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Simulations of neutron background in a time projection chamber relevant to dark matter searches

Presented here are results of simulations of neutron background performed for a time projection chamber acting as a particle dark matter detector in an underground laboratory. The investigated background includes neutrons from rock and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Carson , J. C. Davies , E. Daw , R. J. Hollingworth , J. A. Kirkpatrick , V. A. Kudryavtsev , T. B. Lawson , P. K. Lightfoot , J. E. McMillan , B. Morgan , S. M. Paling , M. Robinson , N. J. C Spooner , D. R. Tovey , E. Tziaferi

Sensitivity of NEXT-100 to neutrinoless double beta decay

NEXT-100 is an electroluminescent high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta ($\beta \beta 0 \nu$) decay of Xe-136. The detector possesses two features of great value for $\beta \beta 0…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-01 NEXT Collaboration , J. Martín-Albo , J. Muñoz Vidal , P. Ferrario , M. Nebot-Guinot , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , V. Álvarez , C. D. R. Azevedo , F. I. G. Borges , S. Cárcel , S. Cebrián , A. Cervera , C. A. N. Conde , J. Díaz , M. Diesburg , R. Esteve , L. M. P. Fernandes , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , A. Goldschmidt , D. González-Díaz , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , I. Liubarsky , N. López-March , D. Lorca , M. Losada , G. Martínez-Lema , A. Martínez , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , L. M. Moutinho , P. Novella , D. Nygren , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J. Pérez , M. Querol , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , J. Rodríguez , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , L. Serra , D. Shuman , A. Simón , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , T. Stiegler , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , Z. Tsamalaidze , J. F. C. A. Veloso , R. Webb , J. T. White , N. Yahlali , H. Yepes-Ramírez

Light new physics in XENON1T

We examine the recently-reported low-energy electron recoil spectrum observed at the XENON1T underground dark matter direct detection experiment, in the context of new interactions with solar neutrinos. In particular we show that scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-22 Celine Boehm , David G. Cerdeno , Malcolm Fairbairn , Pedro A. N. Machado , Aaron C. Vincent

Sensitivity projections for a dual-phase argon TPC optimized for light dark matter searches through the ionization channel

Dark matter lighter than 10 GeV/c$^2$ encompasses a promising range of candidates. A conceptual design for a new detector, DarkSide-LowMass, is presented, based on the DarkSide-50 detector and progress toward DarkSide-20k, optimized for a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-21 P. Agnes , I. Ahmad , S. Albergo , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , M. Atzori Corona , D. J. Auty , M. Ave , I. Ch. Avetisov , R. I. Avetisov , O. Azzolini , H. O. Back , Z. Balmforth , V. Barbarian , A. Barrado Olmedo , P. Barrillon , A. Basco , G. Batignani , E. Berzin , A. Bondar , W. M. Bonivento , E. Borisova , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , G. Buccino , S. Bussino , J. Busto , A. Buzulutskov , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Capra , S. Caprioli , M. Caravati , M. Cárdenas-Montes , N. Cargioli , M. Carlini , P. Castello , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , E Chyhyrynets , C. Cicalò , L. Cifarelli , D. Cintas , V. Cocco , E. Conde Vilda , L. Consiglio , S. Copello , G. Covone , S. Cross , P. Czudak , M. D'Aniello , S. D'Auria , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , O. Dadoun , M. Daniel , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , A. De Falco , G. De Filippis , D. De Gruttola , S. De Pasquale , G. De Rosa , G. Dellacasa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Capua , L. Di Noto , P. Di Stefano , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , L. Doria , T. Erjavec , M. Fernandez Diaz , G. Fiorillo , A. Franceschi , P. Franchini , D. Franco , E. Frolov , N. Funicello , F. Gabriele , D. Gahan , C. Galbiati , G. Gallina , G. Gallus , M. Garbini , P. Garcia Abia , A. Gendotti , C. Ghiano , R. A. Giampaolo , C. Giganti , M. A. Giorgi , G. K. Giovanetti , V. Goicoechea Casanueva , A. Gola , D. Gorman , R. Graciani Diaz , G. Grauso , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , C. Guo , B. R. Hackett , J. B. Hall , A. L. Hallin , A. Hamer , H. Helton , M. Haranczyk , T. Hessel , S. Hill , S. Horikawa , F. Hubaut , T. Hugues , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , C. Jillings , P. Kachru , A. A. Kemp , C. L. Kendziora , G. Keppel , A. V. Khomyakov , M. Kimura , I. Kochanek , K. Kondo , G. Korga , S. Koulosousas , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. Kuźniak , M. La Commara , M. Lai , E. Le Guirriec , E. Leason , X. Li , L. Lidey , J. Lipp , M. Lissia , G. Longo , L. Luzzi , O. Macfadyen , I. N. Machulin , I. Manthos , L. Mapelli , A. Margotti , S. M. Mari , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , A. Marini , M. Martínez , C. J. Martoff , A. Masoni , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Mazzi , A. B. McDonald , A. Messina , R. Milincic , A. Moggi , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , M. Morrocchi , E. N. Mozhevitina , T. Mróz , V. N. Muratova , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , T. Napolitano , M. Nessi , G. Nieradka , K. Nikolopoulos , I. Nikulin , J. Nowak , K. Olchansky , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , P. Organtini , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , G. Paternoster , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , C. Pellegrino , F. Perotti , V. Pesudo , S. Piacentini , F. Pietropaolo , N. Pino , C. Pira , A. Pocar , D. M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , F. Raffaelli , F. Ragusa , Y. Ramachers , A. Ramirez , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , F. Resnati , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , C. Ripoli , A. Rivetti , A. Roberts , C. Roberts , J. Rode , G. Rogers , L. Romero , M. Rossi , A. Rubbia , S. Sadashivajois , T. R. Saffold , O. Samoylov , E. Sandford , S. Sanfilippo , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , G. Scioli , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , M. Simeone , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , T. Smirnova , B. Smith , A. Sokolov , M. Spangenberg , R. Stefanizzi , A. Steri , S. Stracka , V. Strickland , M. Stringer , S. Sulis , A. Sung , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , C. Türkoğ , R. Tartaglia , A. Taylor , J. Taylor , S. Tedesco , G. Testera , K. Thieme , T. N. Thorpe , A. Tonazzo , S. Torres-Lara , A. Tricomi , E. V. Unzhakov , T. Vallivilayil John , M. Van Uffelen , T. Viant , S. Viel , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , J. Vossebeld , M. Wada , M. B. Walczak , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , R. J. Wheadon , L. Williams , I. Wingerter-Seez , R. Wojaczyński , Ma. M. Wojcik , Ma. Wojcik , T. Wright , Y. Xie , C. Yang , A. Zabihi , P. Zakhary , A. Zani , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel , M. P. Zykova

Results from the NEXT prototypes

NEXT-100 is an electroluminescent high pressure Time Projection Chamber currently under construction. It will search for the neutrino-less double beta decay in 136Xe at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. NEXT-100 aims to achieve nearly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-16 C. A. B. Oliveira

Dark Matter Search Results from the Complete Exposure of the PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ Bubble Chamber

Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C$_3$F$_8$ located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The chamber was operated at thermodynamic thresholds as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 C. Amole , M. Ardid , I. J. Arnquist , D. M. Asner , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , M. Bressler , B. Broerman , G. Cao , C. J. Chen , U. Chowdhury , K. Clark , J. I. Collar , P. S. Cooper , C. B. Coutu , C. Cowles , M. Crisler , G. Crowder , N. A. Cruz-Venegas , C. E. Dahl , M. Das , S. Fallows , J. Farine , I. Felis , R. Filgas , F. Girard , G. Giroux , J. Hall , C. Hardy , O. Harris , T. Hillier , E. W. Hoppe , C. M. Jackson , M. Jin , L. Klopfenstein , C. B. Krauss , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , A. Leblanc , I. Levine , C. Licciardi , W. H. Lippincott , B. Loer , F. Mamedov , P. Mitra , C. Moore , T. Nania , R. Neilson , A. J. Noble , P. Oedekerk , A. Ortega , M. -C. Piro , A. Plante , R. Podviyanuk , S. Priya , A. E. Robinson , S. Sahoo , O. Scallon , S. Seth , A. Sonnenschein , N. Starinski , I. Štekl , T. Sullivan , F. Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , N. Walkowski , E. Weima , U. Wichoski , K. Wierman , Y. Yan , V. Zacek , J. Zhang

Discovery potential of xenon-based neutrinoless double beta decay experiments in light of small angular scale CMB observations

The South Pole Telescope (SPT) has probed an expanded angular range of the CMB temperature power spectrum. Their recent analysis of the latest cosmological data prefers nonzero neutrino masses, mnu = 0.32+-0.11 eV. This result, if confirmed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-01 J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , J. Martin-Albo , J. Muñoz Vidal , C. Peña-Garay

The NEXT experiment: A high pressure xenon gas TPC for neutrinoless double beta decay searches

Neutrinoless double beta decay is a hypothetical, very slow nuclear transition in which two neutrons undergo beta decay simultaneously and without the emission of neutrinos. The importance of this process goes beyond its intrinsic interest:…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Lorca , J. Martín-Albo , F. Monrabal

DarkSide50 results from first argon run

DarkSide (DS) at Gran Sasso underground laboratory is a direct dark matter search program based on TPCs with liquid argon from underground sources. The DS-50 TPC, with 50 kg of liquid argon is installed inside active neutron and muon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 D. D'Angelo

Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $\sim$50 eV$_{ee}$, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 DAMIC Collaboration , A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , X. Bertou , D. Boule , M. Butner , G. Cancelo , A. Castañeda Vázquez , A. E. Chavarría , J. R. T. de Melo Neto , S. Dixon , J. C. D'Olivo , J. Estrada , G. Fernandez Moroni , K. P. Hernández Torres , F. Izraelevitch , A. Kavner , B. Kilminster , I. Lawson , J. Liao , M. López , J. Molina , G. Moreno-Granados , J. Pena , P. Privitera , Y. Sarkis , V. Scarpine , T. Schwartz , M. Sofo Haro , J. Tiffenberg , D. Torres Machado , F. Trillaud , X. You , J. Zhou

An Effective Field Theory Analysis of the First LUX Dark Matter Search

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter search was a 250-kg active mass dual-phase time projection chamber that operated by detecting light and ionization signals from particles incident on a xenon target. In December 2015, LUX…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , J. Balajthy , A. Baxter , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , B. Boxer , P. Brás , S. Burdin , D. Byram , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. E. Cutter , L. de Viveiros , E. Druszkiewicz , A. Fan , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , C. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , D. P. Hogan , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , W. Ji , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , E. V. Korolkova , S. Kravitz , V. A. Kudryavtsev , N. A. Larsen , E. Leason , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nilima , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , E. K. Pease , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , C. Rhyne , P. Rossiter , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. J. Taylor , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , S. Uvarov , A. Vacheret , V. Velan , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , J. Xu , C. Zhang

First Results from the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

We report the first results of DarkSide-50, a direct search for dark matter operating in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and searching for the rare nuclear recoils possibly induced by weakly interacting massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 P. Agnes , T. Alexander , A. Alton , K. Arisaka , H. O. Back , B. Baldin , K. Biery , G. Bonfini , M. Bossa , A. Brigatti , J. Brodsky , F. Budano , L. Cadonati , F. Calaprice , N. Canci , A. Candela , H. Cao , M. Cariello , P. Cavalcante , A. Chavarria , A. Chepurnov , A. G. Cocco , L. Crippa , D. D'Angelo , M. D'Incecco , S. Davini , M. De Deo , A. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , G. Di Pietro , E. Edkins , A. Empl , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , G. Forster , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , A. Goretti , L. Grandi , M. Gromov , M. Y. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , B. Hackett , K. Herner , E. V. Hungerford , Al. Ianni , An. Ianni , C. Jollet , K. Keeter , C. Kendziora , S. Kidner , V. Kobychev , G. Koh , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kurlej , P. X. Li , B. Loer , P. Lombardi , C. Love , L. Ludhova , S. Luitz , Y. Q. Ma , I. Machulin , A. Mandarano , S. Mari , J. Maricic , L. Marini , C. J. Martoff , A. Meregaglia , E. Meroni , P. D. Meyers , R. Milincic , D. Montanari , A. Monte , M. Montuschi , M. E. Monzani , P. Mosteiro , B. Mount , V. Muratova , P. Musico , A. Nelson , S. Odrowski , M. Okounkova , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , E. Pantic , L. Papp , S. Parmeggiano , R. Parsells , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , S. Perasso , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , D. Pugachev , H. Qian , K. Randle , G. Ranucci , A. Razeto , B. Reinhold , A. Renshaw , A. Romani , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , S. D. Rountree , D. Sablone , P. Saggese , R. Saldanha , W. Sands , S. Sangiorgio , E. Segreto , D. Semenov , E. Shields , M. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , C. Stanford , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , J. Tatarowicz , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , E. Unzhakov , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , S. Walker , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. Watson , S. Westerdale , M. Wojcik , A. Wright , X. Xiang , J. Xu , C. G. Yang , J. Yoo , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zec , C. Zhu , G. Zuzel

When backgrounds become signals: neutrino interactions in xenon-based dark matter detectors

Direct detection dark matter experiments have proven to be compelling probes for studying low-energy neutrino interactions with both nuclei and atomic electrons, offering complementary information to accelerator and reactor-based neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , M. Sestu

Direct Search for Dark Matter Particles With Very Large Detectors

We briefly discuss the expected level of supersymmetric dark matter cross-sections as a reference for dark matter detectors. We then discuss the current ZEPLIN II program as a prototype of large liquid Xenon detectors. Cryoarray is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David B. Cline

Research Program towards Observation of Neutrino-Nucleus Coherent Scattering

The article describes the research program pursued by the TEXONO Collaboration towards an experiment to observe coherent scattering between neutrinos and the nucleus at the power reactor. The motivations of studying this process are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Henry T. Wong

The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment

The DEAP-3600 experiment uses 3.6 tons of liquid argon for a sensitive dark matter search, with a sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section of $10^{-46}$ cm$^2$ at 100 GeV WIMP mass. This high sensitivity is achievable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Bei Cai

First Dark Matter Search Results from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment is operating 1.5 km underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. In 2013, the experiment had a WIMP search exposure of 10,091 kg-days over a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-20 Carlos Faham

Search for dark matter from the first data of the PandaX-II experiment

Results of WIMP dark matter search from the first data of the PandaX-II experiment are presented. PandaX-II experiment uses a 500 kg scale dual phase liquid xenon time projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-16 Yong Yang

NEXT-DEMO: a prototype for the NEXT experiment

NEXT is a high-pressure (10-15 bar) xenon Time Projection Chamber dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches. NEXT-DEMO is a large prototype of the NEXT experiment, constructed to demonstrate the feasibility of the NEXT detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Paola Ferrario

First ground-level laboratory test of the two-phase xenon emission detector RED-100

RED-100 is a two-phase detector for study of coherent elastic scattering of reactor electron antineutrinos off xenon atomic nuclei. The detector contains a total of 200 kg of liquid xenon in a titanium cryostat with 160 kg of xenon in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 D. Yu. Akimov , V. A. Belov , A. I. Bolozdynya , Yu. V. Efremenko , A. V. Etenko , A. V. Galavanov , D. V. Gouss , Yu. V. Gusakov , Dj. Ed. Kdib , A. V. Khromov , A. M. Konovalov , V. N. Kornoukhov , A. G. Kovalenko , E. S. Kozlova , A. V. Kumpan , A. V. Lukyashin , Yu. A. Melikyan , V. V. Moramzin , O. E. Razuvaeva , D. G. Rudik , A. V. Shakirov , G. E. Simakov , V. V. Sosnovtsev , Yu. V. Stogov , A. A. Vasin