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  1. Hole and positron interaction with vacancies and p-type dopants in epitaxially grown silicon

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, April 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Rafael Ferragut

  2. Pulsed production of antihydrogen

    Article • Communications Physics, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut

  3. Real-time monitoring of a positron beam using a microchannel plate in single-particle mode

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, November 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  4. Developments for pulsed antihydrogen production towards direct gravitational measurement on antimatter

    Article • Physica Scripta, October 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  5. Protocol for pulsed antihydrogen production in the AEḡIS apparatus

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, August 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  6. Rydberg-positronium velocity and self-ionization studies in a 1T magnetic field and cryogenic environment

    Article • July 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  7. A cryogenic tracking detector for antihydrogen detection in the AEgIS experiment

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, April 2020, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  8. Sensitivity of emulsion detectors to low energy positrons

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, March 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  9. Hybrid Imaging and Timing Ps Laser Excitation Diagnostics for Pulsed Antihydrogen Production

    Article • Acta Physica Polonica A, February 2020, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

    Rafael Ferragut

  10. Gravity and antimatter: the AEgIS experiment at CERN

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, January 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  11. The QUPLAS experimental apparatus for antimatter interferometry

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, January 2020, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  12. Calibration and Equalisation of Plastic Scintillator Detectors for Antiproton Annihilation Identification Over Positron/Positronium Background

    Article • Acta Physica Polonica B, January 2020, Acta Physica Polonica B Editorial Office

    Rafael Ferragut

  13. Correction to: Compression of a mixed antiproton and electron non-neutral plasma to high densities

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut

  14. The AEgIS experiment: towards antimatter gravity measurements

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, November 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  15. A ∼100 μm-resolution position-sensitive detector for slow positronium

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, October 2019, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  16. First demonstration of antimatter wave interferometry

    Article • Science Advances, May 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Rafael Ferragut

  17. Monte-Carlo simulation of positronium laser excitation and anti-hydrogen formation via charge exchange

    Article • Hyperfine Interactions, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  18. Production of long-lived positronium states via laser excitation to 33P level

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Ruggero Caravita, Rafael Ferragut

  19. Positronium Rydberg excitation diagnostic in a 1T cryogenic environment

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Ruggero Caravita, Rafael Ferragut

  20. Remembering Alfredo Dupasquier

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Rafael Ferragut

  21. Producing long-lived 23S positronium via 33P laser excitation in magnetic and electric fields

    Article • July 2018, American Physical Society (APS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  22. Antiproton tagging and vertex fitting in a Timepix3 detector

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, June 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  23. Nuclear emulsions for the detection of micrometric-scale fringe patterns: an application to positron interferometry

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, May 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  24. Compression of a mixed antiproton and electron non-neutral plasma to high densities

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut

  25. AEgIS at ELENA: outlook for physics with a pulsed cold antihydrogen beam

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, February 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  26. Investigating the structure of crosslinked polymer brushes (brush-gels) by means of Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy

    Article • European Polymer Journal, February 2018, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  27. Positronium for Antihydrogen Production in the AEGIS Experiment

    Article • Acta Physica Polonica A, November 2017, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

    Rafael Ferragut

  28. Nature and Distribution of Stable Subsurface Oxygen in Copper Electrodes During Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, October 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  29. The DAQ system for the AEḡIS experiment

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, October 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  30. Characterization of a transmission positron/positronium converter for antihydrogen production

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, September 2017, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  31. Polymer rigidification in graphene based nanocomposites: Gas barrier effects and free volume reduction

    Article • Polymer, July 2017, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  32. Probing the Impact of the Initiator Layer on Grafted-from Polymer Brushes: A Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Study

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  33. Measurement of antiproton annihilation on Cu, Ag and Au with emulsion films

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, April 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  34. Positron Manipulation and Positronium Laser Excitation in AEgIS

    Article • Defect and Diffusion Forum, March 2017, Trans Tech Publications

    Rafael Ferragut

  35. Advances in Ps Manipulations and Laser Studies in the AEgIS Experiment

    Article • Acta Physica Polonica B, January 2017, Acta Physica Polonica B Editorial Office

    Rafael Ferragut

  36. The AEgIS experiment at CERN: measuring antihydrogen free-fall in earth’s gravitational field to test WEP with antimatter

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, January 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  37. Direct detection of antiprotons with the Timepix3 in a new electrostatic selection beamline

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, September 2016, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  38. Laser excitation of then=3level of positronium for antihydrogen production

    Article • July 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  39. Detection of low energy antimatter with emulsions

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, June 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  40. Probing antimatter gravity – The AEGIS experiment at CERN

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2016, EDP Sciences

    Rafael Ferragut

  41. Free volumes and gas transport in polymers: amine-modified epoxy resins as a case study

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafael Ferragut

  42. Positron annihilation spectroscopy: a new frontier for understanding nanoparticle-loaded polymer brushes

    Article • Nanotechnology, December 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Mr Guido Soliveri, Rafael Ferragut

  43. Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle with an antimatter beam at CERN

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, July 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  44. Gas transport and free volume study in polyethylene based epoxy membranes

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, June 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  45. Emulsion detectors for the antihydrogen detection in AEgIS

    Article • Hyperfine Interactions, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  46. The AEgIS experiment

    Article • Hyperfine Interactions, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  47. Spray-combustion synthesis: Efficient solution route to high-performance oxide transistors

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Rafael Ferragut

  48. Particle tracking at cryogenic temperatures: the Fast Annihilation Cryogenic Tracking (FACT) detector for the AEgIS antimatter gravity experiment

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, February 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  49. Experiments with low-energy antimatter

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2015, EDP Sciences

    Rafael Ferragut

  50. Comparison of Planar and 3D Silicon Pixel Sensors Used for Detection of Low Energy Antiprotons

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  51. Investigation of silicon sensors for their use as antiproton annihilation detectors

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, November 2014, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  52. A moiré deflectometer for antimatter

    Article • Nature Communications, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  53. The AEgIS Experiment

    Article • Hyperfine Interactions, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  54. Detection of low energy antiproton annihilations in a segmented silicon detector

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, June 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  55. Measuring the gravitational free-fall of antihydrogen

    Article • Hyperfine Interactions, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  56. AEgIS experiment: Towards antihydrogen beam production for antimatter gravity measurements

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut

  57. Development of nuclear emulsions operating in vacuum for the AEgIS experiment

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, January 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  58. AE$\overline {\rm{g}}$IS Experiment: Measuring the accelerationgof the earth’s gravitational field on antihydrogen beam

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2014, EDP Sciences

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  59. Positronium Production in Engineered Porous Silica

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, December 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  60. Development of nuclear emulsions with

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, December 2013, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  61. Particle tracking at 4K: The Fast Annihilation Cryogenic Tracking (FACT) detector for the AEgIS antimatter gravity experiment

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, December 2013, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  62. Annihilation of low energy antiprotons in silicon sensors

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  63. Prospects for measuring the gravitational free-fall of antihydrogen with emulsion detectors

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, August 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  64. Infiltration and Selective Interactions at the Interface in Polymer-Oxide Hybrid Solar Cells

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, June 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  65. Production and thermalization of positronium in homogeneous porous silica

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, June 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  66. Mesoporous materials for antihydrogen production

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafael Ferragut

  67. AEgIS experiment commissioning at CERN

    Article • January 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  68. Exploring the WEP with a pulsed cold beam of antihydrogen

    Article • Classical and Quantum Gravity, August 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  69. Characterization of vacancy-type defects in heteroepitaxial GaN grown by low-energy plasma-enhanced vapor phase epitaxy

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, July 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Rafael Ferragut

  70. Atomic fraction around defects associated with nanoparticles in AlCuMg alloys

    Article • Physica B Condensed Matter, July 2012, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  71. Thermal production of positronium in porous alumina

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut

  72. The AEGIS experiment at CERN

    Article • Hyperfine Interactions, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  73. The effect of selective interactions at the interface of polymer–oxide hybrid solar cells

    Article • Energy & Environmental Science, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rafael Ferragut

  74. Study of defects in an electroresistive Au/La2/3Sr1/3MnO3/SrTiO3(001) heterostructure by positron annihilation

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, September 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Rafael Ferragut

  75. Formation and evolution of the hardening precipitates in a Mg–Y–Nd alloy

    Article • Acta Materialia, June 2011, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Barucca, Rafael Ferragut

  76. Homogeneous porous silica for positronium production in AEgIS

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, January 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  77. Antihydrogen physics: gravitation and spectroscopy in AEgISThis paper was presented at the International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems, held at École de Physique, les Houches, France, 30 May – 4 June, 2010.

    Article • Canadian Journal of Physics, January 2011, Canadian Science Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  78. Measuring the fall of antihydrogen: the AEgIS experiment at CERN

    Article • Physics Procedia, January 2011, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  79. Defect Characterization in SiGe/SOI Epitaxial Semiconductors by Positron Annihilation

    Article • Nanoscale Research Letters, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rafael Ferragut

  80. Solute clustering in Al–Cu–Mg alloys during the early stages of elevated temperature ageing

    Article • Acta Materialia, September 2010, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  81. Vacancy–solute interactions during ageing of a cold-worked Mg–RE-based alloy

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Rafael Ferragut

  82. Positronium formation in porous materials for antihydrogen production

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, April 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  83. Chemistry of grain boundary environments in nanocrystalline Al 7075

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, April 2010, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  84. Small-angle X-ray scattering study of the early stages of precipitation in a Mg–Nd–Gd (EV31) alloy

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, April 2010, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  85. The AEGIS detection system for gravity measurements

    Article • Nuclear Physics A, March 2010, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  86. Advances in positron studies of age hardening in light alloys

    Article • physica status solidi c, November 2009, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  87. Ageing processes in Al-Cu-Mg alloys with different Cu/Mg ratios

    Article • physica status solidi c, November 2009, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  88. Positron annihilation studies of defects in Si1-xGex/SOI heterostructures

    Article • physica status solidi c, November 2009, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  89. Positron lifetime evolution during room temperature ageing in Al-Zn-Mg-(Cu)

    Article • physica status solidi c, November 2009, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  90. Phase transformations in QE22 Mg alloy

    Article • Acta Materialia, September 2009, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Barucca, Rafael Ferragut

  91. Microstructural characterisation of a commercial Al–Cu–Mg alloy combining transmission electron microscopy and positron annihilation spectroscopy

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, May 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Rafael Ferragut

  92. Vacancy–solute interaction in magnesium alloy WE54 during artificial ageing: a positron annihilation spectroscopy study

    Article • International Journal of Materials Research (formerly Zeitschrift fuer Metallkunde), March 2009, De Gruyter

    Rafael Ferragut

  93. Vacancy–solute interactions during multiple-step ageing of an Al–Cu–Mg–Ag alloy

    Article • Scripta Materialia, February 2009, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  94. A novel thermal treatment on a Mg–4.2Y–2.3Nd–0.6Zr (WE43) alloy

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering A, October 2008, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Barucca, Rafael Ferragut

  95. Structure evolution of EV31 Mg alloy

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, September 2008, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Barucca, Rafael Ferragut

  96. Structure evolution of a WE43 Mg alloy submitted to different thermal treatments

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering A, April 2008, Elsevier

    PhD Gianni Barucca, Rafael Ferragut

  97. Formation Of A Cold Antihydrogen Beam in AEGIS For Gravity Measurements

    Article • January 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Rafael Ferragut, Marco Prevedelli

  98. Quantitative chemical analysis of vacancy-solute complexes in metallic solid solutions by coincidence Doppler broadening spectroscopy

    Article • physica status solidi c, September 2007, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  99. Role of vacancies during creep and secondary precipitation in an underaged Al-Cu-Mg-Ag alloy

    Article • physica status solidi c, September 2007, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  100. Vacancy-solute association in coherent nanostructures formed in a commercial Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy

    Article • physica status solidi c, September 2007, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  101. Hardening nanostructures in an AlZnMg alloy

    Article • The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    PhD Gianni Barucca, Rafael Ferragut

  102. Analysis of electron-positron momentum spectra of metallic alloys as supported by first-principles calculations

    Article • Physical Review B, February 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  103. Positron localization effects on the Doppler broadening of the annihilation line: Aluminum as a case study

    Article • Physical Review B, August 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  104. Precipitation kinetics in Al–Zn–Mg commercial alloys

    Article • Journal of Materials Processing Technology, October 2003, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  105. Structural evolution in Ar[sup +] implanted Si-rich silicon oxide

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, January 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Rafael Ferragut

  106. Pre-precipitation study in the 7012 Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloy by electrical resistivity

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering A, September 2002, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  107. Secondary ageing in Al-Cu-Mg

    Article • Philosophical Magazine Letters, September 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Rafael Ferragut

  108. Study of precipitate in Si-rich SiO2 films

    Article • Applied Surface Science, June 2002, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  109. Positron-annihilation study of the aging kinetics of AlCu-based alloys. I. Al-Cu-Mg

    Article • June 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  110. Positron-annihilation study of the aging kinetics of AlCu-based alloys. II. Ag microalloying

    Article • June 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Rafael Ferragut

  111. Microstructural evolution of 7012 alloy during the early stages of artificial ageing

    Article • Acta Materialia, November 1999, Elsevier

    Rafael Ferragut

  112. Positron, Age-Hardening and Precipitation in Predeformed 2024 (Al–Cu–Mg) Alloy

    Article • phys stat sol (a), September 1999, Wiley

    Rafael Ferragut

  113. Positron lifetime spectroscopy and decomposition processes in commercial Al-Zn-Mg-based alloys

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, May 1998, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut

  114. On the two-step ageing of a commercial Al - Zn - Mg alloy; a study by positron lifetime spectroscopy

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, November 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Rafael Ferragut