Session

Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors

3 Dec 2025, 10:15
Room 102 (Department of Physics (FIZIKA), Bijenička 32)

Room 102

Department of Physics (FIZIKA), Bijenička 32

Conveners

Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors: S1-1

  • Ivana Tucaković (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)

Exotic atoms: fundamental aspects, applications and advances in radiation detectors

  • Damir Bosnar (Faculty of Science)

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  1. Catalina Curceanu (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN)
    03/12/2025, 10:15

    Strange exotic atoms, in which a kaon (or a Sigma minus) replaces an
    electron in orbit, offer a precision window into low-energy QCD,
    high-precision QED and possible new physics studies.
    Recent advances at DAΦNE (SIDDHARTA-2) and J-PARC are enabling
    high-accuracy X-ray spectroscopy of kaonic atoms, such as hydrogen,
    deuterium, and of many other light-to-heavy exotic atoms.
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  2. Leonardo Abbene (University of Palermo)
    03/12/2025, 11:00

    In the last two decades, great efforts have been made in the development of new-generation X-ray and gamma ray detection systems based on room temperature semiconductor detectors (RTSDs), allowing direct radiation detection and superb room temperature performance. Among RTSDs, cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) represents the leading detector material: the combination of high atomic number...

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  3. Simone Manti
    03/12/2025, 11:30

    Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is the most accurate theory describing the interaction between photons and charged particles. Despite its predictive success, such as the 2p–1s transition in hydrogen, further tests in bound atomic systems are required because the perturbative expansion in (⍺Z) fails to converge for intermediate and high atomic numbers. Exotic atoms offer a clean system for...

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  4. Francesco Clozza (INFN-LNF & Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
    05/12/2025, 11:00

    Kaonic atoms provide a unique window into studying the strong interaction at threshold, offering key constraints on low-energy QCD in the strangeness sector. In this talk, I will present the latest results from the SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DAΦNE collider, which employs high-performance spectroscopic Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs) to carry out precision X-ray spectroscopy of kaonic atoms....

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  5. Francesco Artibani (INFN-LNF)
    05/12/2025, 11:30

    Kaonic atom spectroscopy provides key observables for investigating low-energy strong interactions in strange systems. In this presentation, I present an overview of the SIDDHARTA-2 collaboration’s activities in the field of kaonic atoms, with a particular focus on the development of a new Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CZT) detector system for the study of intermediate-mass kaonic atoms.

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