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The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary Systems
N. Ackerman, J. Albert, M. Auger +157
The EXO-200 experiment searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe with a single-phase liquid xenon detector. It used an active mass of 110 kg of 80.6%-enriched liqui…
Reflectivity of VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers in Liquid Xenon
M. Wagenpfeil, T. Ziegler, J. Schneider +140
Silicon photomultipliers are regarded as a very promising technology for next-generation, cutting-edge detectors for low-background experiments in particle physics. This work prese…
Event Reconstruction in a Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber with an Optically-Open Field Cage
T. Stiegler, S. Sangiorgio, J. P. Brodsky +148
nEXO is a proposed tonne-scale neutrinoless double beta decay () experiment using liquid (LXe) in a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to read out ionization and scin…
Reflectance of Silicon Photomultipliers at Vacuum Ultraviolet Wavelengths
P. Lv, G. F. Cao, L. J. Wen +148
Characterization of the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) reflectance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) is important for large-scale SiPM-based photodetector systems. We report the angula…
Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode
O. Njoya, T. Tsang, M. Tarka +153
Measurements of electron drift properties in liquid and gaseous xenon are reported. The electrons are generated by the photoelectric effect in a semi-transparent gold photocathode…
Reflectivity and PDE of VUV4 Hamamatsu SiPMs in Liquid Xenon
P. Nakarmi, I. Ostrovskiy, A. K. Soma +152
Understanding reflective properties of materials and photodetection efficiency (PDE) of photodetectors is important for optimizing energy resolution and sensitivity of the next gen…
Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment
200 Collaboration, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +99
Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event searches. We use the EXO-200 experimental data to measure the absolute scintillation and i…
Simulation of charge readout with segmented tiles in nEXO
Z. Li, W. R. Cen, A. Robinson +150
nEXO is a proposed experiment to search for the neutrino-less double beta decay () of Xe in a tonne-scale liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The nEXO TPC wil…
Study of Silicon Photomultiplier Performance in External Electric Fields
X. L. Sun, T. Tolba, G. F. Cao +149
We report on the performance of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) light sensors operating in electric field strength up to 30 kV/cm and at a temperature of 149K, relative to their per…
VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO
A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt +140
Future tonne-scale liquefied noble gas detectors depend on efficient light detection in the VUV range. In the past years Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have emerged as a valid al…
nEXO Pre-Conceptual Design Report
nEXO Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, A. Alamre +171
The projected performance and detector configuration of nEXO are described in this pre-Conceptual Design Report (pCDR). nEXO is a tonne-scale neutrinoless double beta () deca…
Deep Neural Networks for Energy and Position Reconstruction in EXO-200
S. Delaquis, M. J. Jewell, I. Ostrovskiy +91
We apply deep neural networks (DNN) to data from the EXO-200 experiment. In the studied cases, the DNN is able to reconstruct the relevant parameters - total energy and position -…
Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO
nEXO Collaboration, M. Jewell, A. Schubert +142
A new design for the anode of a time projection chamber, consisting of a charge-detecting "tile", is investigated for use in large scale liquid xenon detectors. The tile is produce…
The COBRA demonstrator at the LNGS underground laboratory
The COBRA collaboration, J. Ebert, M. Fritts +28
The COBRA demonstrator, a prototype for a large-scale experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay, was built at the underground laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran…
Detection of non-classical space-time correlations with a novel type of single-photon camera
Felix Just, Mykhaylo Filipenko, Andrea Cavanna +9
During the last decades, multi-pixel detectors have been developed capable of registering single photons. The newly developed Hybrid Photon Detector camera has a remarkable propert…
Three dimensional photograph of single electron tracks through a scintillator
Mykhaylo Filipenko, Timur Ishakov, Patrick Hufschmidt +8
The reconstruction of particle trajectories makes it possible to distinguish between different types of charged particles. In high-energy physics, where trajectories are rather lon…
3D Particle Track Reconstrution in a Single Layer Cadmium-Telluride Hybrid Active Pixel Detector
Mykhaylo Filipenko, Thomas Gleixner, Gisela Anton +1
In the past 20 years the search for neutrinoless double beta decay has driven many developements in all kind of detector technology. A new branch in this field are highly-pixelated…
Charged Particle Tracking with the Timepix ASIC
Kazuyoshi Akiba, Marina Artuso, Ryan Badman +39
A prototype particle tracking telescope has been constructed using Timepix and Medipix ASIC hybrid pixel assemblies as the six sensing planes. Each telescope plane consisted of one…