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

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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…

hep-ex2019★ 518 cited

Light Dark Matter Search with Ionization Signals in XENON1T

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +130

We report constraints on light dark matter (DM) models using ionization signals in the XENON1T experiment. We mitigate backgrounds with strong event selections, rather than requiri…

physics.ins-det2019★ 69 cited

XENON1T Dark Matter Data Analysis: Signal Reconstruction, Calibration and Event Selection

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +125

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso is the most sensitive direct detection experiment for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting particles (WIM…

physics.ins-det2019★ 28 cited

The XENON1T Data Acquisition System

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +130

The XENON1T liquid xenon time projection chamber is the most sensitive detector built to date for the measurement of direct interactions of weakly interacting massive particles wit…

physics.ins-det2019★ 80 cited

XENON1T Dark Matter Data Analysis: Signal & Background Models, and Statistical Inference

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +123

The XENON1T experiment searches for dark matter particles through their scattering off xenon atoms in a 2 tonne liquid xenon target. The detector is a dual-phase time projection ch…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 239 cited

Constraining the Spin-Dependent WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections with XENON1T

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +126

We report the first experimental results on spin-dependent elastic weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) nucleon scattering from the XENON1T dark matter search experiment. The…

hep-ph2018★ 36 cited

First results on the scalar WIMP-pion coupling, using the XENON1T experiment

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +128

We present first results on the scalar WIMP-pion coupling from 1 tyr of exposure with the XENON1T experiment. This interaction is generated when the WIMP couples to a virtu…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 1.8k cited

Dark Matter Search Results from a One TonneYear Exposure of XENON1T

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +116

We report on a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using 278.8 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment at LNGS. XENON1T utilizes a liquid xenon time…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 26 cited

Search for Bosonic Super-WIMP Interactions with the XENON100 Experiment

XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +118

We present results of searches for vector and pseudo-scalar bosonic super-WIMPs, which are dark matter candidates with masses at the keV-scale, with the XENON100 experiment. XENON1…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 36 cited

Signal Yields of keV Electronic Recoils and Their Discrimination from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +116

We report on the response of liquid xenon to low energy electronic recoils below 15 keV from beta decays of tritium at drift fields of 92 V/cm, 154 V/cm and 366 V/cm using the XENO…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 264 cited

The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +142

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the first WIMP dark matter detector operating with a liquid xenon target mass above the ton-scale. Out o…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 23 cited

Intrinsic backgrounds from Rn and Kr in the XENON100 experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +115

In this paper, we describe the XENON100 data analyses used to assess the target-intrinsic background sources radon (Rn), thoron (Rn) and krypton (Kr). We det…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 55 cited

Effective field theory search for high-energy nuclear recoils using the XENON100 dark matter detector

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +114

We report on WIMP search results in the XENON100 detector using a non-relativistic effective field theory approach. The data from science run II (34 kg 224.6 live days) wa…

physics.ins-det2017★ 65 cited

Material radioassay and selection for the XENON1T dark matter experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +118

The XENON1T dark matter experiment aims to detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) through low-energy interactions with xenon atoms. To detect such a rare event necessi…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 867 cited

First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +122

We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a 2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazion…

hep-ex2017★ 58 cited

Search for WIMP Inelastic Scattering off Xenon Nuclei with XENON100

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +113

We present the first constraints on the spin-dependent, inelastic scattering cross section of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons from XENON100 data with an ex…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 9 cited

Search for magnetic inelastic dark matter with XENON100

XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +112

We present the first search for dark matter-induced delayed coincidence signals in a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, using the 224.6 live days of the XENON100 science run…

physics.ins-det2017★ 46 cited

Online Rn removal by cryogenic distillation in the XENON100 experiment

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +119

We describe the purification of xenon from traces of the radioactive noble gas radon using a cryogenic distillation column. The distillation column is integrated into the gas purif…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 72 cited

Search for Electronic Recoil Event Rate Modulation with 4 Years of XENON100 Data

The XENON collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +111

We report on a search for electronic recoil event rate modulation signatures in the XENON100 data accumulated over a period of 4 years, from January 2010 to January 2014. A profile…

physics.ins-det2016★ 72 cited

Removing krypton from xenon by cryogenic distillation to the ppq level

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +119

The XENON1T experiment aims for the direct detection of dark matter in a cryostat filled with 3.3 tons of liquid xenon. In order to achieve the desired sensitivity, the background…

physics.ins-det2016★ 37 cited

Results from a Calibration of XENON100 Using a Source of Dissolved Radon-220

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +118

A Rn-220 source is deployed on the XENON100 dark matter detector in order to address the challenges in calibration of tonne-scale liquid noble element detectors. We show that the P…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 134 cited

XENON100 Dark Matter Results from a Combination of 477 Live Days

XENON100 Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +114

We report on WIMP search results of the XENON100 experiment, combining three runs summing up to 477 live days from January 2010 to January 2014. Data from the first two runs were a…

nucl-ex2016★ 20 cited

Search for Two-Neutrino Double Electron Capture of Xe with XENON100

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +114

Two-neutrino double electron capture is a rare nuclear decay where two electrons are simultaneously captured from the atomic shell. For Xe this process has not yet been obs…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 392 cited

DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector

J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi +116

DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN (DARWIN) will be an experiment for the direct detection of dark matter using a multi-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core.…