We review the status and prospects of heavy-ion double charge exchange (HI-DCE)
reactions. Their important role for nuclear reaction, nuclear structure and double beta-decay …

Particle identification techniques are fundamental tools in nuclear physics experiments.
Discriminating particles or nuclei produced in nuclear interactions allows to better …

NUMEN proposes an innovative technique to access the nuclear matrix elements entering
the expression of the lifetime of the double beta decay by cross-section measurements of …

At the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud of INFN (INFN-LNS) in Catania, the construction of the
new Radioactive Ion Beams (RIBs) facility FRAISE (FRAgment In-flight SEparator) has …

While silicon has been a steadfast semiconductor material for the past 50 years, it is now
facing competition from other materials, especially for detector design. In that respect, due to …

Objective. The successful implementation of FLASH radiotherapy in clinical settings, with
typical dose rates> 40 Gy s− 1, requires accurate real-time dosimetry. Approach. Silicon …

The search for neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay is currently a key topic in physics, due
to its possible wide implications for nuclear physics, particle physics, and cosmology. The …

Neutrinos are so far the most elusive known particles, and in the last decades many
sophisticated experiments have been set up in order to clarify several questions about their …

One of the most interesting wide-bandgap semiconductor is 4H-SiC that has an indirect wide-
bandgap of 3.3 eV. This material holds great potential to develop power devices that find …

Following a brief introduction to the roles that a tracking detector fulfills in a particle physics
experiment, the concept of a silicon tracking detector is introduced. The contributors to …