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19982026
most citedThe next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory LENA

228 citations · 732 across the 48 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

hep-ph2026

A New Way to Detect Axions from Captured in the Earth

Ionel Lazanu, Konstantin Zioutas

Macroscopic dark matter with dominating strong interactions, supposed to be composites, represents an alternative to the most popular WIMP particles. Predicted in various models as…

astro-ph.HE2025

Dark matter signatures in cosmic rays

M. Maroudas, A. Argiriou, G. Cantatore +11

This study analyzes an 11-year cosmic ray dataset of positrons and antiprotons for planetary dependencies related to gravitationally focused dark matter streams. By projecting even…

hep-ph2025

Nuclear effects in proton decay

Denis Barbu, Mihaela Parvu, Ionel Lazanu

Proton decay detection could put in evidence physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). In this context, multiple projects are searching for such events. We focused our work on two o…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

A new possible way to detect Axion Anti-quark Nuggets

Ionel Lazanu, Mihaela Parvu

The axion anti-quark nugget (AN) model was developed to explain in a natural way the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in Universe. In this hypothesis, a si…

hep-ph2024★ 4 cited

Exploring the detection of AQNs in large liquid detectors

Ionel Lazanu, Mihaela Parvu

Recent work from the last years has raised the possibility that a portion of Dark Matter could consist of exotic particles, such as axion (anti)quark nuggets (AQN, A\bar{Q}N). Afte…

physics.ins-det2022★ 6 cited

Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

A. Avasthi, T. Bezerra, A. Borkum +28

We find that it is possible to increase sensitivity to low energy physics in a third or fourth DUNE-like module with careful controls over radiopurity and some modifications to a d…