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most citedDark Matter Search Results from the Complete Exposure of the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber

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physics.ins-det2025

Performance of FBK VUV-HD3 and HPK VUV4 SiPMs in the Light-only Liquid Xenon (LoLX) Detector

Xiang Li, David Gallacher, Stephanie Bron +10

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are a critical technology for the next generation of rare-event search experiments using liquid xenon (LXe). LXe scintillation is emitted primarily…

physics.ins-det2023★ 10 cited

Electron transport measurements in liquid xenon with Xenoscope, a large-scale DARWIN demonstrator

L. Baudis, Y. Biondi, A. Bismark +10

There is a compelling physics case for a large, xenon-based underground detector devoted to dark matter and other rare-event searches. A two-phase time projection chamber as inner…

physics.ins-det2022★ 11 cited

Determining the bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in superheated CF dark matter detectors

B. Ali, I. J. Arnquist, D. Baxter +54

The bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in superheated liquids plays a crucial role in interpreting results from direct searches for weakly interacting massi…

physics.ins-det2022★ 8 cited

GPU-based optical simulation of the DARWIN detector

L. Althueser, B. Antunović, E. Aprile +77

Understanding propagation of scintillation light is critical for maximizing the discovery potential of next-generation liquid xenon detectors that use dual-phase time projection ch…

physics.ins-det2021★ 10 cited

Design and construction of Xenoscope -- a full-scale vertical demonstrator for the DARWIN observatory

L. Baudis, Y. Biondi, M. Galloway +6

The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and other rare interactions. It will operate a 50 t liquid xenon detector, with 4…

physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

Solar Neutrino Detection Sensitivity in DARWIN via Electron Scattering

J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud +163

We detail the sensitivity of the liquid xenon (LXe) DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the potential to measure th…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 17 cited

The first dual-phase xenon TPC equipped with silicon photomultipliers and characterisation with Ar

L. Baudis, Y. Biondi, M. Galloway +6

For the first time, a small dual-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber was equipped with a top array of silicon photomultipliers for light and charge readout. Here we de…

physics.ins-det2019★ 20 cited

Data-Driven Modeling of Electron Recoil Nucleation in PICO CF Bubble Chambers

C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +76

The primary advantage of moderately superheated bubble chamber detectors is their simultaneous sensitivity to nuclear recoils from WIMP dark matter and insensitivity to electron re…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 315 cited

Dark Matter Search Results from the Complete Exposure of the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber

C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +69

Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 CF dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of CF located in the SNOLAB underground laborat…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 2 cited

Developing a Bubble Chamber Particle Discriminator Using Semi-Supervised Learning

B. Matusch, C. Amole, M. Ardid +70

The identification of non-signal events is a major hurdle to overcome for bubble chamber dark matter experiments such as PICO-60. The current practice of manually developing a disc…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 308 cited

Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber

C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +59

New results are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of CF located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. As i…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 151 cited

Improved dark matter search results from PICO-2L Run 2

C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +55

New data are reported from a second run of the 2-liter PICO-2L CF bubble chamber with a total exposure of 129kg-days at a thermodynamic threshold energy of 3.3keV.…

hep-ex2015★ 138 cited

Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CFI Bubble Chamber

C. Amole, M. Ardid, D. M. Asner +56

New data are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 36.8 kg of CFI and located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. PICO…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 265 cited

Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-2L CF Bubble Chamber

C. Amole, M. Ardid, D. M. Asner +54

New data are reported from the operation of a 2-liter CF bubble chamber in the 2100 meter deep SNOLAB underground laboratory, with a total exposure of 211.5 kg-days at four…