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

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hep-ex2026

First Measurement of Solar Neutrinos through Elastic Neutrino-Electron Scattering at the keV Scale

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +170

We report on the first measurement of low-energy solar neutrinos through elastic neutrino-electron scattering in a dark matter experiment, establishing the lowest energy threshold…

hep-ex2026

Search for Magnetic and Spin-Independent Inelastic Dark Matter with XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +173

We present a search for Magnetic and Spin-Independent inelastic Dark Matter using 2.1 tonne-years of data from the XENONnT experiment. We consider both single- and double-site even…

hep-ex2026★ 2 cited

Light Dark Matter Search with 7.8 Tonne-Year of Ionization-Only Data in XENONnT

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +174

We report on a blinded search for dark matter (DM) using ionization-only (S2-only) signals in XENONnT with a total exposure of over 579 days…

hep-ex2025

Constraints on Solar Reflected Dark Matter from a combined analysis of XENON1T and XENONnT data

XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers +174

We report on a search for sub-GeV dark matter upscattered via the solar reflection mechanism in the heavy mediator scenario. Under the Standard Halo Model, keV to MeV dark matter p…

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

Sensitivity to low-mass WIMPs with an improved liquid argon ionization response model within the DarkSide programme

F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari, P. Agnes +294

Dark matter detection experiments using liquid argon rely on a precise characterization of the ionization response to nuclear recoils, especially in the keV energy range relevant f…

hep-ex2025

First Measurement of the Electron Neutrino Charged-Current Pion Production Cross Section on Carbon with the T2K Near Detector

K. Abe, S. Abe, R. Akutsu +392

The T2K Collaboration presents the first measurement of electron neutrino-induced charged-current pion production on carbon in a restricted kinematical phase space. This is perform…

physics.ins-det2024★ 4 cited

Benchmarking the design of the cryogenics system for the underground argon in DarkSide-20k

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +315

DarkSide-20k (DS-20k) is a dark matter detection experiment under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It utilises ~100 t of low radioactivity a…

hep-ex2024★ 21 cited

DarkSide-20k sensitivity to light dark matter particles

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +310

The dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber is presently one of the leading technologies to search for dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV/c. This was demons…

physics.ins-det2024★ 2 cited

A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searches

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +311

Experiments aimed at direct searches for WIMP dark matter require highly effective reduction of backgrounds and control of any residual radioactive contamination. In particular, ne…

hep-ex2024

Offline tagging of radon-induced backgrounds in XENON1T and applicability to other liquid xenon detectors

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe +164

This paper details the first application of a software tagging algorithm to reduce radon-induced backgrounds in liquid noble element time projection chambers, such as XENON1T and X…

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…

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-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…