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most citedPhysics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment

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hep-ex2026

First Measurement of Solar Neutrinos through Elastic Neutrino-Electron Scattering at the keV Scale

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +170

We report on the first measurement of low-energy solar neutrinos through elastic neutrino-electron scattering in a dark matter experiment, establishing the lowest energy threshold…

hep-ex2026

Search for Magnetic and Spin-Independent Inelastic Dark Matter with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +173

We present a search for Magnetic and Spin-Independent inelastic Dark Matter using 2.1 tonne-years of data from the XENONnT experiment. We consider both single- and double-site even…

astro-ph.HE2026

Search for Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background in the Full KamLAND Dataset with Neural-Network-Based Event Classification

D. Chernyak, T. Eda, M. Eizuka +63

We report a search for the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) with the KamLAND detector, targeting electron antineutrinos via inverse beta decay in the neutrino energy ra…

nucl-ex2026

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

hep-ex2026★ 2 cited

Light Dark Matter Search with 7.8 Tonne-Year of Ionization-Only Data in XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +174

We report on a blinded search for dark matter (DM) using ionization-only (S2-only) signals in XENONnT with a total exposure of over 579 days…

hep-ex2025

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…

nucl-ex2025

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…

hep-ex2025★ 2 cited

Challenging Spontaneous Quantum Collapse with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +174

We report on the search for X-ray radiation as predicted from dynamical quantum collapse with low-energy electronic recoil data in the energy range of 1-140 keV from the first scie…

physics.ins-det2025

Characterization of the Hamamatsu R12699-406-M4 Photomultiplier Tube in Cold Xenon Environments

M. Adrover, L. Baudis, A. Bismark +5

The Hamamatsu R12699-406-M2 is a multi-anode 2-inch photomultiplier tube that offers a compact form factor, low intrinsic radioactivity, and high photocathode coverage.…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Radon Removal in XENONnT down to the Solar Neutrino Level

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +169

The XENONnT experiment has achieved an exceptionally low Rn activity concentration within its inner 5.9tonne liquid xenon detector of (0.900.01stat.$\…

hep-ex2024★ 24 cited

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…

hep-ex2024

XENONnT Analysis: Signal Reconstruction, Calibration and Event Selection

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +165

The XENONnT experiment, located at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy, features a 5.9 tonne liquid xenon time projection chamber surrounded by an instrumented neut…

hep-ex2024★ 27 cited

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…

hep-ex2024★ 4 cited

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…

physics.data-an2024★ 6 cited

XENONnT WIMP Search: Signal & Background Modeling and Statistical Inference

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +161

The XENONnT experiment searches for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter scattering off a xenon nucleus. In particular, XENONnT uses a dual-phase time projection…

hep-ex2024★ 14 cited

Combined Pre-Supernova Alert System with Kamland and Super-Kamiokande

KamLAND, Super-Kamiokande Collaborations, : +311

Preceding a core-collapse supernova, various processes produce an increasing amount of neutrinos of all flavors characterized by mounting energies from the interior of massive star…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 36 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 55 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2015★ 460 cited

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…

hep-ex2015★ 38 cited

Search for double-beta decay of 136Xe to excited states of 136Ba with the KamLAND-Zen experiment

Zen Collaboration, K. Asakura, A. Gando +42

A search for double-beta decays of 136Xe to excited states of 136Ba has been performed with the first phase data set of the KamLAND-Zen experiment. The 0+1, 2+1 and 2+2 transitions…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 81 cited

Exclusion of Leptophilic Dark Matter Models using XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, F. Agostini +98

Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experime…

hep-ex2015★ 19 cited

Search for the proton decay mode with KamLAND

KamLAND Collaboration

We present a search for the proton decay mode based on an exposure of 8.97 kton-years in the KamLAND experiment. The liquid scintillator detector i…