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most citedCurrent Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment

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39 papers

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the muon flux at SNOLAB using the DEAP-3600 experiment

DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, M. Alpízar-Venegas +116

A direct measurement of the muon flux at SNOLAB is performed using the DEAP-3600 experiment, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB near Sudbury, Canada. Primarily designed for the dir…

hep-ex2026

First evidence of neutrino absorption on argon using B solar neutrinos in DEAP-3600

P. Adhikari, P. -A. Amaudruz, D. J. Auty +113

We report experimental evidence for electron neutrino charged-current interactions (neutrino absorption, CC ) from B solar neutrinos on Ar using an exposure of ($…

hep-ex2026

Dark Matter Search with the DEAP-3600 Detector using the Profile Likelihood Ratio Method

DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +122

We present here a search for WIMP dark matter using 790.8 live-days of data collected with 3269 kg of liquid argon (1266 kg fiducial) by the DEAP-3600 detector at SNOLAB, using the…

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…

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★ 1 cited

The ionization yield in a methane-filled spherical proportional counter

M. M. Arora, L. Balogh, C. Beaufort +40

Spherical proportional counters (SPCs) are gaseous particle detectors sensitive to single ionization electrons in their target media, with large detector volumes and low background…

hep-ex2024★ 11 cited

Search for Light Dark Matter with NEWS-G at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane Using a Methane Target

M. M. Arora, L. Balogh, C. Beaufort +40

The NEWS-G direct detection experiment uses spherical proportional counters to search for light dark matter candidates. New results from a 10 day physics run with a $135\,\mathrm{c…

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-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-det2023★ 8 cited

Ambient Dose and Dose Rate Measurement in SNOLAB Underground Laboratory at Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Victor V. Golovko, Oleg Kamaev, Jiansheng Sun +3

The paper describes a system and experimental procedure that use integrating passive detectors, such as thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs), for the measurement of ultra-low-level…

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.ins-det2022

The NEWS-G detector at SNOLAB

L. Balogh, C. Beaufort, A. Brossard +38

The New Experiments With Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) collaboration intends to achieve Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) detection using Spherical Propo…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications

M. Abdullah, H. Abele, D. Akimov +272

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is large…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 99 cited

EXCESS workshop: Descriptions of rising low-energy spectra

P. Adari, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei +303

Many low-threshold experiments observe sharply rising event rates of yet unknown origins below a few hundred eV, and larger than expected from known backgrounds. Due to the signifi…

physics.ins-det2022★ 13 cited

Measurements of the ionization efficiency of protons in methane

G Collaboration, L. Balogh, C. Beaufort +40

The amount of energy released by a nuclear recoil ionizing the atoms of the active volume of detection appears "quenched" compared to an electron of the same kinetic energy. This d…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

Solar Kaluza-Klein axion search with NEWS-G

G collaboration, Q. Arnaud, L. Balogh +39

Kaluza-Klein (KK) axions appear in theories with extra dimensions as higher mass, significantly shorter lifetime, excitations of the Peccei-Quinn axion. When produced in the Sun, t…

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…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 55 cited

First direct detection constraints on Planck-scale mass dark matter with multiple-scatter signatures using the DEAP-3600 detector

P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj, M. Alpízar-Venegas +94

Dark matter particles with Planck-scale mass () arise in well-motivated theories and could be produced by several cosmological mechanisms. Using a blin…

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

Copper electroplating for background suppression in the NEWS-G experiment

G Collaboration, L. Balogh, C. Beaufort +47

New Experiments with Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) is a dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate at SNOLAB (Canada). Similar to other rare-event searches, the materials use…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 44 cited

Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector

P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj, C. E. Bina +81

DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon detector aiming to directly detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), located at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). After analyzing data…