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hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

First measurement of reactor neutrino oscillations at JUNO

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz +1131

Neutrino oscillations, a quantum effect manifesting at macroscopic scales, are governed by lepton flavor mixing angles and neutrino mass-squared differences that are fundamental pa…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Initial performance results of the JUNO detector

Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam, Kai Adamowicz +1131

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) started physics data taking on 26 August 2025. JUNO consists of a 20-kton liquid scintillator central detector, surrounded by a…

nucl-ex2022★ 5 cited

Measurement of the Neutron Cross Section on Argon Between 95 and 720 MeV

S. Martynenko, B. Bhandari, J. Bian +72

We report an extended measurement of the neutron cross section on argon in the energy range of 95-720 MeV. The measurement was obtained with a 4.3-hour exposure of the Mini-CAPTAIN…

physics.ins-det2021

BambooMC -- A Geant4-based simulation program for the PandaX experiments

Xun Chen, Chen Cheng, Mengting Fu +11

The purpose of the PandaX experiments is to search for the possible events resulted from dark matter particles, neutrinoless double beta decay or other rare processes with xenon de…

physics.ins-det2020★ 3 cited

The Mini-CAPTAIN Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber

CAPTAIN Collaboration, C. E. Taylor, B. Bhandari +73

This manuscript describes the commissioning of the Mini-CAPTAIN liquid argon detector in a neutron beam at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), which led to a first meas…

physics.ins-det2020★ 16 cited

Internal Calibration of the PandaX-II Detector with Radon Gaseous Sources

Wenbo Ma, Abdusalam Abdukerim, Zihao Bo +65

We have developed a low-energy electron recoil (ER) calibration method with Rn for the PandaX-II detector. Rn, emanated from natural thorium compounds, was fed into…

physics.ins-det2020★ 70 cited

TAO Conceptual Design Report: A Precision Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum with Sub-percent Energy Resolution

JUNO Collaboration, Angel Abusleme, Thomas Adam +585

The Taishan Antineutrino Observatory (TAO, also known as JUNO-TAO) is a satellite experiment of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO). A ton-level liquid scintillato…

hep-ex2019★ 15 cited

An Improved Evaluation of the Neutron Background in the PandaX-II Experiment

Qiuhong Wang, Abdusalam Abdukerim, Wei Chen +60

In dark matter direct detection experiments, neutron is a serious source of background, which can mimic the dark matter-nucleus scattering signals. In this paper, we present an imp…

hep-ex2019★ 36 cited

Searching for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay of Xe with PandaX-II Liquid Xenon Detector

Kaixiang Ni, Yihui Lai, Abdusalam Abdukerim +60

We report the Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) search results from PandaX-II dual-phase liquid xenon time projection chamber. The total live time used in this analysis is 40…

hep-ex2019★ 20 cited

First Measurement of the Total Neutron Cross Section on Argon Between 100 and 800 MeV

B. Bhandari, J. Bian, K. Bilton +73

We report the first measurement of the neutron cross section on argon in the energy range of 100-800 MeV. The measurement was obtained with a 4.3-hour exposure of the Mini-CAPTAIN…

physics.ins-det2019★ 19 cited

Topological background discrimination in the PandaX-III neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

J Galan, X Chen, H Du +62

The PandaX-III experiment plans to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0) of Xe in the China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL). The experiment will use a hi…

hep-ex2018★ 82 cited

PandaX-II Constraints on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Effective Interactions

Jingkai Xia, Abdusalam Abdukerim, Xun Chen +57

We present PandaX-II constraints on candidate WIMP-nucleon effective interactions involving the nucleon or WIMP spin, including, in addition to standard axial spin-dependent (SD) s…

physics.ins-det2018★ 161 cited

Dark matter direct search sensitivity of the PandaX-4T experiment

Hongguang Zhang, Abdusalam Abdukerim, Xun Chen +57

The PandaX-4T experiment, a four-ton scale dark matter direct detection experiment, is being planned at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. In this paper we present a simulat…

hep-ph2018★ 69 cited

Constraining Dark Matter Models with a Light Mediator from PandaX-II Experiment

Xiangxiang Ren, Li Zhao, Abdusalam Abdukerim +44

We search for nuclear recoil signals of dark matter models with a light mediator in PandaX-II, a direct detection experiment in China Jinping underground Laboratory. Using data col…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 915 cited

Dark Matter Results From 54-Ton-Day Exposure of PandaX-II Experiment

II Collaboration, Xiangyi Cui, Abdusalam Abdukerim +54

We report a new search of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the combined low background data sets in 2016 and 2017 from the PandaX-II experiment in China. The late…

hep-ex2017★ 20 cited

Exploring the dark matter inelastic frontier with 79.6 days of PandaX-II data

II Collaboration, Xun Chen, Abdusalam Abdukerim +45

We report here the results of searching for inelastic scattering of dark matter (initial and final state dark matter particles differ by a small mass splitting) with nucleon with t…

hep-ex2017★ 121 cited

Limits on Axion Couplings from the first 80-day data of PandaX-II Experiment

Changbo Fu, Xiaopeng Zhou, Xun Chen +34

We report new searches for the solar axions and galactic axion-like dark matter particles, using the first low-background data from PandaX-II experiment at China Jinping Undergroun…

hep-ex2016★ 135 cited

Spin-Dependent Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particle--Nucleon Cross Section Limits from First Data of PandaX-II Experiment

Changbo Fu, Xiangyi Cui, Xiaopeng Zhou +34

New constraints are presented on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interaction from the PandaX-II experiment, using a data set corresponding to a total exposure of 3.3 kg…

physics.ins-det2016★ 12 cited

PandaX-III: Searching for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with High Pressure Xe Gas Time Projection Chambers

Xun Chen, Changbo Fu, Javier Galan +67

Searching for the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NLDBD) is now regarded as the topmost promising technique to explore the nature of neutrinos after the discovery of neutrino masse…

hep-ex2016★ 605 cited

Dark Matter Results from First 98.7-day Data of PandaX-II Experiment

II Collaboration, Andi Tan, Mengjiao Xiao +50

We report the WIMP dark matter search results using the first physics-run data of the PandaX-II 500 kg liquid xenon dual-phase time-projection chamber, operating at the China JinPi…

hep-ex2016★ 77 cited

Dark Matter Search Results from the Commissioning Run of PandaX-II

PandaX Collaboration, Andi Tan, Xiang Xiao +51

We present the results of a search for WIMPs from the commissioning run of the PandaX-II experiment located at the China Jinping underground Laboratory. A WIMP search data set with…

physics.ins-det2015★ 187 cited

JUNO Conceptual Design Report

T. Adam, F. An, G. An +347

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is proposed to determine the neutrino mass hierarchy using an underground liquid scintillator detector. It is located 53 km awa…

physics.ins-det2014★ 18 cited

Improving Photoelectron Counting and Particle Identification in Scintillation Detectors with Bayesian Techniques

M. Akashi-Ronquest, P. -A. Amaudruz, M. Batygov +79

Many current and future dark matter and neutrino detectors are designed to measure scintillation light with a large array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The energy resolution and…

physics.ins-det2014

Update on the MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

K. Rielage, M. Akashi-Ronquest, M. Bodmer +43

The direct search for dark matter is entering a period of increased sensitivity to the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). One such technology that is being ex…