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20242026
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13 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Setting limits on blazar-boosted dark matter with xenon-based detectors

Erin Barillier, Laura Manenti, Knut Mora +5

Dual-phase xenon time projection chambers achieve optimal sensitivity for dark matter in the 10 to 1000 GeV/c mass range, but sub-GeV dark matter particles lack sufficient ener…

hep-ex2025

Searches for Light Dark Matter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar Neutrinos with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +217

We present searches for light dark matter (DM) with masses 3-9 GeV/ in the presence of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) from B solar neutrinos wit…

astro-ph.IM2025

Characterisation of the Bedretto Underground Site for Fundamental Physics Experiments

Björn Penning, Nicolas Angelides, Laura Baudis +33

Underground laboratories provide the ultra-low background and low-vibration environments essential for rare-event searches, gravitational-wave detection, and quantum-sensing techno…

hep-ex2025

The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441

This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline desi…

physics.ins-det2025

Dark counts in optical superconducting transition-edge sensors for rare-event searches

Laura Manenti, Carlo Pepe, Isaac Sarnoff +12

Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) are a type of quantum sensor known for its high single-photon detection efficiency and low background. This makes them ideal for part…

physics.ins-det2025

The XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +192

The multi-staged XENON program at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso aims to detect dark matter with two-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers of increasing size and se…