Strong new limits on light dark matter from neutrino experiments

CV Cappiello, JF Beacom - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
The nondetection of GeV-scale weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) has led to
increased interest in more general candidates, including sub-GeV dark matter. Direct …

Modulations of the cosmic muon signal in ten years of Borexino data

M Agostini, K Altenmueller, S Appel… - … of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We have measured the flux of cosmic muons in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso at
3800 m we to be (3.432±0.003)⋅ 10− 4 m− 2 s− 1 based on ten years of Borexino data …

First results of undersea muography with the Tokyo-Bay seafloor hyper-kilometric submarine deep detector

HKM Tanaka, M Aichi, C Bozza, R Coniglione… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Tidal measurements are of great significance since they may provide us with essential data
to apply towards protection of coastal communities and sea traffic. Currently, tide gauge …

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Calibrations and backgrounds for dark matter direct detection

D Baxter, R Bunker, S Shaw, S Westerdale… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Future dark matter direct detection experiments will reach unprecedented levels of
sensitivity. Achieving this sensitivity will require more precise models of signal and …

Production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp collisions at = 5.02 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, SP Adhya, A Adler… - Journal of high energy …, 2019 - Springer
A bstract Production cross sections of muons from semi-leptonic decays of charm and
beauty hadrons were measured at forward rapidity (2. 5< y< 4) in proton-proton (pp) …

Measurement of the cosmic ray muon flux seasonal variation with the OPERA detector

N Agafonova, A Alexandrov, A Anokhina… - … of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The OPERA experiment discovered muon neutrino into tau neutrino oscillations in
appearance mode, detecting tau leptons by means of nuclear emulsion films. The apparatus …

[PDF][PDF] Direct dark matter searches using sodium iodide targets: status and prospects

ML Sarsa - Journal of Advanced Instrumentation in …, 2024 - jais.andromedapublisher.org
Abstract Thallium-Activated Sodium Iodide (NaI (Tl)) scintillators have been widely used for
radiation detection since the middle of the XXth century, being applied, for instance, in …

Principles of muography and pioneering works

HKM Tanaka - Muography: Exploring Earth's Subsurface with …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Visualization of the subsurface flow of geofluids with meter‐scale resolution is one of the
essential components of current and future geophysical observation technologies. The …

Observation of seasonal variation of atmospheric multiple-muon events in the NOvA Near Detector

MA Acero, P Adamson, L Aliaga, T Alion… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Using two years of data from the NOvA Near Detector at Fermilab, we report a seasonal
variation of cosmic ray induced multiple-muon (N μ≥ 2) event rates which has an opposite …

Seasonal variation of multiple-muon cosmic ray air showers observed in the NOvA detector on the surface

MA Acero, P Adamson, L Aliaga, N Anfimov… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We report the rate of cosmic ray air showers with multiplicities exceeding 15 muon tracks
recorded in the NOvA Far Detector between May 2016 and May 2018. The detector is …