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IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is a Small Explorer mission by NASA and ASI, launched on December 9$^{th}$ 2021, dedicated to investigating X-ray polarimetry allowing angular-, time- and energy-resolved observations in the 2--8…

The NEXT experiment aims at the sensitive search of the neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{136}$Xe, using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers. The NEXT-White detector is the first radiopure demonstrator of this…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-04 NEXT Collaboration , P. Novella , M. Sorel , A. Usón , C. Adams , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , B. Aparicio , A. I. Aranburu , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , F. Auria-Luna , S. Ayet , C. D. R. Azevedo , K. Bailey , F. Ballester , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , A. Bayo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , S. Bounasser , N. Byrnes , S. Cárcel , J. V. Carrión , S. Cebrián , E. Church , L. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , T. Contreras , F. P. Cossío , E. Dey , G. Díaz , T. Dickel , M. Elorza , J. Escada , R. Esteve , A. Fahs , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , F. W. Foss , E. D. C. Freitas , Z. Freixa , J. Generowicz , A. Goldschmidt , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , R. González , J. Grocott , R. Guenette , J. Haefner , K. Hafidi , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero-Gómez , V. Herrero , C. Hervés Carrete , J. Ho , P. Ho , Y. Ifergan , B. J. P. Jones , L. Labarga , L. Larizgoitia , A. Larumbe , P. Lebrun , F. Lopez , D. Lopez Gutierrez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. P. Marques , J. Martín-Albo , G. Martínez-Lema , M. Martínez-Vara , Z. E. Meziani , R. L. Miller , K. Mistry , J. Molina-Canteras , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , J. Muñoz Vidal , K. E. Navarro , A. Nuñez , D. R. Nygren , E. Oblak , M. Odriozola-Gimeno , J. Palacio , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , I. Parmaksiz , J. Pelegrin , M. Pérez Maneiro , M. Querol , A. B. Redwine , J. Renner , I. Rivilla , J. Rodríguez , C. Rogero , L. Rogers , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , C. Stanford , J. M. R. Teixeira , J. F. Toledo , J. Torrent , J. F. C. A. Veloso , T. T. Vuong , J. Waiton , J. T. White

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a direct-detection dark matter experiment, optimized to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through WIMP-nucleon interactions. The main challenge in dark matter detection is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-31 D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , B. J. Almquist , 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 , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , S. Contreras , M. V. Converse , 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 , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , P. W. Gaemers , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , J. Ghamsari , A. Ghosh , S. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , R. H. Hampp , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , K. Jenkins , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , M. K. Kannichankandy , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , D. Kodroff , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , E. B. Leon , 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 , W. Ma , V. Mahajan , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , R. J. Matheson , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. McLaughlin , R. McMonigle , B. Mitra , E. Mizrachi , M. E. Monzani , K. Morå , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , F. H. O'Shea , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y. Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , N. J. Pannifer , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , S. S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , N. J. Rowe , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , S. Saltão , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , W. Sherman , K. Shi , T. Shutt , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , A. M. Slivar , A. M. Softley-Brown , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , T. J. Sumner , A. Swain , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , K. Trengove , M. Tripathi , 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 , J. Winnicki , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , J. Young , W. Zha , H. Zhang , T. Zhang , Y. Zhou

The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Results are…

The application of a high purity germanium (HPGe) gamma spectrometer in determining the fuel element burnup in a future reactor is studied. The HPGe detector is exposed by a Co60 source with varying irradiation rate from 10 kcps to 150 kcps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-07 Weihua Yan , Liguo Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Zhigang Xiao

We report the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe from the PandaX-4T experiment with a 3.7-tonne natural xenon target. The data reconstruction and the background modeling are optimized in the MeV energy region. A blind…

The CDEX-1 experiment conducted a search of low-mass (< 10 GeV/c2) Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory using a p-type point-contact germanium detector with a fiducial mass of…

CDMS II data from the 5-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surface-event backgrounds were applied to the 612 kg days…

An optimized digital shaping filter has been developed for the GERDA experiment which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge. The GERDA Phase I energy calibration data have been reprocessed and an average improvement of 0.3 keV…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-27 M. Agostini , M. Allardt , A. M. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , I. Barabanov , N. Barros , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , N. Becerici-Schmidt , E. Bellotti , S. Belogurov , S. T. Belyaev , G. Benato , A. Bettini , L. Bezrukov , T. Bode , D. Borowicz , V. Brudanin , R. Brugnera , D. Budjáš , A. Caldwell , C. Cattadori , A. Chernogorov , V. D'Andrea , E. V. Demidova , A. di Vacri , A. Domula , E. Doroshkevich , V. Egorov , R. Falkenstein , O. Fedorova , K. Freund , N. Frodyma , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , P. Grabmayr , V. Gurentsov , K. Gusev , A. Hegai , M. Heisel , S. Hemmer , G. Heusser , W. Hofmann , M. Hult , L. V. Inzhechik , J. Janicskó Csáthy , J. Jochum , M. Junker , V. Kazalov , T. Kihm , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. Kirsch , A. Klimenko , K. T. Knöpfle , O. Kochetov , V. N. Kornoukhov , V. V. Kuzminov , M. Laubenstein , A. Lazzaro , V. I. Lebedev , B. Lehnert , H. Y. Liao , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , G. Lutter , C. Macolino , B. Majorovits , W. Maneschg , E. Medinaceli , M. Misiaszek , P. Moseev , I. Nemchenok , D. Palioselitis , K. Panas , L. Pandola , K. Pelczar , A. Pullia , S. Riboldi , N. Rumyantseva , C. Sada , M. Salathe , C. Schmitt , B. Schneider , S. Schönert , J. Schreiner , A. -K. Schütz , O. Schulz , B. Schwingenheuer , O. Selivanenko , M. Shirchenko , H. Simgen , A. Smolnikov , L. Stanco , M. Stepaniuk , C. A. Ur , L. Vanhoefer , A. A. Vasenko , A. Veresnikova , K. von Sturm , V. Wagner , M. Walter , A. Wegmann , T. Wester , H. Wilsenach , M. Wojcik , E. Yanovich , P. Zavarise , I. Zhitnikov , S. V. Zhukov , D. Zinatulina , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

The search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0{\nu}{\beta}{\beta}) requires extremely low background and a good understanding of their sources and their influence on the rate in the region of parameter space relevant to the…

An infrastructure to characterize germanium detectors has been designed and constructed at the HADES Underground Research Laboratory, located in Mol (Belgium). Thanks to the 223m overburden of clay and sand, the muon flux is lowered by four…

Gadolinium is widely used in multiple low-background experiments, making its isotopes accessible for rare decay searches both in-situ and through radiopurity screening data. This study presents an improved search for rare alpha and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-03-04 B. Lehnert , S. S. Nagorny , M. Thiesse , F. Ferella , M. Laubenstein , E. Meehan , S. Nisi , P. R. Scovell

Neutrinoless double beta decay would be a key to understanding the nature of neutrino masses. The next generation of High Purity Germanium experiments will have to be operated with a background rate of better than 10^-5 counts/(kg y keV) in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-19 B. Majorovits , I. Abt , M. Laubenstein , O. Volynets

High Purity germanium point-contact detectors have low energy thresholds and excellent energy resolution over a wide energy range, and are thus widely used in nuclear and particle physics. In rare event searches, such as neutrinoless double…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Mertens , A. Hegai , D. C. Radford , N. Abgrall , Y. -D. Chan , R. D. Martin , A. W. P. Poon , C. Schmitt

We describe a physics simulation software framework, MAGE, that is based on the GEANT4 simulation toolkit. MAGE is used to simulate the response of ultra-low radioactive background radiation detectors to ionizing radiation, specifically the…

EXO-200 is the first phase of the Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO) experiment, which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 136Xe to measure the mass and probe the Majorana nature of the neutrino. EXO-200 consists of 200 kg of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-11 Nicole Ackerman