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Liquid Xenon Detectors for Particle Physics and Astrophysics

This article reviews the progress made over the last 20 years in the development and applications of liquid xenon detectors in particle physics, astrophysics and medical imaging experiments. We begin with a summary of the fundamental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-12-01 E. Aprile , T. Doke

The Present and Future of Searching for Dark Matter with LUX and LZ

The LUX collaboration new results advance the search for dark matter candidate particles in the 4 GeV/c^2 and higher mass range, with a maximal spin-independent 90% C.L. limit of 2 x 10^-46 cm^2 at 50 GeV/c^2 for its 332 live-day run,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Szydagis

Search for dark sector physics with NA64

The NA64 experiment consists of two detectors which are planned to be located at the electron (NA64e) and muon (NA64$\mu$) beams of the CERN SPS and start operation after the LHC long-stop 2 in 2021. Its main goals include searches for dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 S. N. Gninenko , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev

The XENON Dark Matter 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 Xenon nuclei. With a fiducial mass of 1000 kg of liquid xenon, a sufficiently low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 XENON Collaboration , Elena Aprile

ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting LC Circuit Investigating Cold Axions

Axions are a promising cold dark matter candidate. Haloscopes, which use the conversion of axions to photons in the presence of a magnetic field to detect axions, are the basis of microwave cavity searches such as the Axion Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. Crisosto , G. Rybka , P. Sikivie , N. S. Sullivan , D. B. Tanner , J. Yang

Material screening and selection for XENON100

Results of the extensive radioactivity screening campaign to identify materials for the construction of XENON100 are reported. This Dark Matter search experiment is operated underground at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-09-12 XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , K. Bokeloh , E. Brown , J. M. R. Cardoso , B. Choi , D. Cline , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , K. L. Giboni , A. Kish , C. W. Lam , J. Lamblin , R. F. Lang , K. E. Lim , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , Y. Mei , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , G. Plante , A. C. C Ribeiro , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Schumann , P. Shagin , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , E. Tziaferi , H. Wang , C. Weinheimer , M. Laubenstein , S. Nisi

Dark Matter at the Intensity Frontier: the new MESA electron accelerator facility

Dark Matter is being searched with a variety of methods, each of which tackles this challenge focusing on different kinds of particles, masses and couplings. Here we describe Dark Matter searches conducted with accelerators and fixed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-22 Luca Doria , Patrick Achenbach , Mirco Christmann , Achim Denig , Harald Merkel

Improved Modeling of $\beta$ Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using LUX Calibration Data

We report here methods and techniques for creating and improving a model that reproduces the scintillation and ionization response of a dual-phase liquid and gaseous xenon time-projection chamber. Starting with the recent release of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-02 The LUX Collaboration , 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. Kravits , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. Leason , 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 , 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 , M. Tripathi , 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

A Beamdump Facility at Jefferson Lab

This White Paper is exploring the potential of intense secondary muon, neutrino, and (hypothetical) light dark matter beams produced in interactions of high-intensity electron beams with beam dumps. Light dark matter searches with the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Patrick Achenbach , Andrei Afanasev , Pawel Ambrozewicz , Adi Ashkenazi , Dipanwita Banerjee , Marco Battaglieri , Jay Benesch , Mariangela Bondi , Paul Brindza , Alexandre Camsonne , Eric M. Christy , Ethan W. Cline , Chris Cuevas , Jens Dilling , Luca Doria , Stuart Fegan , Marco Filippini , Antonino Fulci , Simona Giovannella , Stefano Grazzi , Heather Jackson , Douglas Higinbotham , Cynthia Keppel , Vladimir Khachatryan , Michael Kohl , Hanjie Liu , Zhen Liu , Camillo Mariani , Ralph Marinaro , Kevin McFarland , Claudio Montanari , Vishvas Pandey , Eduard Pozdeyev , Jianwei Qiu , Patrizia Rossi , Riccardo Rossini , Todd Satogata , Glenn Schrader , Adrian Signer , Daniel Snowden-Ifft , Marco Spreafico , Diktys Stratakis , Manjukrishna Suresh , Holly Szumila , Julia Tena Vidal , Davide Terzania , Charlie Velasquez , Michael Wood , Takayuki Yamazaki , Yuhong Zhang

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

DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search at SNOLAB

The DEAP-3600 detector, currently under construction at SNOLAB, has been designed to achieve extremely low background rates from all sources, including 39Ar beta decays, neutron scatters (from internal and external sources), surface alpha…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. G. Boulay

Position Reconstruction in LUX

The $(x, y)$ position reconstruction method used in the analysis of the complete exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment is presented. The algorithm is based on a statistical test that makes use of an iterative method to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-13 LUX Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , P. Brás , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , T. J. R. Davison , A. Dobi , E. Druszkiewicz , B. N. Edwards , S. R. Fallon , A. Fan , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , 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 , W. Ji , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , R. Knoche , N. A. Larsen , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , K. O'Sullivan , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , E. K. Pease , C. Rhyne , 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 , S. Uvarov , V. Velan , J. R. Verbus , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , J. Xu , K. Yazdani , S. K. Young , C. Zhang

Fast and Flexible Analysis of Direct Dark Matter Search Data with Machine Learning

We present the results from combining machine learning with the profile likelihood fit procedure, using data from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment. This approach demonstrates reduction in computation time by a factor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-30 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 , N. Carrara , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. E. Cutter , L. de Viveiros , E. Druszkiewicz , J. Ernst , 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 , 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 , 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. Xian , J. Xu , C. Zhang

Status of the ADMX and ADMX-HF experiments

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is in the midst of an upgrade to reduce its system noise temperature. ADMX-HF (High Frequency) is a second platform specifically designed for higher mass axions and will serve as an innovation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-01 Karl van Bibber , Gianpaolo Carosi

Search for Dark Sector by Repurposing the UVX Brazilian Synchrotron

We propose the first Search for Dark Sector at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, site of Sirius, a fourth-generation storage ring. We show that UVX, Sirius predecessor, can be a promising dark sector detector, SeDS, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-05 L. Duarte , L. Lin , M. Lindner , V. Kozhuharov , S. V. Kuleshov , A. S. de Jesus , F. S. Queiroz , Y. Villamizar , H. Westfahl

Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Detector Fabrication Process and Recent Improvements

A dedicated facility has been commissioned for Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) detector fabrication at Texas A&M University (TAMU). The fabrication process has been carefully tuned using this facility and its equipment. Production of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrew Jastram , Rusty Harris , Rupak Mahapatra , James Phillips , Mark Platt , Kunj Prasad , Joel Sander , Sriteja Upadhyayula

The CDEX Dark Matter Program at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory

The China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is a new facility for conducting low event-rate experiments. We present an overview of CJPL and the CDEX Dark Matter program based on germanium detectors with sub-keV sensitivities. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 Qian Yue , Kejun Kang , Jianming Li , Henry T. Wong

Direct detection prospects of dark vectors with xenon-based dark matter experiments

Dark matter experiments primarily search for the scattering of WIMPs on target nuclei of well shielded underground detectors. The results from liquid scintillator experiments furthermore provide precise probes of very light and very weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-19 Haipeng An , Kaixuan Ni , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

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

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