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20142026
most citedSearch for Majorana neutrinos with the first two years of EXO-200 data

437 citations · 2.2k across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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47 papers

physics.ins-det2026

EXO-200 Public Data Release for AI/ML Applications

S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +103

We present a public release of a subset of calibration data from the EXO-200 experiment, a liquid xenon time projection chamber designed to search for neutrinoless double-beta deca…

hep-ex2026

Design of ALPHA Phase I: A Plasma Haloscope for 10--20 GHz Post-Inflation Axions

ALPHA Collaboration, Xiran Bai, Rustam Balafendiev +53

The axion is a well-motivated hypothetical particle capable of resolving both the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery, with recent post-inflationary cosmological simulati…

hep-ex2025

Search for Dark Photons between 16.96--19.52 eV with the HAYSTAC Experiment

Xiran Bai, A. Droster, J. Echevers +21

We report dark photon results from HAYSTAC Phase II using data from previously reported axion searches. Additionally, we present an analysis of an unpublished dataset covering a re…

hep-ex2024★ 28 cited

Dark Matter Axion Search with HAYSTAC Phase II

HAYSTAC Collaboration, Xiran Bai, M. J. Jewell +22

This Letter reports new results from the HAYSTAC experiment's search for dark matter axions in our galactic halo. It represents the widest search to date that utilizes squeezing to…

hep-ex2023★ 18 cited

Rydberg-atom-based single-photon detection for haloscope axion searches

Eleanor Graham, Sumita Ghosh, Yuqi Zhu +8

We propose a Rydberg-atom-based single-photon detector for signal readout in dark matter haloscope experiments between 40 eV and 200 eV (10 GHz and 50 GHz). At these frequenc…

physics.ins-det2023★ 5 cited

On the use of dielectric elements in axion searches with microwave resonant cavities

Xiran Bai, Michael J. Jewell, Steve K. Lamoreaux +2

This study explores the primary effects of dielectric materials in a resonant cavity-based search for axion dark matter. While dielectrics prove beneficial in numerous cases, their…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

Generative Adversarial Networks for Scintillation Signal Simulation in EXO-200

S. Li, I. Ostrovskiy, Z. Li +87

Generative Adversarial Networks trained on samples of simulated or actual events have been proposed as a way of generating large simulated datasets at a reduced computational cost.…

hep-ex2023★ 6 cited

Search for Two-neutrino Double-Beta Decay of to the excited state of with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset

200 Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton +104

A new search for two-neutrino double-beta () decay of to the excited state of is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. A deep learnin…

physics.ins-det2022★ 4 cited

An improved synthetic signal injection routine for the Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion Cold dark matter (HAYSTAC)

Yuqi Zhu, M. J. Jewell, Claire Laffan +6

Microwave cavity haloscopes are among the most sensitive direct detection experiments searching for dark matter axions via their coupling to photons. When the power of the expected…

hep-ex2022★ 12 cited

Search for MeV Electron Recoils from Dark Matter in EXO-200

200 Collaboration, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton +104

We present a search for electron-recoil signatures from the charged-current absorption of fermionic dark matter using the EXO-200 detector. We report an average electron recoil bac…

hep-ex2022★ 24 cited

Axion Dark Matter

C. B. Adams, N. Aggarwal, A. Agrawal +152

Axions are well-motivated dark matter candidates with simple cosmological production mechanisms. They were originally introduced to solve the strong CP problem, but also arise in a…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 9 cited

EIT spectroscopy of high-lying Rydberg states in

Yuqi Zhu, Sumita Ghosh, S. B. Cahn +3

We present a study of the Rydberg spectrum in for and series connected to using two-photon spectroscopy based on EIT in a heated vapor cell. W…

hep-ex2021★ 3 cited

Search for Majoron-emitting modes of Xe double beta decay with the complete EXO-200 dataset

S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +103

A search for Majoron-emitting modes of the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset. This dataset consists of a total Xe expo…

physics.ins-det2021★ 10 cited

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…

nucl-ex2021★ 166 cited

NEXO: Neutrinoless double beta decay search beyond year half-life sensitivity

nEXO Collaboration, G. Adhikari, S. Al Kharusi +158

The nEXO neutrinoless double beta decay experiment is designed to use a time projection chamber and 5000 kg of isotopically enriched liquid xenon to search for the decay in $^{136}…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

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…

hep-ph2021

Searching for Dark Photons with Existing Haloscope Data

Sumita Ghosh, Liz Ruddy, Michael J. Jewell +2

The dark (or hidden) photon is a massive U(1) gauge boson theorized as a dark force mediator and as a dark matter candidate. Dark photons can be detected with axion cavity haloscop…

physics.ins-det2020★ 6 cited

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…

nucl-ex2020★ 9 cited

Measurement of the Spectral Shape of the beta-decay of 137Xe to the Ground State of 137Cs in EXO-200 and Comparison with Theory

S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +105

We report on a comparison between the theoretically predicted and experimentally measured spectra of the first-forbidden non-unique -decay transition $^{137}\textrm{Xe}(7/2^-)\t…

physics.ins-det2019★ 18 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 18 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 17 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 34 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 15 cited

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…