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EXO-200 Public Data Release for AI/ML Applications
S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +103
We present a public release of a subset of calibration data from the EXO-200 experiment, a liquid xenon time projection chamber designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta deca…
An optical cryostat for automated testing of silicon photomultipliers with vacuum-ultraviolet light
Lucas Darroch, Riya Rai, Soud Al Kharusi +8
We present the design and performance of an optical cryostat for testing silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) with vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) light. The cryostat operates within a temper…
The nEXO Radioassay Program
R. MacLellan, P. Acharya, B. Aharmim +148
Material radioactivity compilations, such as the one presented here, are important enablers of science. They are useful for the selection of radiopure materials used in the design…
Design of a high voltage delivery system for noble liquid time projection chambers
R. Saldanha, L. Pagani, E. Angelico +129
Noble liquid time projection chambers (TPCs) are a leading technology in the detection of ionizing radiation, particularly in applications such as accelerator neutrino physics, dar…
Characterization of CRYO ASIC for charge readout in the nEXO experiment
Z. Li, M. Yu, E. Angelico +141
nEXO is a proposed next-generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe using a tonne-scale liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC). T…
Ultra-pure Nickel for Structural Components of Low-Radioactivity Instruments
T. J. Roosendaal, C. T. Overman, G. S. Ortega +123
The next generation of rare-event search experiments in nuclear and particle physics demand structural materials combining exceptional mechanical strength with ultra-low levels of…
Sensitivity of nEXO to Xe Charged-Current Interactions: Background-free Searches for Solar Neutrinos and Fermionic Dark Matter
G. Richardson, B. G. Lenardo, D. Gallacher +135
We study the sensitivity of nEXO to solar neutrino charged-current interactions, XeCs, as well as analogous interactions predicted by mo…
Ultra-sensitive radon assay using an electrostatic chamber in a recirculating system
nEXO Collaboration, A. Anker, P. A. Breur +138
Rare event searches such as neutrinoless double beta decay and Weakly Interacting Massive Particle detection require ultra-low background detectors. Radon contamination is a signif…
Measuring dark currents in multiple cryogenic SiPMs with sub-pA sensitivity using an automated IV multiplexer
Lucas Darroch, Eamon Egan, Marc-Antoine Leclerc +2
We present the design of an automated current-voltage (IV) multiplexer (MUX) that enables accurate measurement of the dark current in cryogenic silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), ac…
Imaging of single barium atoms in a second matrix site in solid xenon for barium tagging in a Xe double beta decay experiment
M. Yvaine, D. Fairbank, J. Soderstrom +134
Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most sensitive probes for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. One of the isotopes under investigation is $^{136}…
Supernova electron-neutrino interactions with xenon in the nEXO detector
nEXO Collaboration, S. Hedges, S. Al Kharusi +144
Electron-neutrino charged-current interactions with xenon nuclei were modeled in the nEXO neutrinoless double- decay detector (~5 metric ton, 90% Xe, 10% Xe)…
Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos (FSNN): Whitepaper for the 2023 NSAC Long Range Plan
B. Acharya, C. Adams, A. A. Aleksandrova +176
This whitepaper presents the research priorities decided on by attendees of the 2022 Town Meeting for Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons and Neutrinos, which took place December 13-1…
An integrated online radioassay data storage and analytics tool for nEXO
R. H. M. Tsang, A. Piepke, S. Al Kharusi +157
Large-scale low-background detectors are increasingly used in rare-event searches as experimental collaborations push for enhanced sensitivity. However, building such detectors, in…
Generative Adversarial Networks for Scintillation Signal Simulation in EXO-200
S. Li, I. Ostrovskiy, Z. Li +87
Generative Adversarial Networks trained on samples of simulated or actual events have been proposed as a way of generating large simulated datasets at a reduced computational cost.…
Search for Two-neutrino Double-Beta Decay of to the excited state of with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset
200 Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton +104
A new search for two-neutrino double-beta () decay of to the excited state of is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. A deep learnin…
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
C. Adams, K. Alfonso, C. Andreoiu +229
This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta…
Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO
G. Gallina, Y. Guan, F. Retiere +162
Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume,…
Search for MeV Electron Recoils from Dark Matter in EXO-200
200 Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton +104
We present a search for electron-recoil signatures from the charged-current absorption of fermionic dark matter using the EXO-200 detector. We report an average electron recoil bac…
Development of a Xe calibration source for nEXO
B. G. Lenardo, C. A. Hardy, R. H. M. Tsang +125
We study a possible calibration technique for the nEXO experiment using a Xe electron capture source. nEXO is a next-generation search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($…
Search for Majoron-emitting modes of Xe double beta decay with the complete EXO-200 dataset
S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +103
A search for Majoron-emitting modes of the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. This dataset consists of a total Xe expo…
The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary Systems
N. Ackerman, J. Albert, M. Auger +157
The EXO-200 experiment searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe with a single-phase liquid xenon detector. It used an active mass of 110 kg of 80.6%-enriched liqui…
NEXO: Neutrinoless double beta decay search beyond year half-life sensitivity
nEXO Collaboration, G. Adhikari, S. Al Kharusi +158
The nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment is designed to use a time projection chamber and 5000 kg of isotopically enriched liquid xenon to search for the decay in $^{136}…
Reflectivity of VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers in Liquid Xenon
M. Wagenpfeil, T. Ziegler, J. Schneider +140
Silicon photomultipliers are regarded as a very promising technology for next-generation, cutting-edge detectors for low-background experiments in particle physics. This work prese…
Event Reconstruction in a Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber with an Optically-Open Field Cage
T. Stiegler, S. Sangiorgio, J. P. Brodsky +148
nEXO is a proposed tonne-scale neutrinoless double beta decay () experiment using liquid (LXe) in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to read out ionization and scin…