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Direct Dark Matter Search with XMASS-I

XMASS-I uses single phase liquid xenon technology for aiming at the direct detection of dark matter. The detector observes only scintillation light by 2 inch 642 PMTs which are placed in sphere shape around an active volume. With its large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Masaki Yamashita

Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment

Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event searches. We use the EXO-200 experimental data to measure the absolute scintillation and ionization yields generated by $\gamma$ interactions from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 200 Collaboration , G. Anton , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , G. F. Cao , W. R. Cen , C. Chambers , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , S. J. Daugherty , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , J. Dilling , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , J. Echevers , W. Fairbank , D. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , P. Gautam , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , C. Hall , E. V. Hansen , J. Hoessl , P. Hufschmidt , M. Hughes , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , C. Jessiman , M. J. Jewell , A. Johnson , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , T. Koffas , R. Krucken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. S. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , R. MacLellan , T. McElroy , T. Michel , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , R. Neilson , O. Njoya , O. Nusair , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , F. Retiere , A. L. Robinson , P. C. Rowson , J. Runge , S. Schmidt , D. Sinclair , A. K. Soma , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , J. Todd , T. Tolba , D. Tosi , T. I. Totev , B. Veenstra , V. Veeraraghavan , J. -L. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , J. Watkins , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , G. Wrede , S. X. Wu , Q. Xia , D. R. Yahne , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich , T. Ziegle

The NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches

The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) seeks to discover the neutrinoless double beta ($\beta\beta 0\nu$) decay of $^{136}$Xe using a high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber with electroluminescent amplification. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-06 Justo Martín-Albo

Supernova neutrino physics with xenon dark matter detectors: A timely perspective

Dark matter detectors that utilize liquid xenon have now achieved tonne-scale targets, giving them sensitivity to all flavours of supernova neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Considering for the first time a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Rafael F. Lang , Christopher McCabe , Shayne Reichard , Marco Selvi , Irene Tamborra

Cryogenic light detectors with thermal signal amplification for $0\nu\beta\beta$ search experiments

As a step towards the realization of cryogenic-detector experiments to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (such as CROSS, BINGO, and CUPID), we investigated a batch of 10 Ge light detectors (LDs) assisted by Neganov-Trofimov-Luke…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-22 A. Armatol , A. S. Barabash , D. Baudin , V. Berest , M. Beretta , L. Bergé , M. Buchynska , J. M. Calvo-Mozota , C. Capelli , P. Carniti , M. Chapellier , I. Dafinei , F. A. Danevich , T. Dixon , A. Drobizhev , L. Dumoulin , F. Ferri , A. Gallas , A. Giuliani , C. Gotti , Ph. Gras , A. Ianni , L. Imbert , H. Khalife , V. V. Kobychev , S. I. Konovalov , P. Loaiza , P. de Marcillac , S. Marnieros , C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi , M. Martinez , E. Mazzucato , C. Nones , E. Olivieri , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , M. Pageot , Y. Peinaud , V. Pérez , G. Pessina , D. V. Poda , P. Rosier , J. A. Scarpaci , B. Schmidt , V. I. Tretyak , V. I. Umatov , M. M. Zarytskyy , A. Zolotarova

The NEXT-100 experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches (Conceptual Design Report)

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-21 NEXT Collaboration , V. Álvarez , M. Ball , M. Batallé , J. Bayarri , F. I. G. Borges , S. Cárcel , J. M. Carmona , J. Castel , J. M. Catalá , S. Cebrián , A. Cervera-Villanueva , D. Chan , C. A. N. Conde , T. Dafni , T. H. V. T. Dias , J. Díaz , R. Esteve , P. Evtoukhovitch , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , E. Ferrer-Ribas , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , A. Gil , I. Giomataris , A. Goldschmidt , E. Gómez , H. Gómez , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , K. Gónzález , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. A. Hernando-Morata , D. C. Herrera , V. Herrero , F. Iguaz , I. G. Irastorza , V. Kalinnikov , A. Kustov , I. Liubarsky , J. A. M. Lopes , D. Lorca , M. Losada , G. Luzón , J. Martín-Albo , A. Méndez , T. Miller , A. Moisenko , J. P. Mols , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , J. M. Monzó , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz-Vidal , H. Natal da Luz , G. Navarro , M. Nebot , D. Nygren , C. A. B. Oliveira , R. Palma , J. L. Pérez-Aparicio , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , A. Rodríguez , J. Rodríguez , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , L. Seguí , L. Serra , C. Sofka , M. Sorel , H. Spieler , J. F. Toledo , A. Tomás , Z. Tsamalaidze , D. Vázquez , E. Velicheva , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. A. Villar , R. Webb , T. Weber , J. White , N. Yahlali

Sensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double beta decay searches

The Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC (NEXT) searches for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe-136 using high-pressure xenon gas TPCs with electroluminescent amplification. A scaled-up version of this technology with about 1 tonne of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-23 NEXT Collaboration , C. Adams , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , C. D. R Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , N. Byrnes , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , E. Church , C. A. N. Conde , T. Contreras , A. A. Denisenko , G. Díaz , J. Díaz , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , F. Foss , E. D. C. Freitas , Z. Freixa , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , R. González , D. González-Díaz , S. Gosh , R. Guenette , R. M. Gutiérrez , J. Haefner , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero , V. Herrero , J. Ho , Y. Ifergan , B. J. P. Jones , M. Kekic , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , N. López-March , M. Losada , R. D. P. Mano , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , M. Martínez-Vara , G. Martínez-Lema , A. D. McDonald , Z. E. Meziani , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , C. Newhouse , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , E. Oblak , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J. Pérez , M. Querol , A. Redwine , J. Renner , L. Ripoll , I. Rivilla , Y. Rodríguez García , J. Rodríguez , C. Rogero , L. Rogers , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , M. Sorel , C. Stanford , J. M. R. Teixeira , P. Thapa , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , A. Usón , J. F. C. A. Veloso , T. T. Vuong , R. Webb , R. Weiss-Babai , J. T. White , K. Woodruff , N. Yahlali

Optical Calibration System for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Outer Detector

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment will search for dark matter particle interactions with a detector containing a total of 10 tonnes of liquid xenon. Surrounding the liquid xenon cryostat is an outer detector veto system with the primary aim of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-07 W. Turner , A. Baxter , H. J. Birch , B. Boxer , S. Burdin , E. Fraser , A. Greenall , S. Powel , P. Sutcliffe

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

Scalability study of solid xenon

We report a demonstration of the scalability of optically transparent xenon in the solid phase for use as a particle detector above a kilogram scale. We employed a cryostat cooled by liquid nitrogen combined with a xenon purification and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-02 J. Yoo , H. Cease , W. F. Jaskierny , D. Markley , R. B. Pahlka , D. Balakishiyeva , T. Saab , M. Filipenko

A coherent understanding of low-energy nuclear recoils in liquid xenon

Liquid xenon detectors such as XENON10 and XENON100 obtain a significant fraction of their sensitivity to light (<10 GeV) particle dark matter by looking for nuclear recoils of only a few keV, just above the detector threshold. Yet in this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Peter Sorensen

Study on temperature coefficient of CdTe detector used for X-rays detection

The temperature of the working environment is a key factor in determining the properties of semiconductor detectors, and it affects the absolute accuracy and stability of the standard detector. In order to determine the temperature…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-22 Si-Ming Guo , Jin-Jie Wu , Jian Zhang , Xu-Fang Li , Cong-Zhan Liu , Shuai Zhang , Cheng-Ze Li , Bin-Bin Huo , Zhen-Yu Liao

Dark Matter Search with liquid Noble Gases

Dark matter detectors using the liquid noble gases xenon and argon as WIMP targets have evolved rapidly in the last decade and will continue to play a major role in the field. Due to the possibility to scale these detectors to larger masses…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-12 Marc Schumann

Studies of a three-stage dark matter and neutrino observatory based on multi-ton combinations of liquid xenon and liquid argon detectors

We study a three stage dark matter and neutrino observatory based on multi-ton two-phase liquid Xe and Ar detectors with sufficiently low backgrounds to be sensitive to WIMP dark matter interaction cross sections down to 10E-47 cm^2, and to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Arisaka , P. Beltrame , C. W. Lam , P. F. Smith , C. Ghag , D. B. Cline , K. Lung , Y. Meng , E. Pantic , P. R. Scovell , A. Teymourian , H. Wang

The XeBRA platform for liquid xenon time projection chamber development

XeBRA is a flexible cryogenic platform designed to perform research and development for liquid xenon detectors searching for rare events. Its extra-large outer cryostat makes it possible to install a wide variety of detector designs. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-10 Daniel Baur , Alexander Bismark , Adam Brown , Julia Dierle , Horst Fischer , Robin Glade-Beucke , Jaron Grigat , Basho Kaminsky , Fabian Kuger , Sebastian Lindemann , Darryl Masson , Patrick Meinhardt , Mariana Rajado Silva , Marc Schumann , Florian Tönnies , Francesco Toschi

Evaporative CO2 cooling using microchannels etched in silicon for the future LHCb vertex detector

The extreme radiation dose received by vertex detectors at the Large Hadron Collider dictates stringent requirements on their cooling systems. To be robust against radiation damage, sensors should be maintained below -20 degree C and at the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-30 A. Nomerotski , J. Buytart , P. Collins , R. Dumps , E. Greening , M. John , A. Mapelli , A. Leflat , Y. Li , G. Romagnoli , B. Verlaat

Near room temperature X-ray and Gamma ray spectroscopic detectors for future space experiments

New generation Cadmium Telluride (CZT & CdTe) solid state detectors can provide high quantum efficiency with reasonably good energy resolution and can operate at near room temperature; an unique advantage for space experiments. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Yadav , S. Savitri , J. P. Malkar

Status and first results from XENONnT

XENON is a project for direct dark matter search located in the INFN underground laboratory LNGS. The previous generation of XENON detector, XENON1T, achieved an exposure of 1 ton$\times$year, setting the most stringent limits on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-18 S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud

nEXO Pre-Conceptual Design Report

The projected performance and detector configuration of nEXO are described in this pre-Conceptual Design Report (pCDR). nEXO is a tonne-scale neutrinoless double beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) decay search in $^{136}$Xe, based on the ultra-low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-15 nEXO Collaboration , S. Al Kharusi , A. Alamre , J. B. Albert , M. Alfaris , G. Anton , I. J. Arnquist , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , F. Bourque , 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 , R. Conley , M. Coon , M. Côté , A. Craycraft , W. Cree , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , D. Danovitch , L. Darroch , S. J. Daugherty , J. Daughhetee , R. DeVoe , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , M. L. Di Vacri , J. Dilling , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Ferrara , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , R. Fontaine , D. Fudenberg , G. Gallina , G. Giacomini , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , G. Haller , E. V. Hansen , D. Harris , J. Hasi , M. Heffner , E. W. Hoppe , J. Hößl , A. House , P. Hufschmidt , M. Hughes , Y. Ito , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , C. Jessiman , M. J. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , C. Kenney , R. Killick , D. Kodroff , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , C. M. Lewis , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , P. Lv , R. MacLellan , K. McFarlane , T. Michel , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , R. J. Newby , T. Nguyen , Z. Ning , O. Njoya , F. Nolet , O. Nusair , K. Odgers , A. Odian , M. Oriunno , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , I. Ostrovskiy , C. T. Overman , S. Parent , M. Patel , A. Peña-Perez , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , J. -F. Pratte , D. Qiu , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , T. Rao , S. Rescia , F. Retière , A. Robinson , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , N. Roy , J. Runge , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , S. Schmidt , J. Schneider , A. Schubert , J. Segal , K. Skarpaas~VIII , A. K. Soma , K. Spitaels , G. St-Hilaire , V. Stekhanov , T. Stiegler , X. L. Sun , M. Tarka , J. Todd , T. Tolba , T. I. Totev , R. Tsang , T. Tsang , F. Vachon , B. Veenstra , V. Veeraraghavan , G. Visser , P. Vogel , J. -L. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , Q. Wang , M. Ward , J. Watkins , 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 , T. Ziegler

Status of the NEXT experiment for neutrinoless double beta decay searches

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment located at the Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc (LSC, Spain). Its aim is to demonstrate that the neutrino is a Majorana particle by detecting…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 Carmen Romo-Luque