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Low-Energy Backgrounds in Solid-State Phonon and Charge Detectors

Solid-state phonon and charge detectors probe the scattering of weakly interacting particles, such as dark matter and neutrinos, through their low recoil thresholds. Recent advancements have pushed sensitivity to eV-scale energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-13 Daniel Baxter , Rouven Essig , Yonit Hochberg , Margarita Kaznacheeva , Belina von Krosigk , Florian Reindl , Roger K. Romani , Felix Wagner

ALICE TPC upgrade for High-Rate operations

A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

Design and construction of Xenoscope -- a full-scale vertical demonstrator for the DARWIN observatory

The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and other rare interactions. It will operate a 50 t liquid xenon detector, with 40 t in the time projection chamber (TPC). To inform the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-25 L. Baudis , Y. Biondi , M. Galloway , F. Girard , A. Manfredini , N. McFadden , R. Peres , P. Sanchez-Lucas , K. Thieme

Radon-induced backgrounds in the NEXT-100 experiment

The NEXT-100 detector at the LSC aims at the first competitive search for the \bbnonu decay using a high-pressure \Xe{136} electroluminescent time projection chamber. The first low-background run of NEXT-100 at 3.95 bar has been devoted to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-23 NEXT Collaboration , C. Cortes-Parra , P. Novella , G. Martínez-Lema , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , F. Auria-Luna , S. Ayet , Y. Ayyad , C. D. R. Azevedo , F. Ballester , J. E. Barcelon , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Brodoline , N. Byrnes , A. Castillo , E. Church , M. Cid , X. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , F. P. Cossío , R. Coupe , E. Dey , P. Dietz , C. Echeverria , M. Elorza , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , P. Ferrero Mancheño , 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 , M. Martínez-Vara , R. L. Miller , K. Mistry , J. Molina-Canteras , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , K. E. Navarro , 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 , L. M. Villar Padruno , J. Waiton , A. Yubero-Navarro

Measurement of Charge and Light Yields for $^{127}$Xe L-Shell Electron Captures in Liquid Xenon

Dark matter searches using dual-phase xenon time-projection chambers (LXe-TPCs) rely on their ability to reject background electron recoils (ERs) while searching for signal-like nuclear recoils (NRs). ER response is typically calibrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-15 Dylan J Temples , Jacob McLaughlin , Jack Bargemann , Daniel Baxter , Amy Cottle , C Eric Dahl , W Hugh Lippincott , Alissa Monte , Jason Phelan

Design and performance of a high-pressure xenon gas TPC as a prototype for a large-scale neutrinoless double-beta decay search

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-06 S. Ban , M. Hirose , A. K. Ichikawa , Y. Iwashita , T. Kikawa , A. Minamino , K. Miuchi , T. Nakadaira , Y. Nakajima , K. D. Nakamura , K. Z. Nakamura , T. Nakaya , S. Obara , K. Sakashita , H. Sekiya , B. Sugashima , S. Tanaka , K. Ueshima , M. Yoshida

Neutrino Properties Studied with a Triton Source Using Large TPC Detectors

The purpose of the present paper is to study the neutrino properties as they may appear in the low energy neutrinos emitted in triton decay, with maximum neutrino energy of 18.6 KeV. The technical challenges to this end can be summarized as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Giomataris , J. D. Vergados

Sensitivity of a tonne-scale NEXT detector for neutrinoless double beta decay searches

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

Helium-Xenon mixtures to improve topological signature in high pressure gas Xenon TPCs

Within the framework of xenon-based double beta decay experiments, we propose the possibility to improve the background rejection of an electroluminescent Time Projection Chamber (EL TPC) by reducing the diffusion of the drifting electrons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-21 R. Felkai , F. Monrabal , D. Gonzalez-Díaz , M. Sorel , N. López-March , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , C. Adams , V. Álvarez , L. Arazi , C. D. R. Azevedo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Botas , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , C. A. N. Conde , J. Díaz , M. Diesburg , J. Escada , R. Esteve , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , E. D. C. Freitas , A. Goldschmidt , R. Guenette , R. M. Gutiérrez , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , A. I. Hernandez , J. A. Hernando Morata , V. Herrero , S. Johnston , B. J. P. Jones , L. Labarga , A. Laing , P. Lebrun , M. Losada , J. Martín-Albo , G. Martínez-Lema , A. Martínez , A. D. McDonald , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , L. M. Moutinho , J. Muñoz Vidal , M. Musti , M. Nebot-Guinot , P. Novella , D. R. Nygren , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , J. Pérez , M. Querol , J. Renner , J. Repond , S. Riordan , L. Ripoll , C. Romo , J. Rodríguez , L. Rogers , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , C. Sofka , T. Stiegler , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , Z. Tsamalaidze , J. F. C. A. Veloso , R. Webb , J. T. White , N. Yahlali

Improved background rejection in neutrinoless double beta decay experiments using a magnetic field in a high pressure xenon TPC

We demonstrate that the application of an external magnetic field could lead to an improved background rejection in neutrinoless double-beta (0nbb) decay experiments using a high pressure xenon (HPXe) TPC. HPXe chambers are capable of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-28 J. Renner , A. Cervera , J. A. Hernando , A. Imzaylov , F. Monrabal , J. Muñoz , D. Nygren , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas

The Ultra-Low material budget GEM based TPC for tracking with VMM3a readout

The Gaseous Electron Multiplier-based Time Projection Chamber (GEM-TPC) in TWIN configuration for particle tracking has been consolidated after extensive investigations in different facilities to study its tracking performance. The most…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-20 F. Garcia , K. J. Flöthner , A. Amato , S. Biswas , F. M. Brunbauer , M. W. Heiss , G. Janka , D. Janssens , M. Lisowska , M. Meurer , H. Muller , B. Banto Oberhauser , E. Oliveri , G. Orlandini , D. Pfeiffer , T. Prokscha , L. Ropelewski , L. Scharenberg , J. Samarati , F. Sauli , M. van Stenis , R. Veenhof , B. Zeh , X. 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

Measurement of neutrino interactions in gaseous argon with T2K

The T2K near-detector, ND280, employs three large argon gas TPCs (Time Projection Chambers) for particle tracking and identification. The gas inside the TPCs can be used as an active target to study the neutrino interactions in great…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-11 Lukas Koch

Low-energy nuclear recoil calibration of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment with a photoneutron source

The LZ experiment is a liquid xenon time-projection chamber (TPC) searching for evidence of particle dark matter interactions. In the simplest assumption of elastic scattering, many dark matter models predict an energy spectrum which rises…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , E. E. Barillier , K. Beattie , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , S. Contreras , R. Coronel , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , L. Di Felice , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Dubey , C. L. Dunbar , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , A. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , M. K. K , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , J. Kingston , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , J. Long , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , G. McDowell , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. Mclaughlin , R. McMonigle , B. Mitra , E. Mizrachi , M. E. Monzani , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. J. Pannifer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , K. Shi , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , A. M. Slivar , R. Smith , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , T. J. Sumner , A. Swain , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , K. Trengrove , A. Usón , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , W. J. Wisniewski , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , W. Zha , H. Zhang , T. Zhang

Design and Performance of the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment

XENON10 is the first two-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) developed within the XENON dark matter search program. The TPC, with an active liquid xenon (LXe) mass of about 14 kg, was installed at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-25 E. Aprile , J. Angle , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , A. Bolozdynya , P. Brusov , L. C. C. Coelho , C. E. Dahl , L. DeViveiros , A. D. Ferella , L. M. P. Fernandes , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , K. L. Giboni , R. Gomez , R. Hasty , L. Kastens , J. Kwong , J. A. M. Lopes , N. Madden , A. Manalaysay , A. Manzur , D. N. McKinsey , M. E. Monzani , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , J. Orboeck , D. Orlandi , G. Plante , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , P. Shagin , T. Shutt , P. Sorensen , S. Schulte , E. Tatananni , C. Winant , M. Yamashita

R2D2 spherical TPC: first energy resolution results

Spherical time projection chambers (TPC), also known as spherical proportional counters, are employed in the search for rare phenomena, such as light Dark Matter candidates. The spherical TPC exhibits a number of essential features, making…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 R. Bouet , J. Busto , V. Cecchini , C. Cerna , A. Dastgheibi-Fard , F. Druillole , C. Jollet , P. Hellmuth , I. Katsioulas , P. Knights , I. Giomataris , M. Gros , P. Lautridou , A. Meregaglia , X. F. Navick , T. Neep , K. Nikolopoulos , F. Perrot , F. Piquemal , M. Roche , B. Thomas , R. Ward , M. Zampaolo

Nucleon Decay Searches with large Liquid Argon TPC Detectors at Shallow Depths: atmospheric neutrinos and cosmogenic backgrounds

Grand Unification of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions into a single unified gauge group is an extremely appealing idea which has been vigorously pursued theoretically and experimentally for many years. The detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 A. Bueno , Z. Dai , Y. Ge , M. Laffranchi , A. J. Melgarejo , A. Meregaglia , S. Navas , A. Rubbia

Time projection chambers for gamma-ray astronomy

The detection of photons with energies greater than a few tenths of an MeV, interacting via Compton scattering and/or pair production, faces a number of difficulties. The reconstruction of single-scatter Compton events can only determine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Denis Bernard , Stanley D. Hunter , Toru Tanimori

Review of Low Energy Neutrinos

Some issues regarding low energy neutrinos are reviewed. We focus on three aspects i)We show that by employing very low energy (a few keV) electron neutrinos, neutrino disappearance oscillations can be investigated by detecting recoiling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. D. Vergados

On the determination of the interaction time of GeV neutrinos in large argon gas TPCs

Next-generation megawatt-scale neutrino beams open the way to studying neutrino-nucleus scattering using gaseous targets for the first time. This represents an opportunity to improve the knowledge of neutrino cross sections in the energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-21 A. Saá-Hernández , D. González-Díaz , J. Martín-Albo , M. Tuzi , P. Amedo , J. Baldonedo , C. Benítez , S. Bounasser , E. Casarejos , J. Collazo , A. Fernández-Prieto , D. J. Fernández-Posada , R. Hafeji , S. Leardini , D. Rodas-Rodríguez , A. L. Saborido , A. Segade , A. Slater