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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…