Publications by Darius Constantin Merk

Large Area Monolayer Graphene Transfer in Ultra-High Vacuum

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Darius Constantin Merk

Graphene transfer methods either employ support layers that have to be removed after transfer, giving rise to impurities, or are based on delamination from bulk crystals, yielding only small flakes with various thicknesses. We present a graphene transfer m ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

The Impact of Lattice Distortions on the Magnetic Stability of Single Atoms: Dy and Ho on BaO(100)

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Darius Constantin Merk, Boris Sorokin, Sébastien Reynaud

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, atomic multiplet simulations, and density functional theory calculations are employed to identify criteria for the optimum combination of supporting alkaline earth oxide and adsorption site maximizing the spin lifetimes o ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Transfer of Graphene under Ultra-High Vacuum

Darius Constantin Merk

This thesis reports on a novel method for graphene transfer that is fully UHV compatible, which has remained a challenge for a long time due to the necessity of supporting graphene for transfer and most often requiring supporting layer removal post-transfe ...

EPFL2022

Slow Magnetic Relaxation of Dy Adatoms with In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy on a Two- Dimensional Electron Gas

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Boris Sorokin, Dante Philippe Sblendorio, Darius Constantin Merk, Sébastien Reynaud

We report on the magnetic properties of Dy atoms adsorbed on the (001) surface of SrTiO3. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism reveals slow relaxation of the Dy magnetization on a time scale of about 800 s at 2.5 K, unusually associated with an easy-plane mag ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Study of coherent J/psi production in lead-lead collisions at root s(NN)=5 TeV with the LHCb experiment

Olivier Schneider, Guido Haefeli, Aurelio Bay, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Elena Graverini

Coherent production of J/psi mesons is studied in lead-lead collision data at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of 5 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of about 10 mu b(-1). The J/psi, mesons ar ...

2019

FCC Physics Opportunities: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 1

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Jan Steggemann, Elena Graverini, Jean-Michel Sallese, Thomas Rizzo, Luca Rossi, Rui Ning Wang, Fabio Avino, Xavier Buffat, Tatiana Pieloni

We review the physics opportunities of the Future Circular Collider, covering its e(+)e(-), pp, ep and heavy ion programmes. We describe the measurement capabilities of each FCC component, addressing the study of electroweak, Higgs and strong interactions, ...

2019

Highlights from the LHCb experiment

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Elena Graverini, Sergi Aguacil Moreno, Luca Pescatore

We report recent results by the LHCb collaboration in heavy-ion collisions in collider and fixed-target mode at the LHC. A large variety of measurements show the potential of LHCb in nuclear collisions. ...

2019

Study of the B-0 (770)degrees K-*(892)(0) decay with an amplitude analysis of B-0 ((+-))(K+pi(-)) decays

Olivier Schneider, Guido Haefeli, Yiming Li, Christoph Frei, Aurelio Bay, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret

An amplitude analysis of B-0 ((+-))(K+-) decays is performed in the two-body invariant mass regions 300 < m((+-)) < 1100 MeV/c(2), accounting for the (0), , f(0)(500), f(0)(980) and f(0)(1370) resonances, and 750 < m(K+-) < 1200 MeV/c(2), which is dominate ...

Springer Nature2019