Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE)
L’Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) és un consorci de la Generalitat de Catalunya i la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) creat l’any 1991. Ha estat mereixedor de la menció ‘Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa’ en dues ocasions.

L'IFAE realitza investigacions, tant teòriques com experimentals, en la frontera de la física fonamental (física d'altes energies, astrofísica i cosmologia) i també en diverses àrees de la física aplicada, com la imatge mèdica i la computació quàntica. Per a això, acull més de 100 investigadors d'origen internacional.

L'IFAE és un centre d'investigació CERCA i és membre del Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).

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2025-11-10
09:23
16 p, 2.3 MB Cosmic muon flux attenuation methods for superconducting qubit experiments / Bertoldo, Elia (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Pérez Sánchez, Victor (Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc) ; Martínez, Maria (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Martínez Rodríguez, Manel (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Khalife, Hawraa (Université Paris-Saclay) ; Forn-Díaz, Pol (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies)
We propose and demonstrate two practical mitigation methods to attenuate the cosmic muon flux, compatible with experiments involving superconducting qubits: shallow underground sites and device orientation. [...]
2025 - 10.1088/1367-2630/adaedc
New journal of physics, Vol. 27 (February 2025) , art. 023014  
2025-10-21
06:05
8 p, 5.4 MB TlCl:Be,I : a high sensitivity scintillation and Cherenkov radiator for TOF-PET / Kratochwil, Nicolaus (European Organization for Nuclear Research. Department of Experimental Physics Department) ; Kaneshige, Nathaniel (Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc.) ; Terragni, Giulia (European Organization for Nuclear Research. Department of Experimental Physics Department) ; Cala, Roberto (European Organization for Nuclear Research. Department of Experimental Physics Department) ; Schott, Jared (Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc.) ; van Loef, Edgar (Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc.) ; Soundara Pandian, Lakshmi (Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc.) ; Roncali, Emilie (University of California at Davis. Department of Biomedical Engineering) ; Glodo, Jaroslaw (Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc.) ; Auffray, Etiennette (European Organization for Nuclear Research. Department of Experimental Physics Department) ; Ariño-Estrada, Gerard (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies)
The material requirements for gamma-ray detectors for medical imaging applications are multi-fold and sensitivity is often overlooked. High effective atomic number (Z) Cherenkov radiators have raised the attention in the community due to their potential for harvesting prompt photons. [...]
2025 - 10.1109/trpms.2024.3487359
IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences, Vol. 9, no. 3 (March 2025) , p. 296-303  
2025-10-09
14:08
9 p, 683.3 KB A theoretical analysis of the semileptonic decays η(')→ πl+l- and η'→ ηl+l- / Escribano, Rafel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física.) ; Royo, Emilio (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies)
A complete theoretical analysis of the C- conserving semileptonic decays η→ πll and η→ ηll (l= e or μ) is carried out within the framework of the Vector Meson Dominance (VMD) model. An existing phenomenological model is used to parametrise the VMD coupling constants and the associated numerical values are obtained from an optimisation fit to V→ Pγ and P→ Vγ radiative decays (V= ρ, ω, ϕ and P= π, η, η). [...]
2020 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08748-4
The European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Vol. 80 (December 2020) , art. 1190  
2025-10-09
14:08
13 p, 1.5 MB Sensitivity of the η (') →π0γγ and η' →ηγγ decays to a sub-GeV leptophobic U (1)B boson / Escribano, Rafel (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Gonzàlez-Solís, Sergi (Los Alamos National Laboratory) ; Royo, Emilio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
The sensitivity of the rare decays η(')→π0γγ and η'→ηγγ to signatures of a leptophobic B boson in the MeV-GeV mass range is analyzed in this work. By adding an explicit B-boson resonance exchange, η→Bγ→π0γγ, to the Standard Model contributions from vector and scalar meson exchanges, and employing experimental data for the associated branching ratios, it allows us to improve the current constraints on the B-boson mass mB and coupling to Standard Model particles αB. [...]
2022 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.114007
Physical Review D, Vol. 106 (December 2022) , art. 114007  
2025-10-09
14:08
27 p, 1.9 MB On broad Kaluza-Klein gluons / Escribano, Rafel (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Mendizabal, Mikel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) ; Quiros, Mariano (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Royo, Emilio (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies)
In theories with a warped extra dimension, composite fermions, as e. g. the right-handed top quark, can be very strongly coupled to Kaluza-Klein (KK) fields. In particular, the KK gluons in the presence of such composite fields become very broad resonances, thus remarkably modifying their experimental signatures. [...]
2021 - 10.1007/JHEP05(2021)121
Journal of high energy physics, Vol. 2021 (May 2021) , art. 121  
2025-10-09
14:08
14 p, 349.2 KB New-physics signatures via CP violation in η (') → π 0 μ + μ - and η' → ημ + μ - decays / Escribano, Rafel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Royo, Emilio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Sanchez-Puertas, Pablo (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies)
In this work we investigate the prospect of observing new-physics signatures via CP violation in η → πμμ and η' → ημμ decays at the REDTOP experiment. We make use of the SMEFT to parametrise the new-physics CP-violating effects and find that the projected REDTOP statistics are not competitive with respect to nEDM experiments. [...]
2022 - 10.1007/JHEP05(2022)147
Journal of high energy physics, Vol. 2022 (May 2022) , art. 147  
2025-10-09
14:08
7 p, 331.0 KB π0-η-η' mixing from V → Pγ and P → Vγ decays / Escribano, Rafel (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Royo, Emilio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
An enhanced phenomenological model that includes isospin-symmetry breaking is presented in this letter. The model is then used in a number of statistical fits to the most recent experimental data for the radiative transitions VPγ (V=ρ, K, ω, ϕ and P=π, K, η, η) and estimations for the mixing angles amongst the three pseudoscalar states with vanishing third-component of isospin are obtained. [...]
2020 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135534
Physics letters. B, Vol. 807 (August 2020) , art. 135534  
2025-10-09
14:08
12 p, 497.4 KB Theoretical analysis of the doubly radiative decays η (') →π0γγ and η' →ηγγ / Escribano, Rafel (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Gonzàlez-Solís, Sergi (Indiana University) ; Jora, Renata (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering) ; Royo, Emilio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
The scalar and vector meson exchange contributions to the doubly radiative decays η(')→π0γγ and η'→ηγγ are analyzed within the linear sigma model and vector meson dominance frameworks, respectively. [...]
2020 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.034026
Physical Review D, Vol. 102 (August 2020) , art. 34026  
2025-09-30
07:39
15 p, 2.3 MB Improving timing resolution of BGO for TOF-PET : a comparative analysis with and without deep learning / Loignon-Houle, Francis (Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular - CSIC) ; Kratochwil, Nicolaus (University of California Davis. Department of Biomedical Engineering) ; Toussaint, Maxime (Université de Sherbrooke. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology) ; Lowis, Carsten (RWTH Aachen University) ; Ariño-Estrada, Gerard (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; González Martínez, Antonio Javier (Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular - CSIC) ; Auffray, Etiennette (CERN. Department EP-CMX) ; Lecomte, Roger (Université de Sherbrooke. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology)
Background: The renewed interest in BGO scintillators for TOF-PET is driven by the improved Cherenkov photon detection with new blue-sensitive SiPMs. However, the slower scintillation light from BGO causes significant time walk with leading edge discrimination (LED), which degrades the coincidence time resolution (CTR). [...]
2025 - 10.1186/s40658-024-00711-6
EJNMMI Physics, Vol. 12 (January 2025) , art. 2  
2025-07-04
13:06
45 p, 9.6 MB A 1.8 m Class Pathfinder Raman LIDAR for the Northern Site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory-Performance / Bauzá Ruiz, Pedro José (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Blanch Bigas, Oscar (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Calisse, Paolo G. (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory gGmbH) ; Campoy-Ordaz, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Colak, Sidika Merve (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Doro, Michele (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) ; Font, Lluís (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Gaug, Markus (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Grau, Roger (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Kolar, Darko (University of Nova Gorica) ; Maggio, Camilla (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Martínez Rodríguez, Manel (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) ; Stanič, Samo (University of Nova Gorica) ; Ubach, Santiago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física) ; Zavrtanik, Marko (University of Nova Gorica) ; Živec, Miha (University of Nova Gorica)
The Barcelona Raman LIDAR (BRL) will provide continuous monitoring of the aerosol extinction profile along the line of sight of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). It will be located at its Northern site (CTAO-N) on the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos. [...]
2025 - 10.3390/rs17111815
Remote sensing (Basel), Vol. 17, Issue 11 (June 2025) , art. 1815