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astro-ph.IM2017★ 36 cited

Signal Yields of keV Electronic Recoils and Their Discrimination from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +116

We report on the response of liquid xenon to low energy electronic recoils below 15 keV from beta decays of tritium at drift fields of 92 V/cm, 154 V/cm and 366 V/cm using the XENO…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 264 cited

The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +142

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the first WIMP dark matter detector operating with a liquid xenon target mass above the ton-scale. Out o…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 23 cited

Intrinsic backgrounds from Rn and Kr in the XENON100 experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +115

In this paper, we describe the XENON100 data analyses used to assess the target-intrinsic background sources radon (Rn), thoron (Rn) and krypton (Kr). We det…

hep-ex2017★ 58 cited

Search for WIMP Inelastic Scattering off Xenon Nuclei with XENON100

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +113

We present the first constraints on the spin-dependent, inelastic scattering cross section of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons from XENON100 data with an ex…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 9 cited

Search for magnetic inelastic dark matter with XENON100

XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +112

We present the first search for dark matter-induced delayed coincidence signals in a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, using the 224.6 live days of the XENON100 science run…

physics.ins-det2017★ 46 cited

Online Rn removal by cryogenic distillation in the XENON100 experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +119

We describe the purification of xenon from traces of the radioactive noble gas radon using a cryogenic distillation column. The distillation column is integrated into the gas purif…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 72 cited

Search for Electronic Recoil Event Rate Modulation with 4 Years of XENON100 Data

The XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +111

We report on a search for electronic recoil event rate modulation signatures in the XENON100 data accumulated over a period of 4 years, from January 2010 to January 2014. A profile…

physics.ins-det2016★ 72 cited

Removing krypton from xenon by cryogenic distillation to the ppq level

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +119

The XENON1T experiment aims for the direct detection of dark matter in a cryostat filled with 3.3 tons of liquid xenon. In order to achieve the desired sensitivity, the background…

physics.ins-det2016★ 37 cited

Results from a Calibration of XENON100 Using a Source of Dissolved Radon-220

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +118

A Rn-220 source is deployed on the XENON100 dark matter detector in order to address the challenges in calibration of tonne-scale liquid noble element detectors. We show that the P…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 134 cited

XENON100 Dark Matter Results from a Combination of 477 Live Days

XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +114

We report on WIMP search results of the XENON100 experiment, combining three runs summing up to 477 live days from January 2010 to January 2014. Data from the first two runs were a…

nucl-ex2016★ 20 cited

Search for Two-Neutrino Double Electron Capture of Xe with XENON100

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +114

Two-neutrino double electron capture is a rare nuclear decay where two electrons are simultaneously captured from the atomic shell. For Xe this process has not yet been obs…

physics.ins-det2016★ 8 cited

A versatile and light-weight slow control system for small-scale applications

Philipp Zappa, Lukas Bütikofer, Daniel Coderre +3

We present an open source slow control system for small and medium scale projects. Thanks to its modular and flexible design, where the various instruments are read and controlled…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 392 cited

DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector

J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi +116

DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN (DARWIN) will be an experiment for the direct detection of dark matter using a multi-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core.…

physics.ins-det2015★ 460 cited

Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment

The XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +113

The XENON1T experiment is currently in the commissioning phase at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. In this article we study the experiment's expected sensitivity to…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 50 cited

Search for Event Rate Modulation in XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +99

We have searched for periodic variations of the electronic recoil event rate in the (2-6) keV energy range recorded between February 2011 and March 2012 with the XENON100 detector,…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 81 cited

Exclusion of Leptophilic Dark Matter Models using XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, F. Agostini +98

Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experime…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 95 cited

Lowering the radioactivity of the photomultiplier tubes for the XENON1T dark matter experiment

E. Aprile, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi +95

The low-background, VUV-sensitive 3-inch diameter photomultiplier tube R11410 has been developed by Hamamatsu for dark matter direct detection experiments using liquid xenon as the…