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physics.ins-det2026

Cryogenic characterisation of the FBK NUV-HD-cryo Silicon Photomultipliers for the DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment

F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari, P. Agnes +298

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are highly promising detectors for dark matter searches due to their uniform response, scalability to large target masses, and compatib…

physics.ins-det2026

Measurement of the Ar specific activity in atmospheric argon with DArT at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory

P. Agnes, H. O. Back, S. Bharat +41

We report the measurement of the Ar specific activity of atmospheric argon using DArT, a low-background single-phase liquid-argon detector read out by cryogenic silicon phot…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the muon flux at SNOLAB using the DEAP-3600 experiment

DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, M. Alpízar-Venegas +116

A direct measurement of the muon flux at SNOLAB is performed using the DEAP-3600 experiment, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB near Sudbury, Canada. Primarily designed for the dir…

nucl-ex2026

Search for two-neutrino double electron capture in Ar with the DarkSide-50 detector

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +83

Two-neutrino double electron capture is a rare nuclear decay where two electrons are simultaneously captured from the atomic shells and two neutrinos are emitted. We report on the…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current cross section with SND@LHC

LHC Collaboration, D. Abbaneo, S. Ahmad +163

We report a measurement of the muon neutrino charged-current (CC) interaction cross section on tungsten using the electronic detectors of the SND@LHC experiment at the CERN Large H…

hep-ex2026

First evidence of neutrino absorption on argon using B solar neutrinos in DEAP-3600

P. Adhikari, P. -A. Amaudruz, D. J. Auty +113

We report experimental evidence for electron neutrino charged-current interactions (neutrino absorption, CC ) from B solar neutrinos on Ar using an exposure of ($…

physics.ins-det2026

The Darkside-20k Data Acquisition System

Fabio Acerbi, Pushparaj Adhikari, Paolo Agnes +289

DarkSide-20k is a WIMP search experiment using liquid argon as a target, designed to perform a background-free search for dark matter with unprecedented sensitivity, and is current…

hep-ex2026

Study of the Run-3 muon flux at the SND@LHC experiment

LHC Collaboration

Long-range muons produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point constitute the primary background for neutrino interaction searches at the SND@LHC experiment.…

hep-ex2026

Dark Matter Search with the DEAP-3600 Detector using the Profile Likelihood Ratio Method

DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +122

We present here a search for WIMP dark matter using 790.8 live-days of data collected with 3269 kg of liquid argon (1266 kg fiducial) by the DEAP-3600 detector at SNOLAB, using the…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the Muon Flux at SND@LHC: Results from the 2023-2025 Proton and Heavy-Ion Periods

LHC Collaboration

The SND@LHC experiment investigates neutrinos in the forward pseudorapidity range. The detector consists of a veto system, a scintillating fiber tracker interleaved…

hep-ex2026

SND@LHC Upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC: Physics Reach and Installation Scenarios

LHC Collaboration

The SND@LHC experiment is currently taking data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), exploring the unique forward region at pseudorapidities from 7.2 to 8.4. Its physics programme c…

hep-ex2026

First Nuclear Ultra-Heavy Dark Matter Search in Argon Time Projection Chambers with the DarkSide-50 Experiment

P. Agnes, I. F. Albuquerque, T. Alexander +125

We report the first search for nuclear ultra-heavy dark matter (UHDM) in a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber using the DarkSide-50 experiment. Unlike conventional wea…

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…

physics.ins-det2025

The SND@LHC neutron shielding

LHC Collaboration

The design and construction of a neutron shielding for the SND@LHC detector, which utilizes a combination of plexiglass and borated polyethylene, is presented. FLUKA simulations we…

hep-ex2025

Characterization of spurious-electron signals in the double-phase argon TPC of the DarkSide-50 experiment

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. Albuquerque +144

Spurious-electron signals in dual-phase noble liquid time projection chambers have been observed in both xenon and argon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs). This paper presents the fi…

physics.ins-det2025

Production, Quality Assurance and Quality Control of the SiPM Tiles for the DarkSide-20k Time Projection Chamber

F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari, P. Agnes +301

The DarkSide-20k dark matter direct detection experiment will employ a 21 m^2 silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) array, instrumenting a dual-phase 50 tonnes liquid argon Time Projectio…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Fermionic sub-GeV Dark Matter from evaporating Primordial Black Holes at DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. Albuquerque +125

We present a search for boosted dark matter from Primordial Black Holes (PBH) evaporation using the DarkSide-50 ionization-signal-only dataset corresponding to the experiment's ($1…

physics.ins-det2025

Studies of Hadronic Showers in SND@LHC

LHC Collaboration

The SND@LHC experiment was built for observing neutrinos arising from LHC pp collisions. The detector consists of two sections: a target instrumented with SciFi modules and a hadro…

hep-ex2025

Input from the SND@LHC collaboration to the 2026 Update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics

LHC collaboration

By observing collider neutrino interactions of different flavours, the SND@LHC and Faser experiments have shown that the LHC can make interesting contributions to neutrino physics.…

physics.ins-det2025★ 2 cited

Position Reconstruction in the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search Experiment

The DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +162

In the DEAP-3600 dark matter search experiment, precise reconstruction of the positions of scattering events in liquid argon is key for background rejection and defining a fiducial…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

Flow and thermal modelling of the argon volume in the DarkSide-20k TPC

20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari +300

The DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment, currently under construction at LNGS, features a dual-phase time projection chamber (TPC) with a ~50 t argon target from an underground wel…

nucl-ex2025★ 4 cited

Direct Measurement of the Ar Half-life from 3.4 Years of Data with the DEAP-3600 Detector

DEAP Collaboration, P. Adhikari, R. Ajaj +114

The half-life of Ar is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector located 2 km underground at SNOLAB. Between 2016 and 2020, DEAP-3600 used a target mass of (3269 24) kg of…

physics.ins-det2024

Quality Assurance and Quality Control of the SiPM production for the DarkSide-20k dark matter experiment

F. Acerbi, P. Adhikari, P. Agnes +289

DarkSide-20k is a novel liquid argon dark matter detector currently under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nuclear…

hep-ex2024★ 1 cited

Observation of collider neutrinos without final state muons with the SND@LHC experiment

LHC Collaboration

We report the observation of neutrino interactions without final state muons at the LHC, with a significance of 6.4. A data set of proton-proton collisions at …