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nucl-ex2019★ 4 cited

Results of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's Search for Double-Beta Decay of Ge to Excited States of Se

I. S. Guinn, I. J. Arnquist, F. T. Avignone +57

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for double-beta decay of Ge to excited states (E.S.) in Se using a modular array of high purity Germanium detectors. Ge…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 12 cited

Searches for neutrinos from cosmic-ray interactions in the Sun using seven years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +358

Cosmic-ray interactions with the solar atmosphere are expected to produce particle showers which in turn produce neutrinos from weak decays of mesons. These solar atmospheric neutr…

physics.ins-det2019★ 7 cited

Design and performance of a 35-ton liquid argon time projection chamber as a prototype for future very large detectors

D. L. Adams, M. Baird, G. Barr +71

Liquid argon time projection chamber technology is an attractive choice for large neutrino detectors, as it provides a high-resolution active target and it is expected to be scalab…

nucl-ex2019★ 39 cited

Projected sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to the decay of Xe

D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof, A. Alqahtani +189

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment will enable a neutrinoless double beta decay search in parallel to the main science goal of discovering dark matter particle interactions. We report…

nucl-ex2019★ 6 cited

Search for two neutrino double electron capture of Xe and Xe in the full exposure of the LUX detector

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +96

Two-neutrino double electron capture is a process allowed in the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This rare decay has been observed in Kr, Ba and more recently in…

hep-ex2019★ 53 cited

Combined sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering with JUNO, the IceCube Upgrade, and PINGU

Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +440

The ordering of the neutrino mass eigenstates is one of the fundamental open questions in neutrino physics. While current-generation neutrino oscillation experiments are able to pr…

physics.ins-det2019★ 203 cited

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

The LZ Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, C. W. Akerlof +379

We describe the design and assembly of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, a direct detection search for cosmic WIMP dark matter particles. The centerpiece of the experiment is a large liqu…

hep-ex2019★ 74 cited

Constraints on dark photons and axion-like particles from SuperCDMS Soudan

SuperCDMS Collaboration, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki +104

We present an analysis of electron recoils in cryogenic germanium detectors operated during the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment. The data are used to set new constraints on the axioele…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

Constraints on Neutrino Emission from Nearby Galaxies Using the 2MASS Redshift Survey and IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +354

The distribution of galaxies within the local universe is characterized by anisotropic features. Observatories searching for the production sites of astrophysical neutrinos can tak…

hep-ex2019★ 51 cited

Search for heavy neutral leptons decaying into muon-pion pairs in the MicroBooNE detector

P. Abratenko, M. Alrashed, R. An +181

We present upper limits on the production of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) decaying to pairs using data collected with the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber (TPC)…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 450 cited

Time-integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +357

This paper presents the results from point-like neutrino source searches using ten years of IceCube data collected between Apr.~6, 2008 and Jul.~10, 2018. We evaluate the significa…

physics.ins-det2019★ 63 cited

A Method to Determine the Electric Field of Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers Using a UV Laser System and its Application in MicroBooNE

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +187

Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are now a standard detector technology for making accelerator neutrino measurements, due to their high material density, precise tra…

hep-ex2019★ 35 cited

Reconstruction and Measurement of (100) MeV Energy Electromagnetic Activity from Decays in the MicroBooNE LArTPC

MicroBooNE collaboration, C. Adams, M. Alrashed +186

We present results on the reconstruction of electromagnetic (EM) activity from photons produced in charged current interactions with final state s. We employ a fully-aut…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 4 cited

Design and Performance of the first IceAct Demonstrator at the South Pole

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +393

In this paper we describe the first results of a compact imaging air-Cherenkov telescope, IceAct, operating in coincidence with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube) at the ge…

physics.ins-det2019★ 11 cited

Improved Modeling of Electronic Recoils in Liquid Xenon Using LUX Calibration Data

The LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +96

We report here methods and techniques for creating and improving a model that reproduces the scintillation and ionization response of a dual-phase liquid and gaseous xenon time-pro…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 12 cited

A Search for Neutrino Point-Source Populations in 7 Years of IceCube Data with Neutrino-count Statistics

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +357

The presence of a population of point sources in a dataset modifies the underlying neutrino-count statistics from the Poisson distribution. This deviation can be exactly quantified…

hep-ex2019

Recent Results of the Majorana Demonstrator Experiment

J. M. López-Castaño

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge with two modular arrays of natural and Ge-enriched germanium detectors. It is located…

eess.SY2019

Sliding Mode Control for Mixed Conventional/Braking Actuation Mobile Robots

Walelign Nikshi, Randy C. Hoover, Mark D. Bedillion +2

The Mixed convention/braking Actuation Mobile Robot (MAMR) was designed to tackle some of the drawbacks of conventional mobile robots such as losing controllability due to primary…

eess.SY2019★ 1 cited

Fuzzy Logic Control for Mixed conventional/braking Actuation Mobile Robots

Walelign Nikshi, Randy C. Hoover, Mark D. Bedillion +2

The use of conventional actuators in robotic systems (electric motors in particular), while often offering advantages in terms of flexibility and controllability, suffer from prima…

hep-ex2019★ 43 cited

Efficient propagation of systematic uncertainties from calibration to analysis with the SnowStorm method in IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +357

Efficient treatment of systematic uncertainties that depend on a large number of nuisance parameters is a persistent difficulty in particle physics experiments. Where low-level eff…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 31 cited

A Search for MeV to TeV Neutrinos from Fast Radio Bursts with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +354

We present two searches for IceCube neutrino events coincident with 28 fast radio bursts (FRBs) and one repeating FRB. The first improves upon a previous IceCube analysis -- search…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 15 cited

Search for PeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Southern Hemisphere with 5 Years of Data from the IceCube Observatory

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +354

The measurement of diffuse PeV gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane would provide information about the energy spectrum and propagation of Galactic cosmic rays, and the detec…

hep-ex2019★ 18 cited

First direct detection constraint on mirror dark matter kinetic mixing using LUX 2013 data

LUX Collaboration, D. S. Akerib, S. Alsum +97

We present the results of a direct detection search for mirror dark matter interactions, using data collected from the Large Underground Xenon experiment during 2013, with an expos…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 86 cited

Search for Sources of Astrophysical Neutrinos Using Seven Years of IceCube Cascade Events

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +351

Low background searches for astrophysical neutrino sources anywhere in the sky can be performed using cascade events induced by neutrinos of all flavors interacting in IceCube with…