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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 XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment

The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon (LXe) in a time projection chamber (TPC) to search for Xe nuclear recoils resulting from the scattering of dark matter Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this paper we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , E. Brown , J. M. R. Cardoso , B. Choi , D. Cline , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , K. L. Giboni , A. Kish , C. W. Lam , 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 , E. Tziaferi , H. Wang , M. Yamashita

Dark Matter Search Results from the PandaX-4T Commissioning Run

We report the first dark matter search results using the commissioning data from PandaX-4T. Using a time projection chamber with 3.7-tonne of liquid xenon target and an exposure of 0.63 tonne$\cdot$year, 1058 candidate events are identified…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-05 Yue Meng , Zhou Wang , Yi Tao , Abdusalam Abdukerim , Zihao Bo , Wei Chen , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Chen Cheng , Yunshan Cheng , Xiangyi Cui , Yingjie Fan , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Mengting Fu , Lisheng Geng , Karl Giboni , Linhui Gu , Xuyuan Guo , Ke Han , Changda He , Jinrong He , Di Huang , Yanlin Huang , Zhou Huang , Ruquan Hou , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Chenxiang Li , Mingchuan Li , Shu Li , Shuaijie Li , Qing Lin , Jianglai Liu , Xiaoying Lu , Lingyin Luo , Wenbo Ma , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Nasir Shaheed , Xuyang Ning , Ningchun Qi , Zhicheng Qian , Xiangxiang Ren , Changsong Shang , Guofang Shen , Lin Si , Wenliang Sun , Andi Tan , Anqing Wang , Meng Wang , Qiuhong Wang , Shaobo Wang , Siguang Wang , Wei Wang , Xiuli Wang , Mengmeng Wu , Weihao Wu , Jingkai Xia , Mengjiao Xiao , Xiang Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Xiyu Yan , Jijun Yang , Yong Yang , Chunxu Yu , Jumin Yuan , Ying Yuan , Dan Zhang , Minzhen Zhang , Peng Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Qibin Zheng , Jifang Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou , Yong Zhou

Development of Dual-phase Xenon TPC with a Quartz Chamber for Direct Dark Matter Search

The idea of a hermetic quartz chamber in a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) has the potential to improve the detector sensitivity for direct dark matter searches in the future. A major challenge facing TPC detectors in future…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-15 Kazufumi Sato , Masaki Yamashita , Koichi Ichimura , Yoshitaka Itow , Shingo Kazama , Shigetaka Moriyama , Kosuke Ozaki , Takumi Suzuki , Rina Yamazaki

Efficiency determination of resistive plate chambers for fast quasi-monoenergetic neutrons

Composite detectors made of stainless steel converters and multigap resistive plate chambers have been irradiated with quasi-monoenergetic neutrons with a peak energy of 175MeV. The neutron detection efficiency has been determined using two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-24 M. Röder , Z. Elekes , T. Aumann , D. Bemmerer , K. Boretzky , C. Caesar , T. E. Cowan , J. Hehner , M. Heil , M. Kempe , V. Maroussov , O. Nusair , A. V. Prokofiev , R. Reifarth , M. Sobiella , D. Stach , A. Wagner , D. Yakorev , A. Zilges , K. Zuber

Reconstructing neutrinoless double beta decay event kinematics in a xenon gas detector with vertex tagging

If neutrinoless double beta decay is discovered, the next natural step would be understanding the lepton number violating physics responsible for it. Several alternatives exist beyond the exchange of light neutrinos. Some of these…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-13 NEXT Collaboration , M. Martínez-Vara , K. Mistry , F. Pompa , B. J. P. Jones , J. Martín-Albo , M. Sorel , C. Adams , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , B. Aparicio , A. I. Aranburu , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , F. Auria-Luna , S. Ayet , C. D. R. Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , A. Bayo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Brodolin , N. Byrnes , S. Cárcel , A. Castillo , E. Church , L. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , T. Contreras , F. P. Cossío , R. Coupe , E. Dey , G. Díaz , C. Echevarria , M. Elorza , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , 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 , F. Kellerer , L. Larizgoitia , A. Larumbe , P. Lebrun , F. Lopez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. P. Marques , G. Martínez-Lema , R. L. Miller , J. Molina-Canteras , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , K. E. Navarro , P. Novella , A. Nuñez , D. R. Nygren , E. Oblak , 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 , V. San Nacienciano , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Seemann , I. Shomroni , P. A. O. C. Silva , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , J. Soto-Oton , J. M. R. Teixeira , S. Teruel-Pardo , J. F. Toledo , C. Tonnelé , S. Torelli , J. Torrent , A. Trettin , A. Usón , P. R. G. Valle , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. Waiton , A. Yubero-Navarro

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

Gaseous time projection chambers for rare event detection: Results from the T-REX project. II. Dark matter

As part of the T-REX project, a number of R&D and prototyping activities have been carried out during the last years to explore the applicability of Micromegas-read gaseous TPCs in rare event searches like double beta decay (DBD), axion…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-09 I. G. Irastorza , F. Aznar , J. Castel , S. Cebrián , T. Dafni , J. Galán , J. A. García , J. G. Garza , H. Gómez , D. C. Herrera , F. J. Iguaz , G. Luzón , H. Mirallas , E. Ruiz , L. Seguí , A. Tomás

Search for $2\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{136}$Xe to the 0$_1^+$ excited state of $^{136}$Ba with EXO-200

EXO-200 is a single phase liquid xenon detector designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe to the ground state of $^{136}$Ba. We report here on a search for the two-neutrino double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe to the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-03-24 200 Collaboration , J. B. Albert , D. J. Auty , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , A. Burenkov , G. F. Cao , C. Chambers , J. Chaves , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , T. Daniels , M. Danilov , S. J. Daugherty , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , T. Didberidze , J. Dilling , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , M. Dunford , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , W. Feldmeier , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , R. Gornea , K. Graham , G. Gratta , C. Hall , M. Hughes , M. J. Jewell , A. Johnson , T. N. Johnson , S. Johnston , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Killick , J. King , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , D. S. Leonard , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , J. Ling , R. MacLellan , M. G. Marino , B. Mong , D. Moore , O. Njoya , R. Nelson , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , C. Y. Prescott , F. Retière , P. C. Rowson , J. J. Russell , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , E. Smith , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , T. Tolba , R. Tsang , K. Twelker , P. Vogel , J. -L. Vuilleumier , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , T. A. Winick , J. Wood , Q. Y. Xu , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich

A Dual-phase Xenon TPC for Scintillation and Ionisation Yield Measurements in Liquid Xenon

A small-scale, two-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber (Xurich II) was designed, constructed and is under operation at the University of Zurich. Its main purpose is to investigate the microphysics of particle interactions in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Laura Baudis , Yanina Biondi , Chiara Capelli , Michelle Galloway , Shingo Kazama , Alexander Kish , Payam Pakarha , Francesco Piastra , Julien Wulf

Searching for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay of $^{136}$Xe with PandaX-II Liquid Xenon Detector

We report the Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) search results from PandaX-II dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber. The total live time used in this analysis is 403.1 days from June 2016 to August 2018. With NLDBD-optimized…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 Kaixiang Ni , Yihui Lai , Abdusalam Abdukerim , Wei Chen , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Xiangyi Cui , Yingjie Fan , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Lisheng Geng , Karl Giboni , Franco Giuliani , Linhui Gu , Xuyuan Guo , Ke Han , Changda He , Di Huang , Yan Huang , Yanlin Huang , Zhou Huang , Peng Ji , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Kun Liang , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Wenbo Ma , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Yue Meng , Parinya Namwongsa , Jinhua Ning , Xuyang Ning , Xiangxiang Ren , Changsong Shang , Lin Si , Andi Tan , Anqing Wang , Hongwei Wang , Meng Wang , Qiuhong Wang , Siguang Wang , Xiuli Wang , Zhou Wang , Mengmeng Wu , Shiyong Wu , Jingkai Xia , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Jijun Yang , Yong Yang , Chunxu Yu , Jumin Yuan , Dan Zhang , Hongguang Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Qibin Zheng , Jifang Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou

First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment

We report on the first search for nuclear recoils from dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with the XENONnT experiment which is based on a two-phase time projection chamber with a sensitive liquid xenon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-08 XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Abe , F. Agostini , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , J. R. Angevaare , V. C. Antochi , D. Antón Martin , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , A. L. Baxter , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , E. J. Brookes , A. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , T. K. Bui , C. Cai , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , A. P. Cimental Chavez , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. J. Cuenca-García , J. P. Cussonneau , V. D'Andrea , M. P. Decowski , P. Di Gangi , S. Di Pede , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , A. Elykov , S. Farrell , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , M. Flierman , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , R. Hammann , A. Higuera , C. Hils , L. Hoetzsch , N. F. Hood , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , J. Jakob , F. Joerg , A. Joy , N. Kato , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , M. Kobayashi , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , F. Kuger , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , K. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , D. Masson , E. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Miuchi , K. Mizukoshi , A. Molinario , S. Moriyama , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Müller , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , B. Paetsch , J. Palacio , R. Peres , C. Peters , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , S. Shi , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , A. Takeda , P. -L. Tan , A. Terliuk , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , F. Tönnies , K. Valerius , G. Volta , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , T. Wolf , V. H. S. Wu , Y. Xing , D. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , L. Yang , J. Ye , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , M. Zhong , T. Zhu

Finding Dark Matter Faster with Explicit Profile Likelihoods

Liquid xenon time-projection chambers are the world's most sensitive detectors for a wide range of dark matter candidates. We show that the statistical analysis of their data can be improved by replacing detector response Monte Carlo…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-04 J. Aalbers , B. Pelssers , V. C. Antochi , P. L. Tan , J. Conrad

The NEXT experiment. Towards phase I

Phase I of the NEXT-100 $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiment (NEW) is scheduled for data taking in 2015 at Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc in the Spanish Pyrenees. Thanks to the light proportional technique, NEW anticipates an outstanding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 D. Gonzalez-Diaz , the NEXT collaboration

Study of light detection and sensitivity for a ton-scale liquid xenon dark matter detector

Ton-scale liquid xenon detectors operated in two-phase mode are proposed and being constructed recently to explore the favored parameter space for the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter. To achieve a better light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-05-13 Y Wei , Q Lin , X Xiao , K Ni

Light vector mediators facing XENON1T data

Recently the XENON1T collaboration has released new results on searches for new physics in low-energy electronic recoils. The data shows an excess over background in the low-energy tail, particularly pronounced at about $2-3$ keV. With an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-20 D. Aristizabal Sierra , V. De Romeri , L. J. Flores , D. K. Papoulias

Simultaneous measurement of the light and charge response of liquid xenon to low-energy nuclear recoils at multiple electric fields

Dual-phase liquid xenon (LXe) detectors lead the direct search for particle dark matter. Understanding the signal production process of nuclear recoils in LXe is essential for the interpretation of LXe based dark matter searches. Up to now,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-12 Elena Aprile , Matthew Anthony , Qing Lin , Zach Greene , Patrick de Perio , Fei Gao , Joseph Howlett , Guillaume Plante , Yun Zhang , Tianyu Zhu

Operation of a dual-phase xenon detector with wavelength sensitivity from ultraviolet to infrared

Xenon, in both its gaseous and liquid phase, offers excellent scintillation and ionization properties, making it an ideal target medium for rare event searches. We report on measurements performed with a dual-phase xenon time projection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-28 Robert Hammann , Kai Böse , Steffen Form , Luisa Hötzsch , Teresa Marrodán Undagoitia

A search for light dark matter in XENON10 data

We report results of a search for light (<10 GeV) particle dark matter with the XENON10 detector. The event trigger was sensitive to a single electron, with the analysis threshold of 5 electrons corresponding to 1.4 keV nuclear recoil…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-09 J. Angle , E. Aprile , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , A. Bolozdynya , P. Brusov , L. C. C. Coelho , C. E. Dahl , L. DeViveiros , A. D. Ferella , L. M. P. Fernandes , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , K. L. Giboni , R. Gomez , R. Hasty , L. Kastens , J. Kwong , J. A. M. Lopes , N. Madden , A. Manalaysay , A. Manzur , D. N. McKinsey , M. E. Monzani , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , J. Orboeck , G. Plante , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , P. Shagin , T. Shutt , P. Sorensen , S. Schulte , C. Winant , M. Yamashita

Characterization of a $^{220}$Rn source for low-energy electronic recoil calibration of the XENONnT detector

Low-background liquid xenon detectors are utilized in the investigation of rare events, including dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay. For their calibration, gaseous $^{220}$Rn can be used. After being introduced into the xenon,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-15 Florian Jörg , Shengchao Li , Jochen Schreiner , Hardy Simgen , Rafael F. Lang