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Scintillation Efficiency for Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils in Liquid-Xenon Dark Matter Detectors

We perform a theoretical study of the scintillation efficiency in the low-energy region crucial for liquid-xenon dark-matter detectors. We develop a computer program to simulate the cascading process of the recoiling xenon nucleus in liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-10 Wei Mu , Xiaonu Xiong , Xiangdong Ji

First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (Lead, South Dakota), was cooled and filled in February 2013. We report results of the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 LUX Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , H. M. Araujo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , S. Bedikian , E. Bernard , A. Bernstein , A. Bolozdynya , A. Bradley , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. J. Chapman , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , K. Clark , T. Coffey , A. Currie , A. Curioni , S. Dazeley , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. Dobson , E. M. Dragowsky , E. Druszkiewicz , B. Edwards , C. H. Faham , S. Fiorucci , C. Flores , R. J. Gaitskell , V. M. Gehman , C. Ghag , K. R. Gibson , M. G. D. Gilchriese , C. Hall , M. Hanhardt , S. A. Hertel , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , M. Ihm , R. G. Jacobsen , L. Kastens , K. Kazkaz , R. Knoche , S. Kyre , R. Lander , N. A. Larsen , C. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Lyashenko , D. C. Malling , R. Mannino , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. Morad , M. Morii , A. St. J. Murphy , C. Nehrkorn , H. Nelson , F. Neves , J. A. Nikkel , R. A. Ott , M. Pangilinan , P. D. Parker , E. K. Pease , K. Pech , P. Phelps , L. Reichhart , T. Shutt , C. Silva , W. Skulski , C. J. Sofka , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , T. Stiegler , K. O`Sullivan , T. J. Sumner , R. Svoboda , M. Sweany , M. Szydagis , D. Taylor , B. Tennyson , D. R. Tiedt , M. Tripathi , S. Uvarov , J. R. Verbus , N. Walsh , R. Webb , J. T. White , D. White , M. S. Witherell , M. Wlasenko , F. L. H. Wolfs , M. Woods , C. Zhang

Spatially uniform calibration of a liquid xenon detector at low energies using 83m-Kr

A difficult task with many particle detectors focusing on interactions below ~100 keV is to perform a calibration in the appropriate energy range that adequately probes all regions of the detector. Because detector response can vary greatly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-23 A. Manalaysay , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , A. D. Ferella , A. Kish , O. Lebeda , R. Santorelli , D. Venos , A. Vollhardt

Simultaneous Measurement of Ionization and Scintillation from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon as Target for a Dark Matter Experiment

We report the first measurements of the absolute ionization yield of nuclear recoils in liquid xenon, as a function of energy and electric-field. Independent experiments were carried out with two dual-phase time projection chamber…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Aprile , C. E. Dahl , L. DeViveiros , R. Gaitskell , K. L. Giboni , J. Kwong , P. Majewski , K. Ni , T. Shutt , M. Yamashita

Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2 Tonne-Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

We report results of a search for nuclear recoils induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter using the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) two-phase xenon time projection chamber. This analysis uses a total exposure of $4.2\pm0.1$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-10 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 , D. Bauer , K. Beattie , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. Buuck , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , J. J. Cherwinka , 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 , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , S. Fayer , 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. J. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , Meghna K. K. , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , I. Khurana , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , J. Kingston , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , 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 , 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 , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , 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 , A. Richards , Q. Riffard , 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 , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , R. Smith , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , A. Usón , A. Vacheret , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , 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 , E. A. Zweig

Detector Challenges of the strong-field QED experiment LUXE at the European XFEL

The LUXE experiment aims at studying high-field QED in electron-laser and photon-laser interactions, with the 16.5 GeV electron beam of the European XFEL and a laser beam with power of up to 350 TW. The experiment will measure the spectra…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-19 Veta Ghenescu

Dark matter detectors as a novel probe for light new physics

We explore the prospect of constraining light mediators at the next generation direct detection dark matter detectors through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (E$\nu$ES)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-07 Anirban Majumdar , D. K. Papoulias , Rahul Srivastava

Dark matter astrometry at underground detectors with multiscatter events

We show that current and imminent underground detectors are capable of precision astrometry of dark matter. First we show that galactic dark matter velocity distributions can be obtained from reconstructed tracks of dark matter scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Joseph Bramante , Jason Kumar , Nirmal Raj

Results from a search for dark matter in the complete LUX exposure

We report constraints on spin-independent weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon scattering using a 3.35e4 kg-day exposure of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment. A dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with 250 kg…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 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 , R. Bramante , P. Brás , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , T. J. R. Davison , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , B. N. Edwards , C. H. Faham , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , V. M. Gehman , C. Ghag , K. R. Gibson , 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 , M. Ihm , R. G. Jacobsen , W. Ji , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , R. Knoche , N. A. Larsen , C. Lee , 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 , P. Phelps , L. Reichhart , C. Rhyne , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , S. Stephenson , 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 , 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

Light Dark Matter Anomalies After LUX

We examine the consistency of light dark matter (DM) elastic scattering in CoGeNT, DAMA, and CDMS-Silicon in light of constraints from XENON, CDMS, LUX, PICASSO and COUPP. We consider a variety of operators that have been employed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-29 Moira I Gresham , Kathryn M. Zurek

Light new physics in XENON1T

We examine the recently-reported low-energy electron recoil spectrum observed at the XENON1T underground dark matter direct detection experiment, in the context of new interactions with solar neutrinos. In particular we show that scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-22 Celine Boehm , David G. Cerdeno , Malcolm Fairbairn , Pedro A. N. Machado , Aaron C. Vincent

Unparticle physics and neutrino phenomenology

We have constrained unparticle interactions with neutrinos and electrons using available data on neutrino-electron elastic scattering and the four CERN LEP experiments data on mono photon production. We have found that, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 J. Barranco , A. Bolanos , O. G. Miranda , C. A. Moura , T. I. Rashba

Study of Supernova \nu-Nucleus Coherent Scattering Interactions

Presently, there are several experimental setups dedicated to rare event searches, such as dark matter interactions or double beta decay, in the building or commissioning phases. These experiments often use large mass detectors and have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Carlos Martinez Amaya , Matteo Biassoni

XENON: a 1 tonne Liquid Xenon Experiment for a Sensitive Dark Matter Search

XENON is a novel liquid xenon experiment concept for a sensitive dark matter search using a 1-tonne active target, distributed in an array of ten independent time projection chambers. The design relies on the simultaneous detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 E. Aprile , E. A. Baltz , A. Curioni , K-L. Giboni , C. J. Hailey , L. Hui , M. Kobayashi , K. Ni , W. W. Craig , R. J. Gaitskell , U. Oberlack , T. Shutt

Can dark matter - electron scattering explain the DAMA annual modulation consistent with XENON100 constraints?

For many years annually modulating $\sim$ keV scintillations have been observed in the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/Libra experiments. A dark matter - electron scattering interpretation is now favoured given the stringent constraints on nuclear recoil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-01 R. Foot

New constraint on neutrino magnetic moment and neutrino millicharge from LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search results

Elastic neutrino-electron scattering represents a powerful tool to investigate key neutrino properties. In view of the recent results released by the LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration, we provide a first determination of the limits achievable on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-03 M. Atzori Corona , W. M. Bonivento , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei

The unbearable lightness of being: CDMS versus XENON

The CDMS-II collaboration has reported 3 events in a Si detector, which are consistent with being nuclear recoils due to scattering of Galactic dark matter particles with a mass of about 8.6 GeV and a cross-section on neutrons of about 2 x…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-05 Mads T. Frandsen , Felix Kahlhoefer , Christopher McCabe , Subir Sarkar , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Exploring nu signals in dark matter detectors

We investigate standard and non-standard solar neutrino signals in direct dark matter detection experiments. It is well known that even without new physics, scattering of solar neutrinos on nuclei or electrons is an irreducible background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Pedro A. N. Machado

Detector Challenges of the strong-field QED experiment LUXE at the European XFEL

The LUXE (Laser Und XFEL Experiment) aims at studying high-field QED in electron-laser and photon-laser interactions, with the 16.5 GeV electron beam of the European XFEL and a laser beam with a power of up to 350 TW. The experiment will…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-23 Adrián Irles

A Dark Matter Interpretation of Excesses in Multiple Direct Detection Experiments

We present a novel unifying interpretation of excess event rates observed in several dark matter direct-detection experiments that utilize single-electron threshold semiconductor detectors. Despite their different locations, exposures,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Noah Kurinsky , Daniel Baxter , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic