Publications (52)
New high-tech flexible networks for the monitoring of deep-sea ecosystems
J. Aguzzi, D. Chatzievangelou, S. Marini +24
Increasing interest in the acquisition of biotic and abiotic resources from within the deep sea (e.g. fisheries, oil-gas extraction, and mining) urgently imposes the development of…
Light Yield in DarkSide-10: a Prototype Two-phase Liquid Argon TPC for Dark Matter Searches
T. Alexander, D. Alton, K. Arisaka +119
As part of the DarkSide program of direct dark matter searches using liquid argon TPCs, a prototype detector with an active volume containing 10 kg of liquid argon, DarkSide-10, wa…
Higgs Working Group Report of the Snowmass 2013 Community Planning Study
S. Dawson, A. Gritsan, H. Logan +131
This report summarizes the work of the Energy Frontier Higgs Boson working group of the 2013 Community Summer Study (Snowmass). We identify the key elements of a precision Higgs ph…
The design, construction and performance of the MICE scintillating fibre trackers
M. Ellis, P. R. Hobson, P. Kyberd +49
Charged-particle tracking in the international Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) will be performed using two solenoidal spectrometers, each instrumented with a tracking det…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 1: The LBNF and DUNE Projects
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
This document presents the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) put forward by an international neutrino community to pursue the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at the Long-Baseline…
The 2010 Interim Report of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Collaboration Physics Working Groups
The LBNE Collaboration, T. Akiri, D. Allspach +329
In early 2010, the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) science collaboration initiated a study to investigate the physics potential of the experiment with a broad set of diffe…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report Volume 2: The Physics Program for DUNE at LBNF
DUNE Collaboration, R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero +796
The Physics Program for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at the Fermilab Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) is described.
Muon Collider Design
R. Palmer, A. Sessler, A. Skrinsky +56
Muon Colliders have unique technical and physics advantages and disadvantages when compared with both hadron and electron machines. They should thus be regarded as complementary. P…
Shape Coexistence and Mixing in 152Sm
W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood, P. E. Garrett +15
Experimental studies of 152Sm using multiple-step Coulomb excitation and inelastic neutron scattering provide key data that clarify the low-energy collective structure of this nucl…
Polarization in a Muon Collider
D. Cline, B. Norum, R. Rossmanith
In this paper the possibility of obtaining polarized beams in a high energy muon collider is discusssed
The Mini-CAPTAIN Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber
CAPTAIN Collaboration, C. E. Taylor, B. Bhandari +73
This manuscript describes the commissioning of the Mini-CAPTAIN liquid argon detector in a neutron beam at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), which led to a first meas…
Higgs boson muon collider factory: h0, A, H studies
D. Cline, X. Ding, J. Lederman
With the recent hints of the Higgs boson from the LHC and a mass near 125 GeV/c we re-propose to study and build a muon collider Higgs factory to study the Higgs in the S channel […
Development of neutrino initiated cascades at mid and high altitudes in the atmosphere
A. D. Supanitsky, G. Medina-Tanco, K. Asano +9
Neutrinos are a very promising messenger at tens of EeV and above. They can be produced by several channels, namely as by products of hadronic interactions at the sources, as the m…
The ZEPLIN-III dark matter detector: instrument design, manufacture and commissioning
D. Yu. Akimov, G. J. Alner, H. M. Araujo +56
We present details of the technical design and manufacture of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment. ZEPLIN-III is a two-phase xenon detector which measures both the scintillation…
Shape coexistence and the role of axial asymmetry in Ge
A. D. Ayangeakaa, R. V. F. Janssens, C. Y. Wu +22
The quadrupole collectivity of low-lying states and the anomalous behavior of the and levels in Ge are investigated via projectile multi-step Coulomb excitat…
Characterization of the QUartz Photon Intensifying Detector (QUPID) for Noble Liquid Detectors
A. Teymourian, D. Aharoni, L. Baudis +14
Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay experiments require extremely low radioactivity within the detector materials. For this purpose, the University of California, Los Angeles and Ham…
JEM-EUSO Science Objectives
Gustavo Medina-Tanco, K. Asano, D. Cline +10
JEM-EUSO, on board of the Japanese Exploration Module of the International Space Station, is being proposed as the first space observatory devoted to UHECR. Its privileged position…
Beam extraction studies at 900 GeV using a channeling crystal
R. A. Carrigan, D. Chen, G. Jackson +23
Luminosity-driven channeling extraction has been observed for the first time in a 900 GeV study at the Fermilab Tevatron. This experiment, Fermilab E853, demonstrated that useful T…
Evidence for rigid triaxial deformation in Ge from a model-independent analysis
A. D. Ayangeakaa, R. V. F. Janssens, S. Zhu +25
An extensive, model-independent analysis of the nature of triaxial deformation in Ge, a candidate for neutrinoless double-beta () decay, was carried out following m…
Pion contamination in the MICE muon beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +142
The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a systematic investigation of ionization cooling with muon beams of momentum between 140 and 240\,MeV/c at…
Material screening and selection for XENON100
XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka +38
Results of the extensive radioactivity screening campaign to identify materials for the construction of XENON100 are reported. This Dark Matter search experiment is operated underg…
The scattering of muons in low Z materials
MuScat Collaboration, D. Attwood, P. Bell +28
This paper presents the measurement of the scattering of 172 MeV/c muons in assorted materials, including liquid hydrogen, motivated by the need to understand ionisation cooling fo…
Shapes, Softness and Non-Yrast Collectivity in 186W
V. S. Prasher, A. J. Mitchell, C. J. Lister +23
Non-yrast, excited states in neutron-rich W were populated via inelastic-scattering reactions using beams of Xe nuclei accelerated to 725 and 800 MeV. Levels popula…
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…
Simulation Prediction and Experiment Setup of Vacuum Laser Acceleration at Brookhaven National Lab-Accelerator Test Facility
L. Shao, D. Cline, X. Ding +6
This paper presents the pre-experiment plan and prediction of the first stage of Vacuum Laser Acceleration (VLA) collaborating by UCLA, Fudan University and ATF-BNL. This first sta…
First limits on WIMP nuclear recoil signals in ZEPLIN-II: a two phase xenon detector for dark matter detection
G. J. Alner, H. M. Araujo, A. Bewick +58
Results are presented from the first underground data run of ZEPLIN-II, a 31 kg two phase xenon detector developed to observe nuclear recoils from hypothetical weakly interacting m…
Hadron-gamma discrimination from an orbital UHECR observatory
A. D. Supanitsky, G. Medina-Tanco, K. Asano +10
The identification of very high energy photons is of great importance for the understanding of the origin of extreme energy cosmic rays (EECR). Several can be the sources of high e…
First particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
The MICE Collaboration, D. Adams, D. Adey +133
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) collaboration seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of ionization cooling, the technique by which it is proposed to cool the muon beam…
The XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment
XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka +33
The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon (LXe) in a time projection chamber (TPC) to search for Xe nuclear recoils resulting from the scattering of dark matter Weakly…
Interim Design Report
R. J. Abrams, S. K. Agarwalla, A. Alekou +133
The International Design Study for the Neutrino Factory (the IDS-NF) was established by the community at the ninth "International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, super-beams, and b…
Likelihood Approach to the First Dark Matter Results from XENON100
XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka +43
Many experiments that aim at the direct detection of Dark Matter are able to distinguish a dominant background from the expected feeble signals, based on some measured discriminati…
Resolution of Nearly Mass Degenerate Higgs Bosons and Production of Black Hole Systems of Known Mass at a Muon Collider
R. Godang, S. Bracker, M. Cavaglia +3
The direct s-channel coupling to Higgs bosons is 40000 times greater for muons than electrons; the coupling goes as mass squared. High precision scanning of the lighter and t…
The Program in Muon and Neutrino Physics: Super Beams, Cold Muon Beams, Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider
Rajendran Raja, D. Cline, J. Gallardo +11
We outline in detail a staging scenario for realizing the Neutrino Factory and the Muon Collider. As a first stage we envisage building an intense proton source that can be used to…
Observation of Plasma Focusing of a 28.5 GeV Positron Beam
J. S. T. Ng, P. Chen, H. Baldis +17
The observation of plasma focusing of a 28.5 GeV positron beam is reported. The plasma was formed by ionizing a nitrogen jet only 3 mm thick. Simultaneous focusing in both transver…
Search for Intrinsic Excitations in 152Sm
W. D. Kulp, J. L. Wood, P. E. Garrett +14
The 685 keV excitation energy of the first excited 0+ state in 152Sm makes it an attractive candidate to explore expected two-phonon excitations at low energy. Multiple-step Coulom…
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Conceptual Design Report, Volume 4 The DUNE Detectors at LBNF
R. Acciarri, M. A. Acero, M. Adamowski +795
A description of the proposed detector(s) for DUNE at LBNF
Direct Evidence of Octupole Deformation in Neutron-Rich Ba
B. Bucher, S. Zhu, C. Y. Wu +31
The neutron-rich nucleus Ba (=11.5 s) is expected to exhibit some of the strongest octupole correlations among nuclei with mass numbers less than 200. Until no…
XAX: a multi-ton, multi-target detection system for dark matter, double beta decay and pp solar neutrinos
K. Arisaka, H. Wang, P. F. Smith +9
A multi-target detection system XAX, comprising concentric 10 ton targets of 136Xe and 129/131Xe, together with a geometrically similar or larger target of liquid Ar, is described.…
Results on Plasma Focusing of High Energy Density Electron and Positron Beams
J. S. T. Ng, P. Chen, W. Craddock +19
We present results from the SLAC E-150 experiment on plasma focusing of high energy density electron and, for the first time, positron beams. We also discuss measurements on plasma…
Measurement of single electron emission in two-phase xenon
B. Edwards, H. M. Araujo, V. Chepel +25
We present the first measurements of the electroluminescence response to the emission of single electrons in a two-phase noble gas detector. Single ionization electrons generated i…
Measurement of the Neutron Cross Section on Argon Between 95 and 720 MeV
S. Martynenko, B. Bhandari, J. Bian +72
We report an extended measurement of the neutron cross section on argon in the energy range of 95-720 MeV. The measurement was obtained with a 4.3-hour exposure of the Mini-CAPTAIN…
Study of the electromagnetic background in the XENON100 experiment
XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka +42
The XENON100 experiment, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), aims to directly detect dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs)…
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…
Implications on Inelastic Dark Matter from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data
XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka +52
The XENON100 experiment has recently completed a dark matter run with 100.9 live-days of data, taken from January to June 2010. Events in a 48kg fiducial volume in the energy range…
Dark Matter Results from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data
XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka +52
We present results from the direct search for dark matter with the XENON100 detector, installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN, Italy. XENON100 is a…
Detector R&D for future Neutrino Experiments with the NuMI Beamline
G. Barenboim, A. Bodek, C. Bromberg +36
A report to the Fermilab Director from the Study Group on Future Neutrino Experiments at Fermilab
MICE: the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. Step I: First Measurement of Emittance with Particle Physics Detectors
U. Bravar, M. Bogomilov, Y. Karadzhov +144
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a strategic R&D project intended to demonstrate the only practical solution to providing high brilliance beams necessary for a neut…
Shape Coexistence at Zero Spin in 64Ni Driven by the Monopole Tensor Interaction
N. MÄrginean, D. Little, Y. Tsunoda +75
The low-spin structure of the semimagic 64Ni nucleus has been considerably expanded: combining four experiments, several 0+ and 2+ excited states were identified below 4.5 MeV, and…
Electron-Muon Ranger: performance in the MICE Muon Beam
D. Adams, A. Alekou, M. Apollonio +151
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will perform a detailed study of ionization cooling to evaluate the feasibility of the technique. To carry out this program, MICE requ…
First Measurement of the Total Neutron Cross Section on Argon Between 100 and 800 MeV
B. Bhandari, J. Bian, K. Bilton +73
We report the first measurement of the neutron cross section on argon in the energy range of 100-800 MeV. The measurement was obtained with a 4.3-hour exposure of the Mini-CAPTAIN…
The CAPTAIN Detector and Physics Program
The CAPTAIN Collaboration, H. Berns, H. Chen +44
The Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrino (CAP- TAIN) program is designed to make measurements of scientific importance to long-baseline neutr…
Report of the Quark Flavor Physics Working Group
J. N. Butler, Z. Ligeti, J. L. Ritchie +81
This report represents the response of the Intensity Frontier Quark Flavor Physics Working Group to the Snowmass charge. We summarize the current status of quark flavor physics and…