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Reply to the Comments on the XENON100 First Dark Matter Results

The recently submitted preprint on the first results from the XENON100 dark matter experiment (arxiv:1005.0380) was followed by a criticism by J.I. Collar and D.N. McKinsey (arxiv:1005.0838), focused on our extrapolation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The XENON100 Collaboration

The Inelastic Frontier: Discovering Dark Matter at High Recoil Energy

There exist well motivated models of particle dark matter which predominantly scatter inelastically off nuclei in direct detection experiments. This inelastic transition causes the DM to up-scatter in terrestrial experiments into an excited…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-24 Joseph Bramante , Patrick J. Fox , Graham D. Kribs , Adam Martin

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

Measurement of the liquid argon energy response to nuclear and electronic recoils

A liquid argon time projection chamber, constructed for the Argon Response to Ionization and Scintillation (ARIS) experiment, has been exposed to the highly collimated and quasi-monoenergetic LICORNE neutron beam at the Institute de…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-27 P. Agnes , J. Dawson , S. De Cecco , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , D. Franco , C. Galbiati , C. Giganti , T. N. Johnson , G. Korga , D. Kryn , M. Lebois , A. Mandarano , C. J. Martoff , A. Navrer-Agasson , E. Pantic , L. Qi , A. Razeto , A. L. Renshaw , Q. Riffard , B. Rossi , C. Savarese , B. Schlitzer , Y. Suvorov , A. Tonazzo , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. W. Watson , J. N. Wilson

Prospects of Migdal Effect in the Explanation of XENON1T Electron Recoil Excess

The XENON1T experiment has recently announced the observation of an excess in electron recoil events at energy range of $1-7$ keV with a $3.5~\sigma$ signal significance over the Standard Model prediction. In this letter we sketch the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-05 Ujjal Kumar Dey , Tarak Nath Maity , Tirtha Sankar Ray

Improved Modeling of $\beta$ Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using LUX Calibration Data

We report here methods and techniques for creating and improving a model that reproduces the scintillation and ionization response of a dual-phase liquid and gaseous xenon time-projection chamber. Starting with the recent release of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-02 The LUX Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , J. Balajthy , A. Baxter , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , B. Boxer , P. Brás , S. Burdin , D. Byram , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. E. Cutter , L. de Viveiros , E. Druszkiewicz , A. Fan , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , C. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , D. P. Hogan , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , W. Ji , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , E. V. Korolkova , S. Kravits , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. Leason , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. M. Mei , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nilima , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , E. K. Pease , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , C. Rhyne , P. Rossiter , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. J. Taylor , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , M. Tripathi , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , S. Uvarov , A. Vacheret , V. Velan , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , J. Xu , C. Zhang

Scintillation yield from electronic and nuclear recoils in superfluid $^4$He

Superfluid $^4$He is a promising target material for direct detection of light ($<$ 1 GeV) dark matter. Possible signal channels available for readout in this medium include prompt photons, triplet excimers, and roton and phonon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-17 HeRALD Collaboration , A. Biekert , C. Chang , C. W. Fink , M. Garcia-Sciveres , E. C. Glazer , W. Guo , S. A. Hertel , S. Kravitz , J. Lin , M. Lisovenko , R. Mahapatra , D. N. McKinsey , J. S. Nguyen , V. Novosad , W. Page , P. K. Patel , B. Penning , H. D. Pinckney , M. Pyle , R. K. Romani , A. S. Seilnacht , A. Serafin , R. J. Smith , P. Sorensen , B. Suerfu , A. Suzuki , V. Velan , G. Wang , S. L. Watkins , V. G. Yefremenko , L. Yuan , J. Zhang

Accurate electron-recoil ionization factors for dark matter direct detection in xenon, krypton and argon

While most scintillation-based dark matter experiments search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a sub-GeV WIMP-like particle may also be detectable in these experiments. While dark matter of this type and scale would not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-30 A. R. Caddell , V. V. Flambaum , B. M. Roberts

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

Observation of a nuclear recoil peak at the 100 eV scale induced by neutron capture

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and low-mass Dark Matter detectors rely crucially on the understanding of their response to nuclear recoils. We report the first observation of a nuclear recoil peak at around 112 eV induced by…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-05 CRAB Collaboration , NUCLEUS Collaboration , H. Abele , G. Angloher , A. Bento , L. Canonica , F. Cappella , L. Cardani , N. Casali , R. Cerulli , A. Chalil , A. Chebboubi , I. Colantoni , J. -P. Crocombette , A. Cruciani , G. Del Castello , M. del Gallo Roccagiovine , D. Desforge , A. Doblhammer , E. Dumonteil , S. Dorer , A. Erhart , A. Fuss , M. Friedl , A. Garai , V. M. Ghete , A. Giuliani , C. Goupy , F. Gunsing , D. Hauff , F. Jeanneau , E. Jericha , M. Kaznacheeva , A. Kinast , H. Kluck , A. Langenkämper , T. Lasserre , A. Letourneau , D. Lhuillier , O. Litaize , M. Mancuso , P. de Marcillac , S. Marnieros , T. Materna , B. Mauri , A. Mazzolari , E. Mazzucato , H. Neyrial , C. Nones , L. Oberauer , T. Ortmann , A. Ouzriat , L. Pattavina , L. Peters , F. Petricca , D. V. Poda , W. Potzel , F. Pröbst , F. Reindl , R. Rogly , M. Romagnoni , J. Rothe , N. Schermer , J. Schieck , S. Schönert , C. Schwertner , L. Scola , O. Serot , G. Soum-Sidikov , L. Stodolsky , R. Strauss , M. Tamisari , L. Thulliez , C. Tomei , M. Vignati , M. Vivier , V. Wagner , A. Wex

Scintillation of liquid neon from electronic and nuclear recoils

We have measured the time dependence of scintillation light from electronic and nuclear recoils in liquid neon, finding a slow time constant of 15.4+-0.2 us. Pulse shape discrimination is investigated as a means of identifying event type in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Nikkel , R. Hasty , W. H. Lippincott , D. N. McKinsey

XENON1T Dark Matter Data Analysis: Signal & Background Models, and Statistical Inference

The XENON1T experiment searches for dark matter particles through their scattering off xenon atoms in a 2 tonne liquid xenon target. The detector is a dual-phase time projection chamber, which measures simultaneously the scintillation and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-03 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , V. C. Antochi , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , P. de Perio , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , S. Diglio , A. Elykov , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , R. Itay , F. Joerg , S. Kazama , A. Kish , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , E. López Fune , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Manfredini , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , D. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , K. Miller , A. Molinario , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , K. Odgers , B. Pelssers , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , R. Podviianiuk , H. Qiu , D. Ramírez García , S. Reichard , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , A. Rocchetti , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , N. Šarčević , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , C. Therreau , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , N. Upole , M. Vargas , O. Wack , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , J. P. Zopounidis

Electron-ion recombination in composite interactions in liquid xenon

The response of liquid xenon to various types of ionizing radiation has been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally. Recent progress in direct detection dark matter experiments highlights the significance of composite events,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-17 J. Xu , J. Kim , B. Lenardo , C. E. Dahl , R. L. Mannino , G. M. Blockinger , C. A. Hardy , D. Adams , C. S. Amarasinghe , J. Bang , A. C. Vaitkus , C. Ding , W. H. Lippincott , M. Szydagis , C. Levy , R. J. Gaitskell , R. Essig

Data-Driven Modeling of Electron Recoil Nucleation in PICO C$_3$F$_8$ Bubble Chambers

The primary advantage of moderately superheated bubble chamber detectors is their simultaneous sensitivity to nuclear recoils from WIMP dark matter and insensitivity to electron recoil backgrounds. A comprehensive analysis of PICO gamma…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-30 C. Amole , M. Ardid , I. J. Arnquist , D. M. Asner , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , M. Bressler , B. Broerman , G. Cao , C. J. Chen , S. Chen , U. Chowdhury , K. Clark , J. I. Collar , P. S. Cooper , C. B. Coutu , C. Cowles , M. Crisler , G. Crowder , N. A. Cruz-Venegas , C. E. Dahl , M. Das , S. Fallows , J. Farine , R. Filgas , J. Fuentes , F. Girard , G. Giroux , B. Hackett , A. Hagen , J. Hall , C. Hardy , O. Harris , T. Hillier , E. W. Hoppe , C. M. Jackson , M. Jin , L. Klopfenstein , T. Kozynets , C. B. Krauss , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , A. Leblanc , I. Levine , C. Licciardi , W. H. Lippincott , B. Loer , F. Mamedov , P. Mitra , C. Moore , T. Nania , R. Neilson , A. J. Noble , P. Oedekerk , A. Ortega , S. Pal , M. -C. Piro , A. Plante , S. Priya , A. E. Robinson , S. Sahoo , O. Scallon , S. Seth , A. Sonnenschein , N. Starinski , I. Štekl , T. Sullivan , F. Tardif , D. Tiwari , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , J. M. Wagner , N. Walkowski , E. Weima , U. Wichoski , K. Wierman , W. Woodley , Y. Yan , V. Zacek , J. Zhang

Dark Matter or Neutrino recoil? Interpretation of Recent Experimental Results

The elastic nuclear recoil signal, being under intense scrutiny by multiple underground experiments, can be interpreted either as coming from the interaction of nuclei with WIMP dark matter or from the scattering of new species of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-26 Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

Constraints on electron-scattering interpretation of XENON1T excess

Recently, the XENON1T experiment has observed an excess in the electronic recoil data in the recoil energy range of $1$-$7$ keV. One of the most favored new physics interpretations is electron scattering with a boosted particle with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-15 So Chigusa , Motoi Endo , Kazunori Kohri

A measurement of the ionization efficiency of nuclear recoils in silicon

We have measured the ionization efficiency of silicon nuclear recoils with kinetic energy between 1.8 and 20 keV. We bombarded a silicon-drift diode with a neutron beam to perform an elastic-scattering experiment. A broad-energy neutron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 F. Izraelevitch , D. Amidei , A. Aprahamian , R. Arcos-Olalla , G. Cancelo , C. Casarella , A. E. Chavarria , P. Collon , J. Estrada , G. Fernández Moroni , Y. Guardincerri , G. Gutiérrez , A. Gyurjinyan , A. Kavner , B. Kilminster , A. Lathrop , J. Liao , Q. Liu , M. López , J. Molina , P. Privitera , M. A. Reyes , V. Scarpine , K. Siegl , M. Smith , S. Strauss , W. Tan , J. Tiffenberg , L. Villanueva

Exclusion of Leptophilic Dark Matter Models using XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experiment to search for dark matter interacting with electrons.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-24 The XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Arazi , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , M. Auger , C. Balan , P. Barrow , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , A. Behrens , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , L. Buetikofer , J. M. R. Cardoso , M. Cervantes , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , H. Contreras , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , A. Di Giovanni , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , C. Grignon , E. Gross , W. Hampel , R. Itay , F. Kaether , B. Kaminsky , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , M. Le Calloch , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , C. Levy , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Lyashenko , S. Macmullin , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Mayani Paras , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , M. Messina , B. Miguez , A. Molinario , G. Morana , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , P. Pakarha , E. Pantic , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , G. Plante , N. Priel , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , C. Reuter , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , H. Simgen , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , O. Vitells , R. Wall , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

Limits on inelastic dark matter from ZEPLIN-III

We present limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section for inelastic dark matter derived from the 2008 run of ZEPLIN-III. Cuts, notably on scintillation pulse shape and scintillation-to-ionisation ratio, give a net exposure of 63 kg.days in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-13 D. Yu. Akimov , H. M. Araujo , E. J. Barnes , V. A. Belov , A. Bewick , A. A. Burenkov , R. Cashmore , V. Chepel , A. Currie , D. Davidge , J. Dawson , T. Durkin , B. Edwards , C. Ghag , A. Hollingsworth , M. Horn , A. S. Howard , A. J. Hughes , W. G. Jones , G. E. Kalmus , A. S. Kobyakin , A. G. Kovalenko , V. N. Lebedenko , A. Lindote , I. Liubarsky , M. I. Lopes , R. Luscher , K. Lyons , P. Majewski , A. StJ. Murphy , F. Neves , S. M. Paling , J. Pinto da Cunha , R. Preece , J. J. Quenby , L. Reichhart , P. R. Scovell , C. Silva , V. N. Solovov , N. J. T. Smith , P. F. Smith , V. N. Stekhanov , T. J. Sumner , C. Thorne , L. de Viveiros , R. J. Walker

Search for light dark matter with ionization signals in the PandaX-4T Experiment

We report the search results of light dark matter through its interactions with shell electrons and nuclei, using the commissioning data from the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector. Low energy events are selected to have an ionization-only…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-29 PandaX Collaboration