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The PandaX-III (Particle And Astrophysical Xenon Experiment III) experiment will search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) of 136Xe at the China Jin-Ping underground Laboratory II (CJPL-II). In the first phase of the experiment, a…

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Background Rates in Several Hard X-Ray Photon Counting Pixel Array Detectors

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The techniques researched, developed and applied towards the measurement of radioisotope concentrations at ultra-low levels in the real-time solar neutrino experiment BOREXINO at Gran Sasso are presented and illustrated with specific…

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Dark Matter Search Results from the Commissioning Run of PandaX-II

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Backgrounds and sensitivity of the NEXT double beta decay experiment

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is a neutrinoless double-beta (\beta \beta 0\nu) decay experiment that will operate at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). It is an electroluminescent high-pressure gaseous xenon Time…

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We have modelled the hard X-ray background expected for a high-altitude balloon flight of the Energetic X-ray Telescope Experiment (EXITE2), an imaging phoswich detector/telescope for the 20--600 keV energy range. Photon and neutron-induced…

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