Publications (17)
Search for Event Rate Modulation in XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data
The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +99
We have searched for periodic variations of the electronic recoil event rate in the (2-6) keV energy range recorded between February 2011 and March 2012 with the XENON100 detector,…
The distributed Slow Control System of the XENON100 Experiment
E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka +72
The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, was designed to search for evidence of dark matter interactions inside a volume of…
Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment
The XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +113
The XENON1T experiment is currently in the commissioning phase at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. In this article we study the experiment's expected sensitivity to…
Dark Matter Results from 225 Live Days of XENON100 Data
XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi +75
We report on a search for particle dark matter with the XENON100 experiment, operated at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) for 13 months during 2011 and 2012. XENON100…
Conceptual design and simulation of a water Cherenkov muon veto for the XENON1T experiment
E. Aprile, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi +88
XENON is a dark matter direct detection project, consisting of a time projection chamber (TPC) filled with liquid xenon as detection medium. The construction of the next generation…
Response of the XENON100 Dark Matter Detector to Nuclear Recoils
The XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi +80
Results from the nuclear recoil calibration of the XENON100 dark matter detector installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy are presented. Data…
Analysis of the XENON100 Dark Matter Search Data
The XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi +71
The XENON100 experiment, situated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs…
Assessing the Dosimetric Effects of High-Z Titanium Implants in Proton Therapy Using Pixel Detectors
C. Balan, C. Granja, G. Mytsin +4
This study experimentally examines the effect and changes in the delivered fields, using water-equivalent phantoms with and without titanium (Ti) dental implants positioned along t…
Micromegas operation in high pressure xenon: charge and scintillation readout
C. Balan, E. D. C. Freitas, T. Papaevangelou +4
The operational characteristics of a Micromegas operating in pure xenon at the pressure range of 1 to 10 bar are investigated. The maximum charge gain achieved in each pressure is…
Lowering the radioactivity of the photomultiplier tubes for the XENON1T dark matter experiment
E. Aprile, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi +95
The low-background, VUV-sensitive 3-inch diameter photomultiplier tube R11410 has been developed by Hamamatsu for dark matter direct detection experiments using liquid xenon as the…
Kinetics of ion migration in the electric field-driven manipulation of magnetic anisotropy of Pt/Co/oxide multilayers
A. Fassatoui, L. Ranno, J. Peña Garcia +4
Magneto-ionics, by which the magnetic properties of a thin layer can be modified through the migration of ions within a liquid or solid electrolyte, is a fast developing research f…
First Axion Results from the XENON100 Experiment
The XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, F. Agostini +87
We present the first results of searches for axions and axion-like-particles with the XENON100 experiment. The axion-electron coupling constant, , has been probed by exploi…
Comment on "On the subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors"
The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi +74
In a recent manuscript (arXiv:1208.5046) Peter Sorensen claims that XENON100's upper limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections for WIMP masses below 10 GeV "may be und…
Exclusion of Leptophilic Dark Matter Models using XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data
The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, F. Agostini +98
Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experime…
The neutron background of the XENON100 dark matter experiment
E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka +74
The XENON100 experiment, installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), aims to directly detect dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Part…
Observation and applications of single-electron charge signals in the XENON100 experiment
E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka +77
The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon in a time projection chamber (TPC) to measure xenon nuclear recoils resulting from the scattering of dark matter Weakly Intera…
Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data
XENON100 collaboration, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi +75
We present new experimental constraints on the elastic, spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section using recent data from the XENON100 experiment, operated in the Laboratori Naziona…