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First Dark Matter Search Results From Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills

This paper describes the operation of the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) detector located at the Lujan Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). CCM is a 10-ton liquid argon (LAr) detector located 20 meters…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-07-11 A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo , S. Biedron , J. Boissevain , M. Borrego , M. Chavez-Estrada , A. Chavez , J. M. Conrad , R. L. Cooper , A. Diaz , J. R. Distel , J. D'Olivo , E. Dunton , B. Dutta , A. Elliott , D. Evans , D. Fields , J. Greenwood , M. Gold , J. Gordon , E. D. Guarincerri , E. C. Huang , N. Kamp , C. Kelsey , K. Knickerbocker , R. Lake , W. C. Louis , R. Mahapatra , S. Maludze , J. Mirabal , R. Moreno , H. Neog , P. deNiverville , V. Pandey , J. Plata-Salas , D. Poulson , H. Ray , E. Renner , T. J. Schaub , M. H. Shaevitz , D. Smith , W. Sondheim , A. M. Szelc , C. Taylor , W. H. Thompson , M. Tripathi , R. T. Thornton , R. Van Berg , R. G. Van de Water , S. Verma , K. Walker

Measurement of the Liquid Argon Scintillation Pulse Shape Using Differentiable Simulation in the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills Experiment

The Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) experiment is a liquid argon (LAr) light collection detector searching for MeV-scale neutrino and Beyond Standard Model physics signatures. Two hundred 8-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) instrument the 7…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-30 A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo , S. Biedron , J. Boissevain , M. Borrego , L. Bugel , M. Chavez-Estrada , J. M. Conrad , R. L. Cooper , J. R. Distel , J. C. D'Olivo , E. Dunton , B. Dutta , D. E. Fields , M. Gold , E. Guardincerri , E. C. Huang , N. Kamp , D. Kim , K. Knickerbocker , W. C. Louis , C. F. Macias-Acevedo , R. Mahapatra , J. Mezzetti , J. Mirabal , M. J. Mocko , D. A. Newmark , P. deNiverville , C. O'Connor , V. Pandey , D. Poulson , H. Ray , E. Renner , T. J. Schaub , A. Schneider , M. H. Shaevitz , D. Smith , W. Sondheim , A. M. Szelc , C. Taylor , A. Thompson , W. H. Thompson , M. Tripathi , R. T. Thornton , R. Van Berg , R. G. Van de Water

Prospects for detecting axionlike particles at the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills experiment

We show results from the Coherent CAPTAIN Mills (CCM) 2019 engineering run which begin to constrain regions of parameter space for axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in electromagnetic particle showers in an 800 MeV proton beam dump, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. S. M. Alves , S. Biedron , J. Boissevain , M. Borrego , L. Bugel , M. Chavez-Estrada , J. M. Conrad , R. L. Cooper , A. Diaz , J. R. Distel , J. C. D'Olivo , E. Dunton , B. Dutta , D. Fields , J. R. Gochanour , M. Gold , E. Guardincerri , E. C. Huang , N. Kamp , D. Kim , K. Knickerbocker , W. C. Louis , J. T. M. Lyles , R. Mahapatra , S. Maludze , J. Mirabal , N. Mishra , D. Newmark , P. deNiverville , V. Pandey , D. Poulson , H. Ray , E. Renner , T. J. Schaub , A. Schneider , M. H. Shaevitz , D. Smith , W. Sondheim , A. M. Szelc , C. Taylor , A. Thompson , W. H. Thompson , M. Tripathi , R. T. Thornton , R. Van Berg , R. G. Van de Water , S. Verma

ArDM: a ton-scale LAr detector for direct Dark Matter searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM-1t) experiment is a ton-scale liquid argon (LAr) double-phase time projection chamber designed for direct Dark Matter searches. Such a device allows to explore the low energy frontier in LAr with a charge imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 ArDM Collaboration , A. Marchionni , C. Amsler , A. Badertscher , V. Boccone , A. Bueno , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , J. Coleman , W. Creus , A. Curioni , M. Daniel , E. J. Dawe , U. Degunda , A. Gendotti , L. Epprecht , S. Horikawa , L. Kaufmann , L. Knecht , M. Laffranchi , C. Lazzaro , P. K. Lightfoot , D. Lussi , J. Lozano , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Melgarejo , P. Mijakowski , G. Natterer , S. Navas-Concha , P. Otyugova , M. de Prado , P. Przewlocki , C. Regenfus , F. Resnati , M. Robinson , J. Rochet , L. Romero , E. Rondio , A. Rubbia , L. Scotto-Lavina , N. J. C. Spooner , T. Strauss , C. Touramanis , J. Ulbricht , T. Viant

First Event-by-Event Identification of Cherenkov Radiation from Sub-MeV Particles in Liquid Argon

This Letter reports the event-by-event observation of Cherenkov light from sub-MeV electrons in a high scintillation light-yield liquid argon (LAr) detector by the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) experiment. The CCM200 detector, located at Los…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-30 A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo , S. Biedron , J. Boissevain , M. Borrego , L. Bugel , M. Chavez-Estrada , J. M. Conrad , R. L. Cooper , J. R. Distel , J. C. D'Olivo , E. Dunton , B. Dutta , D. E. Fields , M. Gold , E. Guardincerri , E. C. Huang , N. Kamp , D. Kim , K. Knickerbocker , W. C. Louis , C. F. Macias-Acevedo , R. Mahapatra , J. Mezzetti , J. Mirabal , M. J. Mocko , D. A. Newmark , P. deNiverville , C. O'Connor , V. Pandey , D. Poulson , H. Ray , E. Renner , T. J. Schaub , A. Schneider , M. H. Shaevitz , D. Smith , W. Sondheim , A. M. Szelc , C. Taylor , A. Thompson , W. H. Thompson , M. Tripathi , R. T. Thornton , R. Van Berg , R. G. Van de Water

The ArDM Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory: a ton-scale detector for Dark Matter Searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM) experiment consists of a liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) sensitive to nuclear recoils resulting from scattering of hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on argon targets.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-24 ArDM Collaboration , J. Calvo , C. Cantini , P. Crivelli , M. Daniel , S. DiLuise , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , B. Montes , W. Mu , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , K. Ngyuen , L. Periale , Y. Quan , B. Radics , C. Regenfus , L. Romero , A. Rubbia , R. Santorelli , F. Sergiampietri , T. Viant , S. Wu

A COHERENT constraint on leptophobic dark matter using CsI data

We use data from the COHERENT CsI[Na] scintillation detector to constrain sub-GeV leptophobic dark matter models. This detector was built to observe low-energy nuclear recoils from coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. These…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-27 COHERENT Collaboration , D. Akimov , P. An , C. Awe , P. S. Barbeau , B. Becker , V. Belov , I. Bernardi , M. A. Blackston , C. Bock , A. Bolozdynya , R. Bouabid , J. Browning , B. Cabrera-Palmer , D. Chernyak , E. Conley , J. Daughhetee , J. Detwiler , K. Ding , M. R. Durand , Y. Efremenko , S. R. Elliot , L. Fabris , M. Febbraro , A. Gallo Rosso , A. Galindo-Uribarri , M. P. Green , M. R. Heath , S. Hedges , D. Hoang , M. Hughes , B. A. Johnson , T. Johnson , A. Khromov , A. Konovalov , E. Kozlova , A. Kupman , L. Li , J. M. Link , J. Liu , A. Major , K. Mann , D. M. Markoff , J. Mastroberti , J. Mattingly , P. E. Mueller , J. Newby , D. S. Parno , S. I. Penttila , D. Pershey , C. Prior , R. Rapp , H. Ray , O. Razuvaeva , D. Reyna , G. C. Rich , J. Ross , D. Rudik , J. Runge , D. J. Salvat , A. M. Salyapongse , J. Sander , K. Scholberg , A. Shakirov , G. Simakov , W. M. Snow , V. Sosnovstsev , B. Suh , R. Tayloe , K. Tellez-Giron-Flores , I. Tolstukhin , E. Ujah , J. Vanderwerp , R. L. Varner , C. J. Virtue , G. Visser , T. Wongjirad , W. -R. Yen , J. Yoo , C. -H. Yu , J. Zettlemoyer

First results from the DEAP-3600 dark matter search with argon at SNOLAB

This paper reports the first results of a direct dark matter search with the DEAP-3600 single-phase liquid argon (LAr) detector. The experiment was performed 2 km underground at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada) utilizing a large target mass, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 3600 Collaboration , P. -A. Amaudruz , M. Baldwin , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , C. E. Bina , D. Bishop , J. Bonatt , G. Boorman , M. G. Boulay , B. Broerman , T. Bromwich , J. F. Bueno , P. M. Burghardt , A. Butcher , B. Cai , S. Chan , M. Chen , R. Chouinard , B. T. Cleveland , D. Cranshaw , K. Dering , J. DiGioseffo , S. Dittmeier , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , A. Erlandson , N. Fatemighomi , S. Florian , A. Flower , R. J. Ford , R. Gagnon , P. Giampa , V. V. Golovko , P. Gorel , R. Gornea , E. Grace , K. Graham , E. Gulyev , R. Hakobyan , A. Hall , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , P. J. Harvey , C. Hearns , C. J. Jillings , O. Kamaev , A. Kemp , M. Kuźniak , S. Langrock , F. La Zia , B. Lehnert , J. J. Lidgard , C. Lim , T. Lindner , Y. Linn , S. Liu , P. Majewski , R. Mathew , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , T. McGinn , J. B. McLaughlin , S. Mead , R. Mehdiyev , C. Mielnichuk , J. Monroe , A. Muir , P. Nadeau , C. Nantais , C. Ng , A. J. Noble , E. O'Dwyer , C. Ohlmann , K. Olchanski , K. S. Olsen , C. Ouellet , P. Pasuthip , S. J. M. Peeters , T. R. Pollmann , E. T. Rand , W. Rau , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , N. Seeburn , B. Shaw , K. Singhrao , P. Skensved , B. Smith , N. J. T. Smith , T. Sonley , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , C. Stone , V. Strickland , B. Sur , J. Tang , J. Taylor , L. Veloce , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , J. Walding , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , E. Woolsey , J. Zielinski

Constraining Asymmetric Dark Matter using Colliders and Direct Detection

We reappraise the viability of asymmetric dark matter (ADM) realized as a Dirac fermion coupling dominantly to the Standard Model fermions. Treating the interactions of such a DM particle with quarks/leptons in an effective-interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-19 Arnab Roy , Basudeb Dasgupta , Monoranjan Guchait

Design of Prototype Front-end Digital Module for Direct Dark Matter Detection based on LAr

Liquid argon (LAr) with a high light yield of approximately 40 photons per keV is an attractive target for the direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are well motivated galactic dark matter candidates. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 X. Zhu , Z. Shen , C. Feng , S. Liu , Q. An

Fermionic dark matter in leptoquark portal

We investigate a beyond standard model (SM) portal scenario for dark matter (DM) particle with leptoquark being the mediator field. Leptoquark, a colored particle having both baryon and lepton number, allows the DM to interact with the SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-11 Rusa Mandal

Status of ArDM-1t: First observations from operation with a full ton-scale liquid argon target

ArDM-1t is the first operating ton-scale liquid argon detector for direct search of Dark Matter particles. Developed at CERN as Recognized Experiment RE18, the experiment has been approved in 2010 to be installed in the Spanish underground…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-12 ArDM Collaboration , J. Calvo , C. Cantini , M. Daniel , U. Degunda , S. Di Luise , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , B. Montes , W. Mu , M. Munoz , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , K. Nguyen , K. Nikolics , L. Periale , C. Regenfus , L. Romero , A. Rubbia , R. Santorelli , F. Sergiampietri , D. Sgalaberna , T. Viant , S. Wu

Stable operation with gain of a double phase Liquid Argon LEM-TPC with a 1 mm thick segmented LEM

In this paper we present results from a test of a small Liquid Argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). This detector concept provides a 3D-tracking and calorimetric device capable of charge amplification,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-07-28 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , A. Marchionni , G. Natterer , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

A study of liquid argon detector's $n$/$\gamma$ discrimination capability with PMT or SiPM readout

Liquid Argon (LAr) is used as a target material in several current and planned experiments related to dark matter direct searching and neutrino detection. Argon provides excellent Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) capability which could…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-26 L. Wang , Y. Liu , M. Y. Guan , T. A. Wang , C. Guo , J. C. Liu , C. G. Yang , X. H. Liang , Y. D. Chen

Search for dark matter and unparticles produced in association with a Z boson in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

A search for evidence of particle dark matter (DM) and unparticle production at the LHC has been performed using events containing two charged leptons, consistent with the decay of a Z boson, and large missing transverse momentum. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-14 CMS Collaboration

Search for dark matter produced in association with one or two top quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

A search is performed for dark matter (DM) produced in association with a single top quark or a pair of top quarks using the data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-26 CMS Collaboration

First operation and performance of a 200 lt double phase LAr LEM-TPC with a 40x76 cm^2 readout

In this paper we describe the design, construction, and operation of a first large area double-phase liquid argon Large Electron Multiplier Time Projection Chamber (LAr LEM-TPC). The detector has a maximum drift length of 60 cm and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Badertscher , A. Curioni , U. Degunda , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi G. Natterer , K. Nguyen , F. Resnati , A. Rubbia , T. Viant

Laser induced Compton Scattering to Dark Matter in Effective Field Theory

The detection of light dark matter (DM) is a longstanding challenge in terrestrial experiments. High-intensity facility of an intense electromagnetic field may provide a plausible strategy to study strong-field particle physics and search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Kai Ma , Tong Li

Design and construction of a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon

Large liquid argon detectors offer one of the best avenues for the detection of galactic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their scattering on atomic nuclei. The liquid argon target allows exquisite discrimination between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 The DarkSide Collaboration , C. E. Aalseth , S. Abdelhakim , F. Acerbi , P. Agnes , R. Ajaj , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. Alici , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , F. Ameli , J. Anstey , P. Antonioli , M. Arba , S. Arcelli , R. Ardito , I. J. Arnquist , P. Arpaia , D. M. Asner , A. Asunskis , M. Ave , H. O. Back , A. Barrado Olmedo , G. Batignani , M. G. Bisogni , V. Bocci , A. Bondar , G. Bonfini , W. Bonivento , E. Borisova , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , R. Bunker , S. Bussino , A. Buzulutskov , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Candela , C. Cantini , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , F. Carnesecchi , M. Carpinelli , A. Castellani , P. Castello , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , D. Cavazza , S. Cavuoti , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , B. Celano , R. Cereseto , W. Cheng , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalò , L. Cifarelli , M. Citterio , A. G. Cocco , V. Cocco , M. Colocci , L. Consiglio , F. Cossio , G. Covone , P. Crivelli , I. D'Antone , M. D'Incecco , D. D'Urso , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , O. Dadoun , M. Daniel , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , M. De Deo , A. De Falco , G. De Filippis , D. De Gruttola , G. De Guido , G. De Rosa , G. Dellacasa , P. Demontis , S. DePaquale , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , L. Di Noto , G. Di Pietro , P. Di Stefano , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , M. Downing , F. Edalatfar , A. Empl , M. Fernandez Diaz , A. Ferri , C. Filip , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , A. Franceschi , D. Franco , G. E. Froudakis , F. Gabriele , A. Gabrieli , C. Galbiati , P. Garcia Abia , D. Gascón Fora , A. Gendotti , C. Ghiano , A. Ghisi , S. Giagu , P. Giampa , R. A. Giampaolo , C. Giganti , M. A. Giorgi , G. K. Giovanetti , M. L. Gligan , A. Gola , O. Gorchakov , M. Grab , R. Graciani Diaz , F. Granato , M. Grassi , J. W. Grate , G. Y. Grigoriev , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. B. B. Guerra , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , R. K. Haaland , B. R. Hackett , A. Hallin , B. Harrop , E. W. Hoppe , S. Horikawa , B. Hosseini , F. Hubaut , P. Humble , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , A. Ilyasov , V. Ippolito , C. Jillings , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , S. Kim , I. Kochanek , K. Kondo , G. Kopp , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , R. Kugathasan , M. Kuss , M. Kuźniak , M. La Commara , L. La Delfa , M. Lai , S. Langrock , M. Lebois , B. Lehnert , N. Levashko , X. Li , Q. Liqiang , M. Lissia , G. U. Lodi , G. Longo , R. López Manzano , R. Lussana , L. Luzzi , A. A. Machado , I. N. Machulin , A. Mandarano , L. Mapelli , M. Marcante , A. Margotti , S. M. Mari , M. Mariani , J. Maricic , M. Marinelli , D. Marras , M. Martínez , J. J. Martínez Morales , A. D. Martinez Rojas , C. J. Martoff , M. Mascia , J. Mason , A. Masoni , A. Mazzi , A. B. McDonald , A. Messina , P. D. Meyers , T. Miletic , R. Milincic , A. Moggi , S. Moioli , J. Monroe , M. Morrocchi , T. Mroz , W. Mu , V. N. Muratova , S. Murphy , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , T. Napolitano , A. Navrer Agasson , M. Nessi , I. Nikulin , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , S. Palmas , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , G. Paternoster , V. Pavletcov , F. Pazzona , S. Peeters , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , L. A. Pellegrini , C. Pellegrino , N. Pelliccia , F. Perotti , V. Pesudo , E. Picciau , C. Piemonte , F. Pietropaolo , A. Pocar , T. Pollman , D. Portaluppi , S. S. Poudel , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , B. Radics , F. Raffaelli , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , V. Regazzoni , C. Regenfus , A. L. Renshaw , S. Rescia , M. Rescigno , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , A. Rivetti , A. Romani , L. Romero , N. Rossi , A. Rubbia , D. Sablone , P. Sala , P. Salatino , O. Samoylov , E. Sánchez García , S. Sanfilippo , M. Sant , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , B. Schlitzer , G. Scioli , E. Segreto , A. Seifert , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , S. Siddhanta , M. Simeone , P. N. Singh , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , G. Sobrero , A. Sokolov , A. Sotnikov , R. Stainforth , A. Steri , S. Stracka , V. Strickland , G. B. Suffritti , S. Sulis , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , T. Thorpe , A. Tonazzo , A. Tosi , M. Tuveri , E. V. Unzhakov , G. Usai , A. Vacca , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , M. Verducci , T. Viant , S. Viel , F. Villa , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , J. Wahl , J. J. Walding , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , R. J. Wheadon , R. Williams , J. Wilson , Marcin Wojcik , Mariusz Wojcik , S. Wu , X. Xiao , C. Yang , Z. Ye , M. Zuffa , G. Zuzel

Characterization of large area photomultiplier ETL 9357FLB for liquid argon detector

The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX) Collaboration will carry out a direct search for weakly interacting massive particles with germanium detectors. Liquid argon will be utilized as an anti-Compton and cooling material for the germanium…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 Ying-Shuai Du , Qian Yue , Yi-Bao Liu , Qing-Hao Chen , Jin LI , Jian-Ping Cheng , Ke-Jun Kang , Yuan-Jing Li , Yu-Lan Li , Hao Ma , Hao-Yang Xing , Xun-Zhen Yu , Zhi Zeng