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Environmental -Ray Flux in Hall C at LNGS and Its Correlation with Radon Activity
L. Luzzi, R. Santorelli, G. Zuzel +8
We report a comprehensive measurement of the environmental -ray flux in Hall C of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory. A spatial mapping of the radiation was carried out using a…
Study of the energy calibration of the DEAP-3600 detector using source data and simulations
Ludovico Luzzi
DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon (LAr) direct-detection dark matter experiment operating 2 km underground at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). The detector consists of 3.3 tons of…
Design and commissioning of the miniBELEN neutron counter for the study of reactions
Nil Mont-Geli, Ariel Tarifeño-Saldivia, Max Pallàs +27
The miniBELEN detector is a moderated neutron counter based on the use of He tubes and high-density polyethylene as moderator. The detector has been designed to have a neutron…
Status of the HENSA collaboration at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory: results from two years of measurement of the neutron flux in hall B
N. Mont-Geli, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, G. Cortés +29
Thiswork deals with the characterization of the neutron flux in hall B of the CanfrancUnderground Laboratory (LSC) employing the High Efficiency Neutron Spectrometry Array (HENSA).…
Euclid: Methodology for derivation of IPC-corrected conversion gain of nonlinear CMOS APS
J. Le Graet, A. Secroun, M. Tourneur-Silvain +121
We introduce a fast method to measure the conversion gain in Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductors (CMOS) Active Pixel Sensors (APS), which accounts for nonlinearity and interpi…
Operation of a Modular 3D-Pixelated Liquid Argon Time-Projection Chamber in a Neutrino Beam
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1318
The 2x2 Demonstrator, a prototype for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) liquid argon (LAr) Near Detector, was exposed to the Neutrinos from the Main Injector (NuMI) n…
Spatial and Temporal Evaluations of the Liquid Argon Purity in ProtoDUNE-SP
DUNE Collaboration, S. Abbaslu, A. Abed Abud +1320
Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) rely on highly pure argon to ensure that ionization electrons produced by charged particles reach readout arrays. ProtoDUNE Single-P…
LiquidO: Neutrino Detection and Imaging in Opaque Media
Diana Navas-Nicolás, Cloé Girard-Carillo, Stefan Schoppmann
For several decades now, scintillator detectors have found a wide range of applications in particle physics, including neutrino detection, the search for dark matter and even medic…
Low-energy neutron cross-talk between organic scintillator detectors
M. Sénoville, F. Delaunay, N. L. Achouri +13
A series of measurements have been performed with low-energy monoenergetic neutrons to characterise cross-talk between two organic scintillator detectors. Cross-talk time-of-flight…
Position Reconstruction in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search Experiment
The DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +162
In the DEAP-3600 dark matter search experiment, precise reconstruction of the positions of scattering events in liquid argon is key for background rejection and defining a fiducial…
Performance assessment of the HERD calorimeter with a photo-diode read-out system for high-energy electron beams
O. Adriani, G. Ambrosi, M. Antonelli +63
The measurement of cosmic rays at energies exceeding 100 TeV per nucleon is crucial for enhancing the understanding of high-energy particle propagation and acceleration models in t…
The track-length extension fitting algorithm for energy measurement of interacting particles in liquid argon TPCs and its performance with ProtoDUNE-SP data
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1366
This paper introduces a novel track-length extension fitting algorithm for measuring the kinetic energies of inelastically interacting particles in liquid argon time projection cha…
Benchmarking the design of the cryogenics system for the underground argon in DarkSide-20k
20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +315
DarkSide-20k (DS-20k) is a dark matter detection experiment under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It utilises ~100 t of low radioactivity a…
Scintillation Light in SBND: Simulation, Reconstruction, and Expected Performance of the Photon Detection System
SBND Collaboration, P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri +180
SBND is the near detector of the Short-Baseline Neutrino program at Fermilab. Its location near to the Booster Neutrino Beam source and relatively large mass will allow the study o…
Relative Measurement and Extrapolation of the Scintillation Quenching Factor of -Particles in Liquid Argon using DEAP-3600 Data
DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, M. Alpízar-Venegas +101
The knowledge of scintillation quenching of -particles plays a paramount role in understanding -induced backgrounds and improving the sensitivity of liquid argon-based direct…
First Demonstration of a Combined Light and Charge Pixel Readout on the Anode Plane of a LArTPC
N. Anfimov, A. Branca, J. Bürgi +30
The novel SoLAr concept aims to extend sensitivities of liquid-argon neutrino detectors down to the MeV scale for next-generation detectors. SoLAr plans to accomplish this with a l…
Characterization of a radiation detector based on opaque water-based liquid scintillator
LiquidO Collaboration
We present the characterization of a novel radiation detector based on an opaque water-based liquid scintillator. Opaque scintillators, also known as LiquidO, are made to be highly…
Measurement of the Photon Detection Efficiency of Hamamatsu VUV4 SiPMs at Cryogenic Temperature
Rodrigo Álvarez-Garrote, Enrique Calvo, Aritz Canto +9
Liquid argon time projection chambers (TPC) are widely used in neutrino oscillation and dark matter experiments. Detection of scintillation light in liquid argon TPC's is challengi…
A Segmented Total Energy Detector (sTED) optimized for cross-section measurements at n_TOF EAR2
V. Alcayne, D. Cano-Ott, J. Garcia +12
The neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN is a spallation source dedicated to measurements of neutron-induced reaction cross-sections of interest in nuclear technologies, a…
Validation of electrodeposited 241Am alpha-particle sources for use in liquified gas detectors at cryogenic temperatures
E. Calvo Alamillo, M. T. Crespo Vázquez, P. F. Rato Mendes +11
This paper describes a procedure for the validation of alpha-particle sources (exempt unsealed sources) to be used in experimental setups with liquefied gases at cryogenic temperat…
Doping Liquid Argon with Xenon in ProtoDUNE Single-Phase: Effects on Scintillation Light
DUNE Collaboration, A. Abed Abud, B. Abi +1317
Doping of liquid argon TPCs (LArTPCs) with a small concentration of xenon is a technique for light-shifting and facilitates the detection of the liquid argon scintillation light. I…
Energy Calibration of Germanium Detectors for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR
I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone, A. S. Barabash +53
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR was a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay () in the Ge isotope. It was staged at the 4850-foot level of the Sanford Underground Researc…
miniBELEN: a modular neutron counter for (alpha,n) reactions
N Mont-Geli, A Tarifeño-Saldivia, L M Fraile +38
miniBELEN is a modular and transportable neutron moderated counter with a nearly flat neutron detection efficiency up to 10 MeV. Modularity implies that the moderator can be reasse…
Precision Measurement of the Specific Activity of Ar in Atmospheric Argon with the DEAP-3600 Detector
P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj, M. Alpízar-Venegas +147
The specific activity of the beta decay of Ar in atmospheric argon is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector. DEAP-3600, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, uses a total of (…