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In recent years cooling technology for Liquid Xenon (LXe) detectors has advanced driven by the development of Dark Matter (DM) detectors with target mass in the 100 - 1,000 kg range. The next generation of DM detectors based on LXe will be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-24 K. L. Giboni , P. Juyal , E. Aprile , Y. Zhang , J. Naganoma

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

We propose a new detector concept, GraXe (to be pronounced as grace), to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe-136. GraXe combines a popular detection medium in rare-event searches, liquid xenon, with a new, background-free…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-02-28 J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , F. Guinea , M. M. Fogler , M. I. Katsnelson , J. Martin-Albo , F. Monrabal , J. Muñoz-Vidal

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…

Many rare event searches including dark matter direct detection and neutrinoless double beta decay experiments take advantage of the high VUV reflective surfaces made from polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) reflector materials to achieve high…

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

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

In this paper we describe an innovative type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC), which uses high-pressure xenon gas (HPXe) and electroluminescence amplification of the ionization charge as the basis of an apparatus capable of fully…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , J. Martín-Albo , F. Monrabal

High pressure gas detectors offer advantages for the detection of rare events, where background reduction is crucial. For the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe a high pressure xenon gas Time Projection Chamber (TPC) combines a good…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 S Cebrian , T Dafni , H Gomez , D C Herrera , F J Iguaz , I G Irastorza , G Luzon , L Segui , A Tomas

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

Dual-phase liquid-xenon time projection chambers (LXe TPCs) deploying a few tonnes of liquid are presently leading the search for WIMP dark matter. Scaling these detectors to 10-fold larger fiducial masses, while improving their sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-17 G. Martínez-Lema , A. Roy , A. Breskin , L. Arazi

There are several proposals and projects today for building LXe Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) for dark matter search. An important element of these TPCs are the photomultipliers operating either inside LXe or in vapors above the liquid.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Periale , V. Peskov , C. Iacobaeus , B. Lund-Jensen , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo , Rodionov

Dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) detectors offer heightened sensitivities for dark matter detection across a spectrum of particle masses. To broaden their capability to low-mass dark matter interactions, we investigated the…

Liquid xenon particle detectors rely on excellent light collection efficiency for their performance. This depends on the high reflectivity of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) at the xenon scintillation wavelength of 178 nm, but the angular…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-31 S. Kravitz , R. J. Smith , L. Hagaman , E. P. Bernard , D. N. McKinsey , L. Rudd , L. Tvrznikova , G. D. Orebi Gann , M. Sakai

The PandaX-III experiment searches the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe with a high-pressure xenon gaseous time projection chamber~(TPC). Thermal-bonding Micromegas modules are used for charge collection. Benefitting from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-23 Wenming Zhang , Heng Lin , Yuanchun Liu , Ke Han , Kaixiang Ni , Shaobo Wang , Wenchang Zhai

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

The R&D for a new type of liquid xenon (LXe) detector is ongoing to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu2\beta$). As a result of the KamLAND-Zen experiment, it is very important to realize the all active region detector for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-20 Kota Ueshima

Liquid xenon (LXe) is a well-studied detector medium to search for rare events in dark matter and neutrino physics. Two-phase xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) can detect electronic and nuclear recoils with energy down to kilo-electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-14 Jianyang Qi , Noah Hood , Abigail Kopec , Yue Ma , Haiwen Xu , Min Zhong , Kaixuan Ni

NEXT is an experiment dedicated to neutrinoless double beta decay searches in xenon. The detector is a TPC, holding 100 kg of high-pressure xenon enriched in the $^{136}$Xe isotope. It is under construction in the Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo…