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astro-ph.HE2015★ 61 cited

Searches for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +306

Various extensions of the Standard Model motivate the existence of stable magnetic monopoles that could have been created during an early high-energy epoch of the Universe. These p…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 393 cited

Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX data

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +99

We present constraints on weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering from the 2013 data of the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment, including $1.4\ti…

physics.ins-det2015★ 96 cited

Tritium calibration of the LUX dark matter experiment

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araújo +98

We present measurements of the electron-recoil (ER) response of the LUX dark matter detector based upon 170,000 highly pure and spatially-uniform tritium decays. We reconstruct the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 109 cited

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part II: Atmospheric and Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Searches of All Flavors

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

Papers on atmospheric and astrophysical diffuse neutrino searches of all flavors submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Col…

hep-ex2015★ 69 cited

First combined search for neutrino point-sources in the Southern Hemisphere with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes

ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert +426

We present the results of searches for point-like sources of neutrinos based on the first combined analysis of data from both the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes. The combi…

physics.ins-det2015

Status Update of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment

Julieta Gruszko, Nicolas Abgrall, Isaac Arnquist +67

Neutrinoless double beta decay searches play a major role in determining neutrino properties, in particular the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino and the absolute scale of t…

physics.ins-det2015★ 14 cited

FPGA-based Trigger System for the LUX Dark Matter Experiment

D. S. Akerib, H. M. Araujo, X. Bai +100

LUX is a two-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber designed to detect nuclear recoils resulting from interactions with dark matter particles. Signals from the detector a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 15 cited

Time-resolved magnetophotoluminescence studies of magnetic polaron dynamics in type-II quantum dots

B. Barman, R. Oszwałdowski, L. Schweidenback +12

We used continuous wave photoluminescence (cw-PL) and time resolved photoluminescence (TR-PL) spectroscopy to compare the properties of magnetic polarons (MP) in two related spatia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 5 cited

Magnetic ordering in quantum dots: Open vs. closed shells

J. M. Pientka, R. Oszwałdowski, A. G. Petukhov +2

In magnetically-doped quantum dots changing the carrier occupancy, from open to closed shells, leads to qualitatively different forms of carrier-mediated magnetic ordering. While i…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 74 cited

Search for Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed a diffuse flux of TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrinos at 5.7σ significance from an all-flavor search. The direct detection of tau neutrino…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 8 cited

Search for Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Emission with IceCube-DeepCore

M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +309

We present the results of a search for astrophysical sources of brief transient neutrino emission using IceCube and DeepCore data acquired between May 15th 2012 and April 30th 2013…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 371 cited

WIMP-Search Results from the Second CDMSlite Run

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson +87

The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for…

hep-ex2015★ 1 cited

Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors

P. Adamson, I. Anghel, N. Ashby +120

We report a two-detector measurement of the propagation speed of neutrinos over a baseline of 734 km. The measurement was made with the NuMI beam at Fermilab between the near and f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Zr and Sn substituted (NaBi)TiO based solid solutions

V. M. Ishchuk, L. G. Gusakova, N. G. Kisel +3

Formation of phases during the solid state synthesis of the barium-modified NBT solid solutions, with substitutions of zirconium and tin ions for titanium are investigated. The syn…

physics.acc-ph2015★ 287 cited

The NuMI Neutrino Beam

P. Adamson, K. Anderson, M. Andrews +187

This paper describes the hardware and operations of the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam at Fermilab. It elaborates on the design considerations for the beam as a whole a…

physics.ins-det2015★ 1 cited

Status of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

C. Cuesta, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +67

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, modular, HPGe detector array with a mass of 44-kg (29 kg 76Ge and 15 kg natGe) to sea…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 465 cited

A combined maximum-likelihood analysis of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux measured with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310

Evidence for an extraterrestrial flux of high-energy neutrinos has now been found in multiple searches with the IceCube detector. The first solid evidence was provided by a search…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 353 cited

Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309

Results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have recently provided compelling evidence for the existence of a high energy astrophysical neutrino flux utilizing a dominantly South…

physics.ins-det2015

Analysis techniques for background rejection at the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

C. Cuesta, N. Abgrall, I. J. Arnquist +65

The MAJORANA Collaboration is constructing the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an ultra-low background, 40-kg modular HPGe detector array to search for neutrinoless double beta decay in 76G…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 79 cited

Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center with IceCube-79

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310

The Milky Way is expected to be embedded in a halo of dark matter particles, with the highest density in the central region, and decreasing density with the halo-centric radius. Da…

physics.ins-det2015★ 4 cited

Construction and Measurements of an Improved Vacuum-Swing-Adsorption Radon-Mitigation System

J. Street, R. Bunker, C. Dunagan +5

In order to reduce backgrounds from radon-daughter plate-out onto detector surfaces, an ultra-low-radon cleanroom is being commissioned at the South Dakota School of Mines and Tech…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 79 cited

Characterization of the Atmospheric Muon Flux in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

Muons produced in atmospheric cosmic ray showers account for the by far dominant part of the event yield in large-volume underground particle detectors. The IceCube detector, with…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 47 cited

Detection of a Type IIn Supernova in Optical Follow-up Observations of IceCube Neutrino Events

M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +331

The IceCube neutrino observatory pursues a follow-up program selecting interesting neutrino events in real-time and issuing alerts for electromagnetic follow-up observations. In Ma…

hep-ex2015★ 75 cited

Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, M. Asai +86

CDMS II data from the 5-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surf…