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View article: Frequency-dependent antenna patterns for a gravitational wave interferometer - triangular design
Frequency-dependent antenna patterns for a gravitational wave interferometer - triangular design Open
This Mathematica notebook defines the frequency - dependent antenna patterns for a gravitational interferometer with triangular design like the planned Einstein Telescope (ET) [1]. Frequencies are given in units of the Free Spectral Range …
View article: An Easy-to-Use Tool to Predict SARS-CoV-2 Risk of Infection in Closed Settings: Validation with the Use of an Individual-Based Monte Carlo Simulation
An Easy-to-Use Tool to Predict SARS-CoV-2 Risk of Infection in Closed Settings: Validation with the Use of an Individual-Based Monte Carlo Simulation Open
The dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic showed that closed environments, such as hospitals and schools, are more likely to host infection clusters due to environmental variables like humidity, ventilation, and overcrowding. This study aime…
View article: Wavelet-based tools to analyze, filter, and reconstruct transient gravitational-wave signals
Wavelet-based tools to analyze, filter, and reconstruct transient gravitational-wave signals Open
The analysis of gravitational-wave (GW) signals is one of the most\nchallenging application areas of signal processing. Wavelet transforms are\nspecially helpful in detecting and analyzing GW transients and several analysis\npipelines are …
View article: Constraints on the amplitude of gravitational wave echoes from black hole ringdown using minimal assumptions
Constraints on the amplitude of gravitational wave echoes from black hole ringdown using minimal assumptions Open
Gravitational wave echoes may appear following a compact binary coalescence if the remnant is an “exotic compact object.” Exotic compact objects are proposed alternatives to the black holes of Einstein’s general relativity theory and are p…
View article: Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo run with coherent WaveBurst enhanced by machine learning
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo run with coherent WaveBurst enhanced by machine learning Open
This paper presents a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave (GW) transients (or GW bursts) in the data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We use a coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline enhanced wit…
View article: Constraints on the amplitude of gravitational wave echoes from black hole ring-down using minimal assumptions
Constraints on the amplitude of gravitational wave echoes from black hole ring-down using minimal assumptions Open
Gravitational wave echoes may appear following a compact binary coalescence if the remnant is an "exotic compact object" (ECO). ECOs are proposed alternatives to the black holes of Einstein's general relativity theory and are predicted to …
View article: Underground Tests of Quantum Mechanics by the VIP Collaboration at Gran Sasso
Underground Tests of Quantum Mechanics by the VIP Collaboration at Gran Sasso Open
Modern physics lays its foundations on the pillars of Quantum Mechanics (QM), which has been proven successful to describe the microscopic world of atoms and particles, leading to the construction of the Standard Model. Despite the big suc…
View article: Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo run with coherent WaveBurst enhanced by Machine Learning
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo run with coherent WaveBurst enhanced by Machine Learning Open
This paper presents a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave (GW) transients (or GW bursts) in the data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We use coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline enhanced with …
View article: High Sensitivity Pauli Exclusion Principle Tests by the VIP Experiment: Status and Perspectives
High Sensitivity Pauli Exclusion Principle Tests by the VIP Experiment: Status and Perspectives Open
The VIP Collaboration is performing high sensitivity tests of the Pauli exclusion principle for electrons in the extremely-low cosmic background environment of the Gran Sasso underground National Laboratory of INFN. In its open-systems con…
View article: Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle with the VIP-2 Experiment
Testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle with the VIP-2 Experiment Open
Violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP), albeit small, could be motivated by physics beyond the Standard Model, ranging from violation of Lorentz invariance to extra space dimensions. This scenario can be experimentally constrain…
View article: Search for binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO-Virgo using coherent WaveBurst enhanced with machine learning
Search for binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO-Virgo using coherent WaveBurst enhanced with machine learning Open
In this work, we use the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline enhanced with machine learning (ML) to search for binary black hole (BBH) mergers in the Advanced LIGO-Virgo strain data from the third observing run. We detect, with equivalent or…
View article: Underground tests of Quantum Mechanics at Gran Sasso
Underground tests of Quantum Mechanics at Gran Sasso Open
Quantum mechanics is a cornerstone of modern physics and at the very basis of the Standard\nModel. However, decades-old open questions at its foundations, such as the "measurement\nproblem" and the wave function collapse are still with us.…
View article: Testing Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons at the LNGS underground laboratory: The VIP-2 experiment
Testing Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons at the LNGS underground laboratory: The VIP-2 experiment Open
The VIP-2 experiment tests the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) for electrons at the Gran Sasso underground National Laboratory (LNGS) of INFN in Italy, looking for a possible violation. The LNGS provide an extremely low background environm…
View article: Analysis methods used and planned for VIP-2
Analysis methods used and planned for VIP-2 Open
VIP-2 (VIolation of Pauli exclusion principle - 2) is an underground experiment sited in the underground “Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.” It aims to investigate possible violations of the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) and, in this …
View article: Minimally-modeled search of higher multipole gravitational-wave radiation in compact binary coalescences
Minimally-modeled search of higher multipole gravitational-wave radiation in compact binary coalescences Open
As the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers, soon to be joined by the KAGRA interferometer, increase their sensitivity, they detect an ever-larger number of gravitational waves with a significant presence of higher multipoles (…
View article: A toy model for the auditory system that exploits stochastic resonance
A toy model for the auditory system that exploits stochastic resonance Open
The transduction process that occurs in the inner ear of the auditory system is a complex mechanism which requires a non-linear dynamical description. In addition to this, the stochastic phenomena that naturally arise in the inner ear duri…
View article: The search of higher multipole radiation in gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences by a minimally-modelled pipeline
The search of higher multipole radiation in gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences by a minimally-modelled pipeline Open
The coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline implements a minimally-modelled search to find a coherent response in the network of gravitational wave detectors of the LIGO-Virgo Col-laboration in the time-frequency domain. In this manuscript, we p…
View article: Minimally-modeled search of higher multipole gravitational-wave radiation in compact binary coalescence
Minimally-modeled search of higher multipole gravitational-wave radiation in compact binary coalescence Open
As the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers, soon to be joined by the KAGRA interferometer, increase their sensitivity, they detect an ever-larger number of gravitational waves with a significant presence of higher multipoles i…
View article: Observing an intermediate-mass black hole GW190521 with minimal assumptions
Observing an intermediate-mass black hole GW190521 with minimal assumptions Open
On May 21, 2019 the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors observed a gravitational-wave transient GW190521, the heaviest binary black-hole merger detected to date with remnant mass of 142 Mm that was published recently. This observati…
View article: Semi-Analytical Monte Carlo Method to Simulate the Signal of the VIP-2 Experiment
Semi-Analytical Monte Carlo Method to Simulate the Signal of the VIP-2 Experiment Open
The VIP-2 collaboration runs an apparatus in the Gran Sasso underground laboratories of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) designed to search for anomalous X-rays from electron-atom interactions due to violations of the funda…
View article: High Sensitivity Quantum Mechanics Tests in the Cosmic Silence
High Sensitivity Quantum Mechanics Tests in the Cosmic Silence Open
The VIP experiment aims to perform high-precision tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons in the extremely low cosmic background environment of the Underground Gran Sasso Laboratories of INFN (Italy). The experimental techniqu…
View article: VIP-2 —High-Sensitivity Tests on the Pauli Exclusion Principle for Electrons
VIP-2 —High-Sensitivity Tests on the Pauli Exclusion Principle for Electrons Open
The VIP collaboration is performing high sensitivity tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons in the extremely low cosmic background environment of the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory INFN (Italy). In particular, the…
View article: High precision test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons
High precision test of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons Open
The VIP collaboration is performing high precision tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons in the extremely low cosmic background environment of the Underground Gran Sasso Laboratories of INFN (Italy). The experimental techniq…
View article: Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis
Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis Open
coherent WaveBurst (cWB) is a highly configurable pipeline designed to detect a broad range of gravitational-wave (GW) transients in the data of the worldwide network of GW detectors. The algorithmic core of cWB is a time-frequency analysi…
View article: The key role of the Silicon Drift Detectors in testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons: the VIP-2 experiment
The key role of the Silicon Drift Detectors in testing the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons: the VIP-2 experiment Open
The VIP experiment performed an accurate investigation of the Pauli Exclusion Principle for electrons. The apparatus was installed in the Gran Sasso Laboratories of the National Institute of Nuclear Physic in Italy, an underground environm…
View article: The control of acidity in tumor cells: a biophysical model
The control of acidity in tumor cells: a biophysical model Open
Acidosis of the tumor microenvironment leads to cancer invasion, progression and resistance to therapies. We present a biophysical model that describes how tumor cells regulate intracellular and extracellular acidity while they grow in a m…