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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]
Abstract
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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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]
Abstract
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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Postiglione U, Batisti Biffignandi G, Corbella M, Merla C, Olivieri E, Petazzoni G, Feil EJ, Bandi C, Cambieri P, Gaiarsa S, Brilli M, Sassera D. Combining Genome Surveillance and Metadata To Characterize the Diversity of Staphylococcus aureus Circulating in an Italian Hospital over a 9-Year Period. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0101023. [PMID: 37458594 PMCID: PMC10433831 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01010-23] [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] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Genomic-based surveillance has greatly improved our ability to track the emergence and spread of high-risk clones, but the full potential of genomic data is only reached when used in conjunction with detailed metadata. Here, we demonstrate the utility of an integrated approach by leveraging a curated collection of clinical and epidemiological metadata of S. aureus in the San Matteo Hospital (Italy) through a semisupervised clustering strategy. We sequenced 226 sepsis S. aureus samples, recovered over a period of 9 years. By using existing antibiotic profiling data, we selected strains that capture the full diversity of the population. Genome analysis revealed 49 sequence types, 16 of which are novel. Comparative genomic analyses of hospital- and community-acquired infection ruled out the existence of genomic features differentiating them, while evolutionary analyses of genes and traits of interest highlighted different dynamics of acquisition and loss between antibiotic resistance and virulence genes. Finally, highly resistant clones belonging to clonal complexes (CC) 8 and 22 were found to be responsible for abundant infections and deaths, while the highly virulent CC30 was responsible for rare but deadly episodes of infections. IMPORTANCE Genome sequencing is an important tool in clinical microbiology, as it allows in-depth characterization of isolates of interest and can propel genome-based surveillance studies. Such studies can benefit from ad hoc methods of sample selection to capture the genomic diversity present in a data set. Here, we present an approach based on clustering of antibiotic resistance profiles that allows optimal sample selection for bacterial genomic surveillance. We apply the method to a 9-year collection of Staphylococcus aureus from a large hospital in northern Italy. Our method allows us to sequence the genomes of a large variety of strains of this important pathogen, which we then leverage to characterize the epidemiology in the hospital and to perform evolutionary analyses on genes and traits of interest. These analyses highlight different dynamics of acquisition and loss between antibiotic resistance and virulence genes.
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- U. Postiglione
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Istituto Zooproflattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna, Pavia, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
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- Department of Bioscience, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Microbiology and Virology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Bioscience, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, 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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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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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]
Abstract
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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Guarnieri G, Bonadonna P, Olivieri E, Schiappoli M. Occupational Asthma Induced by Exposure to Quinoa. J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol 2019; 29:451-452. [PMID: 31283525 DOI: 10.18176/jiaci.0432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- G Guarnieri
- Occupational Medicine, Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Allergy Unit and Asthma Center, Hospital and University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Allergy Unit and Asthma Center, Hospital and University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Allergy Unit and Asthma Center, Hospital and University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Zanzani SA, Pintore E, Olivieri E, Columbano N, Scanu A, Melosu V, Sanna Passino E, Careddu G, Gazzonis AL, Manfredi MT, Garippa G. Ixodid ticks on wild donkeys in a Mediterranean nature reserve (Asinara National Park): diversity and risk factors. Med Vet Entomol 2019; 33:238-246. [PMID: 30569463 DOI: 10.1111/mve.12355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Revised: 10/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
The Sardinian coloured donkey Equus asinus (Perissodactyla: Equidae) and its albino colour morph represent the wildlife species most typical of the island of Asinara. This Mediterranean island represents a favourable context for ticks and tick-borne diseases; however, knowledge of the tick fauna on Asinara is scarce. A total of 106 Sardinian donkeys were inspected for tick infestation from June to November 2015. All ticks found were collected, classified by stage and sex, and identified to species level. The level of infestation of each donkey was determined; both the overall tick infestation and infestations of each detected species were classified on a scale of 1-3 to give an infestation score (IS). Overall, 256 hard ticks were collected from 60 of 106 donkeys (56.6%). Rhipicephalus bursa, Haemaphysalis punctata and Hyalomma marginatum (all: Ixodida: Ixodidae) infested 26.4%, 28.3% and 6.6% of donkeys, respectively. Different variables affected the IS. With reference to overall tick infestation, a higher IS was observed in donkeys grazing on grassland and Mediterranean shrubland and in albino donkeys compared with coloured donkeys. The collected ticks included species involved in the transmission of pathogens to humans, which highlights the risks for public health in a tourist destination such as Asinara National Park.
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- S A Zanzani
- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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- Parco Nazionale dell'Asinara, Sassari, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEVET), Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy
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Veronesi F, Gazzonis AL, Napoli E, Brianti E, Persichetti MF, Santoro A, Zanzani SA, Olivieri E, Diaferia M, Giannetto S, Pennisi MG, Manfredi MT. Corrigendum to "Cross-sectional survey on Tritrichomonas foetus infection in Italian cats" [Vet. Parasitol. Reg. Stud. Rep.] 6C (2016) 14-19]. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports 2019; 16:100284. [PMID: 31027588 DOI: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2019.100284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- F Veronesi
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Gazzonis AL, Zanzani SA, Stradiotto K, Olivieri E, Villa L, Manfredi MT. Toxoplasma gondii Antibodies in Bulk Tank Milk Samples of Caprine Dairy Herds. J Parasitol 2018; 104:560-565. [PMID: 29906217 DOI: 10.1645/17-44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
A major public health issue, Toxoplasma gondii infection can affect humans mainly via the consumption of animal products from certain species, including small ruminants. Therefore, a regular monitoring of the infection in ovine and caprine populations is advisable for the control of human and animal toxoplasmosis. Antibody detection in individual and bulk tank milk (BTM) may represent a valid alternative to serological analysis, in that its collection is easy and does not affect animal welfare. Many serological tools for milk analysis have already been validated for several parasites, including Apicomplexa. Thus, the aim of the present study was to obtain epidemiological data on T. gondii infection through the detection of antibodies in BTM of dairy goat herds from an important area for caprine dairy production (northern Italy). The performance of a commercial ELISA was first evaluated for analysis of caprine milk samples, using a panel of serum-milk pairs of goats naturally infected by T. gondii. The analysis of BTM confirmed the presence of anti- T. gondii antibodies in 59% of the samples. Toxoplasma gondii antibody positivity was more frequently found in goats reared on farms under extensive (64.9%) or semi-intensive systems (68.7%) in comparison with intensive farms (51.1%). Analysis of milk was a valid alternative to serological tests, being easily applied in large-scale epidemiological surveys and for continuous monitoring of T. gondii infection.
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- A L Gazzonis
- 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- 2 Associazione Regionale degli Allevatori della Lombardia, 26013 Crema, Italy
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- 3 Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, 06126 Perugia, Italy
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- 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- 1 Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
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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
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- 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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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, 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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- 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 - 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
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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
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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, Universit Paris-Saclay, 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, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, 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 Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Bologna, Bologna I-40127, Italy
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- 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
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- 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
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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
- 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
| | - Y Mei
- Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
| | - N Moggi
- 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
| | | | - S S Nagorny
- 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
| | - C Nones
- 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
| | - V Novati
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Universit Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
| | - A Nucciotti
- INFN - Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milano I-20126, Italy
| | - I Nutini
- INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila) I-67100, Italy
- INFN - Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
| | - T O'Donnell
- Center for Neutrino Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
| | - M Olcese
- INFN - Sezione di Genova, Genova I-16146, 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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- 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
| | - R Pedrotta
- 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
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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
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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
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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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
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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
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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 Padova, Padova I-35131, Italy
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- INFN - Sezione di Roma, Roma I-00185, 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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- 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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- 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
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- 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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Armengaud E, Augier C, Barabash AS, Beeman JW, Bekker TB, Bellini F, Benoît A, Bergé L, Bergmann T, Billard J, Boiko RS, Broniatowski A, Brudanin V, Camus P, Capelli S, Cardani L, Casali N, Cazes A, Chapellier M, Charlieux F, Chernyak DM, de Combarieu M, Coron N, Danevich FA, Dafinei I, Jesus MD, Devoyon L, Domizio SD, Dumoulin L, Eitel K, Enss C, Ferroni F, Fleischmann A, Foerster N, Gascon J, Gastaldo L, Gironi L, Giuliani A, Grigorieva VD, Gros M, Hehn L, Hervé S, Humbert V, Ivannikova NV, Ivanov IM, Jin Y, Juillard A, Kleifges M, Kobychev VV, Konovalov SI, Koskas F, Kozlov V, Kraus H, Kudryavtsev VA, Laubenstein M, Sueur HL, Loidl M, Magnier P, Makarov EP, Mancuso M, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Marrache-Kikuchi C, Nagorny S, Navick XF, Nikolaichuk MO, Nones C, Novati V, Olivieri E, Pagnanini L, Pari P, Pattavina L, Pavan M, Paul B, Penichot Y, Pessina G, Piperno G, Pirro S, Plantevin O, Poda DV, Queguiner E, Redon T, Rodrigues M, Rozov S, Rusconi C, Sanglard V, Schäffner K, Scorza S, Shlegel VN, Siebenborn B, Strazzer O, Tcherniakhovski D, Tomei C, Tretyak VI, Umatov VI, Vagneron L, Vasiliev YV, Velázquez M, Vignati M, Weber M, Yakushev E, Zolotarova AS. Development of 100 Mo -containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search. Eur Phys J C Part Fields 2017; 77:785. [PMID: 31997932 PMCID: PMC6956908 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5343-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
This paper reports on the development of a technology involving 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Large mass ( ∼ 1 kg ), high optical quality, radiopure 100 Mo -containing zinc and lithium molybdate crystals have been produced and used to develop high performance single detector modules based on 0.2-0.4 kg scintillating bolometers. In particular, the energy resolution of the lithium molybdate detectors near the Q-value of the double-beta transition of 100 Mo (3034 keV) is 4-6 keV FWHM. The rejection of the α -induced dominant background above 2.6 MeV is better than 8 σ . Less than 10 μ Bq/kg activity of 232 Th ( 228 Th ) and 226 Ra in the crystals is ensured by boule recrystallization. The potential of 100 Mo -enriched scintillating bolometers to perform high sensitivity double-beta decay searches has been demonstrated with only 10 kg × d exposure: the two neutrino double-beta decay half-life of 100 Mo has been measured with the up-to-date highest accuracy as T 1 / 2 = [6.90 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.37(syst.)] × 10 18 years . Both crystallization and detector technologies favor lithium molybdate, which has been selected for the ongoing construction of the CUPID-0/Mo demonstrator, containing several kg of 100 Mo .
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- E. Armengaud
- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 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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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- CNRS-Néel, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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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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- 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, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
- Present Address: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba Japan
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
- INFN Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, 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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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS, Route de Nozay, 91460 Marcoussis, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 117218 Moscow, Russia
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, S3 7RH UK
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- DISAT, Università dell’Insubria, 22100 Como, Italy
- Present Address: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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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, 67100 Assergi, AQ 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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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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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, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- IRAMIS, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ 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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- 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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- 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 Frascati, Frascati, 00044 Rome, Italy
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
- Institute for Nuclear Research, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- IAS, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- CEA, LIST, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNE-LNHB), CEA-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
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- Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, 67100 Assergi, AQ Italy
- INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Present Address: SNOLAB, Lively, ON Canada
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Orphée, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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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, IPN-Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region Russia
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- IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Prieto T, De Sá V, Olivieri E, Da Silva E, Reis R, Carraro D, Capelozzi V. P3.15-006 Comprehensive Analysis of EMT Gene Signature in Primary and Metastatic Small Cell and Non-Small Cell Carcinomas of the Lung. J Thorac Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.1796] [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: 10/18/2022]
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Prieto T, De Sá V, Olivieri E, Da Silva E, Reis R, Carraro D, Capelozzi V. MA 01.01 Metastatic Behavior of Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Carcinomas Is Associated with Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition Gene Profile. J Thorac Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.442] [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: 10/18/2022]
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De Sá V, Freitas H, Torrezan G, Olivieri E, De Paula C, Carraro D, De Sa V. OA 07.08 Clinical Potential of Sputum in Detecting Driver Mutations in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Preliminary Study. J Thorac Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.367] [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: 11/30/2022]
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Veronesi F, Gazzonis AL, Napoli E, Brianti E, Santoro A, Zanzani SA, Olivieri E, Diaferia M, Giannetto S, Pennisi MG, Manfredi MT. Cross-sectional survey on Tritrichomonas foetus infection in Italian cats. Vet Parasitol Reg Stud Reports 2016; 6:14-19. [PMID: 31014522 DOI: 10.1016/j.vprsr.2016.11.004] [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: 04/29/2016] [Revised: 08/01/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
The feline genotype of Tritrichomonas foetus is a widespread cause of large-bowel diarrhoea in cats. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of the T. foetus infection in cat populations across Italy. Fresh, individual faecal samples were collected from 267 cats, kept in different environments (i.e., private households, breeding structures, municipal catteries and colonies) in three different sites across Italy. The faecal samples were tested by PCR to detect T. foetus. Moreover, the same samples were subjected to a concentration-flotation technique and a commercial direct fluorescent-antibody (DFA) test to detect additional enteric parasites, including Giardia duodenalis. The overall prevalence of T. foetus infection was 5.2%. All the infected cats showed diarrhoea at the time of sampling: 9 out of 14 positive cats were co-infected with G. duodenalis, 1 with Toxocara cati and 3 with Dipylidium caninum. The risk factor analysis showed that not only the breed, but also co-infections with G. duodenalis and Dipylidium caninum were significantly associated with the presence of T. foetus. This study confirms the presence of T. foetus in cats living in Italy, suggesting that this protozoan parasite should always be included in the differential diagnosis of patients referred with large-bowel disease symptoms, especially if they were purebred animals, or affected by other enteric protozoa, such as G. duodenalis.
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- F Veronesi
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
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Ridolo E, Caffarelli C, Olivieri E, Montagni M, Incorvaia C, Baiardini I, Canonica GW. Quality of sleep in allergic children and their parents. Allergol Immunopathol (Madr) 2015; 43:180-4. [PMID: 24948186 DOI: 10.1016/j.aller.2014.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Revised: 12/27/2013] [Accepted: 01/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Quality of sleep is essential for physical and mental health and influences the perception of the patient's well-being during the day. In patients with chronic allergic diseases sleep disorders may increase the severity of the condition, complicate the management and impair their quality of life. When children are concerned, their parents are also affected by the problem. We evaluated the presence of disrupted sleep in parents of children with atopic disorders, and its relationship with clinical features and the presence of disturbed sleep in children. METHODS Parents of children suffering from allergic diseases were recruited from the Pediatric Allergy Units of Parma University. Evaluation of sleep in parents was based on the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), while in children it was based on the Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children (SDSC). RESULTS Of the 102 parents invited, 92 filled in the questionnaire. Only the questionnaires with more than a 95% completion rate were considered for analysis. PSQI mean score in parents was 6.6 (SD 2.6); 75.6% of them had a PSQI ≥ 5, indicating that most parents had a sleep quality perceived as bad. The PSQI ≥ 5 was more common in parents of children with asthma and rhinitis. In children, SDSC mean score was 42.1 (SD: 9.4); 62.3% had a total score ≥ 39. The quality of sleep in parents and children was significantly correlated (p<0.001). CONCLUSION These findings make it apparent that an alteration of sleep in children can also affect the parents. Such effect further weighs the burden of respiratory allergy and needs to be considered in future studies.
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma 43100, Italy.
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma 43100, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma 43100, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma 43100, Italy
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- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit, ICP Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa 16132, Italy
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- Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Genoa 16132, Italy
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Badiu I, Olivieri E, Montagni M, Guida G, Mietta S, Pizzimenti S, Caminati M, Yacoub MR, Tombetti E, Preziosi D, Quecchia C, Minetti S, Facchetti S, Fassio F, Massaro I, Corradi L, Turi MC, Colagiovanni A, Pascolini L, Rossi FW, Losappio L, Sansone L, Imbesi S, Leto Barone S, Mistrello G, Heffler E. Italian study on buckwheat allergy: prevalence and clinical features of buckwheat-sensitized patients in Italy. Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 2014; 26:801-6. [PMID: 24067481 DOI: 10.1177/039463201302600328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Buckwheat allergy is considered a rare food allergy outside of Asia. In Europe, buckwheat has been described mainly as a hidden allergen. Data on the prevalence of buckwheat hypersensitivity in non-Asian countries is very poor. The aim of this multicenter study was to evaluate the prevalence of buckwheat sensitization and its association with other sensitizations among patients referred to allergy clinics in different geographic areas of Italy. All patients referred to 18 Italian allergy clinics from February through April 2011 were included in the study and evaluated for sensitization to buckwheat and other allergens depending on their clinical history. A total of 1,954 patients were included in the study and 61.3 percent of them were atopic. Mean prevalence of buckwheat sensitization was 3.6 percent with significant difference between Northern (4.5 percent), Central (2.2 percent) and Southern (2.8 percent) regions. This is, to our knowledge, the largest epidemiological survey on buckwheat allergy reported outside of Asia. Buckwheat is an emerging allergen in Italy, being more frequently associated to sensitization in Northern regions.
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- I Badiu
- Junior Member Group of Italian Society of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (SIAIC), Italy
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Shlegel V, Berge L, Boiko R, Chapellier M, Chernyak D, Coron N, Danevich F, Decourt R, Degoda V, Devoyon L, Drillien A, Dumoulin L, Enss C, Fleischmann A, Gastaldo L, Giuliani A, Gros M, Herve S, Ivanov I, Kobychev V, Kogut Y, Koskas F, Loidl M, Magnier P, Makarov E, Mancuso M, de Marcillac P, Marnieros S, Marrache-Kikuchi C, Nasonov S, Navick X, Nones C, Olivieri E, Paul B, Penichot Y, Pessina G, Plantevin O, Poda D, Redon T, Rodrigues M, Strazzer O, Tenconi M, Torres L, Tretyak V, Vasiliev Y, Velazquez M, Viraphong O, Zhdankov V. Purification of molybdenum oxide, growth and characterization of medium size zinc molybdate crystals for the LUMINEU program. EPJ Web of Conferences 2014. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20136503001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Mancuso M, Beeman J, Giuliani A, Dumoulin L, Olivieri E, Pessina G, Plantevin O, Rusconi C, Tenconi M. An experimental study of antireflective coatings in Ge light detectors for scintillating bolometers. EPJ Web of Conferences 2014. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20136504003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Chernyak D, Danevich F, Giuliani A, Mancuso M, Nones C, Olivieri E, Tenconi M, Tretyak V. Rejection of randomly coinciding 2ν2β events in ZnMoO 4scintillating bolometers. EPJ Web of Conferences 2014. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20136504002] [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: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ridolo E, Incorvaia C, Senna GE, Montagni M, Olivieri E, Canonica GW. Allergen immunotherapy: clinical and practical education of Italian trainees in allergy and clinical immunology schools. Eur Ann Allergy Clin Immunol 2013; 45 Suppl 2:49-52. [PMID: 24129088] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We performed a survey, based on a questionnaire including 20 items, submitted anonymously to Italian trainees in Allergology and Clinical Immunology, in order to obtain information about their specific allergen immunotherapy (AIT) practices. The questionnaire was sent to 40 trainees, who had attended the last two years of the training course. Thirty-four subjects (mean age: 27 years, 65% females) adequately completed the survey. The answers to the questionnaire showed that only 60% of the training programs included lectures on AIT. Among the trainees using AIT, only 40% declared being able to prescribe it independently, while 60% were guided by a tutor. Of the trainees who were able to prescribe AIT autonomously, 60% were familiar with both routes of administration, i.e. subcutaneous (SCIT) and sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT), while 25% of these used only SLIT. In 80% of the training institutions involved, the trainees could attend a dedicated AIT outpatient ward for SCIT administration; only 40% administered AIT personally, and in half of these cases, they were guided by a tutor. Only 70% of trainees had experience in the follow-up of patients still under treatment and of patients who had completed treatment. Analysis of the answers obtained for questions on venom immunotherapy (VIT) showed that, in 90% of cases, the trainees attended a dedicated outpatients ward where VIT is administered, but with a role limited to observation/cooperation. Only 30% were involved in the follow-up of patients who were under treatment or who had completed VIT. Only 20% of the trainees felt confident enough about VIT to prescribe this treatment independently, 80% knew there were several administration protocols, and the majority prescribed products from three different manufacturers. These findings suggest that there is significant room for improving the instructions provided regarding allergology and clinical immunology to trainees in Italy with respect to AIT.
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Krepischi A, Carvalho F, Goncalves A, Olivieri E, Fiorini A, Carraro D, Rosenberg C. 563 Genome-wide Profiling of Copy Number Alterations in Triple-negative Breast Cancer Identifies a Region at 19p13 Associated With Lymph Node Metastasis. Eur J Cancer 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(12)71222-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Bonadonna P, Zanotti R, Pagani M, Caruso B, Perbellini O, Colarossi S, Olivieri E, Dama A, Schiappoli M, Senna G, Antico A, Passalacqua G. How much specific is the association between hymenoptera venom allergy and mastocytosis? Allergy 2009; 64:1379-82. [PMID: 19627274 DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2009.02108.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND The preferential association of mastocytosis with hymenoptera sting reactions is well known, but there is no data on the prevalence of clonal mast cell disorders in subjects with severe systemic reactions due to foods or drugs. METHODS Patients with food- or drug-induced severe systemic reactions, including anaphylaxis, and increased serum tryptase were studied for the presence of mastocytosis, and compared with a population of patients with hymenoptera allergy. The aetiological role of foods or drugs was assessed according to current recommendations. Systemic reactions were graded in severity according to the procedure described by Mueller. Serum tryptase was considered increased if the level was >11.4 ng/ml. Subjects with increased tryptase had dermatological evaluation and Bone marrow(BM) aspirate-biopsy, which included histology/cytology, flow cytometry and detection of KIT mutations. RESULTS A total of 137 subjects (57 male, mean age 42 years) were studied. Of them, 86 proved positive for drugs and 51 for foods. Overall, out of 137 patients, only nine (6.6%) had a basal tryptase >11.4 ng/ml, and only two (1.5%) were diagnosed with mastocytosis. This was clearly different from patients with hymenoptera allergy, where 13.9% had elevated tryptase and 11.1% had a clonal mast cell disorder. CONCLUSION The association of clonal mast cell disorders with hymenoptera allergy seems to be more specific than that with food- or drug-induced systemic reactions.
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Cinti F, Affronte M, Lascialfari A, Barucci M, Olivieri E, Pasca E, Rettori A, Risegari L, Ventura G, Pini M, Cuccoli A, Roscilde T, Caneschi A, Gatteschi D, Rovai D. Chiral and helical phase transitions in quasi-1D molecular magnets. Polyhedron 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2005.03.124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Arnaboldi C, Artusa DR, Avignone FT, Balata M, Bandac I, Barucci M, Beeman JW, Brofferio C, Bucci C, Capelli S, Carbone L, Cebrian S, Cremonesi O, Creswick RJ, de Waard A, Farach HA, Fiorini E, Frossati G, Guardincerri E, Giuliani A, Gorla P, Haller EE, McDonald RJ, Morales A, Norman EB, Nucciotti A, Olivieri E, Pallavicini M, Palmieri E, Pasca E, Pavan M, Pedretti M, Pessina G, Pirro S, Previtali E, Risegari L, Rosenfeld C, Sangiorgio S, Sisti M, Smith AR, Torres L, Ventura G. New limit on the neutrinoless betabeta decay of 130Te. Phys Rev Lett 2005; 95:142501. [PMID: 16241648 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.142501] [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: 01/18/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We report the present results of CUORICINO, a search for neutrinoless double-beta (0nu betabeta) decay of 130Te. The detector is an array of 62 TeO2 bolometers with a total active mass of 40.7 kg. The array is cooled by a dilution refrigerator shielded from environmental radioactivity and energetic neutrons, operated at approximately 8 mK in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory. No evidence for (0nu betabeta) decay was found and a new lower limit, T(1/2)(0nu) > or = 1.8 x 10(24) yr (90% C.L.) is set, corresponding to [m(nu)] < or = 0.2 to 1.1 eV, depending on the theoretical nuclear matrix elements used in the analysis.
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- C Arnaboldi
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca e Sezione di Milano dell'INFN, Milan I-20126, Italy
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Herbert B, Galvani M, Hamdan M, Olivieri E, MacCarthy J, Pedersen S, Righetti PG. Reduction and alkylation of proteins in preparation of two-dimensional map analysis: why, when, and how? Electrophoresis 2001; 22:2046-57. [PMID: 11465505 DOI: 10.1002/1522-2683(200106)22:10<2046::aid-elps2046>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The standard procedure adopted up to the present in proteome analysis calls for just reduction prior to the isoelectric focusing/immobilized pH gradient (IEF/IPG) step, followed by a second reduction/alkylation step in between the first and second dimension, in preparation for the sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) step. This protocol is far from being optimal. It is here demonstrated, by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF)-mass spectrometry, that failure to reduce and alkylate proteins prior to any electrophoretic step (including the first dimension) results in a large number of spurious spots in the alkaline pH region, due to "scrambled" disulfide bridges among like and unlike chains. This series of artefactual spots comprises not only dimers, but an impressive series of oligomers (up to nonamers) in the case of simple polypeptides such as the human alpha- and beta-globin chains, which possess only one (alpha-) or two (beta-) -SH groups. As a result, misplaced spots are to be found in the resulting two-dimensional (2-D) map, if performed with the wrong protocol. The number of such artefactual spots can be impressively large. In the case of analysis of complex samples, such as human plasma, it is additionally shown that failure to alkylate proteins results in a substantial loss of spots in the alkaline gel region, possibly due to the fact that these proteins, at their pI, regenerate their disulfide bridges with concomitant formation of macroaggregates which become entangled with and trapped within the polyacrylamide gel fibers. This strongly quenches their transfer in the subsequent SDS-PAGE step.
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- B Herbert
- Proteome Systems, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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The last few years have brought dramatic improvements for sample preparation and solubilization of protein for electrophoretic analyses. The use of reagents such as thiourea and novel sulfobetaine surfactants increases the total number of proteins able to be visualized from a complex mixture such as a cell lysate and also allows more hydrophobic membrane proteins to be resolved. As the red blood cell (RBC) contain no organelles, it is an ideal source of relatively pure plasma membrane for protein solubilization studies. In addition, there are a number of diseases related to abnormalities of RBCs proteins, thus it is of medical relevance as well as a test sample for technology development. However, the procedure for purifying RBC membranes is rather time-consuming and is normally carried out under almost physiological conditions, which can be conducive to proteolytic degradation of the membrane proteins. Significant differences in two-dimensional (2-D) patterns with and without protease inhibitors in sample preparation are demonstrated. In addition, is shown that preparation of RBC membranes with sodium carbonate, pH 11, leads to multimeric complexes of hemoglobin and causes hemoglobin to be irreversibly attached to the membrane. When using immobilized pH gradients (IPG) as the first dimension, it is demonstrated that the spectrins (large, filamentous proteins of 280 kDa) are lost from the 2-D map unless active, instead of passive, sample hydration into the IPG strip is adopted.
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- E Olivieri
- University of Verona, Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, Verona, Italy
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Capillary electrophoresis in acidic, isoelectric buffers is a novel methodology allowing fast protein and peptide analysis in uncoated capillaries. Due to the low pH adopted and to the use of dynamic coating with cellulose derivatives, silanol ionization is essentially suppressed and little interaction of macromolecules with the untreated wall occurs. In addition, due to the low conductivity of quasi-stationary, isoelectric buffers, high-voltage gradients can be applied (up to 800 V/cm) permitting fast peptide analysis with a high resolving power due to minimal diffusional peak spreading. Four such buffers are here described: cysteic acid (Cys-A, pI 1.85), iminodiacetic acid (IDA, pI 2.23), aspartic acid (Asp, pI 2.77) and glutamic acid (Glu, pI 3.22). A number of applications are reported, ranging from food analysis to the study of folding/unfolding transitions of proteins.
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- P G Righetti
- University of Verona, Department of Agricultural & Industrial Biotechnologies, Italy.
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Bossi A, Olivieri E, Castelletti L, Gelfi C, Hamdan M, Righetti PG. General experimental aspects of the use of isoelectric buffers in capillary electrophoresis. J Chromatogr A 1999; 853:71-82. [PMID: 10486714 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(99)00519-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Four acidic, isoelectric buffers, for peptide and protein separations, have been recently described and adopted in capillary zone electrophoresis: cysteic acid [Cys-A, isoelectric point (pI) 1.85], iminodiacetic acid (IDA, pI 2.23), aspartic acid (Asp, pI 2.77) and glutamic acid (Glu, pI 3.22). These four buffers allow to explore an acidic portion of the titration curves of macroions, covering about 1.6 pH units (from pH 1.85 to ca. 3.45), thus permitting resolution of compounds having coincident titration curves at a given pH value. Given the rather acidic pI values of these buffers, their long-term stability has been investigated, by monitoring pH and conductivity changes upon increasing storage times. When dissolved in plain water, all four buffers appear to give constant pH and conductivity readings up to 15 days; after that, the conductivity keeps steadily increasing in a similar fashion. The same parameters, when the same buffers are dissolved in 6 M urea, appear to be stable for only one week, with the conductivity progressively augmenting after this period. A similar behaviour is exhibited by histidine (pI 7.70), a neutral, isoelectric buffer adopted for separation of DNA fragments. By mass spectrometry, Cys-A shows minute amounts (ca. 1%) of a degradation product after ageing for 3 weeks; in the same time period, Glu is extensively degraded (20%). No degradation species could be detected in IDA and Asp solutions. It is additionally shown that the acidic buffers are not quite stationary in the electric field, but can be transported at progressively higher rates (according to the pI value) from the cathodic to the anodic vessel. This is due to the fact that, at their respective pI values, a fraction of the amphotere has to be negatively charged in order to provide counterions to the excess of protons due to bulk water dissociation. Guidelines are given for the proper use and storage of such buffers.
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- A Bossi
- University of Verona, Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, Italy
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Righetti PG, Bossi A, Olivieri E, Gelfi C. Capillary electrophoresis of peptides and proteins in acidic, isoelectric buffers: recent developments. J Biochem Biophys Methods 1999; 40:1-15. [PMID: 10481947 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-022x(99)00010-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The use of isoelectric buffers in capillary zone electrophoresis is here reviewed. Such buffers allow delivery of very high voltage gradients (up to 1000 V/cm in relatively large bore capillaries, e.g. 75-100 microm I.D.), permitting separations of the order of a few minutes and thus conserving (in fact favouring) very high resolution due to minimal, diffusion-driven, peak spreading. Isoelectric Asp (pI 2.77 at 50 mM concentration and 25 degrees C) provides a medium of high resolving power for generating peptide maps. In difficult cases, of coincident titration curves, the pH can be moved up to higher values (e.g. pH 3.0 for 30 mM Asp) thus eliciting separation of unresolved peptides at pH 2.77. This was illustrated by running peptide maps of tryptic digests of human beta globin chains. Also imino diacetic acid (pI 2.33 at 50 mM concentration) allows generation of high resolution peptide maps. Isoelectric Asp, in presence of 7 M urea and 0.5% hydroxyethyl cellulose (Mn = 27 000 Da) is also the preferred medium for fast separation and analysis of storage proteins in cereals, such as gliadins in soft and durum wheat and zeins in maize. A solution of 50 mM iminodiacetic acid (pI 2.23) containing 7 M urea and 0.5% hydroxyethylcellulose (apparent pH 3.2) is effectively used as background electrolyte for fast separation of heme-free, denatured globin (alpha and beta) chains. In the presence of neutral to neutral amino acid substitutions, it is additionally shown that the inclusion of 3% surfactant (Tween 20) in the sample and background electrolyte induces the separation of the wild-type and mutant chains, probably by a mechanism of hydrophobic interaction of the more hydrophobic mutant with the detergent micelle, via a mechanism similar to 'micellar electrokinetic chromatography'.
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- P G Righetti
- University of Verona, Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, Italy.
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Zeins (the prolamins or seed storage proteins in maize) have been used to characterize and identify different genotypes. Zeins were fractionated by capillary zone electrophoresis in acidic, amphoteric buffers, which represent a medium of moderate conductivity and are thus compatible with higher voltage gradients. The running buffer consisted of 40 mM isoelectric aspartic acid, in presence of 6 M urea and 0.5% hydroxyethyl cellulose (apparent pH: 3.8; pI in the absence of urea: 2.77). Thirty-one different zein peaks were mapped out of a total of 21 different maize genotypes. Each of them typically exhibited seven to twelve peaks, with some genotypes showing up to 20 zein bands. Due to slightly changing elution times, caused by a lack of reproducibility of the electroendoosmotic flow in uncoated silica surfaces, correct peak assignment and alignment among different runs was obtained by multivariate statistical analysis. The present method compares well, both in resolution and total number of peaks, with current protocols adopted for screening of maize inbreds, which consist of isoelectric focusing in agarose gels.
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- E Olivieri
- Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, University of Verona, Italy
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Modified capillary zone electrophoresis of zeins in strongly acidic, isoelectric buffers is reported for screening of maize (Zea mays L.) lines. The optimized background electrolyte contained 40 mM aspartic acid (pH = pI = 2.77), 8 M urea and 0.5% short-chain hydroxyethylcellulose (Mn 27000 Da) (apparent pH in 8 M urea: 3.9). Due to the low conductivity of such a buffer (0.7 mmhos), separations can be carried out at 800 V/cm, even in relatively large bore capillaries (50 microm ID), ensuring good sensitivity. The zein patterns thus obtained are species-specific and allow easy identification of all maize lines tested. No adsorption of proteins to the silica wall is observed and high reproducibility in peak areas and transit times is obtained. The relatively slow migration time (ca. 30 min), even under such a high voltage gradient, is attributed to the paucity of basic amino acid residues typical of zeins, leading to an unfavorable charge/ mass ratio due to the modest net positive charge at the operative pH.
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- P G Righetti
- Department of Agricultural and Industrial Biotechnologies, University of Verona, Italy.
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Castillo RJ, Olivieri E, Vega I. Inhibin binding sites in bovine pituitary membranes. Biol Res 1996; 29:183-8. [PMID: 9278708] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Membranes derived from bovine pituitary glands free of the neural lobe were used to investigate the presence of binding sites for inhibin, a glycoprotein produced by the ovarian granulosa cells capable of selectively suppressing FSH secretion from the pituitary gland. Optimal concentration of membranes (400 micrograms prot) and 125I-bovine inhibin (2 nM) were incubated in a medium containing 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.4, 0.01 M MgCl2 and BSA 0.01% in a final assay volume of 200 microliters at 37 degrees C for different time intervals. Non-specific binding was estimated using unlabelled inhibin in excess. The time course of specific 125I-bovine inhibin (2 nM) binding to bovine pituitary membranes is slow with 50% binding at approximately 20 min of incubation and reaching equilibrium at 90 min of incubation. The kinetic analysis shows an apparent pseudo first order association rate constant (Kob) equivalent to 4 x 10(-2) min-1. Following equilibrium with the tracer, a large excess of unlabelled inhibin (1.27 microM) was able to displace 84% of the specific binding within 120 min of incubation and 50% of the binding at approximately 40 min. The analysis under displacing conditions showed an apparent dissociation rate constant (K2) equals to 1.5 x 10(-2) min-1 and an apparent association rate constant (K1) equals to 1.3 x 10(9) M min-1. Thus, the estimation of the apparent kinetic equilibrium dissociation constant (Kd = K2/K2) of the binding of inhibin to bovine pituitary membranes was 1.2 nM. These results show for the first time the existence of bovine inhibin specific binding sites in bovine pituitary, and also that such a binding can take place in the absence of either gonadal and/or hypothalamic influences. They also contribute to the better understanding of the role of non-steroidal hormones such as inhibin, in the regulation of gonadotrophin secretion.
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- R J Castillo
- Institute of Physiology, Southern University of Chile, Valdivia, Chile
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Pampiglione S, Ricciardi ML, Visconti S, Branca A, Olivieri E, Zamberletti A. [Human intestinal parasites in Subsaharan Africa. I. Eastern Boè and Canhabaque Island (Guinea-Bissau)]. Parassitologia 1987; 29:1-13. [PMID: 3508505] [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: 01/06/2023]
Abstract
A coprological survey was carried out in 1982-1983 in East Boè and in Canhabaque Island, (Bijagòs Islands), where 289 and 288 specimens of stools, respectively, have been collected. The samples were taken from apparently healthy subjects, of both sexes and of different age groups. The tests were made according to the modified Ritchie technique. The following results were obtained: A) East Boè: 1) Protozoa: E. coli 68.9%, E. nana 24.6%, G. intestinalis 8.7%, I. buetschlii 5.9%, E. histolytica 1.7%, E. hartmanni 0.7%, T. intestinalis 0.7%. b) Helminths: Ancylostomatidae 69.2%, T. trichiura 38.4%, S. stercoralis 6.2%, Taenia sp. 1.7%, H. nana 0.7%, S. haematobium 0.7%, S. mansoni 0.7%, S. fuelleborni 0.7%. B) Canhabaque: a) Protozoa: E. coli 85.1%, I. buetschlii 14.9%, E. nana 12.5%, G. intestinalis 8.3%, C. mesnili 7.3%, E. hartmanni 1.4%, E. histolytica 1.0%, T. intestinalis 0.4%. b) Helminths: Ancylostomatidae 87.9%, T. trichiura 9.4%, S. stercoralis 7.9%, S. fuelleborni 2.8%, Trichostrongylus sp. 1.4%, A. lumbricoides 0.7%, H. nana 0.4%. Eggs of Capillaria sp. probably pseudoparasites, were found in 8.7% of samples. The high prevalence of Ancylostomatidae infections appears to be related to the heavy fecal pollution all over the examined territory. The utilization of antihelminthic drug of popular medicine, which has a specific action on A. lumbricoides, could explain the lack and the low prevalence, respectively, of A. lumbricoides infections in both examined areas. In the past, other authors emphasized the low prevalence of this parasite for other Guinea Bissau regions which have a different geomorfological constitution. The cases of S. fuelleborni and H. nana are the first reported for Guinea Bissau.
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