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physics.ins-det2021★ 26 cited

Improved quality tests of R11410-21 photomultiplier tubes for the XENONnT experiment

V. C. Antochi, L. Baudis, J. Bollig +17

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are often used in low-background particle physics experiments, which rely on an excellent response to single-photon signals and stable long-term operat…

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★ 4 cited

Finding Dark Matter Faster with Explicit Profile Likelihoods

J. Aalbers, B. Pelssers, V. C. Antochi +2

Liquid xenon time-projection chambers are the world's most sensitive detectors for a wide range of dark matter candidates. We show that the statistical analysis of their data can b…

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…

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…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 144 cited

Stochastic fluctuations of bosonic dark matter

Gary P. Centers, John W. Blanchard, Jan Conrad +11

Numerous theories extending beyond the standard model of particle physics predict the existence of bosons that could constitute the dark matter (DM) permeating the universe. In the…

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.IM2018★ 15 cited

Machine Learning Accelerated Likelihood-Free Event Reconstruction in Dark Matter Direct Detection

U. Simola, B. Pelssers, D. Barge +2

Reconstructing the position of an interaction for any dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) with the best precision is key to directly detecting Dark Matter. Using the likelihoo…

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…