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most citedSensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double beta decay

183 citations · 689 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.ins-det2025

Characterization of CRYO ASIC for charge readout in the nEXO experiment

Z. Li, M. Yu, E. Angelico +141

nEXO is a proposed next-generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay of Xe using a tonne-scale liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber (TPC). T…

physics.ins-det2025

Scintillation of liquid nitrogen

L. Pagani, R. Saldanha, B. M. Loer +3

Liquid nitrogen is commonly used in cryogenic applications and is a promising medium for the direct immersion cooling of sensors used for nuclear and particle physics experiments.…

nucl-ex2025

Sensitivity of nEXO to Xe Charged-Current Interactions: Background-free Searches for Solar Neutrinos and Fermionic Dark Matter

G. Richardson, B. G. Lenardo, D. Gallacher +135

We study the sensitivity of nEXO to solar neutrino charged-current interactions, XeCs, as well as analogous interactions predicted by mo…

physics.atom-ph2024

Imaging of single barium atoms in a second matrix site in solid xenon for barium tagging in a Xe double beta decay experiment

M. Yvaine, D. Fairbank, J. Soderstrom +134

Neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the most sensitive probes for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. One of the isotopes under investigation is $^{136}…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Supernova electron-neutrino interactions with xenon in the nEXO detector

nEXO Collaboration, S. Hedges, S. Al Kharusi +144

Electron-neutrino charged-current interactions with xenon nuclei were modeled in the nEXO neutrinoless double- decay detector (~5 metric ton, 90% Xe, 10% Xe)…

nucl-ex2022★ 7 cited

Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

C. Adams, K. Alfonso, C. Andreoiu +229

This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta…

physics.ins-det2022★ 26 cited

Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

G. Gallina, Y. Guan, F. Retiere +162

Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume,…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

Development of a Xe calibration source for nEXO

B. G. Lenardo, C. A. Hardy, R. H. M. Tsang +125

We study a possible calibration technique for the nEXO experiment using a Xe electron capture source. nEXO is a next-generation search for neutrinoless double beta decay ($…

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…

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 3 cited

Measurement of the onset of nucleate boiling in liquid xenon

P. A. Breur, G. S. Ortega, P. C. Rowson +4

We report the first precision measurement of the superheat temperature required for bubble nucleation in liquid xenon of = (16.90.5) K and = (1…

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★ 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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 7 cited

Triplet Lifetime in Gaseous Argon

Michael Akashi-Ronquest, Amanda Bacon, Christopher Benson +27

MiniCLEAN is a single-phase liquid argon dark matter experiment. During the initial cooling phase, impurities within the cold gas (140 K) were monitored by measuring the scintil…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 51 cited

Characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 MPPCs for nEXO

G. Gallina, P. Giampa, F. Retiere +148

In this paper we report on the characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 (S/N: S13370-6152) Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) as part of the develo…

physics.ins-det2018★ 11 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 43 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2018★ 77 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2017★ 25 cited

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…

nucl-ex2017★ 183 cited

Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double beta decay

nEXO Collaboration, J. B. Albert, G. Anton +143

The next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to search for neutrinoless double beta () decay in Xe with a target half-life sensitivi…