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An improved measurement of the 2\nu \beta \beta\ half-life of Xe-136 with EXO-200

We report on an improved measurement of the 2\nu \beta \beta\ half-life of Xe-136 performed by EXO-200. The use of a large and homogeneous time projection chamber allows for the precise estimate of the fiducial mass used for the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-03-06 J. B. Albert , M. Auger , D. J. Auty , P. S. Barbeau , E. Beauchamp , D. Beck , V. Belov , C. Benitez-Medina , J. Bonatt , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , A. Burenkov , G. F. Cao , C. Chambers , J. Chaves , B. Cleveland , S. Cook , T. Daniels , M. Danilov , S. J. Daugherty , C. G. Davis , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , R. DeVoe , A. Dobi , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dolgolenko , M. Dunford , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , W. Feldmeier , P. Fierlinger , D. Franco , D. Fudenberg , G. Giroux , R. Gornea , K. Graham , G. Gratta , C. Hall , K. Hall , C. Hargrove , S. Herrin , M. Hughes , X. S. Jiang , A. Johnson , T. N. Johnson , S. Johnston , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Killick , S. Kravitz , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , D. S. Leonard , F. Leonard , C. Licciardi , R. MacLellan , M. G. Marino , B. Mong , M. Montero Díez , D. Moore , R. Nelson , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , K. O'Sullivan , C. Ouellet , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , C. Y. Prescott , A. Rivas , P. C. Rowson , M. P. Rozo , J. J. Russell , A. Sabourov , D. Sinclair , K. Skarpaas , S. Slutsky , V. Stekhanov , V. Strickland , M. Tarka , T. Tolba , D. Tosi , K. Twelker , P. Vogel , J. -L. Vuilleumier , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , J. Wodin , J. D. Wright , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich , Y. B. Zhao

Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

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

Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon TPCs as a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Platform

Searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay continue to expand our understanding of the lepton sector, with experiments now pursuing ton-scale target masses with sensitivity to $m_{\beta\beta}$ covering the allowed parameter space for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-04-10 A. Mastbaum , F. Psihas , J. Zennamo

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with $^{82}$SeF$_6$ and Direct Ion Imaging

We present a new neutrinoless double beta decay concept: the high pressure selenium hexafluoride gas time projection chamber. Combining techniques pioneered in high pressure xenon gas such as topological discrimination, with the high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-05 D. R. Nygren , B. J. P. Jones , N. Lopez-march , Y. Mei , F. Psihas , J. Renner

Search for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data

Many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics suggest that neutrinos should be Majorana-type fermions, but this assumption is difficult to confirm. Observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu \beta \beta$), a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-09-25 200 Collaboration , J. B. Albert , D. J. Auty , P. S. Barbeau , E. Beauchamp , D. Beck , V. Belov , C. Benitez-Medina , J. Bonatt , 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 , C. G. Davis , J. Davis , R. DeVoe , S. Delaquis , T. Didberidze , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , M. Dunford , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , W. Feldmeier , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , G. Giroux , R. Gornea , K. Graham , G. Gratta , C. Hall , S. Herrin , M. Hughes , M. J. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Johnson , T. N. Johnson , S. Johnston , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Killick , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , D. S. Leonard , F. Leonard , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , R. MacLellan , M. G. Marino , B. Mong , D. Moore , R. Nelson , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , C. Ouellet , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , C. Y. Prescott , A. Rivas , P. C. Rowson , M. P. Rozo , J. J. Russell , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , S. Slutsky , E. Smith , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , T. Tolba , D. Tosi , K. Twelker , P. Vogel , J. -L. Vuilleumier , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , J. D. Wright , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich , Y. B. Zhao

Searching for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay in $^{136}$Xe -- towards the tonne-scale and beyond

The quest for neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) is a promising experimental approach to search for lepton number violation in weak interactions, a key ingredient in generating the matter-antimatter asymmetry through models…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-04-06 Thomas Brunner , Lindley Winslow

Status and Sensitivity Projections for the XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment

The XENON experimental program aims to detect cold dark matter particles via their elastic collisions with xenon nuclei in two-phase time projection chambers (TPCs). We are currently testing a new TPC at the 100 kg scale, XENON100. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Elena Aprile , Laura Baudis

Dual-phase xenon time projection chambers for rare-event searches

In the past decade, dual-phase xenon time projection chambers (Xe-TPCs) have emerged as some of the most powerful detectors in the fields of astroparticle physics and rare-event searches. Developed primarily towards the direct detection of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-05 Laura Baudis

The DireXeno Experiment -- Measuring Correlated Scintillation Signatures in Liquid Xenon

We present a detector apparatus, DireXeno (DIRectinal Xenon), designed to measure the spatial and temporal properties of scintillation in liquid xenon to very high accuracy. The properties of scintillation are of primary importance for dark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 R. Itay , P. Z. Szabo , G. Koltman , M. M. Devi , M. Shutman , H. Landsman , R. Budnik

Trace radioactive impurities in final construction materials for EXO-200

We report results from a systematic measurement campaign conducted to identify low radioactivity materials for the construction of the EXO-200 double beta decay experiment. Partial results from this campaign have already been reported in a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 D. S. Leonard , D. Auty , T. Didberidze , R. Gornea , P. Grinberg , R. MacLellan , B. Methven , A. Piepke , J. -L. Vuilleumier , J. B. Albert , G. Anton , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , R. Bayerlein , D. Beck , V. Belov , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , G. F. Cao , W. R. Cen , C. Chambers , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , W. Cree , T. Daniels , M. Danilov , S. J. Daugherty , J. Daughhetee , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , J. Dilling , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Feyzbakhsh , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , K. Graham , G. Gratta , C. Hall , S. Herrin , J. Hoessl , P. Hufschmidt , M. Hughes , A. Jamil , M. J. Jewell , A. Johnson , S. Johntson , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , F. LePort , S. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , D. Mackay , M. G. Marino , T. Michel , B. Mong , D. Moore , K. Murray , R. Neilson , R. Nelson , O. Njoya , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , A. Pocar , K. Pushkin , F. Retière , P. C. Rowson , J. J. Russell , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , E. Smith , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , T. Tolba , R. Tsang , M. Wagenpfeil , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , K. Wamba , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , J. Wodin , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich , J. Zettlemoyer , T. Ziegler

The NEXT 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

PandaX: A Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Experiment at CJPL

PandaX is a large upgradable liquid-xenon detector system that can be used for both direct dark-matter detection and $^{136}$Xe double-beta decay search. It is located in the Jinping Deep-Underground Laboratory in Sichuan, China. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-05-13 X. G. Cao , X. Chen , Y. H. Chen , X. Y. Cui , D. Q. Fang , C. B. Fu , K. L. Giboni , H. W. Gong , G. D. Guo , M. He , J. Hu , X. T. Huang , X. D. Ji , Y. L. Ju , S. L. Li , Q. Lin , H. X. Liu , J. L. Liu , X. Liu , W. Lorenzon , Y. G. Ma , Y. J. Mao , K. X. Ni , K. Pushkin , X. X. Ren , M. Schubnell , M. B. Shen , Y. J. Shi , S. Stephenson , A. D. Tan , G. Tarle , H. W. Wang , J. M. Wang , M. Wang , X. M. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. H. Wei , S. Y. Wu , M. J. Xiao , X. Xiao , P. W. Xie , T. Ye , Y. H. You , X. H. Zeng , H. Zhang , T. Zhang , H. Y. Zhao , L. Zhao , X. P. Zhou , Z. H. Zhu

Electron extraction efficiency study for dual-phase xenon dark matter experiments

Dual-phase xenon detectors are widely used in dark matter direct detection experiments, and have demonstrated the highest sensitivities to a variety of dark matter interactions. However, a key component of the dual-phase detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-05 Jingke Xu , Sergey Pereverzev , Brian Lenardo , James Kingston , Daniel Naim , Adam Bernstein , Kareem Kazkaz , Mani Tripathi

Ba-ion extraction from a high pressure Xe gas for double-beta decay studies with EXO

An experimental setup is being developed to extract Ba ions from a high-pressure Xe gas environment. It aims to transport Ba ions from 10 bar Xe to vacuum conditions. The setup utilizes a converging-diverging nozzle in combination with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Brunner , D. Fudenberg , A. Sabourov , V. L. Varentsov , G. Gratta , D. Sinclair

Liquid-phase purification for multi-tonne xenon detectors

As liquid xenon detectors grow in scale, novel techniques are required to maintain sufficient purity for charges to survive across longer drifts. The Xeclipse test facility at Columbia University was built to test the removal of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-05 G. Plante , E. Aprile , J. Howlett , Y. Zhang

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

First Search for Lorentz and CPT Violation in Double Beta Decay with EXO-200

A search for Lorentz- and CPT-violating signals in the double beta decay spectrum of $^{136}$Xe has been performed using an exposure of 100 kg$\cdot$yr with the EXO-200 detector. No significant evidence of the spectral modification due to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-04-05 200 Collaboration , J. B. Albert , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , M. Breidenbach , T. Brunner , A. Burenkov , G. F. Cao , C. Chambers , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , T. Daniels , M. Danilov , S. J. Daugherty , C. G. Davis , J. Davis , S. Delaquis , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , J. S. Díaz , T. Didberidze , J. Dilling , A. Dolgolenko , M. J. Dolinski , M. Dunford , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Feyzbkhsh , W. Feldmeier , P. Fierlinger , D. Fudenberg , R. Gornea , K. Graham , G. Gratta , C. Hall , S. Homiller , M. Hughes , M. J. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Johnson , T. N. Johnson , S. Johnston , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , R. Killick , T. Koffas , S. Kravitz , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , D. S. Leonard , Y. H. Lin , J. Ling , R. MacLellan , M. G. Marino , B. Mong , D. Moore , R. Nelson , O. Njoya , A. Odian , I. Ostrovskiy , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , C. Y. Prescott , F. Retiére , P. C. Rowson , J. J. Russell , A. Schubert , D. Sinclair , E. Smith , V. Stekhanov , M. Tarka , T. Tolba , R. Tsang , K. Twelker , J. -L. Vuilleumier , P. Vogel , A. Waite , J. Walton , T. Walton , M. Weber , L. J. Wen , U. Wichoski , J. Wood , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Ya. Zeldovich

Design, construction and commissioning of the PandaX-30T liquid xenon management system

The PandaX-30T is a proposed next-generation experiment to study dark matter and neutrinos using a dual-phase time projection chamber with \textasciitilde30 tons of liquid xenon. An innovative xenon handling subsystem of the PandaX-30T, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-07 Xiuli Wang , Zhuoqun Lei , Yonglin Ju , Jianglai Liu , Ning Zhou , Yu Chen , Zhou Wang , Xiangyi Cui , Yue Meng , Li Zhao

Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO

nEXO is a proposed experiment to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{136}$Xe in a tonne-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The nEXO TPC will be equipped with charge collection tiles to form…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-21 Z. Li , W. R. Cen , A. Robinson , D. C. Moore , L. J. Wen , A. Odian , S. Al Kharusi , G. Anton , I. J. Arnquist , I. Badhrees , P. S. Barbeau , D. Beck , V. Belov , T. Bhatta , J. P. Brodsky , E. Brown , T. Brunner , E. Caden , G. F. Cao , L. Cao , C. Chambers , B. Chana , S. A. Charlebois , M. Chiu , B. Cleveland , M. Coon , A. Craycraft , J. Dalmasson , T. Daniels , L. Darroch , S. J. Daugherty , A. De St. Croix , A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian , R. DeVoe , M. L. Di Vacri , J. Dilling , Y. Y. Ding , M. J. Dolinski , A. Dragone , J. Echevers , M. Elbeltagi , L. Fabris , D. Fairbank , W. Fairbank , J. Farine , S. Ferrara , S. Feyzbakhsh , R. Fontaine , A. Fucarino , G. Gallina , P. Gautam , G. Giacomini , D. Goeldi , R. Gornea , G. Gratta , E. V. Hansen , M. Heffner , E. W. Hoppe , J. Hößl , A. House , M. Hughes , A. Iverson , A. Jamil , M. J. Jewell , X. S. Jiang , A. Karelin , L. J. Kaufman , D. Kodroff , T. Koffas , R. Krücken , A. Kuchenkov , K. S. Kumar , Y. Lan , A. Larson , K. G. Leach , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , G. Li , S. Li , C. Licciardi , Y. H. Lin , P. Lv , R. MacLellan , T. McElroy , M. Medina-Peregrina , T. Michel , B. Mong , K. Murray , P. Nakarmi , C. R. Natzke , R. J. Newby , Z. Ning , O. Njoya , F. Nolet , O. Nusair , K. Odgers , M. Oriunno , J. L. Orrell , G. S. Ortega , I. Ostrovskiy , C. T. Overman , S. Parent , A. Piepke , A. Pocar , J. -F. Pratte , V. Radeka , E. Raguzin , S. Rescia , F. Retière , M. Richman , T. Rossignol , P. C. Rowson , N. Roy , J. Runge , R. Saldanha , S. Sangiorgio , K. Skarpaas VIII , A. K. Soma , 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 , V. Veeraraghavan , S. Viel , G. Visser , C. Vivo-Vilches , J. -L. Vuilleumier , M. Wagenpfeil , M. Walent , Q. Wang , M. Ward , J. Watkins , M. Weber , W. Wei , U. Wichoski , S. X. Wu , W. H. Wu , X. Wu , Q. Xia , H. Yang , L. Yang , Y. -R. Yen , O. Zeldovich , J. Zhao , Y. Zhou , T. Ziegler

The NEW detector: construction, commissioning and first results

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is a neutrinoless double-beta (\beta\beta 0\nu) decay experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). It seeks to detect the (\beta\beta 0\nu) decay of Xe-136 using a high pressure xenon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Nebot-Guinot