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20122025
most citedRadon backgrounds in the DEAP-1 liquid-argon-based Dark Matter detector

26 citations · 127 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

nucl-ex2025★ 4 cited

Direct Measurement of the Ar Half-life from 3.4 Years of Data with the DEAP-3600 Detector

DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +114

The half-life of Ar is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector located 2 km underground at SNOLAB. Between 2016 and 2020, DEAP-3600 used a target mass of (3269 24) kg of…

physics.ins-det2024★ 2 cited

Relative Measurement and Extrapolation of the Scintillation Quenching Factor of -Particles in Liquid Argon using DEAP-3600 Data

DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, M. Alpízar-Venegas +101

The knowledge of scintillation quenching of -particles plays a paramount role in understanding -induced backgrounds and improving the sensitivity of liquid argon-based direct…

physics.ins-det2019★ 18 cited

Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode

O. Njoya, T. Tsang, M. Tarka +153

Measurements of electron drift properties in liquid and gaseous xenon are reported. The electrons are generated by the photoelectric effect in a semi-transparent gold photocathode…

physics.ins-det2019★ 17 cited

Reflectivity and PDE of VUV4 Hamamatsu SiPMs in Liquid Xenon

P. Nakarmi, I. Ostrovskiy, A. K. Soma +152

Understanding reflective properties of materials and photodetection efficiency (PDE) of photodetectors is important for optimizing energy resolution and sensitivity of the next gen…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 25 cited

Application of the TPB Wavelength Shifter to the DEAP-3600 Spherical Acrylic Vessel Inner Surface

B. Broerman, M. G. Boulay, B. Cai +11

DEAP-3600 uses liquid argon contained in a spherical acrylic vessel as a target medium to perform a sensitive spin-independent dark matter search. Argon scintillates in the vacuum…

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.IM2012★ 26 cited

Radon backgrounds in the DEAP-1 liquid-argon-based Dark Matter detector

P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov, B. Beltran +49

The DEAP-1 \SI{7}{kg} single phase liquid argon scintillation detector was operated underground at SNOLAB in order to test the techniques and measure the backgrounds inherent to si…