Publications (38)
Collaborative Experience between Scientific Software Projects using Agile Scrum Development
A. L. Baxter, S. Y. BenZvi, W. Bonivento +49
Developing sustainable software for the scientific community requires expertise in software engineering and domain science. This can be challenging due to the unique needs of scien…
Precision laser-based measurements of the single electron response of SPCs for the NEWS-G light dark matter search experiment
G Collaboration, Q. Arnaud, J. -P. Bard +36
Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs) are a novel gaseous detector technology employed by the NEWS-G low-mass dark matter search experiment for their high sensitivity to single el…
The Wisconsin Plasma Astrophysics Laboratory
C. B. Forest, K. Flanagan, M. Brookhart +21
The Wisconsin Plasma Astrophysics Laboratory (WiPAL) is a flexible user facility designed to study a range of astrophysically relevant plasma processes as well as novel geometries…
Emission of Single and Few Electrons in XENON1T and Limits on Light Dark Matter
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +152
Delayed single- and few-electron emissions plague dual-phase time projection chambers, limiting their potential to search for light-mass dark matter. This paper examines the origin…
A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…
Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +135
We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar B neutrinos elastically scattering off xenon nuclei in XENON1T data, lowering the energy threshold from 2.6 keV to 1…
LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report
LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261
We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one…
Solar Neutrino Detection Sensitivity in DARWIN via Electron Scattering
J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud +163
We detail the sensitivity of the liquid xenon (LXe) DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the potential to measure th…
Hardware and software status of QCDOC
P. A. Boyle, D. Chen, N. H. Christ +16
QCDOC is a massively parallel supercomputer whose processing nodes are based on an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). This ASIC was custom-designed so that crucial lat…
Double-Weak Decays of Xe and Xe in the XENON1T and XENONnT Experiments
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +157
We present results on the search for double-electron capture () of Xe and neutrinoless double- decay () of Xe in XENON1T. We consider c…
Temperature dependence of alpha-induced scintillation in the 1,1,4,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene wavelength shifter
L. M. Veloce, M. Kuźniak, P. C. F. Di Stefano +7
Liquid noble based particle detectors often use the organic wavelength shifter 1,1,4,4- tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene (TPB) which shifts UV scintillation light to the visible regime, f…
Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_ν ~ 3.5 GeV
The MINERvA collaboration, G. A. Fiorentini, D. W. Schmitz +115
We report a study of muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at F…
Search for New Physics in Electronic Recoil Data from XENONnT
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +163
We report on a blinded analysis of low-energy electronic-recoil data from the first science run of the XENONnT dark matter experiment. Novel subsystems and the increased 5.9 tonne…
Application and modeling of an online distillation method to reduce krypton and argon in XENON1T
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +151
A novel online distillation technique was developed for the XENON1T dark matter experiment to reduce intrinsic background components more volatile than xenon, such as krypton or ar…
Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_ν ~ 3.5 GeV
The MINERvA collaboration, L. Fields, J. Chvojka +115
We have isolated muon anti-neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic interactions occurring in the segmented scintillator tracking region of the MINERvA detector running in the NuMI n…
Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +136
We report results from searches for new physics with low-energy electronic recoil data recorded with the XENON1T detector. With an exposure of 0.65 t-y and an unprecedentedly low b…
Laboratory verification of electron-scale reconnection regions modulated by a three-dimensional instability
S. Greess, J. Egedal, A. Stanier +9
During magnetic reconnection in collisionless space plasma, the electron fluid decouples from the magnetic field within narrow current layers, and theoretical models for this proce…
Rn emanation measurements for the XENON1T experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +140
The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of utmost importance for the success of low-energy rare event search experiments. Besides radioactive contaminants in the…
The Madison plasma dynamo experiment: a facility for studying laboratory plasma astrophysics
C. M. Cooper, J. Wallace, M. Brookhart +13
The Madison plasma dynamo experiment (MPDX) is a novel, versatile, basic plasma research device designed to investigate flow driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities and othe…
Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T
E. Aprile, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud +164
Multiple viable theoretical models predict heavy dark matter particles with a mass close to the Planck mass, a range relatively unexplored by current experimental measurements. We…
First results from the NEWS-G direct dark matter search experiment at the LSM
G Collaboration, Q. Arnaud, D. Asner +33
New Experiments With Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) is a direct dark matter detection experiment using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs) with light noble gases to search for low-mass We…
Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe
F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser +92
The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe. Out of its 50t tota…
Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +987
On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the sour…
An approximate likelihood for nuclear recoil searches with XENON1T data
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +151
The XENON collaboration has published stringent limits on specific dark matter -nucleon recoil spectra from dark matter recoiling on the liquid xenon detector target. In this paper…
Material radiopurity control in the XENONnT experiment
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +150
The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of the utmost importance for rare-event searches and thus critical to the XENONnT experiment. Results of an extensive rad…
Projected WIMP Sensitivity of the XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment
The XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +137
XENONnT is a dark matter direct detection experiment, utilizing 5.9 t of instrumented liquid xenon, located at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. In this work, we predic…
New Young Star Candidates in BRC 27 and BRC 34
L. M. Rebull, C. H. Johnson, J. C. Gibbs +26
We used archival Spitzer Space Telescope mid-infrared data to search for young stellar objects (YSOs) in the immediate vicinity of two bright-rimmed clouds, BRC 27 (part of CMa R1)…
Search for inelastic scattering of WIMP dark matter in XENON1T
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +138
We report the results of a search for the inelastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Scattering off Xe is t…
SNEWS 2.0: A Next-Generation SuperNova Early Warning System for Multi-messenger Astronomy
S. Al Kharusi, S. Y. BenZvi, J. S. Bobowski +68
The next core-collapse supernova in the Milky Way or its satellites will represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity to obtain detailed information about the explosion of a star a…
Regulation of the Normalized Rate of Driven Magnetic Reconnection through Shocked Flux Pileup
J. Olson, J. Egedal, M. Clark +7
Magnetic reconnection is explored on the Terrestrial Reconnection Experiment (TREX) for asymmetric inflow conditions and in a configuration where the absolute rate of reconnection…
Taylor-Couette Flow of Unmagnetized Plasma
C. Collins, M. Clark, C. M. Cooper +6
Differentially rotating flows of unmagnetized, highly conducting plasmas have been created in the Plasma Couette Experiment. Previously, hot-cathodes have been used to control plas…
Low-Temperature Scintillation Properties of CaWO4 Crystals for Rare-Event Searches
M. v. Sivers, M. Clark, P. C. F. Di Stefano +13
In prospect of its application in cryogenic rare-event searches, we have investigated the low-temperature scintillation properties of CaWO4 crystals down to 3.4 K under α and γ e…
LBECA: A Low Background Electron Counting Apparatus for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection
A. Bernstein, M. Clark, R. Essig +12
Two-phase noble liquid detectors, with large target masses and effective background reduction, are currently leading the dark matter direct detection for WIMP masses above a few Ge…
Effective field theory and inelastic dark matter results from XENON1T
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +157
In this work, we expand on the XENON1T nuclear recoil searches to study the individual signals of dark matter interactions from operators up to dimension-eight in a Chiral Effectiv…
Investigation of the cryogenic scintillation of pure and doped sodium-iodine
M. Clark, F. Froborg, P. C. F. Di Stefano +1
We have studied the scintillation of pure and doped sodium iodide crystals handled in low humidity conditions under external and excitation from room temperature down to…
Energy resolution and linearity of XENON1T in the MeV energy range
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +135
Xenon dual-phase time projection chambers designed to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles have so far shown a relative energy resolution which degrades with energy abov…
Prospects for observing the magnetorotational instability in the Plasma Couette Experiment
K. Flanagan, M. Clark, C. Collins +4
Many astrophysical disks, such as protoplanetary disks, are in a regime where non-ideal, plasma-specific magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects can significantly influence the behavior…
Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +979
We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, accounting for all the spin-weighted quadrupolar modes, and separately acco…