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most citedScintillation efficiency measurement of Na recoils in NaI(Tl) below the DAMA/LIBRA energy threshold

59 citations · 164 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Plenoptic imaging of particle interactions in scintillation detectors

Xiang Dai, Chi-Jui Ho, Kevin Tandi +9

Accurate 3D localization of radiation interactions in scintillation detectors is essential for nuclear and particle physics, safeguards, and medical imaging, but remains difficult…

hep-ex2026

Nuclear Recoil Migdal Effect in Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Experiments

Jingke Xu, Jeonghwa Kim, Duncan Adams +3

The Migdal effect predicts that a nuclear recoil can be accompanied by detectable atomic ionization or excitation signals, even at the low energies expected from interactions of su…

physics.ins-det2025

Gas Electroluminescence in a Dual Phase Xenon-Doped Argon Detector

James W. Kingston, Jianyang Qi, Jingke Xu +7

Noble element detectors using argon or xenon as the detection medium are widely used in the searches for rare neutrino and dark matter interactions. Xenon doping in liquid argon ca…

physics.ins-det2023★ 5 cited

Detection and Calibration of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils for Dark Matter and Neutrino Scattering Experiments

Jingke Xu, P. S. Barbeau, Ziqing Hong

Detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events plays a central role in searches for particle dark matter interactions with atomic matter and studies of coherent neutrino scatters. P…

physics.ins-det2022

Thermodynamic Stability of Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon Detectors

Ethan P. Bernard, Eli Mizrachi, James Kingston +12

Liquid argon detectors are employed in a wide variety of nuclear and particle physics experiments. The addition of small quantities of xenon to argon modifies its scintillation, io…

hep-ex2022★ 2 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Calibrations and backgrounds for dark matter direct detection

Daniel Baxter, Raymond Bunker, Sally Shaw +48

Future dark matter direct detection experiments will reach unprecedented levels of sensitivity. Achieving this sensitivity will require more precise models of signal and background…

physics.ins-det2022★ 22 cited

Performance of Hamamatsu VUV4 SiPMs for detecting liquid argon scintillation

Teal Pershing, Jingke Xu, Ethan Bernard +8

Detection of light signals is crucial to a wide range of particle detectors. In particular, efficient detection of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light will provide new opportunities for…

physics.ins-det2019★ 6 cited

Measurement of the ionization yield from nuclear recoils in liquid xenon between 0.3 -- 6 keV with single-ionization-electron sensitivity

Brian Lenardo, Jingke Xu, Sergey Pereverzev +12

Dual-phase xenon TPC detectors are a highly scalable and widely used technology to search for low-energy nuclear recoil signals from WIMP dark matter or coherent nuclear scattering…

physics.ins-det2019★ 39 cited

Electron extraction efficiency study for dual-phase xenon dark matter experiments

Jingke Xu, Sergey Pereverzev, Brian Lenardo +5

Dual-phase xenon detectors are widely used in dark matter direct detection experiments, and have demonstrated the highest sensitivities to a variety of dark matter interactions. Ho…

cs.IT2019★ 3 cited

A Capacity-Achieving -PIR Scheme Based On MDS Array Codes

Jingke Xu, Yaqian Zhang, Zhifang Zhang

Suppose a database containing records is replicated in each of servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the…

physics.ins-det2018★ 10 cited

Surface background suppression in liquid argon dark matter detectors using a newly discovered time component of tetraphenyl-butadiene scintillation

Chris Stanford, Shawn Westerdale, Jingke Xu +1

Decays of radioisotopes on inner detector surfaces can pose a major background concern for the direct detection of dark matter. While these backgrounds are conventionally mitigated…

cs.IT2017★ 3 cited

Capacity-Achieving PIR Schemes with Optimal Sub-Packetization

Zhifang Zhang, Jingke Xu

Suppose a database containing records is replicated across servers, and a user wants to privately retrieve one record by accessing the servers such that identity of the ret…

physics.ins-det2017★ 7 cited

Quenching Measurements and Modeling of a Boron-Loaded Organic Liquid Scintillator

Shawn Westerdale, Jingke Xu, Emily Shields +13

Organic liquid scintillators are used in a wide variety of applications in experimental nuclear and particle physics. Boron-loaded scintillators are particularly useful for detecti…

physics.ins-det2016★ 8 cited

First measurement of surface nuclear recoil background for argon dark matter searches

Jingke Xu, Chris Stanford, Shawn Westerdale +3

One major background in direct searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) comes from the deposition of radon progeny on detector surfaces. The most dangerous surface…

physics.ins-det2015★ 59 cited

Scintillation efficiency measurement of Na recoils in NaI(Tl) below the DAMA/LIBRA energy threshold

Jingke Xu, Emily Shields, Frank Calaprice +18

The dark matter interpretation of the DAMA modulation signal depends on the NaI(Tl) scintillation efficiency of nuclear recoils. Previous measurements for Na recoils have large dis…