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physics.ins-det2026

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…

physics.ins-det2026

Energy Calibration and Performance of HPGe Detectors in the LEGEND-200 Experiment

The LEGEND Collaboration, H. Acharya, M. Agostini +259

This paper describes the energy scale procedures and germanium detectors performance in the LEGEND-200 experiment, a critical component for the first unblinding in the search for n…

physics.ins-det2025

Quenching factors for Na recoils as a function of Tl dopant concentrations in NaI(Tl) crystals

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +51

Thallium-doped sodium iodide (NaI(Tl)) scintillation detectors play an important role in the field of direct dark matter (DM) searches. The DAMA/LIBRA experiment stands out for its…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Prototype acoustic positioning system for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment

ONE Collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Agreda +78

We present the design and initial performance characterization of the prototype acoustic positioning system intended for the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment. It comprises novel p…

physics.ins-det2023★ 5 cited

Detection and Calibration of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils for Dark Matter and Neutrino Scattering Experiments

Jingke Xu, P. S. Barbeau, Ziqing Hong

Detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events plays a central role in searches for particle dark matter interactions with atomic matter and studies of coherent neutrino scatters. P…

physics.ins-det2023

COHERENT Collaboration data release from the measurements of CsI[Na] response to nuclear recoils

D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +75

Description of the data release 10.13139/OLCF/1969085 (https://doi.ccs.ornl.gov/ui/doi/426) from the measurements of the CsI[Na] response to low energy nuclear recoils by the COHER…

physics.ins-det2023★ 21 cited

First measurement of the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon at 100 eV

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso +137

We measured the nuclear--recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a mono-energetic beam scatter off of the silicon nu…

physics.ins-det2022

Thermodynamic Stability of Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon Detectors

Ethan P. Bernard, Eli Mizrachi, James Kingston +12

Liquid argon detectors are employed in a wide variety of nuclear and particle physics experiments. The addition of small quantities of xenon to argon modifies its scintillation, io…

physics.ins-det2022★ 7 cited

Recoil imaging for directional detection of dark matter, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model

C. A. J. O'Hare, D. Loomba, K. Altenmüller +164

Recoil imaging entails the detection of spatially resolved ionization tracks generated by particle interactions. This is a highly sought-after capability in many classes of detecto…

physics.ins-det2021★ 7 cited

Monitoring the SNS basement neutron background with the MARS detector

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +75

We present the analysis and results of the first dataset collected with the MARS neutron detector deployed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) for…

physics.ins-det2021★ 4 cited

Measurement of scintillation response of CsI[Na] to low-energy nuclear recoils by COHERENT

D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +74

We present results of several measurements of CsI[Na] scintillation response to 3-60 keV energy nuclear recoils performed by the COHERENT collaboration using tagged neutron elastic…

physics.ins-det2021★ 18 cited

Quenching factor measurements of neon nuclei in neon gas

L. Balogh, C. Beaufort, A. Brossard +47

The NEWS-G collaboration uses Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs) to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). In this paper, we report the first measurements of…

physics.ins-det2021★ 52 cited

LEGEND-1000 Preconceptual Design Report

LEGEND Collaboration, N. Abgrall, I. Abt +261

We propose the construction of LEGEND-1000, the ton-scale Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay. This international experiment is designed to answer one o…

physics.ins-det2021★ 23 cited

A DO detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +76

We report on the technical design and expected performance of a 592 kg heavy-water-Cherenkov detector to measure the absolute neutrino flux from the pion-decay-at-rest neutrino sou…

physics.ins-det2020★ 11 cited

Measurement of Proton Quenching in a Plastic Scintillator Detector

Connor Awe, Phillip Barbeau, Alireza Haghighat +9

The non-linear energy response of the plastic scintillator EJ-260 is measured with the MicroCHANDLER detector, using neutron beams of energy 5 to 27 MeV at the Triangle Universitie…

physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

Development of a Kr source for the calibration of the CENNS-10 Liquid Argon Detector

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +77

We report on the preparation of and calibration measurements with a Kr source for the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. Kr atoms generated in the de…

physics.ins-det2020★ 6 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 53 cited

CYGNUS: Feasibility of a nuclear recoil observatory with directional sensitivity to dark matter and neutrinos

S. E. Vahsen, C. A. J. O'Hare, W. A. Lynch +16

Now that conventional weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter searches are approaching the neutrino floor, there has been a resurgence of interest in detectors with…

physics.ins-det2019★ 18 cited

Reflectance of Silicon Photomultipliers at Vacuum Ultraviolet Wavelengths

P. Lv, G. F. Cao, L. J. Wen +148

Characterization of the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) reflectance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is important for large-scale SiPM-based photodetector systems. We report the angula…

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 34 cited

Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment

200 Collaboration, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +99

Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event searches. We use the EXO-200 experimental data to measure the absolute scintillation and i…

physics.ins-det2019★ 6 cited

Measurement of the ionization yield from nuclear recoils in liquid xenon between 0.3 -- 6 keV with single-ionization-electron sensitivity

Brian Lenardo, Jingke Xu, Sergey Pereverzev +12

Dual-phase xenon TPC detectors are a highly scalable and widely used technology to search for low-energy nuclear recoil signals from WIMP dark matter or coherent nuclear scattering…

physics.ins-det2019★ 15 cited

Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO

Z. Li, W. R. Cen, A. Robinson +150

nEXO is a proposed experiment to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay () of Xe in a tonne-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The nEXO TPC wil…