The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2018-06-13 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the first WIMP dark matter detector operating with a liquid xenon target mass above the ton-scale. Out of its 3.2t liquid xenon inventory, 2.0t constitute the active target of the dual-phase time projection chamber. The scintillation and ionization signals from particle interactions are detected with low-background photomultipliers. This article describes the XENON1T instrument and its subsystems as well as strategies to achieve an unprecedented low background level. First results on the detector response and the performance of the subsystems are also presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1708.07051,
title = {The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment},
author = {XENON Collaboration and E. Aprile and J. Aalbers and F. Agostini and M. Alfonsi and F. D. Amaro and M. Anthony and B. Antunes and F. Arneodo and M. Balata and P. Barrow and L. Baudis and B. Bauermeister and M. L. Benabderrahmane and T. Berger and A. Breskin and P. A. Breur and A. Brown and E. Brown and S. Bruenner and G. Bruno and R. Budnik and L. Bütikofer and J. Calvén and J. M. R. Cardoso and M. Cervantes and A. Chiarini and D. Cichon and D. Coderre and A. P. Colijn and J. Conrad and R. Corrieri and J. P. Cussonneau and M. P. Decowski and P. de Perio and P. Di Gangi and A. Di Giovanni and S. Diglio and J. -M. Disdier and M. Doets and E. Duchovni and G. Eurin and J. Fei and A. D. Ferella and A. Fieguth and D. Florin and D. Front and W. Fulgione and A. Gallo Rosso and M. Galloway and F. Gao and M. Garbini and C. Geis and K. -L. Giboni and L. W. Goetzke and L. Grandi and Z. Greene and C. Grignon and C. Hasterok and E. Hogenbirk and C. Huhmann and R. Itay and A. James and B. Kaminsky and S. Kazama and G. Kessler and A. Kish and H. Landsman and R. F. Lang and D. Lellouch and L. Levinson and Q. Lin and S. Lindemann and M. Lindner and F. Lombardi and J. A. M. Lopes and R. Maier and A. Manfredini and I. Maris and T. Marrodán Undagoitia and J. Masbou and F. V. Massoli and D. Masson and D. Mayani and M. Messina and K. Micheneau and A. Molinario and K. Morå and M. Murra and J. Naganoma and K. Ni and U. Oberlack and D. Orlandi and R. Othegraven and P. Pakarha and S. Parlati and B. Pelssers and R. Persiani and F. Piastra and J. Pienaar and V. Pizzella and M. -C. Piro and G. Plante and N. Priel and D. Ramírez García and L. Rauch and S. Reichard and C. Reuter and A. Rizzo and S. Rosendahl and N. Rupp and J. M. F. dos Santos and R. Saldahna and G. Sartorelli and M. Scheibelhut and S. Schindler and J. Schreiner and M. Schumann and L. Scotto Lavina and M. Selvi and P. Shagin and E. Shockley and M. Silva and H. Simgen and M. v. Sivers and M. Stern and A. Stein and D. Tatananni and L. Tatananni and D. Thers and A. Tiseni and G. Trinchero and C. Tunnell and N. Upole and M. Vargas and O. Wack and R. Walet and H. Wang and Z. Wang and Y. Wei and C. Weinheimer and C. Wittweg and J. Wulf and J. Ye and Y. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07051},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
22 pages, 25 figures