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most citedDark Matter Search Results from a One TonneYear Exposure of XENON1T

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physics.ins-det2024★ 76 cited

The XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +192

The multi-staged XENON program at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso aims to detect dark matter with two-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers of increasing size and se…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Design and performance of the field cage for the XENONnT experiment

E. Aprile, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud +161

The precision in reconstructing events detected in a dual-phase time projection chamber depends on an homogeneous and well understood electric field within the liquid target. In th…

hep-ex2023

Search for events in XENON1T associated with Gravitational Waves

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +160

We perform a blind search for particle signals in the XENON1T dark matter detector that occur close in time to gravitational wave signals in the LIGO and Virgo observatories. No pa…

hep-ex2023★ 18 cited

Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T

E. Aprile, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud +164

Multiple viable theoretical models predict heavy dark matter particles with a mass close to the Planck mass, a range relatively unexplored by current experimental measurements. We…

hep-ex2023★ 12 cited

Detector signal characterization with a Bayesian network in XENONnT

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +164

We developed a detector signal characterization model based on a Bayesian network trained on the waveform attributes generated by a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. By per…

hep-ex2023★ 437 cited

First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, K. Abe +163

We report on the first search for nuclear recoils from dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with the XENONnT experiment which is based on a two-p…

physics.ins-det2022★ 18 cited

The Triggerless Data Acquisition System of the XENONnT Experiment

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +162

The XENONnT detector uses the latest and largest liquid xenon-based time projection chamber (TPC) operated by the XENON Collaboration, aimed at detecting Weakly Interacting Massive…

physics.ins-det2022★ 13 cited

Low-energy Calibration of XENON1T with an Internal Ar Source

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +161

A low-energy electronic recoil calibration of XENON1T, a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, with an internal Ar source was performed. This calibration source features…

hep-ex2022

An approximate likelihood for nuclear recoil searches with XENON1T data

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +151

The XENON collaboration has published stringent limits on specific dark matter -nucleon recoil spectra from dark matter recoiling on the liquid xenon detector target. In this paper…

hep-ex2022★ 7 cited

Effective field theory and inelastic dark matter results from XENON1T

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +157

In this work, we expand on the XENON1T nuclear recoil searches to study the individual signals of dark matter interactions from operators up to dimension-eight in a Chiral Effectiv…

hep-ex2022★ 294 cited

Search for New Physics in Electronic Recoil Data from XENONnT

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +163

We report on a blinded analysis of low-energy electronic-recoil data from the first science run of the XENONnT dark matter experiment. Novel subsystems and the increased 5.9 tonne…

physics.ins-det2022★ 27 cited

Liquid-phase purification for multi-tonne xenon detectors

G. Plante, E. Aprile, J. Howlett +1

As liquid xenon detectors grow in scale, novel techniques are required to maintain sufficient purity for charges to survive across longer drifts. The Xeclipse test facility at Colu…

hep-ex2022★ 43 cited

Double-Weak Decays of Xe and Xe in the XENON1T and XENONnT Experiments

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +157

We present results on the search for double-electron capture () of Xe and neutrinoless double- decay () of Xe in XENON1T. We consider captur…

physics.ins-det2022★ 159 cited

A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591

The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

Application and modeling of an online distillation method to reduce krypton and argon in XENON1T

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +151

A novel online distillation technique was developed for the XENON1T dark matter experiment to reduce intrinsic background components more volatile than xenon, such as krypton or ar…

hep-ex2021★ 113 cited

Emission of Single and Few Electrons in XENON1T and Limits on Light Dark Matter

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +152

Delayed single- and few-electron emissions plague dual-phase time projection chambers, limiting their potential to search for light-mass dark matter. This paper examines the origin…

physics.ins-det2021

Material radiopurity control in the XENONnT experiment

E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini +150

The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of the utmost importance for rare-event searches and thus critical to the XENONnT experiment. Results of an extensive rad…

hep-ex2020★ 114 cited

Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar B Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +135

We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar B neutrinos elastically scattering off xenon nuclei in XENON1T data, lowering the energy threshold from 2.6 keV to 1…

hep-ex2020★ 27 cited

Search for inelastic scattering of WIMP dark matter in XENON1T

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +138

We report the results of a search for the inelastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Scattering off Xe is t…

physics.ins-det2020★ 241 cited

Projected WIMP Sensitivity of the XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment

The XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +137

XENONnT is a dark matter direct detection experiment, utilizing 5.9 t of instrumented liquid xenon, located at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. In this work, we predic…

hep-ex2020★ 501 cited

Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +136

We report results from searches for new physics with low-energy electronic recoil data recorded with the XENON1T detector. With an exposure of 0.65 t-y and an unprecedentedly low b…

physics.ins-det2020★ 4 cited

Solar Neutrino Detection Sensitivity in DARWIN via Electron Scattering

J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud +163

We detail the sensitivity of the liquid xenon (LXe) DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the potential to measure th…

physics.ins-det2020★ 14 cited

Energy resolution and linearity of XENON1T in the MeV energy range

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +135

Xenon dual-phase time projection chambers designed to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles have so far shown a relative energy resolution which degrades with energy abov…

hep-ex2019★ 255 cited

Search for Light Dark Matter Interactions Enhanced by the Migdal effect or Bremsstrahlung in XENON1T

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +131

Direct dark matter detection experiments based on a liquid xenon target are leading the search for dark matter particles with masses above 5 GeV/c, but have limited sens…