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The NEXT double beta decay experiment

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) aims to observe the neutrinoless double beta decay of \ensuremath{{}^{136}\rm Xe} in a high-pressure gas xenon Time Projection Chamber using electroluminescence to amplify the signal from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Paola Ferrario

Determination of the LEP Beam Energy using Z Recoil Events

The precise knowledge of the beam energy, E_beam, at the LEP collider is important to reduce the systematic uncertainty on the W mass. The measurements by the LEP energy group can be cross checked using Z recoil events. Preliminary results…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Rosenbleck

Flow-dependent tagging of $^{214}$Pb decays in the LZ dark matter detector

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is searching for dark matter interactions in a liquid xenon time projection chamber (LXe-TPC). This article demonstrates how control of the flow state in the LXe-TPC enables the identification of pairs of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-27 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , E. E. Barillier , K. Beattie , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , R. Coronel , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , L. Di Felice , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Dubey , C. L. Dunbar , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , A. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , M. K. K , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , J. Kingston , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , J. Long , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , G. McDowell , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. Mclaughlin , R. McMonigle , B. Mitra , E. Mizrachi , M. E. Monzani , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. J. Pannifer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , S. S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , K. Shi , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , A. M. Slivar , R. Smith , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , T. J. Sumner , A. Swain , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , A. Usón , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , W. J. Wisniewski , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , W. Zha , H. Zhang , T. Zhang

Radiopurity measurements of liquid scintillator for the COSINE-100 Upgrade

A new 2,400 L liquid scintillator has been produced for the COSINE-100 Upgrade, which is under construction at Yemilab for the next COSINE dark matter experiment phase. The linear-alkyl-benzene-based scintillator is designed to serve as a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-01 J. Kim , C. Ha , S. H. Kim , W. K. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. J. Ko , E. K. Lee , H. Lee , H. S. Lee , I. S. Lee , J. Lee , S. H. Lee , S. M. Lee , Y. J. Lee , G. H. Yu

ALICE ITS Upgrade for LHC Run 3: Commissioning in the Laboratory

ALICE is the CERN LHC experiment optimised for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterisation of the quark-gluon plasma. To achieve the physics program for LHC Run 3, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-04 Domenico Colella

Search for a New B-L Z' Gauge Boson with the NA64 Experiment at CERN

A search for a new $Z'$ gauge boson associated with (un)broken B-L symmetry in the keV-GeV mass range is carried out for the first time using the missing-energy technique in the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS. From the analysis of the data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-25 Yu. M. Andreev , D. Banerjee , B. Banto-Oberhauser , J. Bernhard , P. Bisio , M. Bondi , V. Burtsev , A. Celentano , N. Charitonidis , A. G. Chumakov , D. Cooke , P. Crivelli , E. Depero , A. V. Dermenev , S. V. Donskov , R. R. Dusaev , T. Enik , V. N. Frolov , A. Gardikiotis , S. G. Gerassimov , S. N. Gninenko , M. Hosgen , M. Jeckel , V. A. Kachanov , A. E. Karneyeu , G. D. Kekelidze , B. Ketzer , D. V. Kirpichnikov , M. M. Kirsanov , V. N. Kolosov , S. G. Kovalenko , V. A. Kramarenko , L. V. Kravchuk , N. V. Krasnikov , S. V. Kuleshov , V. E. Lyubovitskij , V. Lysan , L. Marsicano , V. A. Matveev , Yu. V. Mikhailov , L. Molina Bueno , D. V. Peshekhonov , V. A. Polyakov , B. Radics , A. Rubbia , K. Salamatin , V. D. Samoylenko , H. Sieber , D. Shchukin , O. Soto , V. O. Tikhomirov , I. Tlisova , A. N. Toropin , B. I. Vasilishin , P. V. Volkov , V. Yu. Volkov , I. Voronchikhin , J. Zamora-Saa

The photon-ion merged-beams experiment PIPE at PETRAIII - The first five years

The Photon-Ion Spectrometer at PETRA III - in short, PIPE - is a permanently installed user facility at the "Variable Polarization XUV Beamline" P04 of the synchrotron light source PETRA III operated by DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The careful…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 S. Schippers , T. Buhr , A. Borovik , K. Holste , A. Perry-Sassmannshausen , K. Mertens , S. Reinwardt , M. Martins , S. Klumpp , K. Schubert , S. Bari , R. Beerwerth , S. Fritzsche , S. Ricz , J. Hellhund , A. Müller

Any Light Particle Searches with ALPS II: first science results

The light-shining-through-a-wall experiment ALPS II at DESY in Hamburg searched for axions and similar lightweight particles in its first science campaign from February to May 2024. No evidence for the existence of such particles was found.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-18 Daniel C. Brotherton , Zachary R. Bush , Sandy Croatto , Mauricio Diaz-Ortiz , Jacob Egge , Aldo Ejlli , Henry Frädrich , Joe Gleason , Hartmut Grote , Ayman Hallal , Michael T. Hartman , Harold Hollis , Katharina-Sophie Isleif , Alasdair L. James , Friederike Januschek , Kanioar Karan , Sven Karstensen , Todd Kozlowski , Axel Lindner , Giuseppe Messineo , Manuel Meyer , Guido Müller , Ryan Netrval , Isabella Oceano , Gulden Othman , Jan H. Põld , David Reuther , Andreas Ringwald , Elmeri Rivasto , José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno , Jörn Schaffran , Uwe Schneekloth , Christina Schwemmbauer , Richard C. G. Smith , Aaron D. Spector , David B. Tanner , Dieter Trines , Li-Wei Wei , Benno Willke , Rachel Wolf

Reconstruction of jets and missing transverse momentum at the CMS experiment: Run 2 and perspective for Run 3

The performance of reconstruction and calibration of jets and missing transverse momentum in the CMS Collaboration, together with the latest tools for pileup mitigation, is presented. The results shown are relative to the data collected…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-18 Andrea Malara

Light hyperon physics at the BESIII experiment

The BESIII experiment at the electron-positron collider BEPCII in Beijing (China) is successfully operating since 2008 and has collected large data samples in the tau-mass region, including the world's largest data samples at the $J/\psi$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-08 V. Batozskaya

Underground Commissioning of LUX

LUX is a dual-phase xenon TPC designed for the direct detection of dark matter. Using 370 kg of xenon, LUX is capable of setting a WIMP-nucleon cross section limit at 2 x 10^-46 cm^2 after 300 days of running. LUX will surpass all existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Michael Woods

Recent results in the search for dark matter with noble liquid detectors

The field of dark matter direct detection has seen important contributions in recent years from experiments involving liquid noble gases, specifically liquid argon and liquid xenon. These detection media offer many properties deemed useful…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-04-05 Aaron Manalaysay

Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment

Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event searches. We use the EXO-200 experimental data to measure the absolute scintillation and ionization yields generated by $\gamma$ interactions from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 200 Collaboration , G. Anton , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , G. F. Cao , W. R. Cen , C. Chambers , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , S. J. Daugherty , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , J. Dilling , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , J. Echevers , W. Fairbank , D. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , P. Gautam , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , C. Hall , E. V. Hansen , J. Hoessl , P. Hufschmidt , M. Hughes , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , C. Jessiman , M. J. Jewell , A. Johnson , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , T. Koffas , R. Krucken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. S. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , R. MacLellan , T. McElroy , T. Michel , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , R. Neilson , O. Njoya , O. Nusair , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , F. Retiere , A. L. Robinson , P. C. Rowson , J. Runge , S. Schmidt , D. Sinclair , A. K. Soma , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , J. Todd , T. Tolba , D. Tosi , T. I. Totev , B. Veenstra , V. Veeraraghavan , J. -L. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , J. Watkins , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , G. Wrede , S. X. Wu , Q. Xia , D. R. Yahne , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich , T. Ziegle

Voltage scanning and technical upgrades at the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy experiment

To optimize the performance of the Collinear Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment at CERN-ISOLDE, technical upgrades are continuously introduced, aiming to enhance its sensitivity, precision, stability, and efficiency.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-31 Michail Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis , Jordan R. Reilly , Agota Koszorus , Shane G. Wilkins , Louis Lalanne , Sarina Geldhof , Miranda Nichols , Quanjun Wang , Bram van den Borne , David Chorlton , Thomas E. Cocolios , Kieran T. Flanagan , Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz , Ruben de Groote , Dag Hanstorp , Gerda Neyens , Andrew J. Smith , Adam R. Vernon , Xiaofei F. Yang

Scintillation and Ionization Responses of Liquid Xenon to Low Energy Electronic and Nuclear Recoils at Drift Fields from 236 V/cm to 3.93 kV/cm

We present new measurements of the scintillation and ionization yields in liquid xenon for low energy electronic (about 3--7 keV$_{ee}$) and nuclear recoils (about 8--20 keV$_{nr}$) at different drift fields from 236 V/cm to 3.93 kV/cm,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-08-19 Qing Lin , Jialing Fei , Fei Gao , Jie Hu , Yuehuan Wei , Xiang Xiao , Hongwei Wang , Kaixuan Ni

The XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment

The XENON experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) via their elastic scattering off Xe nuclei. A fiducial mass of 1000 kg, distributed in ten independent liquid xenon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Aprile , K. L. Giboni , P. Majewski , K. Ni , M. Yamashita , R. Gaitskell , P. Sorensen , L. DeViveiros , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , C. Hagmann , C. Winant , T. Shutt , J. Kwong , U. Oberlack , D. McKinsey , R. Hasty

A Comprehensive Study of Low-Energy Response for Xenon-Based Dark Matter Experiments

We report a comprehensive study of the energy response to low-energy recoils in dual-phase xenon-based dark matter experiments. A recombination model is developed to explain the recombination probability as a function of recoil energy at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-26 L. Wang , D. -M. Mei

Study of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the NA61/SHINE experiment

NA61/SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) is a fixed target experiment located at the CERN SPS. Its strong interactions program is devoted to study properties of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter. For this goal the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-12-06 Maja Mackowiak-Pawlowska

Extending light WIMP searches to single scintillation photons in LUX

We present a novel analysis technique for liquid xenon time projection chambers that allows for a lower threshold by relying on events with a prompt scintillation signal consisting of single detected photons. The energy threshold of the LUX…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , A. Baxter , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , B. Boxer , P. Brás , S. Burdin , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , B. N. Edwards , C. H. Faham , S. R. Fallon , A. Fan , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , V. M. Gehman , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , K. R. Gibson , M. G. D. Gilchriese , E. Grace , C. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , M. Hanhardt , 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. Kazka , D. Khaitan , R. Knoche , E. V. Korolkova , S. Kravitz , V. A. Kudryavtsev , N. A. Larsen , E. Leason , C. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , B. López-Paredes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nilima , K. O'Sullivan , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , E. K. Pease , L. Reichhart , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , P. Rossiter , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , S. Stephenson , 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 , M. Tripathi , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , S. Uvarov , A. Vacheret , V. Velan , J. R. Verbus , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , J. Xu , K. Yazdani , S. K. Young , C. Zhang

Gamma-ray background from rock: studies for a next-generation dark matter experiment based on liquid xenon

Rare event experiments, such as those targeting dark matter interactions and neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay, should be shielded from gamma-rays that originated in rock. This paper describes the simulation of gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-20 J. K. Tranter , V. A. Kudryavtsev , P. R. Scovell