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Permanent magnet based Zeeman slower for lithium atoms
R. Elbaz, F. Hamodi-Gzal, N. Priel +2
We describe the design, construction, and characterization of a permanent magnet based, transverse-field Zeeman slower for lithium atoms. We use off-the-shelf compact permanent bar…
Optomechanical vector sensing of new forces at 6 micron separation
Gautam Venugopalan, Clarke A. Hardy, Kenneth Kohn +10
The search for new gravity-like interactions at the sub-millimeter scale is a compelling area of research, with important implications for the understanding of classical gravity an…
Scalable architecture for trapped-ion quantum computing using RF traps and dynamic optical potentials
David Schwerdt, Lee Peleg, Yotam Shapira +9
Qubits based on ions trapped in linear radio-frequency traps form a successful platform for quantum computing, due to their high fidelity of operations, all-to-all connectivity and…
Librational Feedback Cooling
Charles P. Blakemore, Denzal Martin, Alexander Fieguth +4
Librational motion, whereby a rigid body undergoes angular oscillation around a preferred direction, can be observed in optically trapped, silica microspheres. We demonstrate the c…
Development of a Xe calibration source for nEXO
B. G. Lenardo, C. A. Hardy, R. H. M. Tsang +125
We study a possible calibration technique for the nEXO experiment using a Xe electron capture source. nEXO is a next-generation search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($…
A background-free optically levitated charge sensor
Nadav Priel, Alexander Fieguth, Charles P. Blakemore +5
Optically levitated macroscopic objects are a powerful tool in the field of force sensing, owing to high sensitivity, absolute force calibration, environmental isolation and the ad…
NEXO: Neutrinoless double beta decay search beyond year half-life sensitivity
nEXO Collaboration, G. Adhikari, S. Al Kharusi +158
The nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment is designed to use a time projection chamber and 5000 kg of isotopically enriched liquid xenon to search for the decay in $^{136}…
Search for non-Newtonian interactions at micrometer scale with a levitated test mass
Charles P. Blakemore, Alexander Fieguth, Akio Kawasaki +5
We report on a search for non-Newtonian forces that couple to mass, with a characteristic scale of m, using an optically levitated microsphere as a precision force sens…
High sensitivity, levitated microsphere apparatus for short-distance force measurements
Akio Kawasaki, Alexander Fieguth, Nadav Priel +3
A high sensitivity force sensor based on dielectric microspheres in vacuum, optically trapped by a single, upward-propagating laser beam, is described. Off-axis parabolic mirrors a…
Absolute pressure and gas species identification with an optically levitated rotor
Charles P. Blakemore, Denzal Martin, Alexander Fieguth +4
The authors describe a novel variety of spinning-rotor vacuum gauge in which the rotor is a m-diameter silica microsphere, optically levitated. A rotating elec…
Searching for a solar relaxion/scalar with XENON1T and LUX
Ranny Budnik, Oz Davidi, Hyungjin Kim +2
We consider liquid xenon dark matter detectors for searching a light scalar particle produced in the solar core, specifically one that couples to electrons. Through its interaction…
Wide band spectroscopic response of monocrystallines to low dose neutron and gamma radiation
Yossi Mosbacher, Micha Weiss, Hagar Landsman +7
We identify a number of crystalline structures with promising characteristics to serve as a detection medium for a novel Dark Matter (DM) detector with a low threshold energy. A de…
Precision Mass and Density Measurement of Individual Optically Levitated Microspheres
Charles P. Blakemore, Alexander D. Rider, Sandip Roy +4
We report an mass measurement of approximately-m-diameter, optically levitated microspheres with an electrostatic co-levitation technique. The mas…
Constraining the Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections with XENON1T
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +126
We report the first experimental results on spin-dependent elastic weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) nucleon scattering from the XENON1T dark matter search experiment. The…
Electrically Driven, Optically Levitated Microscopic Rotors
Alexander D. Rider, Charles P. Blakemore, Akio Kawasaki +3
We report on the electrically driven rotation of m-radius, optically levitated dielectric microspheres. Electric fields are used to apply torques to a microsphere's permanen…
First results on the scalar WIMP-pion coupling, using the XENON1T experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +128
We present first results on the scalar WIMP-pion coupling from 1 tyr of exposure with the XENON1T experiment. This interaction is generated when the WIMP couples to a virtu…
Dark Matter Search Results from a One TonneYear Exposure of XENON1T
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +116
We report on a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using 278.8 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment at LNGS. XENON1T utilizes a liquid xenon time…
Search for Bosonic Super-WIMP Interactions with the XENON100 Experiment
XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +118
We present results of searches for vector and pseudo-scalar bosonic super-WIMPs, which are dark matter candidates with masses at the keV-scale, with the XENON100 experiment. XENON1…
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…
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…
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…
Effective field theory search for high-energy nuclear recoils using the XENON100 dark matter detector
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +114
We report on WIMP search results in the XENON100 detector using a non-relativistic effective field theory approach. The data from science run II (34 kg 224.6 live days) wa…
Material radioassay and selection for the XENON1T dark matter experiment
XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +118
The XENON1T dark matter experiment aims to detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) through low-energy interactions with xenon atoms. To detect such a rare event necessi…
First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +122
We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a 2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazion…