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 …

Core collapse supernovae are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe, which
emit thermal neutrinos that carry away most of the gravitational binding energy released …

In order to improve Super-Kamiokande's neutron detection efficiency and to thereby
increase its sensitivity to the diffuse supernova neutrino background flux, 13 tons of Gd 2 …

XENONnT is a dark matter direct detection experiment, utilizing 5.9 t of instrumented liquid
xenon, located at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. In this work, we predict the …

The advent of gadolinium-loaded Super-Kamiokande (SK-Gd) and of the soon-to-start JUNO
liquid scintillator detector marks a substantial improvement in global sensitivity for the …

The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of the utmost importance for rare-
event searches and thus critical to the XENONnT experiment. Results of an extensive …

A statistically significant detection of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is
around the corner. To this purpose, we assess the contribution to the DSNB of …

The importance of detecting neutrinos from a Milky Way core-collapse supernova is well
known. An understudied phase is proto-neutron star cooling. For SN 1987A, this seemingly …

This paper reports the development and detailed properties of about 13 metric tons of
gadolinium sulfate octahydrate,, which has been dissolved into Super-Kamiokande (SK) in …

Abstract In 2020, the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment moved to a new stage (SK-Gd) in
which gadolinium (Gd) sulfate octahydrate was added to the water in the detector …