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The need for precise characterization of dual-phase xenon detectors has grown as the technology has matured into a state of high efficacy for rare event searches. The Michigan Xenon detector was constructed to study the microphysics of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-25 S. Stephenson , J. Haefner , Q. Lin , K. Ni , K. Pushkin , R. Raymond , M. Schubnell , N. Shutty , G. Tarlé , C. Weaverdyck , W. Lorenzon

NEXT-DEMO is a large-scale prototype of the NEXT-100 detector, an electroluminescent time projection chamber that will search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe-136 using 100 to 150 kg of enriched xenon gas. NEXT-DEMO was built to…

The NEXT collaboration is dedicated to the study of double beta decays of $^{136}$Xe using a high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chamber. This advanced technology combines exceptional energy resolution ($\leq 1\%$ FWHM at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-12 NEXT Collaboration , C. Adams , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , A. I. Aranburu , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , F. Auria-Luna , S. Ayet , Y. Ayyad , C. D. R. Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , J. E. Barcelon , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , A. Bayo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Brodoline , N. Byrnes , A. Castillo , E. Church , L. Cid , M. Cid , X. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , C. Cortes-Parra , F. P. Cossío , R. Coupe , E. Dey , P. Dietz , C. Echeverria , M. Elorza , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , 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 , A. F. B. Isabel , B. J. P. Jones , F. Kellerer , L. Larizgoitia , A. Larumbe , P. Lebrun , F. Lopez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. Marauri , A. P. Marques , J. Martín-Albo , A. Martínez , G. Martínez-Lema , M. Martínez-Vara , R. L. Miller , K. Mistry , J. Molina-Canteras , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , K. E. Navarro , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , E. Oblak , I. Osborne , 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 , E. Ruiz-Chóliz , P. Saharia , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Seemann , I. Shomroni , A. L. M. Silva , P. A. O. C. Silva , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , M. Sorel , J. Soto-Oton , J. M. R. Teixeira , S. Teruel-Pardo , J. F. Toledo , C. Tonnelé , S. Torelli , J. Torrent , A. Trettin , P. R. G. Valle , M. Vanga , P. Vázquez Cabaleiro , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. D. Villamil , J. Waiton , A. Yubero-Navarro

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…

We study a possible calibration technique for the nEXO experiment using a $^{127}$Xe electron capture source. nEXO is a next-generation search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) that will use a 5-tonne, monolithic liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-03 B. G. Lenardo , C. A. Hardy , R. H. M. Tsang , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , A. Piepke , S. Triambak , A. Jamil , G. Adhikari , S. Al Kharusi , E. Angelico , I. J. Arnquist , V. Belov , E. P. Bernard , A. Bhat , T. Bhatta , A. Bolotnikov , P. A. Breur , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Cao , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , J. R. Cohen , R. Collister , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , R. DeVoe , M. L. di Vacri , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , J. Echevers , B. Eckert , M. Elbeltagi , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , Y. S. Fu , G. Gallina , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , W. Gillis , C. Gingras , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , K. Harouaka , M. Heffner , E. Hein , J. Hößl , A. House , A. Iverson , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , D. S. Leonard , G. Li , S. Li , Z. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , J. Masbou , K. McMichael , M. Medina Peregrina , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Murray , J. Nattress , C. R. Natzke , X. E. Ngwadla , K. Ni , Z. Ning , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , I. Ostrovskiy , C. T. Overman , A. Perna , T. Pinto Franco , A. Pocar , J. F. Pratte , N. Priel , E. Raguzin , G. J. Ramonnye , H. Rasiwala , K. Raymond , G. Richardson , M. Richman , J. Ringuette , P. C. Rowson , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , X. Shang , A. K. Soma , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , S. Thibado , A. Tidball , J. Todd , T. Totev , O. A. Tyuka , F. Vachon , V. Veeraraghavan , S. Viel , K. Wamba , Y. Wang , Q. Wang , W. Wei , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , S. Wilde , W. H. Wu , W. Yan , L. Yang , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , T. Ziegler

The EXO-200 Collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber. This measurement relies on modeling the transport of charge deposits produced by interactions in the LXe to allow…

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…

Possibility to use ultra pure liquid Xenon as a low energy solar neutrino detector by means of $\nu$+e scatterings is evaluated. A possible detector with 10 tons of fiducial volume will give $\sim$14 events for pp-neutrinos and $\sim$6…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Y. Suzuki

Large detectors employing xenon are a leading technology in existing and planned searches for new physics, including searches for neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) and dark matter. While upcoming detectors will employ target…

RED-100 is a two-phase detector for study of coherent elastic scattering of reactor electron antineutrinos off xenon atomic nuclei. The detector contains a total of 200 kg of liquid xenon in a titanium cryostat with 160 kg of xenon in…

AXEL is a high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0n2b) search. The AXEL has a unique readout system called ELCC which has a cellular structure and photosensors to detect electroluminescence light…

AXEL is a high pressure xenon gas TPC detector being developed for neutrinoless double-beta decay search. We use the proportional scintillation mode with a new electroluminescence light detection system to achieve high energy resolution in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-27 S. Ban , K. D. Nakamura , S. Akiyama , M. Hirose , A. K. Ichikawa , Y. Ishiyama , A. Minamino , K. Miuchi , T. Nakaya , H. Sekiya , S. Tanaka , K. Ueshima , S. Yanagita

nEXO is a proposed next-generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe using a tonne-scale liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC). To image the ionization signals from events in the liquid…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-15 Z. Li , M. Yu , E. Angelico , A. Atencio , A. Gupta , P. Knauss , A. Pena-Perez , B. G. Lenardo , P. Acharya , A. Amy , A. Anker , I. J. Arnquist , J. Bane , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , A. Bolotnikov , J. Breslin , P. A. Breur , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , B. Burnell , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Q. Cao , D. Cesmecioglu , D. Chernyak , M. Chiu , R. Collister , M. Marquis , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , R. DeVoe , M. L. di Vacri , X. Defay , Y. Y. Ding , D. Doering , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , B. Eckert , A. Emara , N. Fatemighomi , W. Fairbank , B. T. Foust , D. Gallacher , N. Gallice , A. Gaur , W. Gillis , F. Girard , A. Gorham , K. Gracequist , G. Gratta , C. A. Hardy , J. Hasi , S. Hedges , M. Heffner , E. Hein , H. Hernandez Herrera , J. D. Holt , A. Iverson , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , D. Keblbeck , C. Kenney , I. Kotov , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , S. Lavoie , A. Larson , M. B. Latif , K. G. Leach , D. S. Leonard , G. Lessard , K. K. H. Leung , G. Li , X. Li , C. Licciardi , R. Lindsay , R. MacLellan , S. Majidi , C. Malbrunot , B. Markovic , J. Masbou , M. Medina-Peregrina , S. Mngonyama , B. Mong , D. C. Moore , K. Ni , I. Nitu , A. Nolan , S. C. Nowicki , J. C. Nzobadila Ondze , A. Odian , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , L. Pagani , H. Peltz Smalley , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , S. Prentice , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , R. Rai , H. Rasiwala , D. Ray , B. Reese , S. Rescia , F. Retiere , G. Richardson , V. Riot , R. Ross , L. Rota , P. C. Rowson , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , S. Sekula , T. Shetty , L. Si , F. Spadoni , V. Stekhanov , X. L. Sun , S. Thibado , T. Totev , S. Triambak , R. H. M. Tsang , O. A. Tyuka , T. Vallivilayil John , E. van Bruggen , M. Vidal , S. Viel , M. Walent , H. Wang , Q. D. Wang , M. Watts , W. Wei , M. Wehrfritz , L. J. Wen , S. Wilde , X. M. Wu , H. Xu , H. B. Yang , L. Yang , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao

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

A high-pressure xenon gas time projection chamber, with a unique cellular readout structure based on electroluminescence, has been developed for a large-scale neutrinoless double-beta decay search. In order to evaluate the detector…

Several efforts are ongoing for the development of spherical gaseous time projection chamber detectors for the observation of rare phenomena such as weakly interacting massive particles or neutrino interactions. The proposed detector,…

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

The PandaX-xT is a next-generation experiment with broad scientific goals, including the search for dark matter, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, and astrophysical neutrinos, using a dual-phase time projection chamber with about 43 tons of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-09 Xu Wang , Li Zhao , Xiang Xiao , Xiangyi Cui , Shuaijie Li , Jianglai Liu