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The FAMU experiment aims to accurately measure the hyperfine splitting of the ground state of the muonic hydrogen atom. A measurement of the transfer rate of muons from hydrogen to heavier gases is necessary for this purpose. In June 2014, within a preliminary experiment, a pressurized gas-target was exposed to the pulsed low-energy muon beam at the RIKEN RAL muon facility (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK). The main goal of the test was the characterization of both the noise induced by the pulsed beam and the X-ray detectors. The apparatus, to some extent rudimental, has served admirably to this task. Technical results have been published that prove the validity of the choices made and pave the way for the next steps. This paper presents the results of physical relevance of measurements of the muon transfer rate to carbon dioxide, oxygen, and argon from non-thermalized excited mu-p atoms. The analysis methodology and the approach to the systematics errors are useful for the subsequent study of the transfer rate as function of the kinetic energy of the mu-p currently under way.

The post-Federico Borromeo period of Milanese painting is represented in the Valtellina by single works by Gerolamo Chignoli (the altarpiece of the sanctuary in Grosotto, 1632-1633), Francesco Cairo (The Head of the Baptist in Gerola Alta and a lost The Virgin Mary for the church of the Capucins of Sondrio), Luigi Reali (The Marriage of the Virgin in Chiuro, ca. 1650), Agostino Santagostino (altarpiece in San Martino in Serravalle, 1671) and Ercole Procaccini the Younger (canvas for the Oratorio dell'Angelo Custode in Sondrio, ca. 1673). Despite the loss of several works cited in the sources, the works of the Nuvolone brothers in the area (Madonna with Child and St. Felix of Cantalice by Carlo Francesco for the Capucins of Sondrio; canvases and frescoes by Giuseppe for the Collegiata of Chiavenna, 1657) are more continuous. The interesting local painter Giambattista Macolino (ca. 1605 - ca. 1676), who was active in the Como area, Valchiavenna and Graubünden, combined Morazzonian and Nuvolonian influences in a language of lively expressiveness and genuine narrative form in his best works (The Life of St. Andrew in Samolaco, 1631-1632; The Life of St. William of Orange in the sanctuary of the saint in Val San Giacomo, ca. 1650).