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Erratum to: Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double be...
Agostini, F.; Maouloud, S. E. M. Ahmed; Althueser, L.; Amaro, F. D.; Antunovic, B.; Aprile, E.; Baudis, L.; Baur, D.; Biondi, Y.; Bismark, A.We correct an overestimation of the production rate of 137Xe in the DARWIN detector operated at LNGS. This formerly dominant intrinsic background source is now at a level similar to the irreducible background from solar 8B neutrinos, thus unproblematic at the LNGS depth. The projected half-life sensitivity for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) of 136Xe improves by 22% compared to the previously reported...
Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of ...
Agostini, F.; Maouloud, S. E. M. Ahmed; Althueser, L.; Amaro, F. D.; Antunovic, B.; Aprile, E.; Baudis, L.; Baur, D.; Biondi, Y.; Bismark, A.The DARWIN observatory is a proposed nextgeneration experiment to search for particle dark matter and for the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe.Out of its 50 t total natural xenon inventory, 40 t will be the active target of a time projection chamber which thus contains about 3.6 t of 136Xe. Here, we show that its projected half-life sensitivity is 2.4 × 1027 years, using a fiducial volume of 5 t of natur...
Solar neutrino detection sensitivity in DARWIN via electron scattering
Aalbers, J.; Agostini, F.; Maouloud, S. E. M. Ahmed; Alfonsi, M.; Althueser, L.; Amaro, F. D.; Angevaare, J.; Antochi, V. C.; Antunovic, B.; Aprile, E.We detail the sensitivity of the proposed liquid xenon DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the potential to measure the fluxes of five solar neutrino components: pp, 7Be, 13N, 15O and pep. The precision of the 13N, 15O and pep components is hindered by the doublebeta decay of 136Xe and, thus, would benefit from a depleted target. A high-statistics...
Theia: an advanced optical neutrino detector
Askins, M.; Bagdasarian, Z.; Barros, N.; Beier, E. W.; Blucher, E.; Bonventre, R.; Bourret, E.; Callaghan, E. J.; Caravaca, J.; Diwan, M.; Dye, S. T.
Temperature quenching in LAB based liquid scintillator
Sörensen, A.; Hans, S.; Junghans, A.R.; Krosigk, B.v.; Kögler, T.; Lozza, V.; Wagner, A.; Yeh, M.; Zuber, K.The effect of temperature changes on the light output of LAB based liquid scintillator is investigated in a range from $-5$ to $30\,^{\circ }$ C with $\alpha $ -particles and electrons in a small scale setup. Two PMTs observe the scintillator liquid inside a cylindrically shaped aluminum cuvette that is heated or cooled and the temperature dependent PMT sensitivity is monitored and corrected. The $\alpha $ -emi...
DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector
Aalbers, J.; Agostini, F.; Alfonsi, M.; Amaro, F. D.; Amsler, C.; Aprile, E.; Arazi, L.; Arneodo, F.; Barrow, P.; Baudis, L.; Benabderrahmane, M. L.
Current Status and Future Prospects of the SNO+ Experiment
SNO+ Collaboration; Andringa, S.; Arushanova, E.; Asahi, S.; Askins, M.; Auty, D. J.; Back, A. R.; Barnard, Z.; Barros, N.; Beier, E. W.; Bialek, A.Published in "Neutrino Masses and Oscillations" of Advances in High Energy Physics (Hindawi); SNO+ is a large liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada. It reuses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory detector, consisting of a 12m diameter acrylic vessel which will be filled with about 780 tonnes of ultra-pure liquid scintillator. Designed as a multipurpose neutrino expe...