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most citedAn improved upper limit on the neutrino mass from a direct kinematic method by KATRIN

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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…

physics.ins-det2023

COHERENT Collaboration data release from the measurements of CsI[Na] response to nuclear recoils

D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +75

Description of the data release 10.13139/OLCF/1969085 (https://doi.ccs.ornl.gov/ui/doi/426) from the measurements of the CsI[Na] response to low energy nuclear recoils by the COHER…

physics.ins-det2021★ 7 cited

Monitoring the SNS basement neutron background with the MARS detector

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +75

We present the analysis and results of the first dataset collected with the MARS neutron detector deployed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) for…

physics.ins-det2021★ 4 cited

Measurement of scintillation response of CsI[Na] to low-energy nuclear recoils by COHERENT

D. Akimov, P. An, C. Awe +74

We present results of several measurements of CsI[Na] scintillation response to 3-60 keV energy nuclear recoils performed by the COHERENT collaboration using tagged neutron elastic…

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 16 cited

Precision measurement of the electron energy-loss function in tritium and deuterium gas for the KATRIN experiment

M. Aker, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens +132

The KATRIN experiment is designed for a direct and model-independent determination of the effective electron anti-neutrino mass via a high-precision measurement of the tritium -…

physics.ins-det2021★ 23 cited

A DO detector for flux normalization of a pion decay-at-rest neutrino source

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +76

We report on the technical design and expected performance of a 592 kg heavy-water-Cherenkov detector to measure the absolute neutrino flux from the pion-decay-at-rest neutrino sou…

physics.ins-det2021★ 76 cited

The Design, Construction, and Commissioning of the KATRIN Experiment

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, J. F. Amsbaugh +226

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment, which aims to make a direct and model-independent determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale, is a complex experiment wit…

physics.ins-det2020★ 1 cited

Development of a Kr source for the calibration of the CENNS-10 Liquid Argon Detector

COHERENT Collaboration, D. Akimov, P. An +77

We report on the preparation of and calibration measurements with a Kr source for the CENNS-10 liquid argon detector. Kr atoms generated in the de…

physics.ins-det2020★ 20 cited

Characterization of Silicon Drift Detectors with Electrons for the TRISTAN Project

S. Mertens, T. Brunst, M. Korzeczek +30

Sterile neutrinos are a minimal extension of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A promising model-independent way to search for sterile neutrinos is via high-precision beta sp…

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★ 7 cited

Suppression of Penning discharges between the KATRIN spectrometers

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, A. Beglarian +151

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to determine the effective electron (anti)neutrino mass with a sensitivity of (90 C.L.) by precise…

physics.ins-det2019★ 38 cited

First operation of the KATRIN experiment with tritium

M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz +168

The determination of the neutrino mass is one of the major challenges in astroparticle physics today. Direct neutrino mass experiments, based solely on the kinematics of beta-decay…

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 5 cited

The Radioactive Source Calibration System of the PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Detector

PROSPECT Collaboration, J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin +62

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum (PROSPECT) Experiment is a reactor neutrino experiment designed to search for sterile neutrinos with a mass on the order of 1 eV/c$^2…

physics.ins-det2019★ 24 cited

Lithium-loaded Liquid Scintillator Production for the PROSPECT experiment

PROSPECT Collaboration, J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin +67

This work reports the production and characterization of lithium-loaded liquid scintillator (LiLS) for the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT). Fifty-n…

physics.ins-det2018★ 69 cited

The PROSPECT Reactor Antineutrino Experiment

PROSPECT Collaboration, J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin +86

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, PROSPECT, is designed to make both a precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum from a highly-enriched uranium reac…

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★ 28 cited

Performance of a segmented Li-loaded liquid scintillator detector for the PROSPECT experiment

J. Ashenfelter, A. B. Balantekin, H. R. Band +63

This paper describes the design and performance of a 50 liter, two-segment Li-loaded liquid scintillator detector that was designed and operated as prototype for the PROSPECT…

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-det2018★ 39 cited

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 -…

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…