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most citedPhysics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment

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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.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…

physics.ins-det2014★ 35 cited

Measurements of proportional scintillation and electron multiplication in liquid xenon using thin wires

E. Aprile, H. Contreras, L. W. Goetzke +7

Proportional scintillation in liquid xenon has a promising application in the field of direct dark matter detection, potentially allowing for simpler, more sensitive detectors. How…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 79 cited

Conceptual design and simulation of a water Cherenkov muon veto for the XENON1T experiment

E. Aprile, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi +88

XENON is a dark matter direct detection project, consisting of a time projection chamber (TPC) filled with liquid xenon as detection medium. The construction of the next generation…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 146 cited

First Axion Results from the XENON100 Experiment

The XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, F. Agostini +87

We present the first results of searches for axions and axion-like-particles with the XENON100 experiment. The axion-electron coupling constant, , has been probed by exploi…