Publications (225)
Reactor Rate Modulation oscillation analysis with two detectors in Double Chooz
Double Chooz Collaboration, T. Abrahão, H. Almazan +84
A oscillation analysis based on the observed antineutrino rates at the Double Chooz far and near detectors for different reactor power conditions is presented. This appro…
Flux Modulations seen by the Muon Veto of the GERDA Experiment
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +112
The GERDA experiment at LNGS of INFN is equipped with an active muon veto. The main part of the system is a water Cherenkov veto with 66~PMTs in the water tank surrounding the GERD…
Ortho-positronium observation in the Double Chooz Experiment
Y. Abe, J. C. dos Anjos, J. C. Barriere +143
The Double Chooz experiment measures the neutrino mixing angle by detecting reactor via inverse beta decay. The positron-neutron space and time coincidence all…
Deriving Boltzmann Equations from Kadanoff-Baym Equations in Curved Space-Time
A. Hohenegger, A. Kartavtsev, M. Lindner
To calculate the baryon asymmetry in the baryogenesis via leptogenesis scenario one usually uses Boltzmann equations with transition amplitudes computed in vacuum. However, the hot…
First Test of Lorentz Violation with a Reactor-based Antineutrino Experiment
Double Chooz Collaboration, Y. Abe, C. Aberle +164
We present a search for Lorentz violation with 8249 candidate electron antineutrino events taken by the Double Chooz experiment in 227.9 live days of running. This analysis, featur…
R2D2 - a symmetric measurement of reactor neutrinos free of systematical errors
P. Huber, M. Lindner, T. Schwetz
We discuss a symmetric setup for a reactor neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of two reactors separated by about 1 km, and two symmetrically placed detectors, one close to…
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…
Detector signal characterization with a Bayesian network in XENONnT
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +164
We developed a detector signal characterization model based on a Bayesian network trained on the waveform attributes generated by a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. By per…
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…
Stereo neutrino spectrum of 235U fission rejects sterile neutrino hypothesis
H. Almazán, L. Bernard, A. Blanchet +21
Anomalies in past neutrino measurements have led to the discovery that these particles have non-zero mass and oscillate between their three flavors when they propagate. In the 2010…
Pulse shape analysis in GERDA Phase II
The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. Araujo +113
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration searched for neutrinoless double- decay in Ge using isotopically enriched high purity germanium detectors at the Labor…
Science with e-ASTROGAM (A space mission for MeV-GeV gamma-ray astrophysics)
A. De Angelis, V. Tatischeff, I. A. Grenier +248
e-ASTROGAM (enhanced ASTROGAM) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated t…
Improved limit on neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge from GERDA Phase II
M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov, M. Balata +105
The GERDA experiment searches for the lepton number violating neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge (Ge Se + 2e) operating bare Ge diodes with…
Measurement of in Double Chooz using neutron captures on hydrogen with novel background rejection techniques
Y. Abe, S. Appel, T. Abrahão +142
The Double Chooz collaboration presents a measurement of the neutrino mixing angle using reactor observed via the inverse beta decay reaction in which t…
The Phenomenological Viability of Top Condensation
M. Lindner
We discuss how the full dynamics of top condensation models can modify the relations between the physical top mass, the amount of custodial violation and the weak gauge bos…
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…
Intrinsic backgrounds from Rn and Kr in the XENON100 experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +115
In this paper, we describe the XENON100 data analyses used to assess the target-intrinsic background sources radon (Rn), thoron (Rn) and krypton (Kr). We det…
A Comparison of the Physics Potential of Future Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
K. Dick, M. Freund, P. Huber +1
We compare the generic physics potential of various combinations of conventional Wide Band or Neutrino Factory Beams with different detectors to determine several oscillation param…
Theory of Neutrinos
R. N. Mohapatra, S. Antusch, K. S. Babu +29
After a brief overview of the present knowledge of neutrino masses and mixing, we summarize what can be learned about physics beyond the standard model from the various proposed ne…
The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (LEGEND)
LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, A. Abramov +230
The observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0) would show that lepton number is violated, reveal that neutrinos are Majorana particles, and provide information on ne…
Cyclotron Resonance Assisted Photocurrents in Surface States of a 3D Topological Insulator Based on a Strained High Mobility HgTe Film
K. -M. Dantscher, D. A. Kozlov, P. Olbrich +12
We report on the observation of cyclotron resonance induced photocurrents, excited by continuous wave terahertz radiation, in a 3D topological insulator (TI) based on an 80 nm stra…
Material radioassay and selection for the XENON1T dark matter experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +118
The XENON1T dark matter experiment aims to detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) through low-energy interactions with xenon atoms. To detect such a rare event necessi…
Design and performance of the field cage for the XENONnT experiment
E. Aprile, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud +161
The precision in reconstructing events detected in a dual-phase time projection chamber depends on an homogeneous and well understood electric field within the liquid target. In th…
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…
Reactor Neutrino Experiments Compared to Superbeams
P. Huber, M. Lindner, T. Schwetz +1
We present a detailed quantitative discussion of the measurement of the leptonic mixing angle with a future reactor neutrino oscillation experiment consisting of…
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…
Background characterization of the CONUS+ experimental location
CONUS Collaboration, E. Sanchez Garcia, N. Ackermann +17
CONUS+ is an experiment aiming at detecting coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) of reactor antineutrinos on germanium nuclei in the fully coherent regime, conti…
Light Dark Matter Search with Ionization Signals in XENON1T
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +130
We report constraints on light dark matter (DM) models using ionization signals in the XENON1T experiment. We mitigate backgrounds with strong event selections, rather than requiri…
WIMP Dark Matter Search using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +175
We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) via elastic DM-xenon-nucleus interactions in the XENONnT experiment. We combine datasets from…
The EUROnu Project
T. R. Edgecock, O. Caretta, T. Davenne +168
The EUROnu project has studied three possible options for future, high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe. The first is a Super Beam, in which the neutrinos come f…
First upper limits on neutrino electromagnetic properties from the CONUS experiment
H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck +10
We report first constraints on neutrino electromagnetic properties from neutrino-electron scattering using data obtained from the CONUS germanium detectors, i.e. an upper limit on…
Effective field theory search for high-energy nuclear recoils using the XENON100 dark matter detector
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +114
We report on WIMP search results in the XENON100 detector using a non-relativistic effective field theory approach. The data from science run II (34 kg 224.6 live days) wa…
Cosmic-muon characterization and annual modulation measurement with Double Chooz detectors
T. Abrahão, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos +107
A study on cosmic muons has been performed for the two identical near and far neutrino detectors of the Double Chooz experiment, placed at 120 and 300 m.w.e. undergroun…
Direct Measurement of the and Decay Branching Ratios with the XENONnT Experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +178
We present precision measurements of and decay branching ratios using and calibration data from…
First Indication of Solar B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +164
We present the first measurement of nuclear recoils from solar B neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering with the XENONnT dark matter experiment. The central…
Reactor electron antineutrino disappearance in the Double Chooz experiment
Y. Abe, C. Aberle, J. C. dos Anjos +162
The Double Chooz experiment has observed 8,249 candidate electron antineutrino events in 227.93 live days with 33.71 GW-ton-years (reactor power x detector mass x livetime) exposur…
First Measurement of Neutrino Emissions from Spent Nuclear Fuel by the Double Chooz Experiment
Double Chooz Collaboration, T. Abrahão, H. Almazan +91
Neutrino emission from nuclear reactors provides real-time insights into reactor power and fuel evolution, with potential applications in monitoring and nuclear safeguards. Followi…
First antineutrino energy spectrum from U fissions with the STEREO detector at ILL
STEREO collaboration, H. Almazán, L. Bernard +24
This article reports the measurement of the U-induced antineutrino spectrum shape by the STEREO experiment. 43'000 antineutrinos have been detected at about 10 m from the h…
Simulation of long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments with GLoBES
P. Huber, M. Lindner, W. Winter
We present the GLoBES (``General Long Baseline Experiment Simulator'') software package, which allows the simulation of long-baseline and reactor neutrino oscillation experiments.…
Large underground, liquid based detectors for astro-particle physics in Europe: scientific case and prospects
D. Autiero, J. Aysto, A. Badertscher +68
This document reports on a series of experimental and theoretical studies conducted to assess the astro-particle physics potential of three future large-scale particle detectors pr…
Search for Light Dark Matter in Low-Energy Ionization Signals from XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +165
We report on a blinded search for dark matter with single- and few-electron signals in the first science run of XENONnT relying on a novel detector response framework that is physi…
Leptogenesis in models with keV sterile neutrino dark matter
F. Bezrukov, A. Kartavtsev, M. Lindner
We analyze leptogenesis in gauge extensions of the Standard Model with keV sterile neutrino dark matter. We find that both the observed dark matter abundance and the correct baryon…
The Physics Potential of Future Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
M. Lindner
Different future long baseline neutrino oscillation setups are discussed and the remarkable potential for very precise measurements of mass splittings and mixing angles is shown. F…
Fermion Masses and Mixings from Dihedral Flavor Symmetries with Preserved Subgroups
A. Blum, C. Hagedorn, M. Lindner
We perform a systematic study of dihedral groups used as flavor symmetry. The key feature here is the fact that we do not allow the dihedral groups to be broken in an arbitrary way…
Improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle with the Double Chooz detector
Y. Abe, J. C. dos Anjos, J. C. Barriere +143
The Double Chooz experiment presents improved measurements of the neutrino mixing angle using the data collected in 467.90 live days from a detector positioned at an aver…
keV sterile neutrino dark matter in gauge extensions of the standard model
F. Bezrukov, H. Hettmansperger, M. Lindner
It is known that a keV scale sterile neutrino is a good warm dark matter candidate. We study how this possibility could be realized in the context of gauge extensions of the standa…
Constraints on Solar Reflected Dark Matter from a combined analysis of XENON1T and XENONnT data
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +174
We report on a search for sub-GeV dark matter upscattered via the solar reflection mechanism in the heavy mediator scenario. Under the Standard Halo Model, keV to MeV dark matter p…
PMT Test Facility at MPIK Heidelberg and Double Chooz Super Vertical Slice
J. Haser, F. Kaether, C. Langbrandtner +3
Proceedings supplement for conference poster at Neutrino 2010, Athens, Greece.
Probing the Solar B Neutrino Fog with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +176
We report a 3.3 measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from solar B neutrinos using a 6.77 tyr exposure from the XENONnT experiment, inferring…
Low-energy Calibration of XENON1T with an Internal Ar Source
E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +161
A low-energy electronic recoil calibration of XENON1T, a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, with an internal Ar source was performed. This calibration source features…
The CONUS+ experiment
The CONUS Collaboration, N. Ackermann, S. Armbruster +16
The CONUS+ experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) of reactor antineutrinos on germanium nuclei in the fully coherent regime, continuing on t…
The background in the neutrinoless double beta decay experiment GERDA
The GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +111
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS) of INFN is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge. The signature of th…
CP-violation in neutrino oscillations
K. Dick, M. Freund, M. Lindner +1
We study in a quantitative way CP-violating effects in neutrino oscillation experiments in the light of current and future data. Different scenarios with three and four neutrinos a…
The GERDA experiment for the search of 0νββ decay in ^{76}Ge
GERDA Collaboration, K. -H. Ackermann, M. Agostini +136
The GERDA collaboration is performing a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ^{76}Ge with the eponymous detector. The experiment has been installed and commissioned at the…
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…
An improved limit on the neutrinoless double-electron capture of Ar with GERDA
GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, A. Alexander +110
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment operated enriched high-purity germanium detectors in a liquid argon cryostat, which contains 0.33% of Ar, a candidate isotope…
Dynamical Left-Right Symmetry Breaking
E. Akhmedov, M. Lindner, E. Schnapka +1
We study a left--right symmetric model which contains only elementary gauge boson and fermion fields and no scalars. The phenomenologically required symmetry breaking emerges dynam…
S4 Flavor Symmetry and Fermion Masses: Towards a Grand Unified theory of Flavor
C. Hagedorn, M. Lindner, R. N. Mohapatra
Pursuing a bottom-up approach to explore which flavor symmetry could serve as an explanation of the observed fermion masses and mixings, we discuss an extension of the standard mod…
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…
Improvement of the Energy Resolution via an Optimized Digital Signal Processing in GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +111
An optimized digital shaping filter has been developed for the GERDA experiment which searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76Ge. The GERDA Phase I energy calibration data…
The LAGUNA design study- towards giant liquid based underground detectors for neutrino physics and astrophysics and proton decay searches
LAGUNA Collaboration, D. Angus, A. Ariga +121
The feasibility of a next generation neutrino observatory in Europe is being considered within the LAGUNA design study. To accommodate giant neutrino detectors and shield them from…
Non-Abelian Discrete Groups from the Breaking of Continuous Flavor Symmetries
A. Adulpravitchai, A. Blum, M. Lindner
We discuss the possibility of obtaining a non-abelian discrete flavor symmetry from an underlying continuous, possibly gauged, flavor symmetry SU(2) or SU(3) through spontaneous sy…
Novel constraints on neutrino physics beyond the standard model from the CONUS experiment
CONUS Collaboration, H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme +10
The measurements of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) experiments have opened up the possibility to constrain neutrino physics beyond the standard model of el…
The XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +192
The multi-staged XENON program at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso aims to detect dark matter with two-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers of increasing size and se…
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…
decay of Ge into excited states with GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, A. M. Bakalyarov +113
Two neutrino double beta decay of Ge to excited states of Se has been studied using data from Phase I of the GERDA experiment. An array composed of up to 14 germanium…
Measurement of the half-life of the two-neutrino double beta decay of Ge-76 with the Gerda experiment
GERDA Collaboration, M. Agostini, M. Allardt +110
The primary goal of the GERmanium Detector Array (Gerda) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN is the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76…
Qualification Tests of 474 Photomultiplier Tubes for the Inner Detector of the Double Chooz Experiment
C. Bauer, E. Borger, R. Hofacker +9
The hemispherical 10" photomultiplier tube (PMT) R7081 from Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (HPK) is used in various experiments in particle and astroparticle physics. We describe the tes…
Masses and Mixings from Neutrino Beams pointing to Neutrino Telescopes
K. Dick, M. Freund, P. Huber +1
We discuss the potential to determine leading oscillation parameters, the value and the sign of Îm^2_{31}, as well as the magnitude of \sin^2 2θ_{13} using a conventional wide ba…
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…
Systematic approach to leptogenesis in nonequilibrium QFT: vertex contribution to the CP-violating parameter
M. Garny, A. Hohenegger, A. Kartavtsev +1
The generation of a baryon asymmetry via leptogenesis is usually studied by means of classical kinetic equations whose applicability to processes in the hot and expanding early uni…
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications
M. Abdullah, H. Abele, D. Akimov +272
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is larg…
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…
Testing Matter Effects in Very Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
M. Freund, M. Lindner, S. T. Petcov +1
Assuming three-neutrino mixing, we study the capabilities of very long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments to verify and test the MSW effect and to measure the lepton mixing…
The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441
This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline desi…
Toward a search for axion-like particles at the LNLS
L. Angel, P. Arias, C. O. Dib +8
Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) appear in several dark sector studies. They have gained increasing attention from the theoretical and experimental community. In this work, we propose t…
Calibration of the GERDA experiment
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, G. R. Araujo +109
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration searched for neutrinoless double- decay in Ge with an array of about 40 high-purity isotopically-enriched germanium de…
Signal Yields of keV Electronic Recoils and Their Discrimination from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +116
We report on the response of liquid xenon to low energy electronic recoils below 15 keV from beta decays of tritium at drift fields of 92 V/cm, 154 V/cm and 366 V/cm using the XENO…
Probing Majorana neutrinos with double- decay
GERDA collaboration, M. Agostini, A. M. Bakalyarov +111
A discovery that neutrinos are not the usual Dirac but Majorana fermions, i.e. identical to their antiparticles, would be a manifestation of new physics with profound implications…
1D YIG hole-based magnonic nanocrystal
K. O. Levchenko, K. DavÃdková, R. O. Serha +12
Magnetic media with artificial periodic modulation-magnonic crystals (MCs) - enable tunable spin-wave dynamics and band structure engineering. Nanoscaling enhances these capabiliti…
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…
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…
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…
Improved Limit on theta_{13} and Implications for Neutrino Masses in Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay and Cosmology
M. Lindner, A. Merle, W. Rodejohann
We analyze the impact of a measurement, or of an improved bound, on theta_{13} for the determination of the effective neutrino mass in neutrino-less double beta decay and cosmology…
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…
Pulse shape discrimination for the CONUS experiment in the keV and sub-keV regime
H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck +12
Point-contact p-type high-purity germanium detectors (PPC HPGe) are particularly suited for detection of sub-keV nuclear recoils from coherent elastic scattering of neutrinos or li…
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…
First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +165
We search for dark matter (DM) with a mass [3,12] using an exposure of 3.51 with the XENONnT experiment.We consider spin-indepen…
Baryogenesis and Dark Matter from light Sterile Neutrinos
G. Arcadi, J. P. Garcés, M. Lindner
We propose a simple and flexible mechanism by which sterile neutrinos with masses below the electroweak scale can simultaneously account for the observed baryon asymmetry of the Un…
Search for Dark Sector by Repurposing the UVX Brazilian Synchrotron
L. Duarte, L. Lin, M. Lindner +6
We propose the first Search for Dark Sector at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, site of Sirius, a fourth-generation storage ring. We show that UVX, Sirius predecessor, c…
Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrinos in the Double Chooz experiment
Y. Abe, C. Aberle, T. Akiri +182
The Double Chooz Experiment presents an indication of reactor electron antineutrino disappearance consistent with neutrino oscillations. A ratio of 0.944 0.016 (stat) 0…
Enhancing Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Sensitivity of Liquid-Xenon Time Projection Chamber with Augmented Convolutional Neural Network
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +173
Dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) that employs a multi-ton-scale liquid xenon (LXe) target mass is a pioneering detector technology to search for dark matter. Beyond its adv…
First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +163
We report on the first search for nuclear recoils from dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with the XENONnT experiment which is based on a two-p…
Prospects of accelerator and reactor neutrino oscillation experiments for the coming ten years
P. Huber, M. Lindner, M. Rolinec +2
We analyze the physics potential of long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments planned for the coming ten years, where the main focus is the sensitivity limit to the small mixi…
Dark Matter Search Results from a One TonneYear Exposure of XENON1T
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +116
We report on a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using 278.8 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment at LNGS. XENON1T utilizes a liquid xenon time…
Online Rn removal by cryogenic distillation in the XENON100 experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +119
We describe the purification of xenon from traces of the radioactive noble gas radon using a cryogenic distillation column. The distillation column is integrated into the gas purif…
Results on neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge from GERDA Phase I
M. Agostini, M. Allardt, E. Andreotti +112
Neutrinoless double beta decay is a process that violates lepton number conservation. It is predicted to occur in extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. This Letter…
Spectral Measurement of the Bi beta-decay to the Po Ground State with XENONnT
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +170
We report the measurement of the Bi beta-decay spectrum to the ground state of Po using the XENONnT detector. This decay is classified as first-forbidden non-unique…
Search for Light Dark Matter Interactions Enhanced by the Migdal effect or Bremsstrahlung in XENON1T
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +131
Direct dark matter detection experiments based on a liquid xenon target are leading the search for dark matter particles with masses above 5 GeV/c, but have limited sens…