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The CROSS experiment: detector construction, background projection, and sensitivity to Mo decay
D. Auguste, A. S. Barabash, G. Benato +42
The CROSS experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta () decay in Mo with the help of an array of scintillating cryogenic calorimeters, containing 4.9 kg of $…
Cryogenic light detectors with thermal signal amplification for search experiments
A. Armatol, A. S. Barabash, D. Baudin +44
As a step towards the realization of cryogenic-detector experiments to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (such as CROSS, BINGO, and CUPID), we investigated a batch of 10 Ge…
First Directional Measurement of sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94
We report the measurement of sub-MeV solar neutrinos through the use of their associated Cherenkov radiation, performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del G…
Correlated and Integrated Directionality for sub-MeV solar neutrinos in Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +94
Liquid scintillator detectors play a central role in the detection of neutrinos from various sources. In particular, it is the only technique used so far for the precision spectros…
Identification of the cosmogenic C background in large volumes of liquid scintillators with Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel +93
Cosmogenic radio-nuclei are an important source of background for low-energy neutrino experiments. In Borexino, cosmogenic C decays outnumber solar and CNO neutrino ev…
Characterization of a CLYC detector for underground experiments
T. Martinez, A. Pérez de Rada, D. Cano-Ott +8
Large size detectors based on Cs2LiYCl6:Ce (CLYC) are capable of performing a combined -ray and neutron spectrometry and constitute a promising technology for a wide range of ap…
CALIS - a CALibration Insertion System for the DarkSide-50 dark matter search experiment
P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +162
This paper describes the design, fabrication, commissioning and use of a CALibration source Insertion System (CALIS) in the DarkSide-50 direct dark matter search experiment. CALIS…
A search for low-energy neutrino and antineutrino signals correlated with gamma-ray bursts with Borexino
M. Agostini, K. Altenmeuller, S. Appel +97
A search for neutrino and antineutrino events correlated with 2,350 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is performed with Borexino data collected between December 2007 and November 2015. No st…
The Electronics and Data Acquisition System for the DarkSide-50 Veto Detectors
P. Agnes, L. Agostino, I. F. M. Albuquerque +155
DarkSide-50 is a detector for dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). It utilizes a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr TPC) for t…
Low-energy neutrinos
Livia Ludhova
There exist several kinds of sources emitting neutrinos in the MeV energy range. These low-energy neutrinos from different sources can be often detected by the same multipurpose de…
The veto system of the DarkSide-50 experiment
The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158
Nuclear recoil events produced by neutron scatters form one of the most important classes of background in WIMP direct detection experiments, as they may produce nuclear recoils th…
Solar neutrino detection in a large volume double-phase liquid argon experiment
D. Franco, C. Giganti, P. Agnes +29
Precision measurements of solar neutrinos emitted by specific nuclear reaction chains in the Sun are of great interest for developing an improved understanding of star formation an…
Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search
The DarkSide Collaboration, P. Agnes, L. Agostino +158
Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark…
A test of electric charge conservation with Borexino
Borexino Collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +95
Borexino is a liquid scintillation detector located deep underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS, Italy). Thanks to the unmatched radio-purity of the scintilla…
Measurement of neutrino flux from the primary proton--proton fusion process in the Sun with Borexino detector
O. Y. Smirnov, M. Agostini, S. Appel +94
Neutrino produced in a chain of nuclear reactions in the Sun starting from the fusion of two protons, for the first time has been detected in a real-time detector in spectrometric…
Spectroscopy of geo-neutrinos from 2056 days of Borexino data
Borexino collaboration, M. Agostini, S. Appel +99
We report an improved geo-neutrino measurement with Borexino from 2056 days of data taking. The present exposure is protonyr. Assuming a chondrit…
Scintillation efficiency measurement of Na recoils in NaI(Tl) below the DAMA/LIBRA energy threshold
Jingke Xu, Emily Shields, Frank Calaprice +18
The dark matter interpretation of the DAMA modulation signal depends on the NaI(Tl) scintillation efficiency of nuclear recoils. Previous measurements for Na recoils have large dis…
Solar neutrino with Borexino: results and perspectives
O. Smirnov, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +87
Borexino is a unique detector able to perform measurement of solar neutrinos fluxes in the energy region around 1 MeV or below due to its low level of radioactive background. It wa…
First Results from the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
P. Agnes, T. Alexander, A. Alton +143
We report the first results of DarkSide-50, a direct search for dark matter operating in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and searching for the rare nucle…
Recent Borexino results and prospects for the near future
D. D'Angelo, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +85
The Borexino experiment, located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, is an organic liquid scintillator detector conceived for the real time spectroscopy of low energy solar neut…
New limits on heavy sterile neutrino mixing in -decay obtained with the Borexino detector
Borexino collaboration, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +87
If heavy neutrinos with mass 2 are produced in the Sun via the decay in a side branch of pp-chain, they would…
Final results of Borexino Phase-I on low energy solar neutrino spectroscopy
Borexino Collaboration, G. Bellini, J. Benziger +87
Borexino has been running since May 2007 at the LNGS with the primary goal of detecting solar neutrinos. The detector, a large, unsegmented liquid scintillator calorimeter characte…
Measurement of geo-neutrinos from 1353 days of Borexino
G. Bellini, J. Benziger, D. Bick +90
We present a measurement of the geo--neutrino signal obtained from 1353 days of data with the Borexino detector at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. With a fiducial exp…
Cosmogenic Backgrounds in Borexino at 3800 m water-equivalent depth
G. Bellini, J. Benziger, D. Bick +86
The solar neutrino experiment Borexino, which is located in the Gran Sasso underground laboratories, is in a unique position to study muon-induced backgrounds in an organic liquid…