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WISPLC: Search for Dark Matter with LC Circuit

The focus on dark matter search has expanded to include low-mass particles such as axions or axion-like particles, and novel theoretical schemes extending the phenomenological landscape, within QCD and beyond, also garnered additional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-07-20 Zhongyue Zhang , Oindrila Ghosh , Dieter Horns

The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary Systems

The EXO-200 experiment searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with a single-phase liquid xenon detector. It used an active mass of 110 kg of 80.6%-enriched liquid xenon in an ultra-low background time projection chamber…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-23 N. Ackerman , J. Albert , M. Auger , D. J. Auty , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , L. Bartoszek , E. Baussan , V. Belov , C. Benitez-Medina , T. Bhatta , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , G. F. Cao , W. R. Cen , C. Chambers , B. Cleveland , R. Conley , S. Cook , M. Coon , W. Craddock , A. Craycraft , W. Cree , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , S. J. Daugherty , J. Daughhetee , C. G. Davis , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. deVoe , T. Didberidze , J. Dilling , A. Dobi , A. G. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , M. Dunford , J. Echevers , L. Espic , W. Fairbank , D. Fairbank , J. Farine , W. Feldmeier , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , K. Fouts , D. Franco , D. Freytag , D. Fudenberg , P. Gautam , G. Giroux , R. Gornea , K. Graham , G. Gratta , C. Hagemann , C. Hall , K. Hall , G. Haller , E. V. Hansen , C. Hargrove , R. Herbst , S. Herrin , J. Hodgson , M. Hughes , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , C. Jessiman , M. J. Jewell , A. Johnson , T. N. Johnson , S. Johnston , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Killick , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , D. S. Leonard , F. Leonard , F. LePort , G. S. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , D. Mackay , R. MacLellan , M. Marino , J. -M. Martin , Y. Martin , T. McElroy , K. McFarlane , T. Michel , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , R. Neilson , O. Njoya , O. Nusair , K. O'Sullivan , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , C. Ouellet , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , C. Y. Prescott , K. Pushkin , F. Retiere , A. Rivas , A. L. Robinson , E. Rollin , P. C. Rowson , M. P. Rozo , J. Runge , J. J. Russell , S. Schmidt , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , K. Skarpaas , S. Slutsky , E. Smith , A. K. Soma , V. Stekhanov , V. Strickland , M. Swift , M. Tarka , J. Todd , T. Tolba , D. Tosi , T. I. Totev , R. Tsang , K. Twelker , B. Veenstra , V. Veeraraghavan , J. -L. Vuilleumier , J. -M. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , K. Wamba , J. Watkins , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , M. Wittgen , J. Wodin , J. Wood , G. Wrede , S. X. Wu , Q. Xia , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya Zeldovich , T. Ziegler

Current Status and Future Prospects for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment

The constituents of dark matter are still unknown, and the viable possibilities span a vast range of masses. The physics community has established searching for sub-GeV dark matter as a high priority and identified accelerator-based…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-23 Torsten Åkesson , Nikita Blinov , Lukas Brand-Baugher , Cameron Bravo , Lene Kristian Bryngemark , Pierfrancesco Butti , Caterina Doglioni , Craig Dukes , Valentina Dutta , Bertrand Echenard , Ralf Ehrlich , Thomas Eichlersmith , Andrew Furmanski , Chloe Greenstein , Craig Group , Niramay Gogate , Vinay Hegde , Christian Herwig , David G. Hitlin , Duc Hoang , Tyler Horoho , Joseph Incandela , Wesley Ketchum , Gordan Krnjaic , Amina Li , Shirley Li , Dexu Lin , Jeremiah Mans , Cristina Mantilla Suarez , Phillip Masterson , Martin Meier , Sophie Middleton , Omar Moreno , Geoffrey Mullier , Timothy Nelson , James Oyang , Jessica Pascadlo , Ruth Pöttgen , Stefan Prestel , Luis Sarmiento Pico , Philip Schuster , Matthew Solt , Lauren Tompkins , Natalia Toro , Nhan Tran , Andrew Whitbeck , Kevin Zhou , Laura Zichi

A direct dark matter search in XMASS-I

A search for dark matter using an underground single-phase liquid xenon detector was conducted at the Kamioka Observatory in Japan, particularly for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). We have used 705.9 live days of data in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-27 XMASS Collaboration , K. Abe , K. Hiraide , K. Ichimura , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , M. Kobayashi , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , T. Norita , H. Ogawa , K. Sato , H. Sekiya , O. Takachio , A. Takeda , S. Tasaka , M. Yamashita , B. S. Yang , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. Itow , K. Kanzawa , R. Kegasa , K. Masuda , H. Takiya , K. Fushimi , G. Kanzaki , K. Martens , Y. Suzuki , B. D. Xu , R. Fujita , K. Hosokawa , K. Miuchi , N. Oka , Y. Takeuchi , Y. H. Kim , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , Y. Fukuda , M. Miyasaka , K. Nishijima , S. Nakamura

The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the PandaX-I Dark Matter Experiment

We describe the electronics and data acquisition system used in the first phase of the PandaX experiment -- a 120 kg dual-phase liquid xenon dark matter direct detection experiment in the China Jin-Ping Underground Laboratory. This system…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-25 Xiangxiang Ren , Xun Chen , Xiangdong Ji , Shaoli Li , Siao Lei , Jianglai Liu , Meng Wang , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan

Operating a large-diameter dual-phase liquid xenon TPC in the unshielded PANCAKE facility

Future liquid-xenon (LXe) based observatories for rare processes, such as XLZD, require testing of large components and sub-assemblies in cryogenic liquid or gaseous xenon environments. Here we present results from the stable operation of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-23 Julia Müller , Jaron Grigat , Robin Glade-Beucke , Sebastian Lindemann , Tiffany Luce , Gnanesh Chandra Madduri , Jens Reininghaus , Marc Schumann , Adam Softley-Brown , Andrew Stevens

Results of a Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using 2013 LUX Data

The scattering of dark matter (DM) particles with sub-GeV masses off nuclei is difficult to detect using liquid xenon-based DM search instruments because the energy transfer during nuclear recoils is smaller than the typical detector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , J. Balajthy , P. Beltrame , 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 , T. J. R. Davison , E. Druszkiewicz , S. R. Fallon , A. Fan , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , 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 , R. Knoche , E. V. Korolkova , S. Kravitz , V. A. Kudryavtsev , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , 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 , W. C. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , M. Tripathi , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , S. Uvarov , V. Velan , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , J. Xu , K. Yazdani , C. Zhang

Nuclear Recoil Calibration at Sub-keV Energies in LUX and Its Impact on Dark Matter Search Sensitivity

Dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) detectors offer heightened sensitivities for dark matter detection across a spectrum of particle masses. To broaden their capability to low-mass dark matter interactions, we investigated the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-19 LUX Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , J. Balajthy , J. Bang , 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 , E. Leason , 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 , 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 , C. Rhyne , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , P. Rossiter , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , T. J. Sumner , N. Swanson , 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 , A. Vacheret , A. Vaitkus , V. Velan , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , X. Xiang , J. Xu , C. Zhang

The ZEPLIN-III dark matter detector: instrument design, manufacture and commissioning

We present details of the technical design and manufacture of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment. ZEPLIN-III is a two-phase xenon detector which measures both the scintillation light and the ionisation charge generated in the liquid by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Yu. Akimov , G. J. Alner , H. M. Araujo , A. Bewick , C. Bungau , A. A. Burenkov , M. J. Carson , V. Chepel , D. Cline , D. Davidge , J. C. Davies , E. Daw , J. Dawson , T. Durkin , B. Edwards , T. Gamble , C. Chag , R. J. Hollingworth , A. S. Howard , W. G. Jones , M. Joshi , J. Kirkpatrick , A. Kovalenko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , I. S. Kuznetsov , T. Lawson , V. N. Lebedenko , J. D. Lewin , P. Lightfoot , A. Lindote , I. Liubarsky , M. I. Lopes , R. Luscher , J. E. McMillan , B. Morgan , D. Muna , A. S. Murphy , F. Neves , G. G. Nicklin , S. M. Paling , D. Muna , J. Pinto da Cunha , S. J. S. Plank , R. Preece , J. J. Quenby , M. Robinson , C. Silva , V. N. Solovov , N. J. T. Smith , P. F. Smith , N. J. C. Spooner , V. Stekhanov , T. J. Sumner , C. Thorne , D. R. Tovey , E. Tziaferi , R. J. Walker , H. Wang , J. White , F. Wolfs

Probing darK Matter Using free leptONs: PKMUON

We propose a new method to detect sub-GeV dark matter, through their scatterings from free leptons and the resulting kinematic shifts. Specially, such an experiment can detect dark matter interacting solely with muons. The experiment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-12 Alim Ruzi , Chen Zhou , Xiaohu Sun , Dayong Wang , Siguang Wang , Yong Ban , Yajun Mao , Qite Li , Qiang Li

Search for light dark matter with NEWS-G

The NEWS-G collaboration is searching for light dark matter candidates using a spherical proportional counter. Light gases, such as hydrogen, helium, and neon, are used as targets, providing access in the 0.1-10 GeV mass range. First…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 K. Nikolopoulos

First results from a Dark Matter search with liquid Argon at 87 K in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory

A new method of searching for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) has been developed with the direct detection of the low energy nuclear recoils observed in a massive target (ultimately many tons) of ultra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Benetti , R. Acciarri , F. Adamo , B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo-Ceolin , M. Belluco , F. Calaprice , E. Calligarich , M. Cambiaghi , F. Carbonara , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , A. G. Cocco , F. Di Pompeo , N. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , C. Galbiati , V. Gallo , L. Grandi , A. Ianni , G. Mangano , G. Meng , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , L. Pandola , F. Pietropaolo , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , A. M. Szelc , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli

Saturated Overburden Scattering and the Multiscatter Frontier: Discovering Dark Matter at the Planck Mass and Beyond

We show that underground experiments like LUX/LZ, PandaX-II, XENON, and PICO could discover dark matter up to the Planck mass and beyond, with new searches for dark matter that scatters multiple times in these detectors. This opens up…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-17 Joseph Bramante , Benjamin Broerman , Rafael F. Lang , Nirmal Raj

Status of the EDELWEISS-2 Dark Matter Search

The Edelweiss programme is dedicated to the direct search for Dark Matter as massive weakly interacting particles (WIMPs) with Germanium cryogenic detectors operated in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in the French Alps at a depth of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-01 A. Chantelauze

New limits on WIMP interactions from the SIMPLE dark matter search

The SIMPLE project uses superheated C2ClF5 liquid detectors to search for particle dark matter candidates. We report the results of the first stage exposure (14.1 kgd) of its latest two-stage, Phase II run, with 15 superheated droplet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-11 TA Girard , T. A. Morlat , M. Felizardo , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , J. G. Marques

Study of light detection and sensitivity for a ton-scale liquid xenon dark matter detector

Ton-scale liquid xenon detectors operated in two-phase mode are proposed and being constructed recently to explore the favored parameter space for the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter. To achieve a better light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-05-13 Y Wei , Q Lin , X Xiao , K Ni

Xenon doping of Liquid Argon in ProtoDUNE Single Phase

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be the next generation long-baseline neutrino experiment. The far detector is designed as a complex of four LAr-TPC (Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber) modules with 17 kt of liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-11 Niccolò Gallice

First dark matter search results from the PandaX-I experiment

We report on the first dark-matter (DM) search results from PandaX-I, a low threshold dual-phase xenon experiment operating at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. In the 37-kg liquid xenon target with 17.4 live-days of exposure, no DM…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-05 PandaX Collaboration , Mengjiao Xiao , Xiang Xiao , Li Zhao , Xiguang Cao , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Xiangyi Cui , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Karl L. Giboni , Haowei Gong , Guodong Guo , Jie Hu , Xingtao Huang , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Siao Lei , Shaoli Li , Qing Lin , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Xiang Liu , Wolfgang Lorenzon , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Kaixuan Ni , Kirill Pushkin , Xiangxiang Ren , Michael Schubnell , Manbing Shen , Scott Stephenson , Andi Tan , Greg Tarle , Hongwei Wang , Jimin Wang , Meng Wang , Xuming Wang , Zhou Wang , Yuehuan Wei , Shiyong Wu , Pengwei Xie , Yinghui You , Xionghui Zeng , Hua Zhang , Tao Zhang , Zhonghua Zhu

The leptophilic dark matter with $Z'$ interaction: from indirect searches to future $e^+ e^-$ collider searches

We investigate the scenario where the dark matter only interacts with the charged leptons in the standard model via a neutral vector mediator $Z'$. Such a scenario with a 430 GeV dark matter can fit the recent positron fluxes observed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-05 Ning Chen , Jian Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

Direct Dark Matter Search with XMASS-I

XMASS-I uses single phase liquid xenon technology for aiming at the direct detection of dark matter. The detector observes only scintillation light by 2 inch 642 PMTs which are placed in sphere shape around an active volume. With its large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Masaki Yamashita