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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…

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★ 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…

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…