Franco Ligabue | Searcharxiv

arXiv2021

Status of the SIMP Project: Toward the Single Microwave Photon Detection

The Italian institute for nuclear physics (INFN) has financed the SIMP project (2019-2021) in order to strengthen its skills and technologies in the field of meV detectors with the ultimate aim of developing a single microwave photon detector. This goal will be pursued by improving the sensitivity and the dark count rate of two types of photodetectors: current biased Josephson Junction (JJ) for the frequency range 10-50 GHz and Transition Edge Sensor (TES) for the frequency range 30-100 GHz. Preliminary results on materials and devices characterization are presented.

physics.ins-det↗

arXiv2014

$B^0_{(s)} \rightarrow μ^+μ^-$ at CMS

The search for the rare \BMuMu and \BsMuMu decays in pp collisions at $\sqrt s = 7$~GeV and $\sqrt s = 8$~GeV, collected at the LHC in 2011 and 2012, is briefly reviewed. The data analyzed by CMS correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 5 and 20 $\rm fb^{-1}$, respectively. The time-integrated average branching fraction $\left<{\mathcal B }( { B^{0}_{s}\rightarrow μ^+μ^-} )\right>$ has been measured to be $(3.0 ^{+1.0}_{-0.9})\times 10^{-9}$ in accordance with the Standard Model predictions, while an upper limit $\left<{ \mathcal B }( B^{0}\rightarrow μ^+μ^-)\right> < 1.1\times 10^{-9}) $ has been placed on the other investigated decay at 95% CL. A preliminary combination with the results from LHCb is also presented for both channels, and prospects for the future are briefly discussed.

hep-ex↗