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Publications (15)

astro-ph.CO2015

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,…

physics.ins-det2014

Measurements of proportional scintillation and electron multiplication in liquid xenon using thin wires

E. Aprile, H. Contreras, L. W. Goetzke +7

Proportional scintillation in liquid xenon has a promising application in the field of direct dark matter detection, potentially allowing for simpler, more sensitive detectors. How…

astro-ph.IM2012

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.ins-det2016

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…

astro-ph.CO2013

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…

astro-ph.IM2015

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…