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most citedThe case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts

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physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

The BUTTON-30 detector at Boulby

J. Bae, M. Bergevin, E. P. Bernard +62

The BUTTON-30 detector is a 30-tonne technology demonstrator designed to evaluate the potential of hybrid event detection, simultaneously exploiting both Cherenkov and scintillatio…

physics.ins-det2024

Enhancing Material Screening at Boulby Underground Laboratory with XIA UltraLo-1800 Alpha Particle Detectors

Sid El Moctar Ahmed Maouloud, Anh Nguyen, XinRan Liu +9

The Boulby UnderGround Screening (BUGS) facility, located at the Boulby Underground Laboratory, has significantly advanced its material screening capabilities by installing two XIA…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

Ultra-Low Background Germanium Assay at the Boulby Underground Laboratory

P. R. Scovell, E. Meehan, S. M. Paling +6

As we move to an era where next generation low-background particle physics experiments begin to be designed and constructed, the ability to assay materials with high sensitivity an…

physics.ins-det2023

Acceptance tests of Hamamatsu R7081 photomultiplier tubes

O. A. Akindele, A. Bernstein, S. Boyd +29

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are traditionally an integral part of large underground experiments as they measure the light emission from particle interactions within the enclosed d…

hep-ex2023

Exploring light dark matter with the DarkSPHERE spherical proportional counter electroformed underground at the Boulby Underground Laboratory

L. Balogh, C. Beaufort, M. Chapellier +37

We present the conceptual design and the physics potential of DarkSPHERE, a proposed 3 m in diameter spherical proportional counter electroformed underground at the Boulby Undergro…

physics.comp-ph2022★ 2 cited

Contextual Isotope Ranking Criteria for Peak Identification in Gamma Spectroscopy Using a Large Database

Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Xavier Bertou, Carles Canet +18

Isotope identification is a recurrent problem in gamma spectroscopy with high purity germanium detectors. In this work, new strategies are introduced to facilitate this type of ana…