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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

We are developing a rocket-borne instrument (the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment, or CIBER) to search for signatures of primordial galaxy formation in the cosmic near-infrared extra-galactic background. CIBER consists of a wide-field…

Over the past decades, several ideas and technologies have been developed to directly detect WIMP from the galactic halo. All these detection strategies share the common goal of discriminating a WIMP signal from the residual backgrounds. By…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Billard

This document complements and completes what was submitted last year to PAC45 as an update to the proposal PR12-16-001 "Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX)" at Jefferson Lab submitted to JLab-PAC44 in 2016. Following the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-09 M. Battaglieri , A. Bersani , G. Bracco , B. Caiffi , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , L. Marsicano , P. Musico , F. Panza , M. Ripani , E. Santopinto , M. Taiuti , V. Bellini , M. Bondi' , P. Castorina , M. De Napoli , A. Italiano , V. Kuznetzov , E. Leonora , F. Mammoliti , N. Randazzo , L. Re , G. Russo , M. Russo , A. Shahinyan , M. Sperduto , S. Spinali , C. Sutera , F. Tortorici , N. Baltzell , M. Dalton , A. Freyberger , F. -X. Girod , G. Kharashvili , V. Kubarovsky , E. Pasyuk , E. S. Smith , S. Stepanyan , H. Szumilla-Vance , M. Ungaro , T. Whitlatch , E. Izaguirre , G. Krnjaic , I. Ehle , D. Snowden-Ifft , D. Loomba , M. Carpinelli , D. D'Urso , A. Gabrieli , G. Maccioni , M. Sant , V. Sipala , F. Ameli , E. Cisbani , F. De Persio , A. Del Dotto , F. Garibaldi , F. Meddi , C. A. Nicolau , G. M. Urciuoli , T. Chiarusi , M. Manzali , C. Pellegrino , P. Schuster , N. Toro , R. Essig , M. H. Wood , M. Holtrop. , R. Paremuzyan , G. De Cataldo , R. De Leo , D. Di Bari , L. Lagamba , E. Nappi , R. Perrino , I. Balossino , L. Barion , G. Ciullo , M. Contalbrigo , A. Drago , P. Lenisa , A. Movsisyan , L. Pappalardo , F. Spizzo , M. Turisini , D. Hasch , V. Lucherini , M. Mirazita , S. Pisano , P. Rossi , S. Tomassini , G. Simi , A. D'Angelo , L. Lanza , A. Rizzo , A. Filippi , M. Genovese , M. Kunkel , M. Bashkanov , A. Murphy , G. Smith , D. Watts , N. Zachariou , L. Zana , D. Glazier , D. Ireland , B. McKinnon , D. Sokhan , L. Colaneri , S. Anefalos Pereira , A. Afanasev , B. Briscoe , I. Strakovsky , N. Kalantarians , L. Weinstein , K. P. Adhikari , J. A. Dunne , D. Dutta , L. El Fassi , L. Ye , K. Hicks , P. Cole , S. Dobbs , C. Fanelli , P. Mohanmurthy

Direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) can provide strong evidence of their existence and the directional method would have an advantage over other methods to detect the clear signal of WIMPs. Time projection…

The Muon Chamber (MuCh) is a sub-system of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment for the detection of low-mass-vector mesons produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at beam energies ranging from 2 AGeV to 11 AGeV and decaying…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-04 Mitali Mondal , Tanay Dey , Subhasis Chattopadhyay , Jogender Saini , Zubayer Ahammed

We present a comprehensive analysis of electronic recoil vs. nuclear recoil discrimination in liquid/gas xenon time projection chambers, using calibration data from the 2013 and 2014-16 runs of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment.…

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is an experiment to search neutrinoless double beta decay processes (bb0nu) in Xe136. The NEXT technology is based in the use of time projection chambers operating at a typical pressure of 15 bar…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-11 Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas

The recent experimental characterization of B80- via photoelectron spectroscopy stimulated renewed interest in exploring B80 clusters. Here, a D3h-symmetric B80 bilayer structure has been proposed using density functional theory…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2025-11-18 Yi-Sha Chen , Jing-Jing Guo , Peng-Bo Liu , Hui-Yan Zhao , Jing Wang , Ying Liu

Presented here are results of simulations of neutron background performed for a time projection chamber acting as a particle dark matter detector in an underground laboratory. The investigated background includes neutrons from rock and…

NEXT is a high-pressure (10-15 bar) xenon Time Projection Chamber dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches. NEXT-DEMO is a large prototype of the NEXT experiment, constructed to demonstrate the feasibility of the NEXT detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Paola Ferrario

The direct search for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) is performed by detecting nuclear recoils (NR) produced in a target material from the WIMP elastic scattering. A promising experimental strategy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-12 20k Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. Ahmad , S. Albergo , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , M. Atzori Corona , M. Ave , I. Ch. Avetisov , O. Azzolini , H. O. Back , Z. Balmforth , A. Barrado-Olmedo , P. Barrillon , A. Basco , G. Batignani , V. Bocci , W. M. Bonivento , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , J. Busto , M. Cadeddu , A. Caminata , N. Canci , G. Cappello , A. Capra , S. Caprioli , M. Caravati , N. Cargioli , M. Carlini , P. Castello , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , E. Chyhyrynets , L. Cifarelli , D. Cintas , M. Citterio , B. Cleveland , V. Cocco , E. Conde Vilda , L. Consiglio , S. Copello , G. Covone , M. Czubak , M. D'Aniello , S. D'Auria , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , S. Davini , A. de Candia , S. De Cecco , D. De Gruttola , G. De Filippis , D. Dell'Aquila , S. De Pasquale , G. De Rosa , G. Dellacasa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Capua , L. Di Noto , C. Dionisi , P. Di Stefano , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , A. Elersich , E. Ellingwood , T. Erjavec , M. Fernandez Diaz , G. Fiorillo , P. Franchini , D. Franco , N. Funicello , F. Gabriele , D. Gahan , C. Galbiati , G. Gallina , G. Gallus , M. Garbini , P. Garcia Abia , A. Gendotti , C. Ghiano , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , V. Goicoechea Casanueva , A. Gola , G. Grauso , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , C. Guo , B. R. Hackett , A. L. Hallin , A. Hamer , M. Haranczyk , T. Hessel , S. Hill , S. Horikawa , F. Hubaut , J. Hucker , T. Hugues , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , C. Jillings , S. Jois , P. Kachru , N. Kemmerich , A. A. Kemp , C. L. Kendziora , M. Kimura , I. Kochanek , K. Kondo , G. Korga , S. Koulosousas , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. Kuzniak , M. La Commara , M. Lai , E. Le Guirriec , E. Leason , A. Leoni , X. Li , L. Lidey , M. Lissia , L. Luzzi , O. Lychagina , O. Macfadyen , I. N. Machulin , S. Manecki , I. Manthos , L. Mapelli , A. Margotti , S. M. Marik , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , A. Marini , M. Martínez , C. J. Martoff , G. Matteucci , K. Mavrokoridis , A. B. McDonald , A. Messina , R. Milincic , A. Mitra , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , E. Moretti , M. Morrocchi , T. Mróz , V. N. Muratova , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , M. Nessi , G. Nieradka , K. Nikolopoulos , J. Nowak , K. Olchansky , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , P. Organtini , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , G. Paternoster , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , V. Pesudo , S. Piacentini , N. Pino , A. Pocar , D. M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , F. Ragusa , Y. Ramachers , M. Razeti , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , C. Ripoli , A. Rivetti , A. Roberts , C. Roberts , J. Rode , G. Rogers , L. Romero , M. Rossi , A. Rubbia , M. A. Sabia , P. Salomone , E. Sandford , S. Sanfilippo , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , G. Schillaci , F. G. Schuckman , G. Scioli , M. Simeone , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , T. Smirnova , B. Smith , A. Sosa , F. Spadoni , M. Spangenberg , R. Stefanizzi , A. Steri , V. Stornelli , S. Stracka , M. Stringer , S. Sulis , A. Sung , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , R. Tartaglia , A. Taylor , J. Taylor , S. Tedesco , G. Testera , K. Thieme , T. N. Thorpe , A. Tonazzo , A. Tricomi , E. V. Unzhakov , T. Vallivilayil John , M. Van Uffelen , T. Viant , S. Viel , R. B. Vogelaar , J. Vossebeld , M. Wada , M. B. Walczak , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , L. Williams , I. Wingerter-Seez , R. Wojaczynski , Ma. M. Wojcik , T. Wright , Y. Xie , C. Yang , A. Zabihi , P. Zakhary , A. Zani , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel , M. P. Zykova

Dark matter searches using dual-phase xenon time-projection chambers (LXe-TPCs) rely on their ability to reject background electron recoils (ERs) while searching for signal-like nuclear recoils (NRs). ER response is typically calibrated…

We propose a novel cogenesis of baryon and dark matter (DM) in the Universe by utilising a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in the dark sector containing an asymmetric Dirac fermion $\chi$. Due to the mass difference of $\chi$ across the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-02 Debasish Borah , Indrajit Saha

The PandaX-III experiment will search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with high pressure gaseous time projection chambers at the China Jin-Ping underground Laboratory. The tracking feature of gaseous detectors helps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-14 Hao Qiao , Chunyu Lu , Xun Chen , Ke Han , Xiangdong Ji , Siguang Wang

The CYGNO collaboration is developing a novel strategy for directional Dark Matter searches based on a gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC). The detector is optimized for the exploration of light (0.5-50 GeV) WIMPs-like particles and…

We propose an EASY (Electroluminescent ApparatuS of high Yield) and SOFT (Separated Optimized FuncTion) time-projection chamber for the NEXT experiment, that will search for neutrinoless double beta decay (bb0nu) in Xe-136. Our 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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 Ioannis Giomataris

The aim of the CYGNO project is the construction and operation of a 1~m$^3$ gas TPC for directional dark matter searches and coherent neutrino scattering measurements, as a prototype toward the 100-1000~m$^3$ (0.15-1.5 tons) CYGNUS network…

The proposed Beam Dump Facility (BDF) is foreseen to be located at the North Area of the SPS. It is designed to be able to serve both beam dump like and fixed target experiments. The SPS and the new facility would offer unique possibilities…