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Low-energy nuclear recoil calibration of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment with a photoneutron source

The LZ experiment is a liquid xenon time-projection chamber (TPC) searching for evidence of particle dark matter interactions. In the simplest assumption of elastic scattering, many dark matter models predict an energy spectrum which rises…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 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 , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , S. Contreras , 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 , 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 , K. Trengrove , 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

Beam impact tests of a prototype target for the Beam Dump Facility at CERN: experimental setup and preliminary analysis of the online results

The Beam Dump Facility (BDF) is a project for a new facility at CERN dedicated to high intensity beam dump and fixed target experiments. Currently in its design phase, the first aim of the facility is to search for Light Dark Matter and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-10 E. Lopez Sola , M. Calviani , O. Aberle , C. Ahdida , P. Avigni , M. Battistin , L. Bianchi , S. Burger , J. Busom Descarrega , J. Canhoto Espadanal , E. Cano-Pleite , M. Casolino , M. A. Fraser , S. Gilardoni , S. Girod , J-L. Grenard , D. Grenier , M. Guinchard , C. Hessler , R. Jacobsson , M. Lamont , A. Ortega Rolo , M. Pandey , A. Perillo-Marcone , B. Riffaud , V. Vlachoudis , L. Zuccalli

Characterization of CRYO ASIC for charge readout in the nEXO experiment

nEXO is a proposed next-generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe using a tonne-scale liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC). To image the ionization signals from events in the liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-15 Z. Li , M. Yu , E. Angelico , A. Atencio , A. Gupta , P. Knauss , A. Pena-Perez , B. G. Lenardo , P. Acharya , A. Amy , A. Anker , I. J. Arnquist , J. Bane , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , A. Bolotnikov , J. Breslin , P. A. Breur , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , B. Burnell , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Q. Cao , D. Cesmecioglu , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , R. Collister , M. Marquis , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , R. DeVoe , M. L. di Vacri , X. Defay , Y. Y. Ding , D. Doering , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , B. Eckert , A. Emara , N. Fatemighomi , W. Fairbank , B. T. Foust , D. Gallacher , N. Gallice , A. Gaur , W. Gillis , F. Girard , A. Gorham , K. Gracequist , G. Gratta , C. A. Hardy , J. Hasi , S. Hedges , M. Heffner , E. Hein , H. Hernandez Herrera , J. D. Holt , A. Iverson , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , D. Keblbeck , C. Kenney , I. Kotov , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , S. Lavoie , A. Larson , M. B. Latif , K. G. Leach , D. S. Leonard , G. Lessard , K. K. H. Leung , G. Li , X. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , S. Majidi , C. Malbrunot , B. Markovic , J. Masbou , M. Medina-Peregrina , S. Mngonyama , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Ni , I. Nitu , A. Nolan , S. C. Nowicki , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , A. Odian , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , L. Pagani , H. Peltz Smalley , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , S. Prentice , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , R. Rai , H. Rasiwala , D. Ray , B. Reese , S. Rescia , F. Retiere , G. Richardson , V. Riot , R. Ross , L. Rota , P. C. Rowson , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , S. Sekula , T. Shetty , L. Si , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , S. Thibado , T. Totev , S. Triambak , R. H. M. Tsang , O. A. Tyuka , T. Vallivilayil John , E. van Bruggen , M. Vidal , S. Viel , M. Walent , H. Wang , Q. D. Wang , M. Watts , W. Wei , M. Wehrfritz , L. J. Wen , S. Wilde , X. M. Wu , H. Xu , H. B. Yang , L. Yang , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao

The TPC detector of PandaX-III Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay experiment

The PandaX-III experiment uses a high pressure xenon gas TPC to search for the NLDBD of $^{136}$Xe. The Microbulk Micromegas will be used for charge amplification and readout in order to record both the energy and track of an event with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 Shaobo Wang

Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to the two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decays of $^{134}$Xe

The projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to two-neutrino and neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{134}$Xe is presented. LZ is a 10-tonne xenon time projection chamber optimized for the detection of dark matter particles,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-12 The LUX-ZEPLIN , Collaboration , : , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , S. K. Alsum , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araujo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , X. Bai , J. Balajthy , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , D. Bauer , A. Baxter , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , G. M. Blockinger , E. Bodnia , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Bras , S. Burdin , J. K. Busenitz , M. Buuck , R. Cabrita , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Cascella , C. Chan , N. I. Chott , A. Cole , M. V. Converse , A. Cottle , G. Cox , O. Creaner , J. E. Cutter , C. E. Dahl , L. de Viveiros , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , S. Fayer , N. M. Fearon , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , E. Gibson , S. Gokhale , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. B. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , O. Jahangir , R. S. James , W. Ji , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , I. Khurana , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. A. Leason , J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , E. Lopez Asamar , B. Lopez Paredes , W. Lorenzon , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , L. Manenti , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , E. H. Miller , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. A. Morad , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , A. St. J. Murphy , D. Naim , A. Naylor , C. Nedlik , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , J. A. Nikoleyczik , A. Nilima , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , S. Pal , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , S. Patton , N. Parveen , E. K. Pease , B. Penning , G. Pereira , A. Piepke , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , P. R. Scovell , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , R. Smith , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , N. Swanson , M. Szydagis , W. C. Taylor , R. Taylor , D. J. Temples , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , W. H. To , D. R. Tovey , M. Tripathi , D. R. Tronstad , W. Turner , U. Utku , A. Vaitkus , B. Wang , J. J. Wang , W. Wang , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , R. G. White , T. J. Whitis , M. Williams , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , X. Xiang , J. Xu , M. Yeh , P. Zarzhitsky

Searches for Double Beta Decay of $^{134}$Xe with EXO-200

Searches for double beta decay of $^{134}$Xe were performed with EXO-200, a single-phase liquid xenon detector designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe. Using an exposure of $29.6\text{ kg}\!\cdot\!\text{yr}$, the…

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An homeopathic cure to pure Xenon large diffusion

The NEXT neutrinoless double beta decay experiment will use a high- pressure gas electroluminescence-based TPC to search for the decay of Xe-136. One of the main advantages of this technology is the possibility to reconstruct the topology…

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Concept of a novel fast neutron imaging detector based on THGEM for fan-beam tomography applications

The conceptual design and operational principle of a novel high-efficiency, fast neutron imaging detector based on THGEM, intended for future fan-beam transmission tomography applications, is described. We report on a feasibility study…

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Performance of a Radial Time Projection Chamber with Electroluminescence in Liquid Xenon

The dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) is a leading detector technology in rare event searches for dark matter and neutrino physics. The success of this type of detector technology relies on its capability to detect both primary…

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Status Report on the double-\beta decay experiment NEMO-3

The NEMO collaboration is presently mounting the NEMO-3 detector in the Fr\'ejus Underground Laboratory. This detector, which will be completed by the end of the year 2000, is devoted to the search of neutrinoless double beta decay with…

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First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory

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Building a large-area GEM-based readout chamber for the upgrade of the ALICE TPC

A large Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main device for tracking and charged-particle identification in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. After the second long shutdown in 2019-2020, the LHC will deliver Pb beams colliding at an…

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A prototype low-background multiwire proportional chamber for measuring alphas and low-energy betas

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Liquid Xenon Detectors for Positron Emission Tomography

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Performances of two resistive MicroMegas prototypes for the Time Projection Chambers of the T2K Near Detector upgrade

T2K is a long baseline neutrino experiment that has been operating since 2009 providing some of the world-wide leading measurements for neutrino oscillation parameters. An upgrade for the Near Detector, ND280, of T2K has been proposed. It…

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Measurement of scintillation and ionization yield with high-pressure gaseous mixtures of Xe and TMA for improved neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter searches

The gaseous Xenon(Xe) time projection chamber (TPC) is an attractive detector technique for neutrinoless double beta decay and WIMP dark matter searches. While it is less dense compared to Liquid Xe detectors, it has intrinsic advantages in…

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The Forward TPC system of the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN: a tandem TPC concept

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A background free double beta decay experiment

We present a new detection scheme for rejecting backgrounds in neutrino less double beta decay experiments. It relies on the detection of Cherenkov light emitted by electrons in the MeV region. The momentum threshold is tuned to reach a…

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An Optical Readout TPC (O-TPC) for Studies in Nuclear Astrophysics With Gamma-Ray Beams at HIgS

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Optical Readout Time Projection Chamber (O-TPC) for a Study of Oxygen Formation In Stellar Helium Burning

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