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Super-Lindhard Ionization from 254 eVnr Nuclear Recoils in Germanium
A. R. L. Kavner, E. Todd, M. Babicz +11
We report ionization produced by the stopping of monoenergetic 254 eVnr 73Ge ions within a germanium lattice which exceeds the Lindhard prediction. The observed deviation is based…
Energy Calibration and Performance of HPGe Detectors in the LEGEND-200 Experiment
The LEGEND Collaboration, H. Acharya, M. Agostini +259
This paper describes the energy scale procedures and germanium detectors performance in the LEGEND-200 experiment, a critical component for the first unblinding in the search for n…
Characterisation of the Bedretto Underground Site for Fundamental Physics Experiments
Björn Penning, Nicolas Angelides, Laura Baudis +33
Underground laboratories provide the ultra-low background and low-vibration environments essential for rare-event searches, gravitational-wave detection, and quantum-sensing techno…
First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment
H. Acharya, N. Ackermann, M. Agostini +256
The LEGEND collaboration is searching for neutrinoless double beta () decay by operating high-purity germanium detectors enriched in Ge in a low-background liquid argo…
Commissioning of the 2.6 m tall two-phase xenon time projection chamber of Xenoscope
M. Adrover, M. Babicz, L. Baudis +14
Xenoscope is a demonstrator for a next-generation xenon-based observatory for astroparticle physics, as proposed by the XLZD (XENON-LUX-ZEPLIN-DARWIN) collaboration. It houses a 2.…
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Sensitivity of the XLZD Rare Event Observatory
XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441
The XLZD collaboration is developing a two-phase xenon time projection chamber with an active mass of 60 to 80 t capable of probing the remaining WIMP-nucleon interaction parameter…
The XLZD Design Book: Towards the Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
XLZD Collaboration, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +441
This report describes the experimental strategy and technologies for XLZD, the next-generation xenon observatory sensitive to dark matter and neutrino physics. In the baseline desi…
Model-independent searches of new physics in DARWIN with a semi-supervised deep learning pipeline
J. Aalbers, K. Abe, M. Adrover +231
We present a novel deep learning pipeline to perform a model-independent, likelihood-free search for anomalous (i.e., non-background) events in the proposed next generation multi-t…
Search for Pauli Exclusion Principle Violations with Gator at LNGS
L. Baudis, R. Biondi, A. Bismark +8
The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) appears from fundamental symmetries in quantum field theories, but its physical origin is still to be understood. High-precision experimental se…
Construction of precision wire readout planes for the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND)
R. Acciarri, C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos +192
The Short-Baseline Near Detector time projection chamber is unique in the design of its charge readout planes. These anode plane assemblies (APAs) have been fabricated and assemble…
A New Concept for Kilotonne Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers
M. Auger, R. Berner, Y. Chen +25
We develop a novel approach for a Time Projection Chamber (TPC) concept suitable for deployment in kilotonne scale detectors, with a charge-readout system free from reconstruction…
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…
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…
First Operation of a Resistive Shell Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber -- A new Approach to Electric-Field Shaping
Roman Berner, Yifan Chen, Antonio Ereditato +8
We present a new technology for the shaping of the electric field in Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) using a carbon-loaded polyimide foil. This technology allows for the minimisati…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Dual-phase Xenon TPC for Scintillation and Ionisation Yield Measurements in Liquid Xenon
Laura Baudis, Yanina Biondi, Chiara Capelli +6
A small-scale, two-phase (liquid/gas) xenon time projection chamber (Xurich II) was designed, constructed and is under operation at the University of Zurich. Its main purpose is to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…