activity
19992025
most citedDirect Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

3k citations · 7.1k across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

40 papers

hep-ex2025★ 4 cited

Measurement of reactor antineutrino oscillation at SNO+

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Abreu +298

The SNO+ collaboration reports its second spectral analysis of reactor antineutrino oscillation using 286 tonne-years of new data. The measured energies of reactor antineutrino can…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2023★ 14 cited

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 (…

physics.ins-det2021★ 35 cited

Pulseshape discrimination against low-energy Ar-39 beta decays in liquid argon with 4.5 tonne-years of DEAP-3600 data

The DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +126

The DEAP-3600 detector searches for the scintillation signal from dark matter particles scattering on a 3.3 tonne liquid argon target. The largest background comes from Ar b…

physics.ins-det2021★ 129 cited

The SNO+ Experiment

SNO+ Collaboration, :, V. Albanese +251

The SNO+ experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. A low background search for neutrinoless double beta () decay will be conducted using 780 tonnes…

physics.ins-det2020★ 41 cited

Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +223

A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is…

hep-ex2020★ 23 cited

Search for solar neutrinos and the diffuse supernova neutrino background using all three phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +129

A search has been performed for neutrinos from two sources, the reaction in the solar fusion chain and the component of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (…

physics.ins-det2020★ 16 cited

Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase

The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +130

The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV produced by neutron capture on hydr…

physics.ins-det2020★ 31 cited

The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600

The DEAP collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +98

DEAP-3600 is a liquid-argon scintillation detector looking for dark matter. Scintillation events in the liquid argon (LAr) are registered by 255 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and p…

hep-ex2019★ 9 cited

Cosmogenic Neutron Production at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +128

Neutrons produced in nuclear interactions initiated by cosmic-ray muons present an irreducible background to many rare-event searches, even in detectors located deep underground. M…

nucl-ex2019★ 37 cited

Electromagnetic Backgrounds and Potassium-42 Activity in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

R. Ajaj, G. R. Araujo, M. Batygov +88

The DEAP-3600 experiment is searching for WIMP dark matter with a 3.3 tonne single phase liquid argon (LAr) target, located 2.1 km underground at SNOLAB. The experimental signature…

hep-ex2019★ 7 cited

Measurement of neutron production in atmospheric neutrino interactions at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +129

Neutron production in GeV-scale neutrino interactions is a poorly studied process. We have measured the neutron multiplicities in atmospheric neutrino interactions in the Sudbury N…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 172 cited

Search for dark matter with a 231-day exposure of liquid argon using DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB

R. Ajaj, P. -A. Amaudruz, G. R. Araujo +99

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 3279 kg of…

hep-ex2018★ 51 cited

Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector

SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +195

This paper reports results from a search for nucleon decay through 'invisible' modes, where no visible energy is directly deposited during the decay itself, during the initial wate…

hep-ex2018★ 40 cited

Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +128

The long baseline between the Earth and the Sun makes solar neutrinos an excellent test beam for exploring possible neutrino decay. The signature of such decay would be an energy-d…

hep-ex2018★ 26 cited

Tests of Lorentz invariance at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +131

Experimental tests of Lorentz symmetry in systems of all types are critical for ensuring that the basic assumptions of physics are well-founded. Data from all phases of the Sudbury…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 103 cited

Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Baldwin, M. Batygov +106

The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 102 cited

First results from the DEAP-3600 dark matter search with argon at SNOLAB

3600 Collaboration, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Baldwin +102

This paper reports the first results of a direct dark matter search with the DEAP-3600 single-phase liquid argon (LAr) detector. The experiment was performed 2 km underground at SN…

physics.ins-det2017★ 43 cited

In-situ characterization of the Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier tubes used in the DEAP-3600 experiment

DEAP Collaboration, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov +99

The Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier-tube (PMT) is a novel high-quantum efficiency PMT. It is currently used in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and is of significant interest…

hep-ex2017★ 51 cited

The search for neutron-antineutron oscillations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +122

Tests on symmetry breaking models are important probes to search for new physics. One proposed model with involves the oscillations of a neutron to an antineutron.…

physics.ins-det2015★ 277 cited

Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment

SNO+ Collaboration, :, S. Andringa +155

SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12m di…

physics.ins-det2014★ 22 cited

DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search

DEAP Collaboration, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov +54

The DEAP-3600 experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Ontario. It is a single-phase detector that searches for dark matter particle interactions within a 1000…

physics.ins-det2014★ 18 cited

Improving Photoelectron Counting and Particle Identification in Scintillation Detectors with Bayesian Techniques

M. Akashi-Ronquest, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov +79

Many current and future dark matter and neutrino detectors are designed to measure scintillation light with a large array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The energy resolution and…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 20 cited

A Search for Astrophysical Burst Signals at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +124

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has confirmed the standard solar model and neutrino oscillations through the observation of neutrinos from the solar core. In this paper we p…