A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics

J Aalbers, SS AbdusSalam, K Abe… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in
contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the …

Dark matter search results from a one ton-year exposure of XENON1T

E Aprile, J Aalbers, F Agostini, M Alfonsi, L Althueser… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using 278.8 days of
data collected with the XENON1T experiment at LNGS. XENON1T utilizes a liquid xenon …

A review of basic energy reconstruction techniques in liquid xenon and argon detectors for dark matter and neutrino physics using NEST

M Szydagis, GA Block, C Farquhar, AJ Flesher… - Instruments, 2021 - mdpi.com
Detectors based upon the noble elements, especially liquid xenon as well as liquid argon,
as both single-and dual-phase types, require reconstruction of the energies of interacting …

Search for light dark matter interactions enhanced by the Migdal effect or Bremsstrahlung in XENON1T

E Aprile, J Aalbers, F Agostini, M Alfonsi, L Althueser… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Direct dark matter detection experiments based on a liquid xenon target are leading the
search for dark matter particles with masses above∼ 5 GeV/c 2, but have limited sensitivity …

Constraining the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections with XENON1T

E Aprile, J Aalbers, F Agostini, M Alfonsi, L Althueser… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We report the first experimental results on spin-dependent elastic weakly interacting
massive particle (WIMP) nucleon scattering from the XENON1T dark matter search …

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment

DS Akerib, CW Akerlof, SK Alsum, HM Araújo… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next-generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will
operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in …

Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

E Aprile, J Aalbers, F Agostini, S Ahmed Maouloud… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar B 8 neutrinos elastically
scattering off xenon nuclei in XENON1T data, lowering the energy threshold from 2.6 to 1.6 …

Emission of single and few electrons in XENON1T and limits on light dark matter

E Aprile, K Abe, F Agostini, S Ahmed Maouloud… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Delayed single-and few-electron emissions plague dual-phase time projection chambers,
limiting their potential to search for light-mass dark matter. This paper examines the origins …

First dark matter search results from the XENON1T experiment

E Aprile, J Aalbers, F Agostini, M Alfonsi, FD Amaro… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a∼ 2000-kg-target-mass dual-
phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali …

DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector

J Aalbers, F Agostini, M Alfonsi, FD Amaro… - … of Cosmology and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN (DARWIN) will be an experiment for the direct
detection of dark matter using a multi-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core. Its …