The XENON1T dark matter experiment

• Author(s): Aprile, E. ; Aalbers, J. ; Agostini, F. ; Alfonsi, M. ; Amaro, Fernando D. ; Anthony, M. ; Antunes, B. P. ; Arneodo, F. ; Balata, M. ; Barrow, P. ; Baudis, L. ; Piro, M.C. ; Plante, G. ; Priel, N. ; García, D. Ramírez ; Rauch, L. ; Reichard, S. ; Reuter, C. ; Rizzo, A. ; Rosendahl, S. ; Rupp, N. ; Bauermeister, B ; Santos, J. M. F. dos ; Saldanha, R ; Sartorelli, G. ; Scheibelhut, M. ; Schindler, S. ; Schreiner, J. ; Schumann, M. ; Lavina, L. Scotto ; Selvi, M. ; Shagin, P. ; Benabderrahmane, M.L. ; Shockley, E ; Silva, M. ; Simgen, H. ; Sivers, M. v. ; Stern, M. ; Stein, A. ; Tatananni, D. ; Tatananni, L. ; Thers, D. ; Tiseni, A. ; Berger, T. ; Trinchero, G. ; Tunnell, C. ; Upole, N ; Vargas, M. ; Wack, O. ; Walet, R. ; Wang, H. ; Wang, Z ; Wei, Y. ; Weinheimer, C. ; Breskin, A. ; Wittweg, C. ; Wulf, J. ; Ye, J ; Zhang, Y. ; Breur, P.A. ; Brown, A ; Brown, E. ; Bruenner, S. ; Bruno, G. ; Budnik, R. ; Bütikofer, L. ; Calvén, J. ; Cardoso, J. M. R. ; Cervantes, M. ; Chiarini, A. ; Cichon, D. ; Coderre, D. ; Colijn, A P ; Conrad, J. ; Corrieri, R. ; Cussonneau, J. P. ; Decowski, M. P. ; de Perio, P. ; Gangi, P. Di ; Giovanni, A. Di ; Diglio, S. ; Disdier, J.-M. ; Doets, M. ; Duchovni, E. ; Eurin, G. ; Fei, J ; Ferella, A. D. ; Fieguth, A. ; Franco, D. ; Front, D. ; Fulgione, W. ; Rosso, A. Gallo ; Galloway, M. ; Gao, F. ; Garbini, M. ; Geis, C. ; Giboni, K. L. ; Goetzke, L. W. ; Grandi, L. ; Greene, Z. ; Grignon, C. ; Hasterok, C. ; Hogenbirk, E. ; Huhmann, C. ; Itay, R. ; James, A. ; Kaminsky, B. ; Kazama, S. ; Kessler, G. ; Kish, A. ; Landsman, H. ; Lang, R. F. ; Lellouch, D ; Levinson, L. ; Lin, Q. ; Lindemann, S. ; Lindner, M. ; Lombardi, F ; Lopes, J. A. M. ; Maier, R. ; Manfredini, A. ; Maris, I. ; Undagoitia, T. Marrodán ; Masbou, J. ; Massoli, F. V. ; Masson, D ; Mayani, D. ; Messina, M ; Micheneau, K. ; Molinario, A. ; Morå, K. ; Murra, M. ; Naganoma, J. ; Ni, K. ; Oberlack, U. ; Orlandi, D. ; Othegraven, R. ; Pakarha, P. ; Parlati, S. ; Pelssers, B. ; Persiani, R. ; Piastra, F. ; Pienaar, J. ; Pizzella, V
• Date: 2017
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/108152
• Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

TheXENON1Texperiment at theLaboratoriNazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the first WIMP dark matter detector operating with a liquid xenon target mass above the ton-scale. Out of its 3.2 t liquid xenon inventory, 2.0 t constitute the active target of the dual-phase time projection chamber. The scintillation and ionization signals from particle interactions are detected with low-background photomultipliers. This article describes the XENON1T instrument and its subsystems as well as strategies to achieve an unprecedented low background level. First results on the detector response and the performance of the subsystems are also presented.

We would like to thank D. Bar, R. Berendes, G. Bourichter,G. Bucciarelli, S. Felzer, S. Form, B. Gramlich,M.Guerzoni, R. Hänni, R. Hofacker, G. Korga, A. Korporaal, P. Martella, R. Michinelli, G. Panella, M. Reissfelder, D. Stefanik, G. Tajiri, M. Tobia and J. Westermann for their contributions to our experiment. We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Max Planck Gesellschaft, German Ministry for Education and Research, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research,Weizmann Institute of Science, I-CORE, Pazy-VATAT, Initial Training Network Invisibles (Marie Curie Actions, PITNGA-2011-289442), Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Region des Pays de la Loire, Knut and AliceWallenberg Foundation, Kavli Foundation, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. We are grateful to Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso for hosting and supporting the XENON Project.