron L, Van De Pontseele W, Vezzu F, Winslow L, Yakushev E, Zinatulina D. First demonstration of 30 eVee ionization energy resolution with Ricochet germanium cryogenic bolometers. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2024; 84:186. [PMID: 38410744 PMCID: PMC10894082 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12433-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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The future Ricochet experiment aims to search for new physics in the electroweak sector by measuring the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering process from reactor antineutrinos with high precision down to the sub-100 eV nuclear recoil energy range. While the Ricochet collaboration is currently building the experimental setup at the reactor site, it is also finalizing the cryogenic detector arrays that will be integrated into the cryostat at the Institut Laue Langevin in early 2024. In this paper, we report on recent progress from the Ge cryogenic detector technology, called the CryoCube. More specifically, we present the first demonstration of a 30 eVee (electron equivalent) baseline ionization resolution (RMS) achieved with an early design of the detector assembly and its dedicated High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) based front-end electronics with a total input capacitance of about 40 pF. This represents an order of magnitude improvement over the best ionization resolutions obtained on similar phonon-and-ionization germanium cryogenic detectors from the EDELWEISS and SuperCDMS dark matter experiments, and a factor of three improvement compared to the first fully-cryogenic HEMT-based preamplifier coupled to a CDMS-II germanium detector with a total input capacitance of 250 pF. Additionally, we discuss the implications of these results in the context of the future Ricochet experiment and its expected background mitigation performance.
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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Camilleri J, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Davis CJ, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fu SH, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Ligi C, Ma L, Ma YG, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mayer D, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Ouellet JL, Pagan S, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vetter KJ, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. Erratum: Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of ^{130}Te with CUORE [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171801 (2021)]. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:249902. [PMID: 38181163 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.249902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2024]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.171801.
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Caracciolo V, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Celi E, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Colantoni I, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fantini G, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Kotila J, Martinez M, Nagorny SS, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Ressa A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of ^{82}Se with the Global CUPID-0 Background Model. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:222501. [PMID: 38101385 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.222501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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We report on the results obtained with the global CUPID-0 background model, which combines the data collected in the two measurement campaigns for a total exposure of 8.82 kg×yr of ^{82}Se. We identify with improved precision the background sources within the 3 MeV energy region, where neutrinoless double β decay of ^{82}Se and ^{100}Mo is expected, making more solid the foundations for the background budget of the next-generation CUPID experiment. Relying on the excellent data reconstruction, we measure the two-neutrino double β-decay half-life of ^{82}Se with unprecedented accuracy: T_{1/2}^{2ν}=[8.69±0.05(stat)_{-0.06}^{+0.09}(syst)]×10^{19} yr.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, c/o Dipartimento Fisica, Sapienza Universifreference fittà di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CNRS/CSNSM, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- University of Jyväskylä, Department of Physics, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), Jyväskylä FI-40014, Finland
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, P.O. Box 35 FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä 40014, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Giuliani A, Phillips D, Pearson DG, Sarkar S, Müller AA, Weiss Y, Preston R, Seller M, Spetsius Z. Diamond preservation in the lithospheric mantle recorded by olivine in kimberlites. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6999. [PMID: 37919292 PMCID: PMC10622582 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42888-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/24/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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The diamond potential of kimberlites is difficult to assess due to several mantle and magmatic processes affecting diamond content. Traditionally, initial evaluations are based on the compositions of mantle-derived minerals (garnet, chromite, clinopyroxene), which allow an assessment of pressure-temperature conditions and lithologies suitable for diamond formation. Here we explore a complementary approach that considers the conditions of diamonds destruction by interaction with melts/fluids (metasomatism). We test the hypothesis that carbonate-rich metasomatism related to kimberlite melt infiltration into the deep lithosphere is detrimental to diamond preservation. Our results show that high diamond grades in kimberlites worldwide are exclusively associated with high-Mg/Fe olivine, which corresponds to mantle lithosphere minimally affected by kimberlite-related metasomatism. Diamond dissolution in strongly metasomatised lithosphere containing low-Mg/Fe olivine provides a causal link to the empirical associations between low diamond grades, abundant Ti-Zr-rich garnets and kimberlites with high Ti and low Mg contents. This finding show-cases olivine geochemistry as a viable tool in diamond exploration.
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- Andrea Giuliani
- Institute for Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada
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- Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute of Diamond and Precious Metal Geology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Yakutsk, Russia
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Giuliani A, Licursi V, Nisi PS, Fiore M, D'Angelo S, Biagioni S, Negri R, Rugg-Gunn PJ, Cacci E, Lupo G. Dbx2, an Aging-Related Homeobox Gene, Inhibits the Proliferation of Adult Neural Progenitors. Stem Cell Rev Rep 2023; 19:2837-2851. [PMID: 37605090 PMCID: PMC10661760 DOI: 10.1007/s12015-023-10600-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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In the adult mouse brain, the subventricular zone (SVZ) underlying the lateral ventricles harbours a population of quiescent neural stem cells, which can be activated (aNSCs) to initiate proliferation and generate a neurogenic lineage consisting of transit amplifying progenitors (TAPs), neuroblasts (NBs) and newborn neurons. This process is markedly reduced during aging. Recent studies suggest that the aged SVZ niche decreases the pool of proliferating neural/stem progenitor cells (NSPCs), and hence adult neurogenesis, by causing transcriptomic changes that promote NSC quiescence. The transcription factors that mediate these changes, however, remain unclear. We previously found that the homeobox gene Dbx2 is upregulated in NSPCs of the aged mouse SVZ and can inhibit the growth of NSPC cultures. Here, we further investigate its role as a candidate transcriptional regulator of neurogenic decline. We show that Dbx2 expression is downregulated by Epidermal Growth Factor receptor signaling, which promotes NSPC proliferation and decreases in the aged SVZ. By means of transgenic NSPC lines overexpressing Dbx2, we also show that this gene inhibits NSPC proliferation by hindering the G2/M transition. Furthermore, we exploit RNA sequencing of transgenic NSPCs to elucidate the transcriptomic networks modulated by Dbx2. Among the top hits, we report the downregulation of the molecular pathways implicated in cell cycle progression. Accordingly, we find that Dbx2 function is negatively correlated with the transcriptional signatures of proliferative NSPCs (aNSCs, TAPs and early NBs). These results point to Dbx2 as a transcription factor relaying the anti-neurogenic input of the aged niche to the NSPC transcriptome.
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- Andrea Giuliani
- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
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- Epigenetics Programme, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, UK
- Wellcome Trust - Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QR, UK
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Augier C, Barabash AS, Bellini F, Benato G, Beretta M, Bergé L, Billard J, Borovlev YA, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Celi E, Chapellier M, Chiesa D, Dafinei I, Danevich FA, De Jesus M, Dixon T, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Ferri F, Fujikawa BK, Gascon J, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Helis DL, Huang HZ, Huang R, Imbert L, Johnston J, Juillard A, Khalife H, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Kolomensky YG, Konovalov SI, Kotila J, Loaiza P, Ma L, Makarov EP, de Marcillac P, Mariam R, Marini L, Marnieros S, Navick XF, Nones C, Norman EB, Olivieri E, Ouellet JL, Pagnanini L, Pattavina L, Paul B, Pavan M, Peng H, Pessina G, Pirro S, Poda DV, Polischuk OG, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Redon T, Rojas A, Rozov S, Sanglard V, Scarpaci JA, Schmidt B, Shen Y, Shlegel VN, Šimkovic F, Singh V, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Velázquez M, Ware B, Welliver B, Winslow L, Xue M, Yakushev E, Zarytskyy M, Zolotarova AS. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Rate and Spectral Shape of ^{100}Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:162501. [PMID: 37925694 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.162501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a yet unobserved nuclear process that would demonstrate Lepton number violation, a clear evidence of beyond standard model physics. The process two neutrino double beta decay (2νββ) is allowed by the standard model and has been measured in numerous experiments. In this Letter, we report a measurement of 2νββ decay half-life of ^{100}Mo to the ground state of ^{100}Ru of [7.07±0.02(stat)±0.11(syst)]×10^{18} yr by the CUPID-Mo experiment. With a relative precision of ±1.6% this is the most precise measurement to date of a 2νββ decay rate in ^{100}Mo. In addition, we constrain higher-order corrections to the spectral shape, which provides complementary nuclear structure information. We report a novel measurement of the shape factor ξ_{3,1}=0.45±0.03(stat)±0.05(syst) based on a constraint on the ratio of higher-order terms from theory, which can be reliably calculated. This is compared to theoretical predictions for different nuclear models. We also extract the first value for the effective axial vector coupling constant obtained from a spectral shape study of 2νββ decay.
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- C Augier
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute," Kurchatov Complex of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyvaäskylä, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Garching D-85748, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- LSM, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, 73500 Modane, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia
- Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, 128 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, SIMAP, 38420 Saint Martin d'Hères, France
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- John de Laeter Centre for Isotope Research, GPO Box U 1987, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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Pimenta Silva M, Marxer F, Keller T, Giuliani A, Ulmer P, Müntener O. Alkaline magmas in shallow arc plutonic roots: a field and experimental investigation of hydrous cumulate melting in the southern Adamello batholith. Contrib Mineral Petrol 2023; 178:64. [PMID: 38617191 PMCID: PMC11008074 DOI: 10.1007/s00410-023-02047-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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Despite the first-order importance of crystallisation-differentiation for arc magma evolution, several other processes contribute to their compositional diversity. Among them is the remelting of partly crystallised magmas, also known as cumulate melting or 'petrological cannibalism'. The impact of this process on the plutonic record is poorly constrained. We investigate a nepheline-normative dyke suite close to the Blumone gabbros, a large amphibole-gabbro unit of the Tertiary Southern Alpine Adamello igneous complex. The compositions of the studied dykes are characterised by low SiO2 (43-46 wt. %), MgO (5.0-7.2 wt. %), Ni (18-40 μg/g), and high Al2O3 (20.2-22.0 wt. %) contents. Phenocrystic plagioclase in these dykes exhibits major, trace, and Sr isotope compositions similar to Blumone cumulate plagioclase, suggesting a genetic link between the nepheline-normative dykes and the amphibole-gabbro cumulates. We tested this hypothesis by performing saturation experiments on a nepheline-normative dyke composition in an externally heated pressure vessel at 200 MPa between 975 and 1100 °C at fO2 conditions close to the Ni-NiO buffer. Plagioclase and spinel are near-liquidus phases at and above 1050 °C, contrasting with the typical near-liquidus olivine ± spinel assemblage in hydrous calc-alkaline basalts. The alkaline nature of the dykes results from the abundance of amphibole in the protolith, consistent with melting of amphibole-gabbro cumulates. We modelled the heat budget from the repeated injection of basaltic andesite into a partly crystallised amphibole-gabbro cumulate. The results of this model show that no more than 7% of the cumulate pile reaches temperatures high enough to produce nepheline-normative melts. We propose that such nepheline-normative dykes are a hallmark of hydrous cumulate melting in subvolcanic plumbing systems. Therefore, ne-normative dykes in arc batholiths may indicate periods with high magma fluxes. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00410-023-02047-3.
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- Manuel Pimenta Silva
- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Clausiustrasse 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Clausiustrasse 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Institute of Mineralogy, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstraße 3, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Clausiustrasse 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Clausiustrasse 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Clausiustrasse 25, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Earth Sciences, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Centrón-Broco A, Rossi F, Grelloni C, Garraffo R, Dattilo D, Giuliani A, Di Timoteo G, Colantoni A, Bozzoni I, Beltran Nebot M. CircAFF1 Is a Circular RNA with a Role in Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma Cell Migration. Biomedicines 2023; 11:1893. [PMID: 37509532 PMCID: PMC10376778 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11071893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Circular RNAs (circRNAs), covalently closed RNAs that originate from back-splicing events, participate in the control of several processes, including those that occur in the development of pathological conditions such as cancer. Hereby, we describe circAFF1, a circular RNA overexpressed in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Using RH4 and RH30 cell lines, a classical cell line models for alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, we demonstrated that circAFF1 is a cytoplasmatic circRNA and its depletion impacts cell homeostasis favouring cell migration through the downregulation of genes involved in cell adhesion pathways. The presented data underline the importance of this circular RNA as a new partial suppressor of the alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma tumour progression and as a putative future therapeutic target.
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- Alvaro Centrón-Broco
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), 00161 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Bandac IC, Barabash AS, Bergé L, Borovlev YA, Calvo-Mozota JM, Carniti P, Chapellier M, Dafinei I, Danevich FA, Dumoulin L, Ferri F, Giuliani A, Gotti C, Gras P, Grigorieva VD, Ianni A, Khalife H, Kobychev VV, Konovalov SI, Loaiza P, Madhukuttan M, Makarov EP, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Marrache-Kikuchi CA, Martinez M, Nones C, Olivieri E, Ortiz de Solórzano A, Pessina G, Poda DV, Redon T, Scarpaci JA, Shlegel VN, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Zarytskyy MM, Zolotarova A. Li 2100deplMoO 4 Scintillating Bolometers for Rare-Event Search Experiments. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:5465. [PMID: 37420632 DOI: 10.3390/s23125465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/09/2023]
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We report on the development of scintillating bolometers based on lithium molybdate crystals that contain molybdenum that has depleted into the double-β active isotope 100Mo (Li2100deplMoO4). We used two Li2100deplMoO4 cubic samples, each of which consisted of 45-millimeter sides and had a mass of 0.28 kg; these samples were produced following the purification and crystallization protocols developed for double-β search experiments with 100Mo-enriched Li2MoO4 crystals. Bolometric Ge detectors were utilized to register the scintillation photons that were emitted by the Li2100deplMoO4 crystal scintillators. The measurements were performed in the CROSS cryogenic set-up at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain). We observed that the Li2100deplMoO4 scintillating bolometers were characterized by an excellent spectrometric performance (∼3-6 keV of FWHM at 0.24-2.6 MeV γs), moderate scintillation signal (∼0.3-0.6 keV/MeV scintillation-to-heat energy ratio, depending on the light collection conditions), and high radiopurity (228Th and 226Ra activities are below a few µBq/kg), which is comparable with the best reported results of low-temperature detectors that are based on Li2MoO4 using natural or 100Mo-enriched molybdenum content. The prospects of Li2100deplMoO4 bolometers for use in rare-event search experiments are briefly discussed.
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- Iulian C Bandac
- Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, 22880 Canfranc-Estación, Spain
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Complex of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, 22880 Canfranc-Estación, Spain
- Escuela Superior de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Complex of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- ARAID Fundación Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigación y el Desarrollo, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi, Italy
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Complex of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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Abele H, Angloher G, Bento A, Canonica L, Cappella F, Cardani L, Casali N, Cerulli R, Chalil A, Chebboubi A, Colantoni I, Crocombette JP, Cruciani A, Del Castello G, Del Gallo Roccagiovine M, Desforge D, Doblhammer A, Dumonteil E, Dorer S, Erhart A, Fuss A, Friedl M, Garai A, Ghete VM, Giuliani A, Goupy C, Gunsing F, Hauff D, Jeanneau F, Jericha E, Kaznacheeva M, Kinast A, Kluck H, Langenkämper A, Lasserre T, Letourneau A, Lhuillier D, Litaize O, Mancuso M, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Materna T, Mauri B, Mazzolari A, Mazzucato E, Neyrial H, Nones C, Oberauer L, Ortmann T, Ouzriat A, Pattavina L, Peters L, Petricca F, Poda DV, Potzel W, Pröbst F, Reindl F, Rogly R, Romagnoni M, Rothe J, Schermer N, Schieck J, Schönert S, Schwertner C, Scola L, Serot O, Soum-Sidikov G, Stodolsky L, Strauss R, Tamisari M, Thulliez L, Tomei C, Vignati M, Vivier M, Wagner V, Wex A. Observation of a Nuclear Recoil Peak at the 100 eV Scale Induced by Neutron Capture. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:211802. [PMID: 37295094 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.211802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 02/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and low-mass dark matter detectors rely crucially on the understanding of their response to nuclear recoils. We report the first observation of a nuclear recoil peak at around 112 eV induced by neutron capture. The measurement was performed with a CaWO_{4} cryogenic detector from the NUCLEUS experiment exposed to a ^{252}Cf source placed in a compact moderator. We identify the expected peak structure from the single-γ de-excitation of ^{183}W with 3σ and its origin by neutron capture with 6σ significance. This result demonstrates a new method for precise, in situ, and nonintrusive calibration of low-threshold experiments.
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- H Abele
- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
- LIBPhys-UC, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, P3004 516 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma I-00133, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma I-00133, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- CEA, DES, SRMP, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, Italy
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, A-1020 Wien, Austria
- Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache F-13108 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Ferrara, I-44122 Ferrara, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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Dattilo D, Di Timoteo G, Setti A, Giuliani A, Peruzzi G, Beltran Nebot M, Centrón-Broco A, Mariani D, Mozzetta C, Bozzoni I. The m 6A reader YTHDC1 and the RNA helicase DDX5 control the production of rhabdomyosarcoma-enriched circRNAs. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1898. [PMID: 37019933 PMCID: PMC10076346 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37578-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023] Open
Abstract
N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) is well-known for controlling different processes of linear RNA metabolism. Conversely, its role in the biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs) is still poorly understood. Here, we characterize circRNA expression in the pathological context of rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), observing a global increase when compared to wild-type myoblasts. For a set of circRNAs, such an increase is due to the raised expression of the m6A machinery, which we also find to control the proliferation activity of RMS cells. Furthermore, we identify the RNA helicase DDX5 as a mediator of the back-splicing reaction and as a co-factor of the m6A regulatory network. DDX5 and the m6A reader YTHDC1 are shown to interact and to promote the production of a common subset of circRNAs in RMS. In line with the observation that YTHDC1/DDX5 depletion reduces RMS proliferation, our results provide proteins and RNA candidates for the study of rhabdomyosarcoma tumorigenicity.
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- Dario Dattilo
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science@Sapienza, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Rome, 00161, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Center for Human Technologies@Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, 16152, Italy
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology (IBPM), National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy.
- Center for Life Nano- & Neuro-Science@Sapienza, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Rome, 00161, Italy.
- Center for Human Technologies@Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, 16152, Italy.
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Cardelli M, Pierpaoli E, Marchegiani F, Marcheselli F, Piacenza F, Giacconi R, Recchioni R, Casoli T, Stripoli P, Provinciali M, Matacchione G, Giuliani A, Ramini D, Sabbatinelli J, Bonafè M, Di Rosa M, Cherubini A, Di Pentima C, Spannella F, Antonicelli R, Bonfigli AR, Olivieri F, Lattanzio F. Biomarkers of cell damage, neutrophil and macrophage activation associated with in-hospital mortality in geriatric COVID-19 patients. Immun Ageing 2022; 19:65. [PMID: 36522763 PMCID: PMC9751505 DOI: 10.1186/s12979-022-00315-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The risk for symptomatic COVID-19 requiring hospitalization is higher in the older population. The course of the disease in hospitalised older patients may show significant variation, from mild to severe illness, ultimately leading to death in the most critical cases. The analysis of circulating biomolecules involved in mechanisms of inflammation, cell damage and innate immunity could lead to identify new biomarkers of COVID-19 severity, aimed to improve the clinical management of subjects at higher risk of severe outcomes. In a cohort of COVID-19 geriatric patients (n= 156) who required hospitalization we analysed, on-admission, a series of circulating biomarkers related to neutrophil activation (neutrophil elastase, LL-37), macrophage activation (sCD163) and cell damage (nuclear cfDNA, mithocondrial cfDNA and nuclear cfDNA integrity). The above reported biomarkers were tested for their association with in-hospital mortality and with clinical, inflammatory and routine hematological parameters. Aim of the study was to unravel prognostic parameters for risk stratification of COVID-19 patients. RESULTS Lower n-cfDNA integrity, higher neutrophil elastase and higher sCD163 levels were significantly associated with an increased risk of in-hospital decease. Median (IQR) values observed in discharged vs. deceased patients were: 0.50 (0.30-0.72) vs. 0.33 (0.22-0.62) for n-cfDNA integrity; 94.0 (47.7-154.0) ng/ml vs. 115.7 (84.2-212.7) ng/ml for neutrophil elastase; 614.0 (370.0-821.0) ng/ml vs. 787.0 (560.0-1304.0) ng/ml for sCD163. The analysis of survival curves in patients stratified for tertiles of each biomarker showed that patients with n-cfDNA integrity < 0.32 or sCD163 in the range 492-811 ng/ml had higher risk of in-hospital decease than, respectively, patients with higher n-cfDNA integrity or lower sCD163. These associations were further confirmed in multivariate models adjusted for age, sex and outcome-related clinical variables. In these models also high levels of neutrophil elastase (>150 ng/ml) appeared to be independent predictor of in-hospital death. An additional analysis of neutrophil elastase in patients stratified for n-cfDNA integrity levels was conducted to better describe the association of the studied parameters with the outcome. CONCLUSIONS On the whole, biomarkers of cell-free DNA integrity, neutrophil and macrophage activation might provide a valuable contribution to identify geriatric patients with high risk of COVID-19 in-hospital mortality.
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- M. Cardelli
- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Center of Clinical Pathology and Innovative Therapy, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Center of Clinical Pathology and Innovative Therapy, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Center of Clinical Pathology and Innovative Therapy, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Center for Neurobiology of Aging, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS INRCA, Via Birarelli 8, 60121 Ancona, Italy
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- Center of Clinical Pathology and Innovative Therapy, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Scientific Technological Area, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- grid.7010.60000 0001 1017 3210Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Tronto 10/a, 60126 Ancona, Italy
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- grid.7010.60000 0001 1017 3210Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Tronto 10/a, 60126 Ancona, Italy
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- Center of Clinical Pathology and Innovative Therapy, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- grid.411490.90000 0004 1759 6306SOD Medicina di Laboratorio, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy
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- grid.6292.f0000 0004 1757 1758Department of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Unit of Geriatric Pharmacoepidemiology and Biostatistics, IRCCS INRCA, Cosenza, Italy
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- Geriatria, Accettazione geriatrica e Centro di Ricerca per l’invecchiamento, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, IRCCS INRCA, Via della Montagnola 81, 60127 Ancona, Italy
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- Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, IRCCS INRCA, Via della Montagnola 81, 60127 Ancona, Italy
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- Scientific Direction and Geriatric Unit, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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- grid.7010.60000 0001 1017 3210Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Tronto 10/a, 60126 Ancona, Italy
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- Scientific Direction and Geriatric Unit, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy
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Leder AF, Mayer D, Ouellet JL, Danevich FA, Dumoulin L, Giuliani A, Kostensalo J, Kotila J, de Marcillac P, Nones C, Novati V, Olivieri E, Poda D, Suhonen J, Tretyak VI, Winslow L, Zolotarova A. Determining g_{A}/g_{V} with High-Resolution Spectral Measurements Using a LiInSe_{2} Bolometer. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:232502. [PMID: 36563213 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.232502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) processes sample a wide range of intermediate forbidden nuclear transitions, which may be impacted by quenching of the axial vector coupling constant (g_{A}/g_{V}), the uncertainty of which plays a pivotal role in determining the sensitivity reach of 0νββ experiments. In this Letter, we present measurements performed on a high-resolution LiInSe_{2} bolometer in a "source=detector" configuration to measure the spectral shape of the fourfold forbidden β decay of ^{115}In. The value of g_{A}/g_{V} is determined by comparing the spectral shape of theoretical predictions to the experimental β spectrum taking into account various simulated background components as well as a variety of detector effects. We find evidence of quenching of g_{A}/g_{V} at >5σ with a model-dependent quenching factor of 0.655±0.002 as compared to the free-nucleon value for the interacting shell model. We also measured the ^{115}In half-life to be [5.18±0.06(stat)_{-0.015}^{+0.005}(sys)]×10^{14} yr within the interacting shell model framework. This Letter demonstrates the power of the bolometeric technique to perform precision nuclear physics single-β decay measurements, which along with improved nuclear modeling can help reduce the uncertainties in the calculation of several decay nuclear matrix elements including those used in 0νββ sensitivity calculations.
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- A F Leder
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2521 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, Kyiv 03028, Ukraine
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland, Yliopistokatu 6B, FI-80100 Joensuu, Finland
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- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Commissariat á l'Énergie Atomique (CEA)-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, Kyiv 03028, Ukraine
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Commissariat á l'Énergie Atomique (CEA)-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Camilleri J, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Capelli C, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Celi E, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Del Corso F, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Di Lorenzo S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fu SH, Fujikawa BK, Ghislandi S, Giachero A, Gianvecchio A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Hansen EV, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Kowalski R, Liu R, Ma L, Ma YG, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mayer D, Mei Y, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Olmi M, Ouellet JL, Pagan S, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Quitadamo S, Ressa A, Rosenfeld C, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vetter KJ, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. New Direct Limit on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Half-Life of ^{128}Te with CUORE. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:222501. [PMID: 36493444 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.222501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2022] [Revised: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN in Italy is an experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay. Its main goal is to investigate this decay in ^{130}Te, but its ton-scale mass and low background make CUORE sensitive to other rare processes as well. In this Letter, we present our first results on the search for 0νββ decay of ^{128}Te, the Te isotope with the second highest natural isotopic abundance. We find no evidence for this decay, and using a Bayesian analysis we set a lower limit on the ^{128}Te 0νββ decay half-life of T_{1/2}>3.6×10^{24} yr (90% CI). This represents the most stringent limit on the half-life of this isotope, improving by over a factor of 30 the previous direct search results, and exceeding those from geochemical experiments for the first time.
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- D Q Adams
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Universit Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- IRFU, CEA, Universit Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Marino S, Giuliani A, De Mauro D, Rovere G, Smakaj A, Sassara GM, Are L, Maccauro G, Liuzza F. Treatment options for proximal periprosthetic femoral fractures in Total Hip Arthroplasty: a single center experience. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2022; 26:113-118. [PMID: 36448863 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202211_30290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Proximal periprosthetic femoral fractures (PPFFs) are gradually increasing and surgical management is often associated with high risk of complications, due to elderly population and associated comorbidities. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively assessed 39 patients at least at 2-years follow-up. We identified two study groups, similar for demographic data. Group A included patients surgically treated without involving prosthetic implants, whereas Group B included patients in which an implant revision was performed. RESULTS Data were recorded from January 2017 to February 2020, and 39 patients were included: 30 females (76.9%) and 9 males (23.1%), with a confirmed diagnosis of periprosthetic fracture of the proximal femur. 23 (58.9%) patients were treated with Open Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF), 12 (30.7%) with revision surgery and 4 (10.3%) were treated by modular megaprosthesis. CONCLUSIONS The treatment options considered in the study, revision arthroplasty and internal fixation had shown no significant differences as a matter of clinical outcomes and postoperative complications.
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- S Marino
- Department of Aging, Neurological, Orthopedic and Head-Neck Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
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Romano L, Fiasca F, Mattei A, Tersigni L, Gianneramo C, Schietroma M, Carlei F, Giuliani A. BJS-01 SARCOPENIA AND VISCERAL FAT IN PATIENTS WITH INCISIONAL HERNIA AFTER URGENT LAPAROTOMY. Br J Surg 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znac308.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Aim
Various risk factors have been associated with the development of incisional hernia (IH). Some recent papers underlined that visceral fat could be a reliable indicator. Another risk factor which is of increasing clinical interest is sarcopenia. Recent studies have identified it as an independent predictor of poor postoperative outcomes following abdominal surgery. We aimed to investigate the role of visceral fat and skeletal muscle as emerging risk factors for IH after urgent laparotomy.
Material & methods
Patients aged 18 years or older who underwent urgent median laparotomy and with continuous direct suturing of the laparotomy were included. They were categorized into two groups: those with a median IH and those without IH at 12-months follow-up. Demographic data were prospectively collected while CT scans were retrospectively reviewed. The data were compared among two groups.
Results
From January 2018 to May 2021, 364 patients underwent urgent surgery in our Department, of whom 222 were aged >18 years-old and underwent median laparotomy. Forty-four patients had diagnosis of median IH, while 41 patients without IH were identified as the control group. Statistically significant differences emerged for BMI and for the area of visceral fat. The association with the presence/absence of sarcopenia was not significant.
Conclusions
When surgery is performed in urgent settings it could be important to identify patients at risk, especially as CT scans are generally available for all patients with urgent abdominal disease. In these patients a prophylactic mesh placement could be evaluated.
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- L Romano
- DISCAB, university of l'aquila , l'aquila , Italy
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- MESVA, university of l'aquila , l'aquila , Italy
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- MESVA, university of l'aquila , l'aquila , Italy
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- DISCAB, university of l'aquila , l'aquila , Italy
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- DISCAB, san salvatore hospital , l'aquila , Italy
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- DISCAB, university of l'aquila , l'aquila , Italy
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- DISCAB, university of l'aquila , l'aquila , Italy
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- DISCAB, university of l'aquila , l'aquila , Italy
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Caracciolo V, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Colantoni I, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, De Dominicis F, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. Final Result on the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of ^{82}Se with CUPID-0. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:111801. [PMID: 36154394 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.111801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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CUPID-0, an array of Zn^{82}Se cryogenic calorimeters, was the first medium-scale demonstrator of the scintillating bolometers' technology. The first project phase (March 2017-December 2018) allowed the most stringent limit on the neutrinoless double beta decay half-life of the isotope of interest, ^{82}Se, to be set. After a six month long detector upgrade, CUPID-0 began its second and last phase (June 2019-February 2020). In this Letter, we describe the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{82}Se with a total exposure (phase I+II) of 8.82 kg yr^{-1} of isotope. We set a limit on the half-life of ^{82}Se to the ground state of ^{82}Kr of T_{1/2}^{0ν}(^{82}Se)>4.6×10^{24} yr (90% credible interval), corresponding to an effective Majorana neutrino mass m_{ββ}<(263-545) meV. We also set the most stringent lower limits on the neutrinoless decays of ^{82}Se to the 0_{1}^{+}, 2_{1}^{+}, and 2_{2}^{+} excited states of ^{82}Kr, finding 1.8×10^{23} yr, 3.0×10^{23} yr, and 3.2×10^{23} yr (90% credible interval) respectively.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Nanotecnologia, c/o Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CNRS/CSNSM, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Romano L, Mattei A, Fiasca F, Nervini A, Vicentini V, Schietroma M, Carlei F, Giuliani A. A monocentric retrospective analysis about the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on emergency general surgery consultations. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2022; 26:4528-4534. [PMID: 35776054 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202206_29092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The pandemic effects due to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 caused a health emergency. We decided to carry out a study with the aim to investigate the changes in patients' tendencies for admission to the emergency department for surgical diseases, and the related hospitalizations and urgent surgery rates. PATIENTS AND METHODS We carried out a retrospective, observational study on patients who received emergency general surgery consultation at our University Hospital during the two COVID-19 pandemic periods and on the same dates one year before. The patients' demographic characteristics, their hospitalization in surgical department and the data about those who underwent urgent surgery were retrospectively recorded. RESULTS In the period March-April 2020 there were 95 surgical visits recorded; among these patients, 25% required hospitalization and 12.63% underwent urgent surgery. In the period November-December-January 2020-2021 there were 156 surgical consultations, of which 35.26% required hospitalization and 21.15% underwent urgent surgery. In both considered periods we found that the number of surgical consultations decreased compared to the same periods of the previous year. Moreover, we found a higher rate of hospitalization and need for urgent surgery. CONCLUSIONS We documented a significant reduction in the overall number of surgical consultations and an increase of hospitalization and urgent surgery rates.
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- L Romano
- Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
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Gallo G, Pietroletti R, Novelli E, Sturiale A, Tutino R, Lobascio P, Laforgia R, Moggia E, Pozzo M, Roveroni M, Bianco V, Luc AR, Giuliani A, Diaco E, Naldini G, Trompetto M, Perinotti R, Sammarco G. A multicentre, open-label, single-arm phase II trial of the efficacy and safety of sclerotherapy using 3% polidocanol foam to treat second-degree haemorrhoids (SCLEROFOAM). Tech Coloproctol 2022; 26:627-636. [PMID: 35334004 PMCID: PMC8949823 DOI: 10.1007/s10151-022-02609-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Background The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 3% polidocanol foam for treating 2nd-degree haemorrhoids. Methods A multicentre, open-label, single-arm, phase 2 trial involving 10 tertiary referral centres for haemorrhodal disease (HD) was performed. Between January and June 2019, patients with 2nd-degree haemorrhoids were prospectively included in this study. The primary outcome was to establish the success rate after one sclerotherapy session in terms of complete resolution of bleeding episodes one week after the injection. The Hemorrhoidal Disease Symptom Score (HDSS), the Short Health Scale for HD (SHS-HD) score and the Vaizey incontinence score were used to assess symptoms and their impact on quality of life and continence. Pain after the procedure, subjective symptoms and the amount and type of painkillers used were recorded. Patients were followed up for 1 year. Results There were 183 patients [111 males; 60.7%, mean age 51.3 ± 13.5 (18–75) years]. Complete resolution of bleeding was reached in 125/183 patients (68.3%) at 1 week and the recurrence rate was 12% (15/125). Thirteen patients (7.4%) underwent a second sclerotherapy session, while only 1 patient (1.8%) had to undergo a third session. The overall 1-year success rate was 95.6% (175/183). The HDSS and the SHS score significantly improved from a median preoperative value of 11 and 18 to 0 and 0, respectively (p < 0.001). There were 3 episodes of external thrombosis. No serious adverse events occurred. Conclusions Sclerotherapy with 3% polidocanol foam is a safe, effective, painless, repeatable and low-cost procedure in patients with bleeding haemorrhoids.
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- G Gallo
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy. .,Minerva Surgical Service, Catanzaro, Italy. .,Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neurosciences, Unit of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
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- Proctology Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Biostat Research S.a.S, Borgomanero, Italy
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- Proctology and Pelvic Floor Clinical Centre, Cisanello University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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- Chirurgia 1, Azienda ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana, Ospedale Regionale Treviso, Treviso, Italy
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- Surgical Unit "M. Rubino" Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University Aldo Moro of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Surgical Unit "M. Rubino" Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University Aldo Moro of Bari, Bari, Italy
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- Department of General Surgery, Infermi Hospital, Rivoli, Torino, Italy
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- Department of General Surgery, "Degli Infermi" Hospital, Biella, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Aosta Hospital, Aosta, Italy
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- General Surgery Unit, Cetraro Hospital, Cetraro, Italy
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, S. Rita Clinic, Vercelli, Italy
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- General Surgery Unit, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, San Salvatore Hospital, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Minerva Surgical Service, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Proctology and Pelvic Floor Clinical Centre, Cisanello University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, S. Rita Clinic, Vercelli, Italy
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- Department of General Surgery, "Degli Infermi" Hospital, Biella, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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Giuliani A, Drysdale RN, Woodhead JD, Planavsky NJ, Phillips D, Hergt J, Griffin WL, Oesch S, Dalton H, Davies GR. Perturbation of the deep-Earth carbon cycle in response to the Cambrian Explosion. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabj1325. [PMID: 35245120 PMCID: PMC8896790 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj1325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Earth's carbon cycle is strongly influenced by subduction of sedimentary material into the mantle. The composition of the sedimentary subduction flux has changed considerably over Earth's history, but the impact of these changes on the mantle carbon cycle is unclear. Here, we show that the carbon isotopes of kimberlite magmas record a fundamental change in their deep-mantle source compositions during the Phanerozoic Eon. The 13C/12C of kimberlites before ~250 Ma preserves typical mantle values, whereas younger kimberlites exhibit lower and more variable ratios-a switch coincident with a recognized surge in kimberlite magmatism. We attribute these changes to increased deep subduction of organic carbon with low 13C/12C following the Cambrian Explosion when organic carbon deposition in marine sediments increased significantly. These observations demonstrate that biogeochemical processes at Earth's surface have a profound influence on the deep mantle, revealing an integral link between the deep and shallow carbon cycles.
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- Andrea Giuliani
- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 25, Zurich 8092, Switzerland
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and GEMOC, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109 New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 25, Zurich 8092, Switzerland
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- School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Maggi M, Logozzi M, Mizzoni D, Di Raimo R, Giuliani A, Sciarra A, Fais S. Plasmatic exosome number and size distinguish prostate cancer patients from healthy individuals: A prospective clinical study. Eur Urol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0302-2838(22)01014-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Romano L, Giuliani A, Pessia B, Mattei A, Fiasca F, Tonelli E, Carlei F, Schietroma M. The early prediction of mortality in acute cholecystitis: Temperature, Neutrophils and Multiple organ failure (TNM) score. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2021; 25:6339-6348. [PMID: 34730215 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202110_27006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Acute Cholecystitis (AC) accounts for a significant proportion of patients presenting to the Emergency Department with abdominal pain. We suggest grading the severity of AC with a simple system: TNM, an acronym borrowed by cancer staging where T indicated Temperature, N neutrophils and M Multiple organ failure. This retrospective-prospective observational study evaluates the predictive value of TNM score on mortality of patients with AC. PATIENTS AND METHODS TNM was developed in a training cohort of 178 patients with AC who underwent cholecystectomy from February 2005 to December 2012 (retrospectives data). To verify the prognostic value of TNM score, we prospectively recruited 172 patients who were consecutively included and treated from January 2013 to July 2020 as the validation cohort. After defining the categories T, N and M, patients were grouped in stages. The variables analyzed were age, sex, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score, blood transfusion, temperature, neutrophils count, preoperative organ failure, immune-compromised status, stage. RESULTS In the training cohort TNM staging was: none patient at stage 0; 6 patients at stage I; 71 patients at stage II; 71 patients at stage III; 30 patients at stage IV. Death occurred in 51 patients. ASA score, neutrophils count, preoperative organ failure, stage III-IV emerged as statistically significant different prognostic factors. ASA score (III-IV) and stage (III-IV) were significant independent predictors of post-operative mortality in multivariate analysis. Comparable results were observed in the validation cohort. CONCLUSIONS TNM classification is very easy to use; it helps to define the mortality risk and it is useful to objectively compare patients with AC.
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- L Romano
- General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of L'Aquila, San Salvatore Hospital, L'Aquila, Italy.
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Xu JY, Giuliani A, Li QL, Lu K, Melgarejo JC, Griffin WL. Light oxygen isotopes in mantle-derived magmas reflect assimilation of sub-continental lithospheric mantle material. Nat Commun 2021; 12:6295. [PMID: 34728640 PMCID: PMC8563987 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26668-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Oxygen isotope ratios in mantle-derived magmas that differ from typical mantle values are generally attributed to crustal contamination, deeply subducted crustal material in the mantle source or primordial heterogeneities. Here we provide an alternative view for the origin of light oxygen-isotope signatures in mantle-derived magmas using kimberlites, carbonate-rich magmas that assimilate mantle debris during ascent. Olivine grains in kimberlites are commonly zoned between a mantle-derived core and a magmatic rim, thus constraining the compositions of both mantle wall-rocks and melt phase. Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) analyses of olivine in worldwide kimberlites show a remarkable correlation between mean oxygen-isotope compositions of cores and rims from mantle-like 18O/16O to lower 'crustal' values. This observation indicates that kimberlites entraining low-18O/16O olivine xenocrysts are modified by assimilation of low-18O/16O sub-continental lithospheric mantle material. Interaction with geochemically-enriched domains of the sub-continental lithospheric mantle can therefore be an important source of apparently 'crustal' signatures in mantle-derived magmas.
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- Jing-Yao Xu
- grid.9227.e0000000119573309State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029 Beijing, China ,grid.9227.e0000000119573309Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029 Beijing, China
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- grid.5801.c0000 0001 2156 2780Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- grid.9227.e0000000119573309State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029 Beijing, China ,grid.9227.e0000000119573309Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029 Beijing, China ,grid.410726.60000 0004 1797 8419College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China
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- grid.9227.e0000000119573309State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029 Beijing, China ,grid.410726.60000 0004 1797 8419College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China
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- grid.5841.80000 0004 1937 0247Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Applied Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- grid.1004.50000 0001 2158 5405ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and GEMOC, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia
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Perrella A, Giuliani A, De Palma M, Castriconi M, Molino C, Vennarecci G, Antropoli C, Esposito C, Calise F, Frangiosa A. C-reactive protein but not procalcitonin may predict antibiotic response and outcome in infections following major abdominal surgery. Updates Surg 2021; 74:765-771. [PMID: 34699035 PMCID: PMC8546392 DOI: 10.1007/s13304-021-01172-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We aimed to evaluate the usefulness of C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) as markers of infection, sepsis and as predictors of antibiotic response after non-emergency major abdominal surgery. We enrolled, from June 2015 to June 2019, all patients who underwent surgery due to abdominal infection (peritoneal abscess, peritonitis) or having sepsis episode after surgical procedures (i.e. hepatectomy, bowel perforation, pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), segmental resection of the duodenum (SRD) or biliary reconstruction in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Serum CRP (cut-off value < 5 mg/L) and PCT (cut-off value < 0.1mcg/L) were measured in the day when fever was present or within 24 h after abdominal surgery. Both markers were assessed every 48 h to follow-up antibiotic response and disease evolution up to disease resolution. We enrolled a total of 260 patients underwent non-emergency major abdominal surgery and being infected or developing infection after surgical procedure with one or more microbes (55% mixed Gram-negative infection including Klebsiella KPC, 35% Gram-positive infection, 10% with Candida infection), 58% of patients had ICU admission for at least 96 h, 42% of patients had fast track ICU (48 h). In our group of patients, we found that PCT had a trend to increase after surgical procedure; particularly, those undergoing liver surgery had higher PCT than those underwent different abdominal surgery (U Mann–Whitney p < 0.05). CRP rapidly increase after surgery in those developing infection and showed a statistical significant decrease within 48 h in those subject being responsive to antibiotic treatment and having a clinical response within 10 days independently form the pathogens (bacterial or fungal). Further we found that those having CRP higher than 250 mg/L had a reduced percentage of success treatment at 10 days compared to those < 250 mg/mL (U Mann–Whitney p < 0.05). PCT did not show any variation according to treatment response. CRP in our cohort seems to be a useful marker to predict antibiotic response in those undergoing non-emergency abdominal surgery, while PCT seem to be increased in those having major liver surgery, probably due to hepatic production of cytokines.
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- A Perrella
- Infectious Disease Service at Health Direction Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy.
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- Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Center Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy.,Surgical Unit, San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy
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- General Surgery Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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- Emergency Surgery Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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- I Surgical Unit Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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- Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Center Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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- III Surgical Unit Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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- Liver Intensive Care Unit Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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- Surgical Unit Pineta Grande Hospital, Caserta, Italy
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- Intensive Care Unit Hospital A. Cardarelli, Naples, Italy
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Pessia B, Romano L, Carlei F, Lazzari S, Vicentini V, Giuliani A, Schietroma M. Preoperative sarcopenia predicts survival after hepatectomy for colorectal metastases: a prospective observational study. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2021; 25:5619-5624. [PMID: 34604954 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202109_26781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The surgical approach to colorectal liver metastases has highly improved the survival rates in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. Since sarcopenia estimates the physiologic reserve of an individual patient, it is considered a surrogate marker of patient frailty, and the selection of appropriate candidates for LR could be crucial to maximize the benefits derived from surgery. The present study investigated the impact of sarcopenia as a prognostic factor after LR from CRLM. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study retrospectively analyzed 74 patients. Skeletal Muscle Mass at the third lumbar vertebra in the inferior direction was quantified using enhanced computed tomography scans. The patients were divided into two subgroups, with and without sarcopenia, based on median Skeletal Muscle Index. RESULTS The study included 48 Sarcopenic patients and 26 Non Sarcopenic patients. The median follow-up considered for the patients was 32 months. Median SMI was 39.3 and 52.7 cm2/m2, respectively. The OS rate was significantly different between the two groups. Preoperative sarcopenia resulted in worse OS up to 48 months. CONCLUSIONS Sarcopenia represents a negative prognostic factor as it is associated with poor postoperative OS. Future programs focused on remediating to the preoperative sarcopenic status of colorectal liver metastatic patients should be implemented.
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- B Pessia
- Departement of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery, San Salvatore Hospital, L'Aquila, Italy.
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, Dafinei I, D’Addabbo A, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Background identification in cryogenic calorimeters through α - α delayed coincidences. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2021; 81:722. [PMID: 34720725 PMCID: PMC8550008 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09476-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Localization and modeling of radioactive contaminations is a challenge that ultra-low background experiments are constantly facing. These are fundamental steps both to extract scientific results and to further reduce the background of the detectors. Here we present an innovative technique based on the analysis of α - α delayed coincidences in 232 Th and 238 U decay chains, developed to investigate the contaminations of the ZnSe crystals in the CUPID-0 experiment. This method allows to disentangle surface and bulk contaminations of the detectors relying on the different probability to tag delayed coincidences as function of the α decay position.
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- O. Azzolini
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- Present Address: : Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Present Address: : Fundación ARAID and Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Astropartículas, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: : Physics Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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Armengaud E, Augier C, Barabash AS, Bellini F, Benato G, Benoît A, Beretta M, Bergé L, Billard J, Borovlev YA, Bourgeois C, Brudanin VB, Camus P, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, Chiesa D, de Combarieu M, Dafinei I, Danevich FA, De Jesus M, Dixon T, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Ferri F, Fujikawa BK, Gascon J, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Guerard E, Helis DL, Huang HZ, Huang R, Johnston J, Juillard A, Khalife H, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Kolomensky YG, Konovalov SI, Leder A, Loaiza P, Ma L, Makarov EP, de Marcillac P, Mariam R, Marini L, Marnieros S, Misiak D, Navick XF, Nones C, Norman EB, Novati V, Olivieri E, Ouellet JL, Pagnanini L, Pari P, Pattavina L, Paul B, Pavan M, Peng H, Pessina G, Pirro S, Poda DV, Polischuk OG, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Redon T, Rojas A, Rozov S, Rusconi C, Sanglard V, Scarpaci JA, Schäffner K, Schmidt B, Shen Y, Shlegel VN, Siebenborn B, Singh V, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Velázquez M, Welliver B, Winslow L, Xue M, Yakushev E, Zarytskyy M, Zolotarova AS. New Limit for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of ^{100}Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 126:181802. [PMID: 34018798 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.181802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
The CUPID-Mo experiment at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (France) is a demonstrator for CUPID, the next-generation ton-scale bolometric 0νββ experiment. It consists of a 4.2 kg array of 20 enriched Li_{2}^{100}MoO_{4} scintillating bolometers to search for the lepton-number-violating process of 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo. With more than one year of operation (^{100}Mo exposure of 1.17 kg×yr for physics data), no event in the region of interest and, hence, no evidence for 0νββ is observed. We report a new limit on the half-life of 0νββ decay in ^{100}Mo of T_{1/2}>1.5×10^{24} yr at 90% C.I. The limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass ⟨m_{ββ}⟩<(0.31-0.54) eV, dependent on the nuclear matrix element in the light Majorana neutrino exchange interpretation.
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- E Armengaud
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Data Processing and Electronics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Garching D-85748, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- LSM, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, 73500 Modane, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, People's Republic of China
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, SIMAP, 38402 Saint Martin d'Héres, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region, Russia
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- Institute for Nuclear Research of NASU, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Camilleri J, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Davis CJ, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fu SH, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Ligi C, Ma L, Ma YG, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mayer D, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Ouellet JL, Pagan S, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vetter KJ, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of ^{130}Te with CUORE. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 126:171801. [PMID: 33988435 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.171801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
We measured two-neutrino double beta decay of ^{130}Te using an exposure of 300.7 kg yr accumulated with the CUORE detector. Using a Bayesian analysis to fit simulated spectra to experimental data, it was possible to disentangle all the major background sources and precisely measure the two-neutrino contribution. The half-life is in agreement with past measurements with a strongly reduced uncertainty: T_{1/2}^{2ν}=7.71_{-0.06}^{+0.08}(stat)_{-0.15}^{+0.12}(syst)×10^{20} yr. This measurement is the most precise determination of the ^{130}Te 2νββ decay half-life to date.
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- D Q Adams
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21211, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Fiorentini ML, O'Neill C, Giuliani A, Choi E, Maas R, Pirajno F, Foley S. Bushveld superplume drove Proterozoic magmatism and metallogenesis in Australia. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19729. [PMID: 33184371 PMCID: PMC7665188 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76800-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Large-scale mantle convective processes are commonly reflected in the emplacement of Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs). These are high-volume, short-duration magmatic events consisting mainly of extensive flood basalts and their associated plumbing systems. One of the most voluminous LIPs in the geological record is the ~ 2.06 billion-year-old Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa (BIC), one of the most mineralised magmatic complexes on Earth. Surprisingly, the known geographic envelope of magmatism related to the BIC is limited to a series of satellite intrusions in southern Africa and has not been traced further afield. This appears inconsistent with the inferred large size of the BIC event. Here, we present new radiometric ages for alkaline magmatism in the Archean Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia), which overlap the emplacement age of the BIC and indicate a much more extensive geographic footprint of the BIC magmatic event. To assess plume involvement at this distance, we present numerical simulations of mantle plume impingement at the base of the lithosphere, and constrain a relationship between the radial extent of volcanism versus time, excess temperature and plume size. These simulations suggest that the thermal influence of large plume events could extend for thousands of km within a few million years, and produce widespread alkaline magmatism, crustal extension potentially leading to continental break-up, and large ore deposits in distal sectors. Our results imply that superplumes may produce very extensive and diverse magmatic and metallogenic provinces, which may now be preserved in widely-dispersed continental blocks.
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- Marco L Fiorentini
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 25, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.,School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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Arnaud Q, Armengaud E, Augier C, Benoît A, Bergé L, Billard J, Broniatowski A, Camus P, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, De Jésus M, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Elkhoury E, Fillipini JB, Filosofov D, Gascon J, Giuliani A, Gros M, Jin Y, Juillard A, Kleifges M, Lattaud H, Marnieros S, Misiak D, Navick XF, Nones C, Olivieri E, Oriol C, Pari P, Paul B, Poda D, Rozov S, Salagnac T, Sanglard V, Siebenborn B, Vagneron L, Weber M, Yakushev E, Zolotarova A. First Germanium-Based Constraints on Sub-MeV Dark Matter with the EDELWEISS Experiment. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 125:141301. [PMID: 33064531 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.141301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We present the first Ge-based constraints on sub-MeV/c^{2} dark matter (DM) particles interacting with electrons using a 33.4 g Ge cryogenic detector with a 0.53 electron-hole pair (rms) resolution, operated underground at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane. Competitive constraints are set on the DM-electron scattering cross section, as well as on the kinetic mixing parameter of dark photons down to 1 eV/c^{2}. In particular, the most stringent limits are set for dark photon DM in the 6 to 9 eV/c^{2} range. These results demonstrate the high relevance of Ge cryogenic detectors for the search of DM-induced eV-scale electron signals.
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- Q Arnaud
- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Institut Néel, CNRS/UJF, 25 rue des Martyrs, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institut Néel, CNRS/UJF, 25 rue des Martyrs, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- JINR, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- C2N, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91120 Palaiseau, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- JINR, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I-Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- JINR, Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russian Federation
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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Giuliani A, Lorenzini L, Baldassarro VA, Pannella M, Cescatti M, Fernandez M, Alastra G, Flagelli A, Villetti G, Imbimbo BP, Giardino L, Calzà L. Effects of Topical Application of CHF6467, a Mutated Form of Human Nerve Growth Factor, on Skin Wound Healing in Diabetic Mice. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2020; 375:317-331. [PMID: 32948647 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.120.000110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Nerve growth factor (NGF) is the protein responsible for the development and maintenance of sensory skin innervation. Given the role of appropriate innervation in skin healing, NGF has been indicated as a possible prohealing treatment in pathologic conditions characterized by nerve-ending loss, such as chronic ulcers in diabetes; however, its use as a therapeutic agent is limited by its hyperalgesic effect. We tested the effect of topical application of the nonalgogenic NGF derivative hNGFP61S/R100E in two models of skin ulcer induced in dbdb diabetic mice, investigating healing time, skin histology, reinnervation, and angiogenesis using morphologic and molecular approaches. We showed that the topical administration of CHF6467, a recombinant human NGF in which an amino acid substitution (R100E) abolished the hyperalgesic effect usually associated with NGF, accelerated skin repair in experimental wounds (full-excision and pressure-ulcer) induced in diabetic mice (dbdb). CHF6467-induced acceleration of wound healing was accompanied by increased re-epithelization, reinnervation, and revascularization as assessed by histology, immunohistochemistry, and image analysis. Bioinformatic analysis of differentially expressed genes and signaling pathways in the wound tissues showed that protein kinase B-mammalian target of rapamycin was the most regulated pathway. In spite of the transdermal absorption leading to measurable, dose-dependent increases in CHF6467 plasma levels, no systemic thermal or local mechanical hyperalgesia was observed in treated mice. When tested in vitro in human cell lines, CHF6467 stimulated keratinocyte and fibroblast proliferation and tube formation by endothelial cells. Collectively, these results support a possible use of CHF6467 as a prohealing agent in skin lesions in diabetes. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Topical application of CHF6467 accelerates reinnervation, neoangiogenesis, and wound healing in diabetic mice in both full-thickness skin-excision and pressure-ulcer models through the protein kinase B/mammalian target of rapamycin pathway and does not induce hyperalgesia.
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- A Giuliani
- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Science, University of Bologna, Italy (A.G., L.L., M.F., L.G.); Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research in Life Sciences and Technologies University of Bologna, Italy (L.L., V.A.B., G.A., A.F, L.G., L.C.); Department of of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Italy (L.C.); Fondazione IRET, Ozzano Emilia, Italy (M.P., M.C.); Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy (G.V., B.P.I.)
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Wenzel G, Joblin C, Giuliani A, Rodriguez Castillo S, Mulas G, Ji M, Sabbah H, Quiroga S, Peña D, Nahon L. Astrochemical relevance of VUV ionization of large PAH cations . Astron Astrophys 2020; 641:A98. [PMID: 33154599 PMCID: PMC7116310 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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CONTEXT As a part of interstellar dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are processed by the interaction with vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) photons that are emitted by hot young stars. This interaction leads to the emission of the well-known aromatic infrared bands but also of electrons, which can significantly contribute to the heating of the interstellar gas. AIMS Our aim is to investigate the impact of molecular size on the photoionization properties of cationic PAHs. METHODS Trapped PAH cations of sizes between 30 and 48 carbon atoms were submitted to VUV photons in the range of 9 to 20 eV from the DESIRS beamline at the synchrotron SOLEIL. All resulting photoproducts including dications and fragment cations were mass-analyzed and recorded as a function of photon energy. RESULTS Photoionization is found to be predominant over dissociation at all energies, which differs from an earlier study on smaller PAHs. The photoionization branching ratio reaches 0.98 at 20 eV for the largest studied PAH. The photoionization threshold is observed to be between 9.1 and 10.2 eV, in agreement with the evolution of the ionization potential with size. Ionization cross sections were indirectly obtained and photoionization yields extracted from their ratio with theoretical photoabsorption cross sections, which were calculated using time-dependent density functional theory. An analytical function was derived to calculate this yield for a given molecular size. CONCLUSIONS Large PAH cations could be efficiently ionized in H i regions and provide a contribution to the heating of the gas by photoelectric effect. Also, at the border of or in H ii regions, PAHs could be exposed to photons of energy higher than 13.6 eV. Our work provides recipes to be used in astronomical models to quantify these points.
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- G. Wenzel
- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, CNES, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31028 Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, CNES, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31028 Toulouse, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme des Merisiers, F-91192 Saint Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- INRAE, UAR1008, Transform Department, Rue de la Géraudière, BP 71627, F-44316 Nantes, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, CNES, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31028 Toulouse, France
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (LCPQ/IRSAMC), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, CNES, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31028 Toulouse, France
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Via della Scienza 5, I-09047 Selargius (CA), Italy
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, CNES, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31028 Toulouse, France
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, CNES, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31028 Toulouse, France
- Laboratoire Collisions Agrégats Réactivité (LCAR/IRSAMC), Université de Toulouse (UPS), CNRS, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, France
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CiQUS) and Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CiQUS) and Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L’Orme des Merisiers, F-91192 Saint Aubin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Blanks DE, Holwell DA, Fiorentini ML, Moroni M, Giuliani A, Tassara S, González-Jiménez JM, Boyce AJ, Ferrari E. Fluxing of mantle carbon as a physical agent for metallogenic fertilization of the crust. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4342. [PMID: 32859892 PMCID: PMC7455710 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18157-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Magmatic systems play a crucial role in enriching the crust with volatiles and elements that reside primarily within the Earth's mantle, including economically important metals like nickel, copper and platinum-group elements. However, transport of these metals within silicate magmas primarily occurs within dense sulfide liquids, which tend to coalesce, settle and not be efficiently transported in ascending magmas. Here we show textural observations, backed up with carbon and oxygen isotope data, which indicate an intimate association between mantle-derived carbonates and sulfides in some mafic-ultramafic magmatic systems emplaced at the base of the continental crust. We propose that carbon, as a buoyant supercritical CO2 fluid, might be a covert agent aiding and promoting the physical transport of sulfides across the mantle-crust transition. This may be a common but cryptic mechanism that facilitates cycling of volatiles and metals from the mantle to the lower-to-mid continental crust, which leaves little footprint behind by the time magmas reach the Earth's surface.
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- Daryl E Blanks
- Centre for Sustainable Resource Extraction, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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- Centre for Sustainable Resource Extraction, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth Sciences, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Earth Science Department, Milan State University, Milan, Italy
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- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 25, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
- Kimberlites and Diamonds (KiDs), School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT, 06520-8109, USA
- Millennium Nucleus for Metal Tracing Along Subduction, FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Santiago, Chile
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- Departmento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Ciencias, Fuentenueva s/n, 180002, Granada, Spain
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- Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Rankine Avenue, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride, G75 0QF, UK
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- Earth Science Department, Milan State University, Milan, Italy
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Giuliani A, Pearson DG, Soltys A, Dalton H, Phillips D, Foley SF, Lim E, Goemann K, Griffin WL, Mitchell RH. Kimberlite genesis from a common carbonate-rich primary melt modified by lithospheric mantle assimilation. Sci Adv 2020; 6:eaaz0424. [PMID: 32494633 PMCID: PMC7182416 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Quantifying the compositional evolution of mantle-derived melts from source to surface is fundamental for constraining the nature of primary melts and deep Earth composition. Despite abundant evidence for interaction between carbonate-rich melts, including diamondiferous kimberlites, and mantle wall rocks en route to surface, the effects of this interaction on melt compositions are poorly constrained. Here, we demonstrate a robust linear correlation between the Mg/Si ratios of kimberlites and their entrained mantle components and between Mg/Fe ratios of mantle-derived olivine cores and magmatic olivine rims in kimberlites worldwide. Combined with numerical modeling, these findings indicate that kimberlite melts with highly variable composition were broadly similar before lithosphere assimilation. This implies that kimberlites worldwide originated by partial melting of compositionally similar convective mantle sources under comparable physical conditions. We conclude that mantle assimilation markedly alters the major element composition of carbonate-rich melts and is a major process in the evolution of mantle-derived magmas.
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- Andrea Giuliani
- KiDs (Kimberlites and Diamonds), School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109 New South Wales, Australia
- Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Clausiusstrasse 25, Zurich 8092, Switzerland
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada
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- KiDs (Kimberlites and Diamonds), School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- KiDs (Kimberlites and Diamonds), School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- KiDs (Kimberlites and Diamonds), School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109 New South Wales, Australia
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- KiDs (Kimberlites and Diamonds), School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010 Victoria, Australia
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- Central Science Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001 Tasmania, Australia
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS) and GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, 2109 New South Wales, Australia
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Adams DQ, Alduino C, Alfonso K, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Bari G, Bellini F, Benato G, Biassoni M, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Caminata A, Campani A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, D'Addabbo A, D'Aguanno D, Dafinei I, Davis CJ, Dell'Oro S, Di Domizio S, Dompè V, Fang DQ, Fantini G, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Gutierrez TD, Han K, Heeger KM, Huang RG, Huang HZ, Johnston J, Keppel G, Kolomensky YG, Ligi C, Ma YG, Ma L, Marini L, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nikkel J, Nones C, Norman EB, Novati V, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rosenfeld C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sangiorgio S, Schmidt B, Scielzo ND, Sharma V, Singh V, Sisti M, Speller D, Surukuchi PT, Taffarello L, Terranova F, Tomei C, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wang BS, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Zanotti L, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. Improved Limit on Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ^{130} Te with CUORE. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:122501. [PMID: 32281829 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.122501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report new results from the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in ^{130} Te with the CUORE detector. This search benefits from a fourfold increase in exposure, lower trigger thresholds, and analysis improvements relative to our previous results. We observe a background of (1.38±0.07)×10^{-2} counts/(keV kg yr)) in the 0νββ decay region of interest and, with a total exposure of 372.5 kg yr, we attain a median exclusion sensitivity of 1.7×10^{25} yr. We find no evidence for 0νββ decay and set a 90% credibility interval Bayesian lower limit of 3.2×10^{25} yr on the ^{130} Te half-life for this process. In the hypothesis that 0νββ decay is mediated by light Majorana neutrinos, this results in an upper limit on the effective Majorana mass of 75-350 meV, depending on the nuclear matrix elements used.
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- D Q Adams
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-Beam Application (MOE), Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Service de Physique des Particules, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN-Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN-Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Kotila J, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Evidence of Single State Dominance in the Two-Neutrino Double-β Decay of ^{82}Se with CUPID-0. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:262501. [PMID: 31951429 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.262501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
We report on the measurement of the two-neutrino double-β decay of ^{82}Se performed for the first time with cryogenic calorimeters, in the framework of the CUPID-0 experiment. With an exposure of 9.95 kg yr of Zn^{82}Se, we determine the two-neutrino double-β decay half-life of ^{82}Se with an unprecedented precision level, T_{1/2}^{2ν}=[8.60±0.03(stat) _{-0.13}^{+0.19}(syst)]×10^{19} yr. The very high signal-to-background ratio, along with the detailed reconstruction of the background sources allowed us to identify the single state dominance as the underlying mechanism of such a process, demonstrating that the higher state dominance hypothesis is disfavored at the level of 5.5σ.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CSNSM, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Padua), Italy
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- Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Viganò L, Cimino M, Aldrighetti L, Ferrero A, Cillo U, Guglielmi A, Ettorre GM, Giuliante F, Dalla Valle R, Mazzaferro V, Jovine E, De Carlis L, Calise F, Torzilli G, Ratti F, Gringeri E, Russolillo N, Levi Sandri GB, Ardito F, Boggi U, Gruttadauria S, Di Benedetto F, Rossi GE, Berti S, Ceccarelli G, Vincenti L, Belli G, Zamboni F, Coratti A, Mezzatesta P, Santambrogio R, Navarra G, Giuliani A, Pinna AD, Parisi A, Colledan M, Slim A, Antonucci A, Grazi GL, Frena A, Sgroi G, Brolese A, Morelli L, Floridi A, Patriti A, Veneroni L, Boni L, Maida P, Griseri G, Filauro M, Guerriero S, Tisone G, Romito R, Tedeschi U, Zimmitti G. Multicentre evaluation of case volume in minimally invasive hepatectomy. Br J Surg 2019; 107:443-451. [PMID: 32167174 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.11369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Revised: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Background
Surgical outcomes may be associated with hospital volume and the influence of volume on minimally invasive liver surgery (MILS) is not known.
Methods
Patients entered into the prospective registry of the Italian Group of MILS from 2014 to 2018 were considered. Only centres with an accrual period of at least 12 months and stable MILS activity during the enrolment period were included. Case volume was defined by the mean number of minimally invasive liver resections performed per month (MILS/month).
Results
A total of 2225 MILS operations were undertaken by 46 centres; nine centres performed more than two MILS/month (1376 patients) and 37 centres carried out two or fewer MILS/month (849 patients). The proportion of resections of anterolateral segments decreased with case volume, whereas that of major hepatectomies increased. Left lateral sectionectomies and resections of anterolateral segments had similar outcome in the two groups. Resections of posterosuperior segments and major hepatectomies had higher overall and severe morbidity rates in centres performing two or fewer MILS/month than in those undertaking a larger number (posterosuperior segments resections: overall morbidity 30·4 versus 18·7 per cent respectively, and severe morbidity 9·9 versus 4·0 per cent; left hepatectomy: 46 versus 22 per cent, and 19 versus 5 per cent; right hepatectomy: 42 versus 34 per cent, and 25 versus 15 per cent).
Conclusion
A volume–outcome association existed for minimally invasive hepatectomy. Complex and major resections may be best managed in high-volume centres.
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- L Viganò
- Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Centre, Humanitas University, Rozzano, Italy
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Centre, Humanitas University, Rozzano, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Digestive and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Mauriziano Umberto I Hospital, Turin, Italy
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- Hepato-Biliary and Liver Transplantation Unit, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Division of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, G.B. Rossi University Hospital, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, A. Gemelli Hospital, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Pinetagrande Hospital, Castelvolturno, Italy
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Centre, Humanitas University, Rozzano, Italy
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- Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan
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- Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria (AOU) Pisana, Pisa
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- Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione, Palermo
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- Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan
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- Ospedale Civile S. Andrea, La Spezia
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- Ospedale Santa Maria di Loreto Nuovo, Naples
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- Policlinico Sant'Orsola Malpighi, Bologne
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- AO Desio e Vimercate, Vimercate
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- Istituto Nazionale Tumori Regina Elena, Rome
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- AO Treviglio-Caravaggio, Treviglio
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- Ospedale San Matteo degli Infermi, Spoleto
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- AOU Fondazione Macchi, Varese
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- Ospedale Villa Betania, Naples
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- AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara
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Woodhead J, Hergt J, Giuliani A, Maas R, Phillips D, Pearson DG, Nowell G. Kimberlites reveal 2.5-billion-year evolution of a deep, isolated mantle reservoir. Nature 2019; 573:578-581. [PMID: 31554979 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1574-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The widely accepted paradigm of Earth's geochemical evolution states that the successive extraction of melts from the mantle over the past 4.5 billion years formed the continental crust, and produced at least one complementary melt-depleted reservoir that is now recognized as the upper-mantle source of mid-ocean-ridge basalts1. However, geochemical modelling and the occurrence of high 3He/4He (that is, primordial) signatures in some volcanic rocks suggest that volumes of relatively undifferentiated mantle may reside in deeper, isolated regions2. Some basalts from large igneous provinces may provide temporally restricted glimpses of the most primitive parts of the mantle3,4, but key questions regarding the longevity of such sources on planetary timescales-and whether any survive today-remain unresolved. Kimberlites, small-volume volcanic rocks that are the source of most diamonds, offer rare insights into aspects of the composition of the Earth's deep mantle. The radiogenic isotope ratios of kimberlites of different ages enable us to map the evolution of this domain through time. Here we show that globally distributed kimberlites originate from a single homogeneous reservoir with an isotopic composition that is indicative of a uniform and pristine mantle source, which evolved in isolation over at least 2.5 billion years of Earth history-to our knowledge, the only such reservoir that has been identified to date. Around 200 million years ago, extensive volumes of the same source were perturbed, probably as a result of contamination by exogenic material. The distribution of affected kimberlites suggests that this event may be related to subduction along the margin of the Pangaea supercontinent. These results reveal a long-lived and globally extensive mantle reservoir that underwent subsequent disruption, possibly heralding a marked change to large-scale mantle-mixing regimes. These processes may explain why uncontaminated primordial mantle is so difficult to identify in recent mantle-derived melts.
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- Jon Woodhead
- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham, UK
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Holwell DA, Fiorentini M, McDonald I, Lu Y, Giuliani A, Smith DJ, Keith M, Locmelis M. A metasomatized lithospheric mantle control on the metallogenic signature of post-subduction magmatism. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3511. [PMID: 31383863 PMCID: PMC6683204 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11065-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Ore deposits are loci on Earth where energy and mass flux are greatly enhanced and focussed, acting as magnifying lenses into metal transport, fractionation and concentration mechanisms through the lithosphere. Here we show that the metallogenic architecture of the lithosphere is illuminated by the geochemical signatures of metasomatised mantle rocks and post-subduction magmatic-hydrothermal mineral systems. Our data reveal that anomalously gold and tellurium rich magmatic sulfides in mantle-derived magmas emplaced in the lower crust share a common metallogenic signature with upper crustal porphyry-epithermal ore systems. We propose that a trans-lithospheric continuum exists whereby post-subduction magmas transporting metal-rich sulfide cargoes play a fundamental role in fluxing metals into the crust from metasomatised lithospheric mantle. Therefore, ore deposits are not merely associated with isolated zones where serendipitous happenstance has produced mineralisation. Rather, they are depositional points along the mantle-to-upper crust pathway of magmas and hydrothermal fluids, synthesising the concentrated metallogenic budget available.
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- David A Holwell
- Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
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- Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth Sciences, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth Sciences, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
- Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA, 6004, Australia
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- School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
- GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Geosciences & Geological & Petroleum Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA
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Azzolini O, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Chiesa D, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. Final Result of CUPID-0 Phase-I in the Search for the ^{82}Se Neutrinoless Double-β Decay. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:032501. [PMID: 31386478 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.032501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Revised: 06/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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CUPID-0 is the first pilot experiment of CUPID, a next-generation project for the measurement of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νDBD) with scintillating bolometers. The detector, consisting of 24 enriched and 2 natural ZnSe crystals, has been taking data at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso from June 2017 to December 2018, collecting a ^{82}Se exposure of 5.29 kg×yr. In this Letter we present the phase-I results in the search for 0νDBD. We demonstrate that the technology implemented by CUPID-0 allows us to reach the lowest background for calorimetric experiments: (3.5_{-0.9}^{+1.0})×10^{-3} counts/(keV kg yr). Monitoring 3.88×10^{25} ^{82}Se nuclei×yr we reach a 90% credible interval median sensitivity of T_{1/2}^{0ν}>5.0×10^{24} yr and set the most stringent limit on the half-life of ^{82}Se 0νDBD: T_{1/2}^{0ν}>3.5×10^{24} yr (90% credible interval), corresponding to m_{ββ}<(311-638) meV depending on the nuclear matrix element calculations.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell'Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Romano L, Schietroma M, Giuliani A, Vicentini V, Carlei F. Correlation between neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio and postoperative infectious complications after pancreatoduodenectomy for carcinoma of the pancreas head. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz155.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Stabile A, Marinucci L, Balloni S, Giuliani A, Pistilli A, Bodo M, Rende M. Long term effects of cigarette smoke extract or nicotine on nerve growth factor and its receptors in a bronchial epithelial cell line. Toxicol In Vitro 2018; 53:29-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2018.07.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Revised: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Bossio E, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D’Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Domizio SD, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Search of the neutrino-less double beta decay of 82 Se into the excited states of 82 Kr with CUPID-0. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2018; 78:888. [PMID: 30881205 PMCID: PMC6394250 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6340-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 10/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The CUPID-0 experiment searches for double beta decay using cryogenic calorimeters with double (heat and light) read-out. The detector, consisting of 24 ZnSe crystals 95 % enriched in 82 Se and two natural ZnSe crystals, started data-taking in 2017 at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. We present the search for the neutrino-less double beta decay of 82 Se into the 0 1 + , 2 1 + and 2 2 + excited states of 82 Kr with an exposure of 5.74 kg · yr (2.24 × 10 25 emitters · yr). We found no evidence of the decays and set the most stringent limits on the widths of these processes: Γ ( 82 Se → 82 Kr 0 1 + )8.55 × 10 - 24 yr - 1 , Γ ( 82 Se → 82 Kr 2 1 + ) < 6.25 × 10 - 24 yr - 1 , Γ ( 82 Se → 82 Kr 2 2 + )8.25 × 10 - 24 yr - 1 (90 % credible interval).
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- O. Azzolini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Present Address: Fundacion ARAID and U. Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padova Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Physik Department, Technische Universität München, D85748 Garching, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Bossio E, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D’Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Domizio SD, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. Analysis of cryogenic calorimeters with light and heat read-out for double beta decay searches. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2018; 78:734. [PMID: 30839752 PMCID: PMC6190965 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6202-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The suppression of spurious events in the region of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay will play a major role in next generation experiments. The background of detectors based on the technology of cryogenic calorimeters is expected to be dominated by α particles, that could be disentangled from double beta decay signals by exploiting the difference in the emission of the scintillation light. CUPID-0, an array of enriched Zn 82 Se scintillating calorimeters, is the first large mass demonstrator of this technology. The detector started data-taking in 2017 at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso with the aim of proving that dual read-out of light and heat allows for an efficient suppression of the α background. In this paper we describe the software tools we developed for the analysis of scintillating calorimeters and we demonstrate that this technology allows to reach an unprecedented background for cryogenic calorimeters.
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- O. Azzolini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Present Address: Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
- Present Address: Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6 Canada
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A. Science 2018; 361:science.aat1378. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aat1378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 451] [Impact Index Per Article: 75.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Previous detections of individual astrophysical sources of neutrinos are limited to the Sun and the supernova 1987A, whereas the origins of the diffuse flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos remain unidentified. On 22 September 2017, we detected a high-energy neutrino, IceCube-170922A, with an energy of ~290 tera–electron volts. Its arrival direction was consistent with the location of a known γ-ray blazar, TXS 0506+056, observed to be in a flaring state. An extensive multiwavelength campaign followed, ranging from radio frequencies to γ-rays. These observations characterize the variability and energetics of the blazar and include the detection of TXS 0506+056 in very-high-energy γ-rays. This observation of a neutrino in spatial coincidence with a γ-ray–emitting blazar during an active phase suggests that blazars may be a source of high-energy neutrinos.
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D'Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Di Domizio S, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Marini L, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Reindl F, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova AS. First Result on the Neutrinoless Double-β Decay of ^{82}Se with CUPID-0. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:232502. [PMID: 29932707 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.232502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Revised: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We report the result of the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{82}Se obtained with CUPID-0, the first large array of scintillating Zn^{82}Se cryogenic calorimeters implementing particle identification. We observe no signal in a 1.83 kg yr ^{82}Se exposure, and we set the most stringent lower limit on the 0νββ ^{82}Se half-life T_{1/2}^{0ν}>2.4×10^{24} yr (90% credible interval), which corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass m_{ββ}<(376-770) meV depending on the nuclear matrix element calculations. The heat-light readout provides a powerful tool for the rejection of α particles and allows us to suppress the background in the region of interest down to (3.6_{-1.4}^{+1.9})×10^{-3} counts/(keV kg yr), an unprecedented level for this technique.
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- O Azzolini
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- CNRS/CSNSM, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell'Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, I-35020 Legnaro (Pd), Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi (AQ), Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Peraldo-Neia C, Ostano P, Cavalloni G, Pignochino Y, Sangiolo D, De Cecco L, Marchesi E, Ribero D, Scarpa A, De Rose AM, Giuliani A, Calise F, Raggi C, Invernizzi P, Aglietta M, Chiorino G, Leone F. Transcriptomic analysis and mutational status of IDH1 in paired primary-recurrent intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:440. [PMID: 29871612 PMCID: PMC5989353 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-4829-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Effective target therapies for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) have not been identified so far. One of the reasons may be the genetic evolution from primary (PR) to recurrent (REC) tumors. We aim to identify peculiar characteristics and to select potential targets specific for recurrent tumors. Eighteen ICC paired PR and REC tumors were collected from 5 Italian Centers. Eleven pairs were analyzed for gene expression profiling and 16 for mutational status of IDH1. For one pair, deep mutational analysis by Next Generation Sequencing was also carried out. An independent cohort of patients was used for validation. Results Two class-paired comparison yielded 315 differentially expressed genes between REC and PR tumors. Up-regulated genes in RECs are involved in RNA/DNA processing, cell cycle, epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), resistance to apoptosis, and cytoskeleton remodeling. Down-regulated genes participate to epithelial cell differentiation, proteolysis, apoptotic, immune response, and inflammatory processes. A 24 gene signature is able to discriminate RECs from PRs in an independent cohort; FANCG is statistically associated with survival in the chol-TCGA dataset. IDH1 was mutated in the RECs of five patients; 4 of them displayed the mutation only in RECs. Deep sequencing performed in one patient confirmed the IDH1 mutation in REC. Conclusions RECs are enriched for genes involved in EMT, resistance to apoptosis, and cytoskeleton remodeling. Key players of these pathways might be considered druggable targets in RECs. IDH1 is mutated in 30% of RECs, becoming both a marker of progression and a target for therapy. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-018-4829-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- C Peraldo-Neia
- Medical Oncology Division, Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO, IRCCS, Str. Prov. 142, km 3.95, 10060, Candiolo, Turin, Italy. .,Cancer Genomics Lab, Fondazione Edo ed Elvo Tempia Valenta, Biella, Italy.
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- Cancer Genomics Lab, Fondazione Edo ed Elvo Tempia Valenta, Biella, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Division, Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO, IRCCS, Str. Prov. 142, km 3.95, 10060, Candiolo, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Division, Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO, IRCCS, Str. Prov. 142, km 3.95, 10060, Candiolo, Turin, Italy.,Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
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- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Applied Research and Technology Development, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Applied Research and Technology Development, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Hepatobilio-Pancreatic and Colorectal Surgery, Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO, IRCCS, Str. Prov. 142, km 3.95, Candiolo, Italy
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- ARC-Net Research Centre and Department of Diagnostics and Public Health - Section of Pathology, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Gemelli Hospital, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Health's Sciences and Medicine "V. Tiberio", University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
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- Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Unit, Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy
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- Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy.,Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Firenze, Florence, Italy
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- Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Italy.,UOC di Gastroenterologia, Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo, Monza, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Division, Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO, IRCCS, Str. Prov. 142, km 3.95, 10060, Candiolo, Turin, Italy.,Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
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- Cancer Genomics Lab, Fondazione Edo ed Elvo Tempia Valenta, Biella, Italy
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- Medical Oncology Division, Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO, IRCCS, Str. Prov. 142, km 3.95, 10060, Candiolo, Turin, Italy. .,Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
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Azzolini O, Barrera MT, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Beretta M, Biassoni M, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Canonica L, Capelli S, Cardani L, Carniti P, Casali N, Cassina L, Clemenza M, Cremonesi O, Cruciani A, D’Addabbo A, Dafinei I, Domizio SD, Ferroni F, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Gotti C, Keppel G, Martinez M, Morganti S, Nagorny S, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Orlandi D, Pagnanini L, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Puiu A, Reindl F, Rusconi C, Schäffner K, Tomei C, Vignati M, Zolotarova A. CUPID-0: the first array of enriched scintillating bolometers for 0 ν β β decay investigations. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2018; 78:428. [PMID: 30996670 PMCID: PMC6435222 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5896-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The CUPID-0 detector hosted at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, is the first large array of enriched scintillating cryogenic detectors for the investigation of82 Se neutrinoless double-beta decay ( 0 ν β β ). CUPID-0 aims at measuring a background index in the region of interest (RoI) for 0 ν β β at the level of 10- 3 counts/(keV kg years), the lowest value ever measured using cryogenic detectors. CUPID-0 operates an array of Zn82 Se scintillating bolometers coupled with bolometric light detectors, with a state of the art technology for background suppression and thorough protocols and procedures for the detector preparation and construction. In this paper, the different phases of the detector design and construction will be presented, from the material selection (for the absorber production) to the new and innovative detector structure. The successful construction of the detector lead to promising preliminary detector performance which is discussed here.
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- O. Azzolini
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, 80805 Munich, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DiSAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, 35020 Legnaro, Padua Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
- Institut fur Hochenergiephysik der AW, 1050 Wien, Austria
- Atominstitut, Technical University Vienna, 1020 Wien, Austria
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CEA-Saclay, DSM/IRFU, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Alduino C, Alessandria F, Alfonso K, Andreotti E, Arnaboldi C, Avignone FT, Azzolini O, Balata M, Bandac I, Banks TI, Bari G, Barucci M, Beeman JW, Bellini F, Benato G, Bersani A, Biare D, Biassoni M, Bragazzi F, Branca A, Brofferio C, Bryant A, Buccheri A, Bucci C, Bulfon C, Camacho A, Caminata A, Canonica L, Cao XG, Capelli S, Capodiferro M, Cappelli L, Cardani L, Cariello M, Carniti P, Carrettoni M, Casali N, Cassina L, Cereseto R, Ceruti G, Chiarini A, Chiesa D, Chott N, Clemenza M, Conventi D, Copello S, Cosmelli C, Cremonesi O, Crescentini C, Creswick RJ, Cushman JS, D'Addabbo A, D'Aguanno D, Dafinei I, Datskov V, Davis CJ, Del Corso F, Dell'Oro S, Deninno MM, Di Domizio S, Di Vacri ML, Di Paolo L, Drobizhev A, Ejzak L, Faccini R, Fang DQ, Faverzani M, Ferri E, Ferroni F, Fiorini E, Franceschi MA, Freedman SJ, Fujikawa BK, Gaigher R, Giachero A, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Gladstone L, Goett J, Gorla P, Gotti C, Guandalini C, Guerzoni M, Gutierrez TD, Haller EE, Han K, Hansen EV, Heeger KM, Hennings-Yeomans R, Hickerson KP, Huang HZ, Iannone M, Ioannucci L, Kadel R, Keppel G, Kogler L, Kolomensky YG, Leder A, Ligi C, Lim KE, Liu X, Ma YG, Maiano C, Maino M, Marini L, Martinez M, Martinez Amaya C, Maruyama RH, Mei Y, Moggi N, Morganti S, Mosteiro PJ, Nagorny SS, Napolitano T, Nastasi M, Nisi S, Nones C, Norman EB, Novati V, Nucciotti A, Nutini I, O'Donnell T, Olcese M, Olivieri E, Orio F, Orlandi D, Ouellet JL, Pagliarone CE, Pallavicini M, Palmieri V, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Pedretti M, Pedrotta R, Pelosi A, Pessina G, Pettinacci V, Piperno G, Pira C, Pirro S, Pozzi S, Previtali E, Reindl F, Rimondi F, Risegari L, Rosenfeld C, Rossi C, Rusconi C, Sakai M, Sala E, Salvioni C, Sangiorgio S, Santone D, Schaeffer D, Schmidt B, Schmidt J, Scielzo ND, Singh V, Sisti M, Smith AR, Stivanello F, Taffarello L, Tatananni L, Tenconi M, Terranova F, Tessaro M, Tomei C, Ventura G, Vignati M, Wagaarachchi SL, Wallig J, Wang BS, Wang HW, Welliver B, Wilson J, Wilson K, Winslow LA, Wise T, Zanotti L, Zarra C, Zhang GQ, Zhu BX, Zimmermann S, Zucchelli S. First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via 0νββ Decay of ^{130}Te. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:132501. [PMID: 29694201 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.132501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
The CUORE experiment, a ton-scale cryogenic bolometer array, recently began operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. The array represents a significant advancement in this technology, and in this work we apply it for the first time to a high-sensitivity search for a lepton-number-violating process: ^{130}Te neutrinoless double-beta decay. Examining a total TeO_{2} exposure of 86.3 kg yr, characterized by an effective energy resolution of (7.7±0.5) keV FWHM and a background in the region of interest of (0.014±0.002) counts/(keV kg yr), we find no evidence for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Including systematic uncertainties, we place a lower limit on the decay half-life of T_{1/2}^{0ν}(^{130}Te)>1.3×10^{25} yr (90% C.L.); the median statistical sensitivity of this search is 7.0×10^{24} yr. Combining this result with those of two earlier experiments, Cuoricino and CUORE-0, we find T_{1/2}^{0ν}(^{130}Te)>1.5×10^{25} yr (90% C.L.), which is the most stringent limit to date on this decay. Interpreting this result as a limit on the effective Majorana neutrino mass, we find m_{ββ}<(110-520) meV, where the range reflects the nuclear matrix element estimates employed.
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- C Alduino
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell'Insubria, Como I-22100, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - L Di Paolo
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - A Drobizhev
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - L Ejzak
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
| | - R Faccini
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - D Q Fang
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
| | - M Faverzani
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - M A Franceschi
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - R Gaigher
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - A Giuliani
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - J Goett
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - P Gorla
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
| | - M Guerzoni
- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
| | - T D Gutierrez
- Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California 93407, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INPAC and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - L Ioannucci
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - C Ligi
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
| | - C Maiano
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - M Maino
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - L Marini
- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - M Martinez
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Astroparticulas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain
| | - C Martinez Amaya
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
| | - R H Maruyama
- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
| | - S Morganti
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - T Napolitano
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati (Roma) I-00044, Italy
| | - M Nastasi
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - S Nisi
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Service de Physique des Particules, CEA / Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - E B Norman
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - E Olivieri
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - D Orlandi
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - J L Ouellet
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - C E Pagliarone
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino I-03043, Italy
| | - M Pallavicini
- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
| | - V Palmieri
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
| | - L Pattavina
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - M Pavan
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy
| | - A Pelosi
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - S Pozzi
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - E Previtali
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - F Reindl
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell'Insubria, Como I-22100, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - S Sangiorgio
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
| | - D Santone
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Legnaro (Padova) I-35020, Italy
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- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
| | - M Tenconi
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - F Terranova
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - M Tessaro
- INFN - Sezione di Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy
| | - C Tomei
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - G Ventura
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
- INFN - Sezione di Firenze, Firenze I-50125, Italy
| | - M Vignati
- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, Italy
| | - S L Wagaarachchi
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Wright Laboratory, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - C Zarra
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
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- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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Abstract
Penetration and abscess formation in an adjacent parenchymal organ as presentation of a colon cancer is very uncommon. We report a rare case of pyogenic liver abscess as the first manifestation of an infiltrative and penetrating hepatic flexure colon carcinoma without liver metastases. A 50-year-old woman was admitted with right abdominal pain, fever and chills. The initial diagnosis was a pyogenic liver abscess. Subsequent CT scan and colonoscopy evidenced a hepatic flexure colon cancer abscessed within segment 6 of the liver. Eight months after a right colectomy and liver resection there was no evidence of disease. The occurrence of a pyogenic liver abscess should raise the suspicion of a silent colon cancer.
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- Andrea Giuliani
- Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, Policlinico Umberto I, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, Policlinico Umberto I, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, Policlinico Umberto I, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, Policlinico Umberto I, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, Policlinico Umberto I, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Surgery “Pietro Valdoni”, Policlinico Umberto I, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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