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Ion manipulation from liquid Xe to vacuum: Ba-tagging for a nEXO upgrade and future experiments
Dwaipayan Ray, Robert Collister, Hussain Rasiwala +27
Neutrinoless double beta decay {()} provides a way to probe physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The upcoming nEXO experiment will search for decay i…
Quantum Information Science and Technology for Nuclear Physics. Input into U.S. Long-Range Planning, 2023
Douglas Beck, Joseph Carlson, Zohreh Davoudi +98
In preparation for the 2023 NSAC Long Range Plan (LRP), members of the Nuclear Science community gathered to discuss the current state of, and plans for further leveraging opportun…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Deep Neural Networks for Energy and Position Reconstruction in EXO-200
S. Delaquis, M. J. Jewell, I. Ostrovskiy +91
We apply deep neural networks (DNN) to data from the EXO-200 experiment. In the studied cases, the DNN is able to reconstruct the relevant parameters - total energy and position -…
Search for nucleon decays with EXO-200
J. B. Albert, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +92
A search for instability of nucleons bound in Xe nuclei is reported with 223 kgyr exposure of Xe in the EXO-200 experiment. Lifetime limits of 3.3$\times 10^…
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…
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…
Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the Upgraded EXO-200 Detector
J. B. Albert, G. Anton, I. Badhrees +90
Results from a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay of Xe are presented using the first year of data taken with the upgraded EXO-200 detector. Relative to previ…
Measurement of the Drift Velocity and Transverse Diffusion of Electrons in Liquid Xenon with the EXO-200 Detector
200 Collaboration, J. B. Albert, P. S. Barbeau +84
The EXO-200 Collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta decay using a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber. This measurement relies on modeling the transport of c…
An apparatus to manipulate and identify individual Ba ions from bulk liquid Xe
K. Twelker, S. Kravitz, M. Montero Díez +77
We describe a system to transport and identify barium ions produced in liquid xenon, as part of R&D towards the second phase of a double beta decay experiment, nEXO. The goal is to…
An improved measurement of the 2νββ half-life of Xe-136 with EXO-200
J. B. Albert, M. Auger, D. J. Auty +94
We report on an improved measurement of the 2νββ half-life of Xe-136 performed by EXO-200. The use of a large and homogeneous time projection chamber allows for the precise estimat…
The EXO-200 detector, part I: Detector design and construction
M. Auger, D. J. Auty, P. S. Barbeau +78
EXO-200 is an experiment designed to search for double beta decay of Xe with a single-phase, liquid xenon detector. It uses an active mass of 110 kg of xenon enriched to 80…
Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in Xe-136 with EXO-200
N. Ackerman, B. Aharmim, M. Auger +100
We report the observation of two-neutrino double-beta decay in Xe-136 with T_1/2 = 2.11 +- 0.04 (stat.) +- 0.21 (sys.) x 10^21 yr. This second order process, predicted by the Stand…
A xenon gas purity monitor for EXO
EXO Collaboration, A. Dobi, C. Hall +57
We discuss the design, operation, and calibration of two versions of a xenon gas purity monitor (GPM) developed for the EXO double beta decay program. The devices are sensitive to…
Characterization of large area APDs for the EXO-200 detector
R. Neilson, F. LePort, A. Pocar +49
EXO-200 uses 468 large area avalanche photodiodes (LAAPDs) for detection of scintillation light in an ultra-low-background liquid xenon (LXe) detector. We describe initial measurem…