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Use of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) Detectors for an Advanced X-ray Monitor

We describe a concept for a NASA SMEX Mission in which Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors, developed at CERN, are adapted for use in X-ray astronomy. These detectors can be used to obtain moderately large detector area and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. A. Remillard , A. M. Levine , E. A. Boughan , H. V. Bradt , E. H. Morgan , U. J. Becker , S. Nenonen , O. R. Vilhu

Development and Characterization of a Multi-APD Xenon Electroluminescence TPC

The performance of an electroluminescence (EL) Time Projection Chamber (TPC) with a multi avalanche photodiode (APD) readout was studied in pure xenon at 3.8 bar. Intercalibration and reconstruction methods were developed and applied to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Lux , A. Garcia Soto , O. Ballester , S. Bordoni , I. Gil-Botella , N. Hamer , J. Illa , G. Jover Mañas , C. Martin-Mari , C. Palomares , J. Rico , F. Sanchez , R. Santorelli , A. Verdugo

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

Liquid Xe TPCs are among the most popular choices for double beta decay and WIMP dark matter searches. Gaseous Xe has intrinsic advantages when compared to Liquid Xe, specifically, tracking capability and better energy resolution for double…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-15 Y. Nakajima , A. Goldschmidt , H. S. Matis , D. Nygren , C. Oliveira , J. Renner

A Review of NEST Models for Liquid Xenon and Exhaustive Comparison to Other Approaches

This paper will discuss the microphysical simulation of interactions in liquid xenon, the active detector medium in many leading rare-event searches for new physics, and describe experimental observables useful for understanding detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-23 M. Szydagis , J. Balajthy , G. A. Block , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , J. E. Cutter , S. J. Farrell , J. Huang , A. C. Kamaha , E. S. Kozlova , C. S. Liebenthal , D. N. McKinsey , K. McMichael , R. McMonigle , M. Mooney , J. Mueller , K. Ni , G. R. C. Rischbieter , K. Trengove , M. Tripathi , C. D. Tunnell , V. Velan , S. Westerdale , M. D. Wyman , Z. Zhao , M. Zhong

Topological background discrimination in the PandaX-III neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

The PandaX-III experiment plans to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{136}$Xe in the China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL). The experiment will use a high pressure gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 J Galan , X Chen , H Du , C Fu , K Giboni , F Giuliani , K Han , B Jiang , X Ji , H Lin , Y Lin , J Liu , K Ni , X Ren , S Wang , S Wu , C Xie , Y Yang , D Zhang , T Zhang , L Zhao , S Aune , Y Bedfer , E Berthoumieux , D Calvet , N d'Hose , E Ferrer-Ribas , F Kunne , B Manier , D Neyret , T Papaevangelou , L Chen , S Hu , S Jian , P Li , X Li , H Zhang , M Zhao , J Zhou , Y Mao , H Qiao , S Wang , Y Yuan , M Wang , Y Chen , A N Khan , N Raper , J Tang , W Wang , C Feng , C Li , J Liu , S Liu , X Wang , D Zhu , J F Castel , S Cebrián , T Dafni , I G Irastorza , G Luzón , H Mirallas , X Sun , A Tan , W Haxton , Y Mei , C Kobdaj , Y Yan

Characterization of a gas detector prototype based on Thick-GEM for the MAGNEX focal plane detector

A new gas detector prototype for the upgrade of the focal plane detector of the MAGNEX large-acceptance magnetic spectrometer has been developed and tested in view of the NUMEN project. It has been designed to operate at low gas pressure…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-06 I. Ciraldo , G. A. Brischetto , D. Torresi , M. Cavallaro , C. Agodi , A. Boiano , S. Calabrese , F. Cappuzzello , D. Carbone , M. Cortesi , F. Delaunay , M. Fisichella , L. Neri , A. Pandalone , P. Paolucci , B. Rossi , O. Sgouros , V. Soukeras , A. Spatafora , A. Vanzanella , A. Yildirim

A simulation toolkit for electroluminescence assessment in rare event experiments

A good understanding of electroluminescence is a prerequisite when optimising double-phase noble gas detectors for Dark Matter searches and high-pressure xenon TPCs for neutrinoless double beta decay detection. A simulation toolkit for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-05-17 C. A. B. Oliveira , H. Schindler , R. Veenhof , S. Biagi , C. M. B. Monteiro , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. L. Ferreira , J. F. C. A. Veloso

Secondary scintillation yield of Xenon with sub-percent levels of CO2 additive: efficiently reducing electron diffusion in HPXe optical TPCs for rare-event detection

We have measured the electroluminescence (EL) yield of Xe-CO2 mixtures, with sub-percent CO2 concentrations. We demonstrate that the EL production is still high in these mixtures, 70% and 35% relative to that produced in pure xenon, for CO2…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-14 C. A. O. Henriques , E. D. C. Freitas , C. D. R. Azevedo , D. González-Díaz , R. D. P. Mano , M. R. Jorge , L. M. P. Fernandes , C. M. B. Monteiro , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , V. Álvarez , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Botas , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , C. A. N. Conde , J. Díaz , M. Diesburg , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , A. Goldschmidt , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. Hauptman , A. I. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando Morata , V. Herrero , B. J. P. Jones , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , I. Liubarsky , N. López-March , M. Losada , J. Martín-Albo , G. Martínez-Lema , A. Martínez , A. D. McDonald , F. Monrabal , F. J. Mora , L. M. Moutinho , J. Muñoz Vidal , M. Musti , M. Nebot-Guinot , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J. Pérez , M. Querol , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , J. Rodríguez , L. Rogers , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , 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

Performances of a GEM-based Time Projection Chamber prototype for the AMADEUS experiment

A large number of high-energy and heavy-ion experiments successfully used Time Projection Chamber (TPC) as central tracker and particle identification detector. However, the performance requirements on TPC for new high-rate particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-14 M. Poli Lener , M. Bazzi , G. Corradi , C. Curceanu , A. D'Uffizi , C. Paglia , A. Romero Vidal , E. Sbardella , A. Scordo , D. Tagnani , J. Zmeskal

Microscopic simulation of xenon-based optical TPCs in the presence of molecular additives

We introduce a simulation framework for the transport of high and low energy electrons in xenon-based gaseous optical time projection chambers (OTPCs). The simulation relies on elementary cross sections (electron-atom and electron-molecule)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 C. D. R. Azevedo , D. Gonzalez-Diaz , S. F. Biagi , C. A. B. Oliveira , C. A. O. Henriques , J. Escada , F. Monrabal , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , V. Álvarez , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Botas , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , C. A. N. Conde , J. Díaz , M. Diesburg , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , A. Goldschmidt , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. Hauptman , A. I. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando Morata , V. Herrero , B. J. P. Jones , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , I. Liubarsky , N. Lopez-March , M. Losada , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , A. D. McDonald , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , L. M. Moutinho , J. Muñoz Vidal , M. Musti , M. Nebot-Guinot , P. Novella , D. Nygren , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J. Pérez , M. Querol , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , J. Rodríguez , L. Rogers , 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

Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume, scalability to large target masses, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-28 G. Gallina , Y. Guan , F. Retiere , G. Cao , A. Bolotnikov , I. Kotov , S. Rescia , A. K. Soma , T. Tsang , L. Darroch , T. Brunner , J. Bolster , J. R. Cohen , T. Pinto Franco , W. C. Gillis , H. Peltz Smalley , S. Thibado , A. Pocar , A. Bhat , A. Jamil , D. C. Moore , G. Adhikari , S. Al Kharusi , E. Angelico , I. J. Arnquist , P. Arsenault , I. Badhrees , J. Bane , V. Belov , E. P. Bernard , T. Bhatta , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , E. Caden , L. Cao , C. Chambers , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , R. Collister , M. Cvitan , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , K. Deslandes , R. DeVoe , M. L. di Vacri , Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , B. Eckert , M. Elbeltagi , L. Fabris , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , Y. S. Fu , D. Gallacher , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , C. Gingras , D. Goeldi , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , C. A. Hardy , S. Hedges , M. Heffner , E. Hein , J. Holt , E. W. Hoppe , J. Hößl , A. House , W. Hunt , A. Iverson , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. Lessard , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , M. Mahtab , S. Majidi , C. Malbrunot , P. Margetak , P. Martel-Dion , L. Martin , J. Masbou , N. Massacret , K. McMichael , B. Mong , K. Murray , J. Nattress , C. R. Natzke , X. E. Ngwadla , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , A. Odian , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , C. T. Overman , S. Parent , A. Perna , A. Piepke , N. Pletskova , J. F. Pratte , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , G. J. Ramonnye , T. Rao , H. Rasiwala , K. Raymond , B. M. Rebeiro , G. Richardson , J. Ringuette , V. Riot , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , L. Rudolph , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , X. Shang , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , A. Tidball , T. Totev , S. Triambak , R. H. M. Tsang , O. A. Tyuka , F. Vachon , M. Vidal , S. Viel , G. Visser , M. Wagenpfeil , M. Walent , K. Wamba , Q. Wang , W. Wang , Y. Wang , M. Watts , W. Wei , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , S. Wilde , M. Worcester , W. H. Wu , X. Wu , L. Xie , W. Yan , H. Yang , L. Yang , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , T. Ziegler

PandaX-III: Searching for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with High Pressure Gaseous Time Projection Chambers

The PandaX-III (Particle And Astrophysical Xenon Experiment III) experiment will search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) of 136Xe at the China Jin-Ping underground Laboratory II (CJPL-II). In the first phase of the experiment, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Ke Han

Micromegas readouts for double beta decay searches

Double beta $\beta\beta$ decay experiments are one of the most active research topics in Neutrino Physics. The measurement of the neutrinoless mode $0\nu\beta\beta$ could give unique information on the neutrino mass scale and nature. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-11-15 S. Cebrián , T. Dafni , E. Ferrer-Ribas , J. Galán , J. A. García , I. Giomataris , H. Gómez , D. C. Herrera , F. J. Iguaz , I. G. Irastorza , G. Luzón , A. Rodríguez , L. Seguí , A. Tomás

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

VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO

Future tonne-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the VUV range. In the past years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid alternative to standard photomultiplier tubes or large area…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-14 A. Jamil , T. Ziegler , P. Hufschmidt , G. Li , L. Lupin-Jimenez , T. Michel , I. Ostrovskiy , F. Retière , J. Schneider , M. Wagenpfeil , J. B. Albert , G. Anton , I. J. Arnquist , I. Badhrees , P. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , A. Burenkov , G. F. Cao , L. Cao , W. R. Cen , C. Chambers , S. A. Charlebois , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , W. Cree , M. Côté , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , S. J. Daugherty , J. Daughhetee , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , T. Didberidze , J. Dilling , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Feyzbakhsh , R. Fontaine , D. Fudenberg , G. Gallina , G. Giacomini , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , E. V. Hansen , D. Harris , M. Hasan , M. Heffner , E. W. Hoppe , A. House , M. Hughes , J. Hößl , Y. Ito , A. Iverson , M. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , D. S. Leonard , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , R. MacLellan , B. Mong , D. Moore , K. Murray , R. J. Newby , Z. Ning , O. Njoya , F. Nolet , K. Odgers , A. Odian , M. Oriunno , J. L. Orrell , C. T. Overman , G. S. Ortega , S. Parent , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , J. -F. Pratte , D. Qiu , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , T. Rao , S. Rescia , A. Robinson , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , N. Roy , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , S. Schmidt , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , K. Skarpaas , A. K. Soma , G. St-Hilaire , V. Stekhanov , T. Stiegler , X. L. Sun , M. Tarka , J. Todd , T. Tolba , R. Tsang , T. Tsang , F. Vachon , V. Veeraraghavan , G. Visser , J. -L. Vuilleumier , Q. Wang , M. Weber , W. Wei , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , G. Wrede , S. X. Wu , W. H. Wu , Q. Xia , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Zeldovich , X. Zhang , J. Zhao , Y. Zhou

Calorimeter commissioning of the SuperNEMO Demonstrator

The SuperNEMO experiment is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of \textsuperscript{82}Se, with the unique combination of a tracking detector and a segmented calorimeter. This feature allows to detect the two electrons emitted in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-19 X. Aguerre , A. Barabash , A. Basharina-Freshville , M. Bongrand , Ch. Bourgeois , D. Boursette , D. Breton , R. Breier , J. Busto , S. Calvez , C. Cerna , M. Ceschia , E. Chauveau , L. Dawson , D. Duchesneau , J. J. Evans , D. V. Filosofov , X. Garrido , C. Girard-Carillo , M. Granjon , B. Guillon , M. Hoballah , R. Hodák , J. Horkley , A. Huber , M. H. Hussain , A. Jeremie , S. Jullian , J. Kaizer , A. A. Klimenko , O. Kochetov , F. Koňařík , S. Konovalov , T. Křižák , A. Lahaie , K. Lang , Y. Lemière , P. Li , P. Loaiza , J. Maalmi , M. Macko , F. Mamedov , C. Marquet , F. Mauger , A. Mendl , A. Minotti , B. Morgan , I. Nemchenok , M. Nomachi , V. Palušová , C. Patrick , F. Perrot , M. Petro , A. Pin , F. Piquemal , P. Povinec , S. Pratt , M. Proga , W. S. Quinn , A. V. Rakhimov , Y. Ramachers , C. Riddle , N. I. Rukhadze , R. Saakyan , R. Salazar , J. Sedgbeer , L. Simard , F. Šimkovic , A. A. Smolnikov , S. Söldner-Rembold , I. Štekl , J. Suhonen , H. Tedjditi , J. Thomas , V. Timkin , V. Tretyak , V. Tretyak , G. Turnbull , Y. Vereshchaka , D. Waters , V. Yumatov

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

Radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT-100 experiment

The NEXT-100 detector at the LSC aims at the first competitive search for the \bbnonu decay using a high-pressure \Xe{136} electroluminescent time projection chamber. The first low-background run of NEXT-100 at 3.95 bar has been devoted to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-23 NEXT Collaboration , C. Cortes-Parra , P. Novella , G. Martínez-Lema , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , F. Auria-Luna , S. Ayet , Y. Ayyad , C. D. R. Azevedo , F. Ballester , J. E. Barcelon , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Brodoline , N. Byrnes , A. Castillo , E. Church , M. Cid , X. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , F. P. Cossío , R. Coupe , E. Dey , P. Dietz , C. Echeverria , M. Elorza , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , P. Ferrero Mancheño , F. W. Foss , Z. Freixa , J. García-Barrena , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , J. W. R. Grocott , R. Guenette , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero-Gómez , V. Herrero , C. Hervés Carrete , Y. Ifergan , A. F. B. Isabel , B. J. P. Jones , F. Kellerer , L. Larizgoitia , A. Larumbe , P. Lebrun , F. Lopez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. Marauri , A. P. Marques , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , M. Martínez-Vara , R. L. Miller , K. Mistry , J. Molina-Canteras , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , K. E. Navarro , D. R. Nygren , E. Oblak , I. Osborne , J. Palacio , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , I. Parmaksiz , A. Pazos , J. Pelegrin , M. Pérez Maneiro , M. Querol , J. Renner , I. Rivilla , C. Rogero , L. Rogers , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , E. Ruiz-Chóliz , P. Saharia , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Seemann , I. Shomroni , A. L. M. Silva , P. A. O. C. Silva , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , M. Sorel , J. Soto-Oton , J. M. R. Teixeira , S. Teruel-Pardo , J. F. Toledo , C. Tonnelé , S. Torelli , J. Torrent , A. Trettin , P. R. G. Valle , M. Vanga , P. Vázquez Cabaleiro , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. D. Villamil , L. M. Villar Padruno , J. Waiton , A. Yubero-Navarro

Sense and sensitivity of double beta decay experiments

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is a very active field in which the number of proposals for next-generation experiments has proliferated. In this paper we attempt to address both the sense and the sensitivity of such…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-09 J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , J. Martin-Albo , M. Sorel , P. Ferrario , F. Monrabal , J. Munoz-Vidal , P. Novella , A. Poves

XSEN: a $\nu$N Cross Section Measurement using High Energy Neutrinos from pp collisions at the LHC

XSEN (Cross Section of Energetic Neutrinos) is a small experiment designed to study, for the first time, neutrino-nucleon interactions (including the tau flavour) in the 0.5-1 TeV neutrino energy range. The detector will be installed in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-28 N. Beni , S. Buontempo , T. Camporesi , F. Cerutti , G. M. Dallavalle , G. De Lellis , A. De Roeck , A. De Rujula , A. Di Crescenzo , D. Fasanella , A. Ioannisyan , D. Lazic , A. Margotti , S. Lo Meo , F. L. Navarria , L. Patrizii , T. Rovelli , M. Sabate-Gilarte , F. Sanchez Galan , P. Santos Diaz , G. Sirri , Z. Szillasi , C. Wulz