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Reflectance and fluorescence characteristics of PTFE coated with TPB at visible...
Haefner, J.; Fahs, A.; Ho, J.; Stanford, C.; Guenette, R.; Adams, C.; Almazán, H.; Álvarez, V.; Aparicio, B.; Aranburu, A.I.; Arazi, L.; Arnquist, I.J.Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is an excellent diffuse reflector widely used in light collection systems for particle physics experiments. In noble element systems, it is often coated with tetraphenyl butadiene (TPB) to allow detection of vacuum ultraviolet scintillation light. In this work this dependence is investigated for PTFE coated with TPB in air for light of wavelengths of 200 nm, 260 nm, and 450 nm. Th...
Searching for Heavy Dark Matter near the Planck Mass with XENON1T
Aprile, E.; Abe, K.; Ahmed Maouloud, S.; Althueser, L.; Andrieu, B.; Angelino, E.; Angevaare, J. R.; Antochi, V. C.; Antón Martin, D.; Arneodo, F.7 pages, 6 figures; 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 use 219.4 days of data collected with the XENON1T experiment to conduct a blind search for signals from multiply interacting massive particles (MIMPs). Their unique track signature allows a targeted analysis with o...
Diffusion of muonic hydrogen in hydrogen gas and the measurement of the 1s hype...
Nuber, Jonas; Adamczak, A.; Abdou Ahmed, M.; Affolter, L.; Amaro, F. D.; Amaro, Pedro; Antognini, A.; Carvalho, P.; Chang, Y. -H.; Chen, T. -L.The CREMA collaboration is pursuing a measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting (HFS) in muonic hydrogen (μp) with 1 ppm accuracy by means of pulsed laser spectroscopy. In the proposed experiment, the μp atom is excited by a laser pulse from the singlet to the triplet hyperfine sub-levels, and is quenched back to the singlet state by an inelastic collision with a H2 molecule. The resulting increase of...
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...
Demonstration of neutrinoless double beta decay searches in gaseous xenon with ...
Fernandes, L. M. P.; Freitas, E. D. C.; Henriques, C. A. O.; Mano, R.D.P.; Monteiro, C. M. B.; Santos, J. M. F. dos; Teixeira, J. M. R.The NEXT experiment aims at the sensitive search of the neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{136}$Xe, using high-pressure gas electroluminescent time projection chambers. The NEXT-White detector is the first radiopure demonstrator of this technology, operated in the Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Canfranc. Achieving an energy resolution of 1% FWHM at 2.6 MeV and further background rejection by means of the topolo...
The CYGNO experiment, a directional detector for direct Dark Matter searches
Amaro, F. D.; Baracchini, E.; Benussi, L.; Bianco, S.; Capoccia, C.; Caponero, M.; Cardoso, D. S.; Cavoto, G.; Cortez, A.; Costa, I. A.; Dané, E.The CYGNO project aims at the development of a high precision optical readout gaseous Tima Projection Chamber (TPC) for directional dark matter (DM) searches, to be hosted at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). CYGNO employs a He:CF$_4$ gas mixture at atmospheric pressure with a Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) based amplification structure coupled to an optical readout comprised of sCMOS cameras and photo...
A compact dication source for Ba2+ tagging and heavy metal ion sensor development
Navarro, K.E.; Baeza-Rubio, J.; Boyd, M.; Foss, F.W.; Giri, S.; Jones, B.J.P.; Miller, R.L.; Nygren, D.R.; Samaniego, F.J.; Stogsdill, K.We present a tunable metal ion beam that delivers controllable ion currents in the picoamp range for testing of dry-phase ion sensors. Ion beams are formed by sequential atomic evaporation and single or multiple electron impact ionization, followed by acceleration into a sensing region. Controllability of the ionic charge state is achieved through tuning of electrode potentials that influence the retention time...
NEXT-CRAB-0: a high pressure gaseous xenon time projection chamber with a direc...
Borges, F. I. G. M.; Conde, C. A. N.; Escada, J.; Fernandes, L. M. P.; Freitas, E. D. C.; Henriques, C. A. O.; Mano, R.D.P.; Marques, A. P.The search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0) remains one of the most compelling experimental avenues for the discovery in the neutrino sector. Electroluminescent gas-phase time projection chambers are well suited to 0 searches due to their intrinsically precise energy resolution and topological event identification capabilities. Scalability to ton- and multi-ton masses requires readout of large-area electr...
The triggerless data acquisition system of the XENONnT experiment
Cardoso, J.; Lopes, J.; Santos, J. M. F. dos; Silva, M.; XENON collaborationThe 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 Particles and conducting other rare event searches. The XENONnT data acquisition (DAQ) system constitutes an upgraded and expanded version of the XENON1T DAQ system. For its operation, it relies predominantly on commercially availabl...
First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment
Aprile, E.; Abe, K.; Agostini, F.; Ahmed Maouloud, S.; Althueser, L.; Andrieu, B.; Angelino, E.; Angevaare, J. R.; Antochi, V. C.; Antón Martin, D.Limit points are included in the submission file; 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-phase time projection chamber with a sensitive liquid xenon mass of 5.9 ton. During the (1.09±0.03) ton yr exposure used for this search, the intrinsic ^{85}Kr and ^{222}Rn concentrat...