Simon Viel
Carleton University
H-index: 210
North America-Canada
About Simon Viel
Simon Viel, With an exceptional h-index of 210 and a recent h-index of 127 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Carleton University, specializes in the field of Particle Physics.
His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:
A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searches
Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches
An integrated online radioassay data storage and analytics tool for nEXO
Rapid characterization of silicon photomultipliers for noble liquid experiments
Directionality of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber
Looking for Cherenkov light in liquid xenon with LoLX
Search for resonant WZ production in the fully leptonic final state in proton–proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector
Study on cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k project
Simon Viel Information
University | Carleton University |
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Position | Assistant Professor of Physics |
Citations(all) | 188277 |
Citations(since 2020) | 70282 |
Cited By | 87263 |
hIndex(all) | 210 |
hIndex(since 2020) | 127 |
i10Index(all) | 685 |
i10Index(since 2020) | 573 |
University Profile Page | Carleton University |
Simon Viel Skills & Research Interests
Particle Physics
Top articles of Simon Viel
A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searches
Authors
F Acerbi,P Adhikari,P Agnes,I Ahmad,S Albergo,IF Albuquerque,T Alexander,AK Alton,P Amaudruz,M Angiolilli,E Aprile,R Ardito,M Atzori Corona,DJ Auty,M Ave,IC Avetisov,O Azzolini,HO Back,Z Balmforth,A Barrado Olmedo,P Barrillon,G Batignani,P Bhowmick,V Bocci,W Bonivento,B Bottino,MG Boulay,A Buchowicz,S Bussino,J Busto,M Cadeddu,M Cadoni,R Calabrese,V Camillo,A Caminata,N Canci,A Capra,M Caravati,M Cárdenas-Montes,N Cargioli,M Carlini,A Castellani,P Castello,P Cavalcante,D Cavallo,S Cebrian,J Cela Ruiz,S Chashin,A Chepurnov,L Cifarelli,D Cintas,M Citterio,B Cleveland,Y Coadou,V Cocco,D Colaiuda,E Conde Vilda,L Consiglio,BS Costa,M Czubak,S D'Auria,MD Rolo,G Darbo,S Davini,S De Cecco,G De Guido,G Dellacasa,AV Derbin,A Devoto,F Di Capua,A Di Ludovico,L Di Noto,P Di Stefano,LK Dias,D Díaz Mairena,X Ding,C Dionisi,G Dolganov,F Dordei,V Dronik,A Elersich,E Ellingwood,T Erjavec,M Fernandez Diaz,A Ficorella,G Fiorillo,P Franchini,D Franco,H Frandini Gatti,E Frolov,F Gabriele,D Gahan,C Galbiati,G Galinski,G Gallina,M Garbini,P Garcia Abia,A Gawdzik,A Gendotti,A Ghisi,GK Giovanetti,V Goicoechea Casanueva,A Gola,L Grandi,G Grauso,G Grilli di Cortona,A Grobov,M Gromov,M Guerzoni,M Gulino,C Guo,BR Hackett,A Hallin,A Hamer,M Haranczyk,B Harrop,T Hessel,S Hill,S Horikawa,J Hu,F Hubaut,J Hucker,T Hugues,EV Hungerford,A Ianni,V Ippolito,A Jamil,C Jillings,R Keloth,N Kemmerich,A Kemp,CL Kendziora,M Kimura,K Kondo,G Korga,L Kotsiopoulou,S Koulosousas,A Kubankin,M Kuss,M Kuzniak,M Kuzwa,M La Commara,M Lai,E Le Guirriec,E Leason,A Leoni,L Lidey,M Lissia,L Luzzi,O Lychagina
Journal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18492
Published Date
2024/4/29
Experiments aimed at direct searches for WIMP dark matter require highly effective reduction of backgrounds and control of any residual radioactive contamination. In particular, neutrons interacting with atomic nuclei represent an important class of backgrounds due to the expected similarity of a WIMP-nucleon interaction, so that such experiments often feature a dedicated neutron detector surrounding the active target volume. In the context of the development of DarkSide-20k detector at INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), several R&D projects were conceived and developed for the creation of a new hybrid material rich in both hydrogen and gadolinium nuclei to be employed as an essential element of the neutron detector. Thanks to its very high cross-section for neutron capture, gadolinium is one of the most widely used elements in neutron detectors, while the hydrogen-rich material is instrumental in efficiently moderating the neutrons. In this paper results from one of the R&Ds are presented. In this effort the new hybrid material was obtained as a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) matrix, loaded with gadolinium oxide in the form of nanoparticles. We describe its realization, including all phases of design, purification, construction, characterization, and determination of mechanical properties of the new material.
Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches
Authors
E Aaron,P Agnes,I Ahmad,S Albergo,IFM Albuquerque,T Alexander,AK Alton,P Amaudruz,M Atzori Corona,M Ave,I Ch Avetisov,O Azzolini,HO Back,Z Balmforth,A Barrado,P Barrillon,A Basco,G Batignani,V Bocci,WM Bonivento,B Bottino,MG Boulay,J Busto,M Cadeddu,A Caminata,N Canci,A Capra,S Caprioli,M Caravati,N Cargioli,M Carlini,P Castello,P Cavalcante,S Cavuoti,S Cebrian,JM Cela Ruiz,S Chashin,A Chepurnov,E Chyhyrynets,L Cifarelli,D Cintas,M Citterio,B Cleveland,V Cocco,E Conde Vilda,L Consiglio,S Copello,G Covone,Milena Czubak,M D’Aniello,S D’Auria,MD Da Rocha Rolo,S Davini,S De Cecco,G De Guido,D De Gruttola,S De Pasquale,G De Rosa,G Dellacasa,AV Derbin,A Devoto,F Di Capua,L Di Noto,P Di Stefano,G Dolganov,F Dordei,E Ellingwood,T Erjavec,S Farenzena,M Fernandez Diaz,G Fiorillo,P Franchini,D Franco,N Funicello,F Gabriele,D Gahan,C Galbiati,G Gallina,G Gallus,M Garbini,P Garcia Abia,A Gendotti,C Ghiano,C Giganti,GK Giovanetti,V Goicoechea Casanueva,A Gola,G Grauso,G Grilli di Cortona,A Grobov,M Gromov,M Guan,M Guerzoni,M Gulino,C Guo,BR Hackett,AL Hallin,A Hamer,M Haranczyk,T Hessel,S Hill,S Horikawa,F Hubaut,J Hucker,T Hugues,An Ianni,V Ippolito,C Jillings,S Jois,P Kachru,AA Kemp,CL Kendziora,M Kimura,I Kochanek,K Kondo,G Korga,S Koulosousas,A Kubankin,M Kuss,M Kuźniak,M La Commara,M Lai,N Lami,E Le Guirriec,E Leason,A Leoni,L Lidey,F Lippi,M Lissia,L Luzzi,O Lychagina,N Maccioni,O Macfadyen,IN Machulin,S Manecki,I Manthos,L Mapelli,A Margotti,SM Mari,C Mariani,J Maricic,A Marini,M Martínez,CJ Martoff,M Mascia,A Masoni,G Matteucci,K Mavrokoridis,C Maxia,AB McDonald
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Published Date
2023/5
The Aria cryogenic distillation plant, located in Sardinia, Italy, is a key component of the DarkSide-20k experimental program for WIMP dark matter searches at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. Aria is designed to purify the argon, extracted from underground wells in Colorado, USA, and used as the DarkSide-20k target material, to detector-grade quality. In this paper, we report the first measurement of argon isotopic separation by distillation with the 26 m tall Aria prototype. We discuss the measurement of the operating parameters of the column and the observation of the simultaneous separation of the three stable argon isotopes:,, and. We also provide a detailed comparison of the experimental results with commercial process simulation software. This measurement of isotopic separation of argon is a significant achievement for the project, building on the success of the initial …
An integrated online radioassay data storage and analytics tool for nEXO
Authors
RHM Tsang,A Piepke,S Al Kharusi,E Angelico,IJ Arnquist,A Atencio,I Badhrees,J Bane,V Belov,EP Bernard,A Bhat,T Bhatta,A Bolotnikov,PA Breur,JP Brodsky,E Brown,T Brunner,E Caden,GF Cao,LQ Cao,D Cesmecioglu,C Chambers,E Chambers,B Chana,SA Charlebois,D Chernyak,M Chiu,B Cleveland,JR Cohen,R Collister,M Cvitan,J Dalmasson,L Darroch,K Deslandes,R DeVoe,ML Di Vacri,YY Ding,MJ Dolinski,J Echevers,B Eckert,M Elbeltagi,R Elmansali,L Fabris,W Fairbank,J Farine,YS Fu,D Gallacher,G Gallina,P Gautam,G Giacomini,W Gillis,C Gingras,D Goeldi,R Gornea,G Gratta,YD Guan,CA Hardy,S Hedges,M Heffner,E Hein,J Holt,EW Hoppe,A House,W Hunt,A Iverson,A Jamil,XS Jiang,A Karelin,LJ Kaufman,I Kotov,R Krücken,A Kuchenkov,KS Kumar,A Larson,KG Leach,BG Lenardo,DS Leonard,G Li,S Li,Z Li,C Licciardi,R Lindsay,R MacLellan,M Mahtab,S Majidi,C Malbrunot,P Martel-Dion,J Masbou,N Massacret,K McMichael,B Mong,DC Moore,K Murray,J Nattress,CR Natzke,XE Ngwadla,K Ni,A Nolan,SC Nowicki,JC Nzobadila Ondze,JL Orrell,GS Ortega,CT Overman,H Peltz-Smalley,A Perna,T Pinto Franco,A Pocar,J-F Pratte,V Radeka,E Raguzin,H Rasiwala,D Ray,BM Rebeiro,S Rescia,F Retière,G Richardson,J Ringuette,V Riot,PC Rowson,N Roy,L Rudolph,R Saldanha,S Sangiorgio,S Schwartz,J Soderstrom,AK Soma,F Spadoni,V Stekhanov,XL Sun,E Teimoori Barakoohi,S Thibado,A Tidball,T Totev,S Triambak,T Tsang,OA Tyuka,R Underwood,E van Bruggen,V Veeraraghavan,M Vidal,S Viel,M Walent,K Wamba,QD Wang,W Wang,YG Wang,M Watts,W Wei,LJ Wen,U Wichoski
Journal
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Published Date
2023/10/1
Large-scale low-background detectors are increasingly used in rare-event searches as experimental collaborations push for enhanced sensitivity. However, building such detectors, in practice, creates an abundance of radioassay data especially during the conceptual phase of an experiment when hundreds of materials are screened for radiopurity. A tool is needed to manage and make use of the radioassay screening data to quantitatively assess detector design options. We have developed a Materials Database Application for the nEXO experiment to serve this purpose. This paper describes this database application, explains how it functions, and discusses how it streamlines the design of the experiment.
Rapid characterization of silicon photomultipliers for noble liquid experiments
Authors
B Chana,M Mahtab,F Retière,S Viel
Journal
Journal of Instrumentation
Published Date
2023/3/7
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are emerging as the photodetector technology to be used in upcoming noble liquid experiments. Newly developed SiPMs sensitive to vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light will be directly used for the readout of scintillation photons (λ= 175 nm) from liquid xenon in future tonne-scale experiments, such as nEXO, searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in 136 Xe. In this research project, VUV-SiPMs from two different vendors are characterized using current–voltage (IV) and pulse-level measurements performed at TRIUMF, from room temperature to liquid xenon temperature. These data are analysed to extract the SiPM's features such as breakdown voltage, gain, crosstalk, afterpulsing and dark noise rates. The IV and pulse-level results are compared. A method is proposed for rapid quality control of large numbers of SiPM using IV measurements.
Directionality of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber
Authors
P Agnes,I Ahmad,S Albergo,IFM Albuquerque,T Alexander,AK Alton,P Amaudruz,M Atzori Corona,M Ave,I Ch Avetisov,O Azzolini,HO Back,Z Balmforth,A Barrado-Olmedo,P Barrillon,A Basco,G Batignani,V Bocci,WM Bonivento,B Bottino,MG Boulay,J Busto,M Cadeddu,A Caminata,N Canci,G Cappello,A Capra,S Caprioli,M Caravati,N Cargioli,M Carlini,P Castello,V Cataudella,P Cavalcante,S Cavuoti,S Cebrian,JM Ruiz,S Chashin,A Chepurnov,E Chyhyrynets,L Cifarelli,D Cintas,M Citterio,B Cleveland,V Cocco,E Conde Vilda,L Consiglio,S Copello,G Covone,M Czubak,M d'Aniello,S d'Auria,MD Rolo,S Davini,A de Candia,S De Cecco,D De Gruttola,G De Filippis,D Dell'Aquila,S De Pasquale,G De Rosa,G Dellacasa,AV Derbin,A Devoto,F Di Capua,L Di Noto,C Dionisi,P Di Stefano,G Dolganov,F Dordei,A Elersich,E Ellingwood,T Erjavec,M Fernandez Diaz,G Fiorillo,P Franchini,D Franco,N Funicello,F Gabriele,D Gahan,C Galbiati,G Gallina,G Gallus,M Garbini,P Garcia Abia,A Gendotti,C Ghiano,C Giganti,GK Giovanetti,V Goicoechea Casanueva,A Gola,G Grauso,G Grilli Di Cortona,A Grobov,M Gromov,M Guan,M Guerzoni,M Gulino,C Guo,BR Hackett,AL Hallin,A Hamer,M Haranczyk,T Hessel,S Hill,S Horikawa,F Hubaut,J Hucker,T Hugues,An Ianni,V Ippolito,C Jillings,S Jois,P Kachru,N Kemmerich,AA Kemp,CL Kendziora,M Kimura,I Kochanek,K Kondo,G Korga,S Koulosousas,A Kubankin,M Kuss,M Kuzniak,M La Commara,M Lai,E Le Guirriec,E Leason,A Leoni,X Li,L Lidey,M Lissia,L Luzzi,O Lychagina,O Macfadyen,IN Machulin,S Manecki,I Manthos,L Mapelli,A Margotti,SM Marik,C Mariani,J Maricic,A Marini,M Martínez,CJ Martoff,G Matteucci,K Mavrokoridis,AB McDonald
Journal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15454
Published Date
2023/7/28
The direct search for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) is performed by detecting nuclear recoils (NR) produced in a target material from the WIMP elastic scattering. A promising experimental strategy for direct dark matter search employs argon dual-phase time projection chambers (TPC). One of the advantages of the TPC is the capability to detect both the scintillation and charge signals produced by NRs. Furthermore, the existence of a drift electric field in the TPC breaks the rotational symmetry: the angle between the drift field and the momentum of the recoiling nucleus can potentially affect the charge recombination probability in liquid argon and then the relative balance between the two signal channels. This fact could make the detector sensitive to the directionality of the WIMP-induced signal, enabling unmistakable annual and daily modulation signatures for future searches aiming for discovery. The Recoil Directionality (ReD) experiment was designed to probe for such directional sensitivity. The TPC of ReD was irradiated with neutrons at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, and data were taken with 72 keV NRs of known recoil directions. The direction-dependent liquid argon charge recombination model by Cataudella et al. was adopted and a likelihood statistical analysis was performed, which gave no indications of significant dependence of the detector response to the recoil direction. The aspect ratio R of the initial ionization cloud is estimated to be 1.037 +/- 0.027 and the upper limit is R < 1.072 with 90% confidence level
Looking for Cherenkov light in liquid xenon with LoLX
Authors
L Galli,S Al Kharusi,T Brunner,C Chambers,B Chana,A de St Croix,L Darroch,E Egan,M Francesconi,D Gallacher,P Giampa,J Lefebvre,P Margetak,J Marti,T McElroy,M Patel,B Rebeiro,F Retiere,L Rudolf,G Signorelli,S Stracka,M-A Tétrault,S Viel,L Xie
Journal
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Published Date
2023/2/1
The Light-only Liquid Xenon (LoLX) experiment is designed to study the properties of light emission and transport in liquid xenon (LXe) using silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). In addition, we also plan to perform long-term stability studies of the SiPMs in LXe. Another important goal of the LoLX experiment is to characterize and utilize the differences in spectrum and timing of Cherenkov and scintillation light production to develop a background discriminator for low-background LXe experiments such as, neutrino-less double beta decay searches.In this paper we present the project status and perspectives.
Search for resonant WZ production in the fully leptonic final state in proton–proton collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector
Authors
Georges Aad,B Abbott,DC Abbott,Kira Abeling,SH Abidi,Asmaa Aboulhorma,Halina Abramowicz,Henso Abreu,Yiming Abulaiti,AC Abusleme Hoffman,BS Acharya,B Achkar,L Adam,C Adam Bourdarios,L Adamczyk,L Adamek,SV Addepalli,J Adelman,Aytül Adiguzel,S Adorni,T Adye,AA Affolder,Y Afik,MN Agaras,J Agarwala,A Aggarwal,C Agheorghiesei,JA Aguilar-Saavedra,A Ahmad,F Ahmadov,WS Ahmed,X Ai,G Aielli,I Aizenberg,M Akbiyik,TPA Åkesson,AV Akimov,K Al Khoury,GL Alberghi,J Albert,P Albicocco,MJ Alconada Verzini,S Alderweireldt,M Aleksa,IN Aleksandrov,C Alexa,T Alexopoulos,A Alfonsi,F Alfonsi,M Alhroob,B Ali,S Ali,M Aliev,G Alimonti,C Allaire,BMM Allbrooke,PP Allport,A Aloisio,F Alonso,C Alpigiani,E Alunno Camelia,M Alvarez Estevez,MG Alviggi,Y Amaral Coutinho,A Ambler,C Amelung,CG Ames,D Amidei,SP Amor Dos Santos,S Amoroso,KR Amos,CS Amrouche,V Ananiev,C Anastopoulos,N Andari,T Andeen,JK Anders,SY Andrean,A Andreazza,S Angelidakis,A Angerami,AV Anisenkov,A Annovi,C Antel,MT Anthony,E Antipov,M Antonelli,DJA Antrim,F Anulli,M Aoki,JA Aparisi Pozo,MA Aparo,L Aperio Bella,C Appelt,N Aranzabal,V Araujo Ferraz,C Arcangeletti,ATH Arce,E Arena,J F Arguin,S Argyropoulos,J-H Arling,AJ Armbruster,O Arnaez,H Arnold,ZP Arrubarrena Tame,G Artoni,H Asada,K Asai,S Asai,NA Asbah,EM Asimakopoulou,J Assahsah,K Assamagan,R Astalos,RJ Atkin,M Atkinson,NB Atlay,H Atmani,PA Atmasiddha,K Augsten,S Auricchio,AD Auriol,VA Austrup,G Avner,G Avolio,K Axiotis,MK Ayoub,G Azuelos,D Babal,H Bachacou,K Bachas,A Bachiu,F Backman,A Badea,P Bagnaia,M Bahmani,AJ Bailey,VR Bailey,JT Baines,C Bakalis,OK Baker,PJ Bakker,E Bakos,D Bakshi Gupta,S Balaji,R Balasubramanian,EM Baldin,P Balek,E Ballabene
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Published Date
2023/7/18
A search for a WZ resonance, in the fully leptonic final state (electrons or muons), is performed using 139 fb of data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The results are interpreted in terms of a singly charged Higgs boson of the Georgi–Machacek model, produced by WZ fusion, and of a Heavy Vector Triplet, with the resonance produced by WZ fusion or the Drell–Yan process. No significant excess over the Standard Model prediction is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section times branching ratio as a function of the resonance mass for these processes.
Study on cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k project
Authors
E Aaron,P Agnes,I Ahmad,S Albergo,IFM Albuquerque,T Alexander,AK Alton,P Amaudruz,M Atzori Corona,M Ave,I Ch Avetisov,O Azzolini,HO Back,Z Balmforth,A Barrado-Olmedo,P Barrillon,A Basc,G Batignani,V Bocci,WM Bonivento,B Bottino,MG Boulay,J Busto,M Cadeddu,A Caminata,N Canci,A Capra,S Caprioli,M Caravati,N Cargioli,M Carlini,P Castello,P Cavalcante,S Cavuotia,S Cebrian,Cela Ruiz,S Chashina,A Chepurnov,E Chyhyrynets,L Cifarelli D Cintas,M Citterio,B Cleveland,V Cocco,E Conde Vilda,L Consiglio,S Copello,G Covone M Czubak,M D’Aniello,S D’Auria,MD Da Rocha Rolo,S Davini,S De Cecco,D De Gruttola,S De Pasquale,G De Rosa,G Dellacasa,AV Derbin,A Devoto,F Di Capua,L Di Noto,P Di Stefano,G Dolganov,F Dordeij,E Ellingwood,T Erjaveca,M Fernandez Diaz,G Fiorillo P Franco,N Funicello F Gabriele,D Gahan,C Galbiati,G Gallina,G Gallus,M Garbini,P Garcia Abia,A Gendotti,C Ghiano,C Giganti,GK Giovanetti,V Goicoechea Casanueva,A Gola,G Grauso,G Grilli di Cortona,A Grobov M Guo,BR Hackett,AL Hallin,A Hamer,M Haranczyk,T Hessel,S Hill,S Horikawa,F Hubaut,J Hucker,T Hugues,An Ianni V Ippolito,C Jillings,S Jois,P Kemp,CL Kendziora,M Kimurac,I Kochaneky,K Kondobh,G Korgam,S Koulosousas,A Kubankin,M Kuss,M Kuzniak,M Le Guirriec,E Leason,A Leonibh,L Lide,M Lissi,L Luzzi,O Lychagina,O Macfadyen,IN Mapelli,A Margotti,SM Mari,C Mariani,J Maricic,A Marini M Matteucci,K Mcdonald,A Messina,R Milincic,A Mitra,A Moharana,J Monroe,E Moretti,M Morrocchi,VN Muratov,C Musicou,R Nania,M Nessi,K Nikolopoulos J Nowakar,K Olchansky,A Oleinik,V Oleynikov,P Organtini,A Pagani,M Pallavicini L Pandola,E Pantic,E Paoloni G Paternoster,PA Pegoraro,K Pelczar C Pellegrino,V Pesudo,S Piacentini,L Pietrofaccia,N Pino,A Pocar,DM Poehlmann,S Pordes
Journal
FERMILAB REPORT
Published Date
2023
The activation of materials due to the exposure to cosmic rays may become an important background source for experiments investigating rare event phenomena. DarkSide-20k is a direct detection experiment for galactic dark matter particles, using a two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber filled with 49.7 tonnes (active mass) of Underground Argon (UAr) depleted in 39Ar. Here, the cosmogenic activity of relevant long-lived radioisotopes induced in the argon and other massive components of the set-up has been estimated; production of 120 t of radiopure UAr is foreseen. The expected exposure above ground and production rates, either measured or calculated, have been considered. From the simulated counting rates in the detector due to cosmogenic isotopes, it is concluded that activation in copper and stainless steel is not problematic. Activation of titanium, considered in early designs but not used in the final design, is discussed. The activity of 39Ar induced during extraction, purification and transport on surface, in baseline conditions, is evaluated to be 2.8% of the activity measured in UAr from the same source, and thus considered acceptable. Other products in the UAr such as 37Ar and 3H are shown to not be relevant due to short half-life and assumed purification methods.
Precision measurement of the specific activity of Ar in atmospheric argon with the DEAP-3600 detector
Authors
P Adhikari,R Ajaj,M Alpízar-Venegas,P-A Amaudruz,J Anstey,GR Araujo,DJ Auty,M Baldwin,M Batygov,B Beltran,H Benmansour,CE Bina,J Bonatt,W Bonivento,MG Boulay,B Broerman,JF Bueno,PM Burghardt,A Butcher,M Cadeddu,B Cai,M Cárdenas-Montes,S Cavuoti,M Chen,Y Chen,S Choudhary,BT Cleveland,JM Corning,R Crampton,D Cranshaw,S Daugherty,P DelGobbo,K Dering,P Di Stefano,J DiGioseffo,G Dolganov,L Doria,FA Duncan,M Dunford,E Ellingwood,A Erlandson,SS Farahani,N Fatemighomi,G Fiorillo,S Florian,A Flower,RJ Ford,R Gagnon,D Gallacher,P García Abia,S Garg,P Giampa,A Giménez-Alcázar,D Goeldi,VV Golovko,P Gorel,K Graham,DR Grant,A Grobov,AL Hallin,M Hamstra,PJ Harvey,S Haskins,C Hearns,J Hu,J Hucker,T Hugues,A Ilyasov,B Jigmeddorj,CJ Jillings,A Joy,O Kamaev,G Kaur,A Kemp,M Kuźniak,F La Zia,M Lai,S Langrock,B Lehnert,A Leonhardt,J LePage-Bourbonnais,N Levashko,J Lidgard,T Lindner,M Lissia,J Lock,L Luzzi,I Machulin,P Majewski,A Maru,J Mason,AB McDonald,T McElroy,T McGinn,JB McLaughlin,R Mehdiyev,C Mielnichuk,L Mirasola,J Monroe,P Nadeau,C Nantais,C Ng,AJ Noble,E O’Dwyer,G Oliviéro,C Ouellet,S Pal,D Papi,P Pasuthip,SJM Peeters,M Perry,V Pesudo,E Picciau,M-C Piro,TR Pollmann,F Rad,ET Rand,C Rethmeier,F Retière,I Rodríguez García,L Roszkowski,JB Ruhland,R Santorelli,FG Schuckman II,N Seeburn,S Seth,V Shalamova,K Singhrao,P Skensved,NJT Smith,B Smith,K Sobotkiewich,T Sonley,J Sosiak,J Soukup,R Stainforth,C Stone,V Strickland,M Stringer,B Sur,J Tang,E Vázquez-Jáuregui,L Veloce,S Viel,B Vyas,M Walczak,J Walding,M Ward,S Westerdale,J Willis
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Published Date
2023/7
The specific activity of the decay of Ar in atmospheric argon is measured using the DEAP-3600 detector. DEAP-3600, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, uses a total of (3269±24) kg of liquid argon distilled from the atmosphere to search for dark matter. This detector is well-suited to measure the decay of Ar owing to its very low background levels. This is achieved in two ways: it uses low background construction materials; and it uses pulse-shape discrimination to differentiate between nuclear recoils and electron recoils. With 167 live-days of data, the measured specific activity at the time of atmospheric extraction is (0.964±0.001±0.024) Bq/kg, which is consistent with results from other experiments. A cross-check analysis using different event selection criteria and a different statistical method confirms the result.
Erratum to: Search for exclusive Higgs and Z boson decays to ϕγ and ργ with the ATLAS detector
Authors
M Aaboud,G Aad,B Abbott,B Abeloos,SH Abidi,OS AbouZeid,NL Abraham,H Abramowicz,H Abreu,R Abreu,Y Abulaiti,BS Acharya,S Adachi,L Adamczyk,J Adelman,M Adersberger,T Adye,AA Affolder,Y Afik,T Agatonovic-Jovin,C Agheorghiesei,JA Aguilar-Saavedra,SP Ahlen,F Ahmadov,G Aielli,S Akatsuka,H Akerstedt,TPA Åkesson,E Akilli,AV Akimov,GL Alberghi,J Albert,P Albicocco,MJ Alconada Verzini,SC Alderweireldt,M Aleksa,IN Aleksandrov,C Alexa,G Alexander,T Alexopoulos,M Alhroob,B Ali,M Aliev,G Alimonti,J Alison,SP Alkire,BMM Allbrooke,BW Allen,PP Allport,A Aloisio,A Alonso,F Alonso,C Alpigiani,AA Alshehri,MI Alstaty,B Alvarez Gonzalez,D Álvarez Piqueras,MG Alviggi,BT Amadio,Y Amaral Coutinho,C Amelung,D Amidei,SP Amor Dos Santos,S Amoroso,G Amundsen,C Anastopoulos,LS Ancu,N Andari,T Andeen,CF Anders,JK Anders,KJ Anderson,A Andreazza,V Andrei,S Angelidakis,I Angelozzi,A Angerami,AV Anisenkov,N Anjos,A Annovi,C Antel,M Antonelli,A Antonov,DJ Antrim,F Anulli,M Aoki,L Aperio Bella,G Arabidze,Y Arai,JP Araque,V Araujo Ferraz,ATH Arce,RE Ardell,FA Arduh,JF Arguin,S Argyropoulos,M Arik,AJ Armbruster,LJ Armitage,O Arnaez,H Arnold,M Arratia,O Arslan,A Artamonov,G Artoni,S Artz,S Asai,N Asbah,A Ashkenazi,L Asquith,K Assamagan,R Astalos,M Atkinson,NB Atlay,K Augsten,G Avolio,B Axen,MK Ayoub,G Azuelos,AE Baas,MJ Baca,H Bachacou,K Bachas,M Backes,P Bagnaia,M Bahmani,H Bahrasemani,JT Baines,M Bajic,OK Baker,PJ Bakker,EM Baldin,P Balek,F Balli,WK Balunas,E Banas,A Bandyopadhyay,Sw Banerjee,AAE Bannoura,L Barak,EL Barberio,D Barberis,M Barbero,T Barillari,M-S Barisits,JT Barkeloo,T Barklow,N Barlow,SL Barnes,BM Barnett
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Published Date
2023/12
Table 2. The number of observed events and the mean expected background, estimated from the maximum-likelihood fit and shown with the associated total uncertainty, for the mMγ ranges of interest. The expected Higgs and Z boson signal yields, along with the total systematic uncertainty, for ϕγ and ργ, estimated using simulations, are also shown in parentheses.
Sensitivity projections for a dual-phase argon TPC optimized for light dark matter searches through the ionization channel
Authors
P Agnes,I Ahmad,S Albergo,IFM Albuquerque,T Alexander,AK Alton,P Amaudruz,M Atzori Corona,DJ Auty,M Ave,I Ch Avetisov,RI Avetisov,O Azzolini,HO Back,Z Balmforth,V Barbarian,A Barrado Olmedo,P Barrillon,A Basco,G Batignani,E Berzin,A Bondar,WM Bonivento,E Borisova,B Bottino,MG Boulay,G Buccino,S Bussino,J Busto,A Buzulutskov,M Cadeddu,M Cadoni,A Caminata,N Canci,A Capra,S Caprioli,M Caravati,M Cárdenas-Montes,N Cargioli,M Carlini,P Castello,V Cataudella,P Cavalcante,S Cavuoti,S Cebrian,JM Cela Ruiz,S Chashin,A Chepurnov,E Chyhyrynets,C Cicalò,L Cifarelli,D Cintas,V Cocco,E Conde Vilda,L Consiglio,S Copello,G Covone,S Cross,Milena Czubak,M D’Aniello,S D’Auria,MD Da Rocha Rolo,O Dadoun,M Daniel,S Davini,A De Candia,S De Cecco,A De Falco,G De Filippis,D De Gruttola,S De Pasquale,G De Rosa,G Dellacasa,AV Derbin,A Devoto,F Di Capua,L Di Noto,P Di Stefano,C Dionisi,G Dolganov,F Dordei,L Doria,T Erjavec,M Fernandez Diaz,G Fiorillo,A Franceschi,P Franchini,D Franco,E Frolov,N Funicello,F Gabriele,D Gahan,C Galbiati,G Gallina,G Gallus,M Garbini,P Garcia Abia,A Gendotti,C Ghiano,RA Giampaolo,C Giganti,MA Giorgi,GK Giovanetti,V Goicoechea Casanueva,A Gola,D Gorman,R Graciani Diaz,G Grauso,G Grilli Di Cortona,A Grobov,M Gromov,M Guan,M Guerzoni,M Gulino,C Guo,BR Hackett,JB Hall,AL Hallin,A Hamer,H Helton,M Haranczyk,T Hessel,S Hill,S Horikawa,F Hubaut,T Hugues,EV Hungerford,An Ianni,V Ippolito,C Jillings,P Kachru,AA Kemp,CL Kendziora,G Keppel,AV Khomyakov,M Kimura,I Kochanek,K Kondo,G Korga,S Koulosousas,A Kubankin,M Kuss,M Kuźniak,M La Commara,M Lai,E Le Guirriec,E Leason,X Li,L Lidey,J Lipp
Journal
Physical Review D
Published Date
2023/6/20
Dark matter lighter than 10 GeV/c 2 encompasses a promising range of candidates. A conceptual design for a new detector, DarkSide-LowMass, is presented, based on the DarkSide-50 detector and progress toward DarkSide-20k, optimized for a low-threshold electron-counting measurement. Sensitivity to light dark matter is explored for various potential energy thresholds and background rates. These studies show that DarkSide-LowMass can achieve sensitivity to light dark matter down to the solar neutrino fog for GeV-scale masses and significant sensitivity down to 10 MeV/c 2 considering the Migdal effect or interactions with electrons. Requirements for optimizing the detector’s sensitivity are explored, as are potential sensitivity gains from modeling and mitigating spurious electron backgrounds that may dominate the signal at the lowest energies.
Study of cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k experiment
Authors
A Elersich,P Agnes,I Ahmad,S Albergo,IFM Albuquerque,T Alexander,AK Alton,P Amaudruz,M Atzori Corona,M Ave,I Ch Avetisov,O Azzolini,HO Back,Z Balmforth,A Barrado-Olmedo,P Barrillon,A Basco,G Batignani,V Bocci,WM Bonivento,B Bottino,MG Boulay,J Busto,M Cadeddu,A Caminata,N Canci,A Capra,S Caprioli,M Caravati,N Cargioli,M Carlini,P Castello,P Cavalcante,S Cavuoti,S Cebrian,JM Cela Ruiz,S Chashin,A Chepurnov,E Chyhyrynets,L Cifarelli,D Cintas,M Citterio,B Cleveland,V Cocco,D Colaiuda,E Conde Vilda,L Consiglio,S Copello,G Covone,Milena Czubak,M D’Aniello,S D’Auria,MD Da Rocha Rolo,S Davini,S De Cecco,D De Gruttola,S De Pasquale,G De Rosa,G Dellacasa,AV Derbin,A Devoto,F Di Capua,L Di Noto,P Di Stefano,G Dolganov,F Dordei,E Ellingwood,T Erjavec,M Fernandez Diaz,G Fiorillo,P Franchini,D Franco,N Funicello,F Gabriele,D Gahan,C Galbiati,G Gallina,G Gallus,M Garbini,P Garcia Abia,A Gendotti,C Ghiano,C Giganti,GK Giovanetti,V Goicoechea Casanueva,A Gola,G Grauso,G Grilli di Cortona,A Grobov,M Gromov,M Guan,M Guerzoni,M Gulino,C Guo,BR Hackett,AL Hallin,A Hamer,M Haranczyk,T Hessel,S Hill,S Horikawa,F Hubaut,J Hucker,T Hugues,An Ianni,V Ippolito,C Jillings,S Jois,P Kachru,AA Kemp,CL Kendziora,M Kimura,I Kochanek,K Kondo,G Korga,S Koulosousas,A Kubankin,M Kuss,M Kuzniak,M La Commara,M Lai,E Le Guirriec,E Leason,A Leoni,L Lidey,M Lissia,L Luzzi,O Lychagina,O Macfadyen,IN Machulin,S Manecki,I Manthos,L Mapelli,A Margotti,SM Mari,C Mariani,J Maricic,A Marini,M Martínez,CJ Martoff,G Matteucci,K Mavrokoridis,AB McDonald,A Messina,R Milincic,A Mitra,A Moharana,J Monroe,E Moretti,M Morrocchi
Journal
Astroparticle Physics
Published Date
2023/10/1
The activation of materials due to exposure to cosmic rays may become an important background source for experiments investigating rare event phenomena. DarkSide-20k, currently under construction at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, is a direct detection experiment for galactic dark matter particles, using a two-phase liquid-argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) filled with 49.7 tonnes (active mass) of Underground Argon (UAr) depleted in 39 Ar. Despite the outstanding capability of discriminating γ/β background in argon TPCs, this background must be considered because of induced dead time or accidental coincidences mimicking dark-matter signals and it is relevant for low-threshold electron-counting measurements. Here, the cosmogenic activity of relevant long-lived radioisotopes induced in the experiment has been estimated to set requirements and procedures during preparation of the experiment …
Neutrinoless double beta decay
Authors
C Adams,K Alfonso,C Andreoiu,E Angelico,IJ Arnquist,JAA Asaadi,FT Avignone,SN Axani,AS Barabash,PS Barbeau,L Baudis,F Bellini,M Beretta,T Bhatta,V Biancacci,M Biassoni,E Bossio,PA Breur,JP Brodsky,C Brofferio,E Brown,R Brugnera,T Brunner,N Burlac,E Caden,S Calgaro,GF Cao,L Cao,C Capelli,L Cardani,R Castillo Fernandez,CM Cattadori,B Chana,D Chernyak,CD Christofferson,P-H Chu,E Church,V Cirigliano,R Collister,T Comellato,J Dalmasson,V d'Andrea,T Daniels,L Darroch,MP Decowski,M Demarteau,S Peixoto,JA Detwiler,RG DeVoe,S Di Domizio,N Di Marco,ML Di Vacri,MJ Dolinski,Yu Efremenko,M Elbeltagi,SR Elliott,J Engel,L Fabris,WM Fairbank,J Farine,M Febbraro,E Figueroa-Feliciano,DE Fields,JA Formaggio,BT Foust,B Franke,Y Fu,BK Fujikawa,D Gallacher,G Gallina,A Garfagnini,C Gingras,L Gironi,A Giuliani,M Gold,R Gornea,C Grant,G Gratta,MP Green,GF Grinyer,J Gruszko,Y Guan,IS Guinn,VE Guiseppe,TD Gutierrez,EV Hansen,CA Hardy,J Hauptman,M Heffner,KM Heeger,R Henning,H Hergert,D Hervas Aguilar,R Hodak,JD Holt,EW Hoppe,M Horoi,HZ Huang,K Inoue,A Jamil,J Jochum,BJP Jones,J Kaizer,G Karapetrov,S Al Kharusi,MF Kidd,Y Kishimoto,JR Klein,Yu G Kolomensky,I Kontul,VN Kornoukhov,P Krause,R Krucken,KS Kumar,K Lang,KG Leach,BG Lenardo,A Leonhardt,A Li,G Li,Z Li,C Licciardi,R Lindsay,I Lippi,J Liu,M Macko,R MacLellan,C Macolino,S Majidi,F Mamedov,J Masbou,R Massarczyk,AT Mastbaum,D Mayer,A Mazumdar,DM Mei,Y Mei,SJ Meijer,E Mereghetti,S Mertens,K Mistry,T Mitsui,DC Moore,M Morella,JT Nattress,M Neuberger,XE Ngwadla,C Nones,V Novosad,DR Nygren
Journal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11099
Published Date
2022/12/21
This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta decay as a critical component of the future nuclear physics program. The major experimental collaborations and many theorists have endorsed this white paper.
Erratum to: Search for single top-quark production via flavour-changing neutral currents at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Authors
G Aad,B Abbott,J Abdallah,R Aben,M Abolins,OS AbouZeid,H Abramowicz,H Abreu,R Abreu,Y Abulaiti,BS Acharya,L Adamczyk,DL Adams,J Adelman,S Adomeit,T Adye,AA Affolder,T Agatonovic-Jovin,JA Aguilar-Saavedra,SP Ahlen,F Ahmadov,G Aielli,H Akerstedt,TPA Åkesson,AV Akimov,GL Alberghi,J Albert,S Albrand,MJ Alconada Verzini,M Aleksa,IN Aleksandrov,C Alexa,G Alexander,T Alexopoulos,M Alhroob,G Alimonti,L Alio,J Alison,SP Alkire,BMM Allbrooke,PP Allport,A Aloisio,A Alonso,F Alonso,C Alpigiani,A Altheimer,B Alvarez Gonzalez,D Álvarez Piqueras,MG Alviggi,BT Amadio,K Amako,Y Amaral Coutinho,C Amelung,D Amidei,SP Amor Dos Santos,A Amorim,S Amoroso,N Amram,G Amundsen,C Anastopoulos,LS Ancu,N Andari,T Andeen,CF Anders,G Anders,JK Anders,KJ Anderson,A Andreazza,V Andrei,S Angelidakis,I Angelozzi,P Anger,A Angerami,F Anghinolfi,AV Anisenkov,N Anjos,A Annovi,M Antonelli,A Antonov,J Antos,F Anulli,M Aoki,L Aperio Bella,G Arabidze,Y Arai,JP Araque,ATH Arce,FA Arduh,JF Arguin,S Argyropoulos,M Arik,AJ Armbruster,O Arnaez,V Arnal,H Arnold,M Arratia,O Arslan,A Artamonov,G Artoni,S Asai,N Asbah,A Ashkenazi,B Åsman,L Asquith,K Assamagan,R Astalos,M Atkinson,NB Atlay,K Augsten,M Aurousseau,G Avolio,B Axen,MK Ayoub,G Azuelos,MA Baak,AE Baas,MJ Baca,C Bacci,H Bachacou,K Bachas,M Backes,M Backhaus,P Bagiacchi,P Bagnaia,Y Bai,T Bain,JT Baines,OK Baker,EM Baldin,P Balek,T Balestri,F Balli,E Banas,Sw Banerjee,AAE Bannoura,HS Bansil,L Barak,EL Barberio,D Barberis,M Barbero,T Barillari,M Barisonzi,T Barklow,N Barlow,SL Barnes,BM Barnett,RM Barnett,Z Barnovska,A Baroncelli,G Barone
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Published Date
2022/1
One correction is noted for the paper. The branching fraction was not included in the conversion of the observed cross-section limit, pb to the coupling constants and and the branching fractions and. The inclusion leads to weaker observed exclusion limits on the coupling constants divided by the scale of new physics of and and on the branching fractions and. The predicted exclusion limits on the coupling constants divided by the scale of new physics are and and on the branching fractions and. Updated distributions of the observed upper limits on the coupling constants for combinations of cgt and ugt channels are shown in Figure 10 a and on the branching fractions in Figure 10 b.
Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO
Authors
Giacomo Gallina,Y Guan,Fabriece Retiere,Guofu Cao,Aleksey Bolotnikov,Ivan Kotov,Sergio Rescia,Arun Kumar Soma,Thomas Tsang,Lucas Darroch,Thomas Brunner,Jack Bolster,JR Cohen,T Pinto Franco,Wesley Collins Gillis,H Peltz Smalley,S Thibado,Andrea Pocar,Avinay Bhat,Ako Jamil,DC Moore,G Adhikari,S Al Kharusi,E Angelico,IJ Arnquist,P Arsenault,I Badhrees,J Bane,V Belov,EP Bernard,T Bhatta,PA Breur,JP Brodsky,E Brown,E Caden,L Cao,C Chambers,B Chana,SA Charlebois,D Chernyak,M Chiu,B Cleveland,R Collister,M Cvitan,J Dalmasson,T Daniels,K Deslandes,R DeVoe,ML Di Vacri,Y Ding,MJ Dolinski,A Dragone,J Echevers,B Eckert,M Elbeltagi,L Fabris,W Fairbank,J Farine,YS Fu,D Gallacher,P Gautam,G Giacomini,C Gingras,D Goeldi,R Gornea,G Gratta,CA Hardy,S Hedges,M Heffner,E Hein,J Holt,EW Hoppe,J Hößl,A House,W Hunt,A Iverson,XS Jiang,A Karelin,LJ Kaufman,R Krücken,A Kuchenkov,KS Kumar,A Larson,KG Leach,BG Lenardo,DS Leonard,G Lessard,G Li,S Li,Z Li,C Licciardi,R Lindsay,R MacLellan,M Mahtab,S Majidi,C Malbrunot,P Margetak,P Martel-Dion,L Martin,J Masbou,N Massacret,K McMichael,B Mong,K Murray,J Nattress,CR Natzke,XE Ngwadla,JC Nzobadila Ondze,A Odian,JL Orrell,GS Ortega,CT Overman,S Parent,A Perna,A Piepke,N Pletskova,JF Pratte,V Radeka,E Raguzin,GJ Ramonnye,T Rao,H Rasiwala,K Raymond,BM Rebeiro,G Richardson,J Ringuette,V Riot,T Rossignol,PC Rowson,L Rudolph,R Saldanha,S Sangiorgio,X Shang,F Spadoni,V Stekhanov,XL Sun,A Tidball,T Totev,S Triambak,RHM Tsang,OA Tyuka,F Vachon,M Vidal,S Viel,G Visser,M Wagenpfeil,M Walent,K Wamba,Q Wang,W Wang
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Published Date
2022/12/13
Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume, scalability to large target masses, and suitability for extremely low background operations. The nEXO collaboration has designed a tonne-scale time projection chamber that aims to search for 0 of Xe with projected half-life sensitivity of yr. To reach this sensitivity, the design goal for nEXO is 1% energy resolution at the decay Q-value ( keV). Reaching this resolution requires the efficient collection of both the ionization and scintillation produced in the detector. The nEXO design employs Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) to detect the vacuum ultra-violet, 175 nm scintillation light of liquid xenon. This paper reports on the characterization of the newest vacuum ultra-violet sensitive Fondazione Bruno Kessler …
Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in leptonic final states in pp collisions at√ s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Authors
M Aaboud,G Aad,B Abbott,A Aggarwal,S Caron,L Colasurdo,V Fabiani,CA Gottardo,P Moskvitina,CJM Nellist,L Pedraza Diaz
Published Date
2022
A search for the pair production of heavy leptons as predicted by the type-III seesaw mechanism is presented. The search uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-ofmass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to 139 fb− 1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis focuses on final states with three or four electrons or muons from the possible decays of new heavy leptons via intermediate electroweak bosons. No significant deviations above the Standard Model expectation are observed; upper and lower limits on the heavy lepton production cross-section and masses are derived respectively. These results are then combined for the first time with the ones already published by ATLAS using the channel with two leptons in the final state. The observed lower limit on the mass of the type-III seesaw heavy leptons combining two, three and four lepton channels together is 910 GeV at the 95% confidence level.
Development of a 127Xe calibration source for nEXO
Authors
Brian G Lenardo,CA Hardy,RHM Tsang,JC Nzobadila Ondze,A Piepke,S Triambak,A Jamil,G Adhikari,S Al Kharusi,E Angelico,IJ Arnquist,V Belov,EP Bernard,A Bhat,T Bhatta,A Bolotnikov,PA Breur,JP Brodsky,E Brown,T Brunner,E Caden,GF Cao,L Cao,B Chana,SA Charlebois,D Chernyak,M Chiu,JR Cohen,R Collister,J Dalmasson,T Daniels,L Darroch,R DeVoe,ML Di Vacri,YY Ding,MJ Dolinski,J Echevers,B Eckert,M Elbeltagi,L Fabris,D Fairbank,W Fairbank,J Farine,YS Fu,G Gallina,P Gautam,G Giacomini,W Gillis,C Gingras,R Gornea,G Gratta,K Harouaka,M Heffner,E Hein,J Hößl,A House,A Iverson,XS Jiang,A Karelin,LJ Kaufman,R Krücken,A Kuchenkov,KS Kumar,A Larson,KG Leach,DS Leonard,G Li,S Li,Z Li,C Licciardi,R Lindsay,R MacLellan,J Masbou,K McMichael,M Medina Peregrina,B Mong,DC Moore,K Murray,J Nattress,CR Natzke,XE Ngwadla,K Ni,Z Ning,JL Orrell,GS Ortega,I Ostrovskiy,CT Overman,A Perna,T Pinto Franco,A Pocar,JF Pratte,N Priel,E Raguzin,GJ Ramonnye,H Rasiwala,K Raymond,G Richardson,M Richman,J Ringuette,PC Rowson,R Saldanha,S Sangiorgio,X Shang,AK Soma,F Spadoni,V Stekhanov,XL Sun,S Thibado,A Tidball,J Todd,T Totev,OA Tyuka,F Vachon,V Veeraraghavan,S Viel,K Wamba,Y Wang,Q Wang,W Wei,LJ Wen,U Wichoski,S Wilde,WH Wu,W Yan,L Yang,O Zeldovich,J Zhao,T Ziegler,nEXO Collaboration
Journal
Journal of Instrumentation
Published Date
2022/7/20
We study a possible calibration technique for the nEXO experiment using a 127 Xe electron capture source. nEXO is a next-generation search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) that will use a 5-tonne, monolithic liquid xenon time projection chamber (TPC). The xenon, used both as source and detection medium, will be enriched to 90% in 136 Xe. To optimize the event reconstruction and energy resolution, calibrations are needed to map the position-and time-dependent detector response. The 36.3 day half-life of 127 Xe and its small Q-value compared to that of 136 Xe 0νββ would allow a small activity to be maintained continuously in the detector during normal operations without introducing additional backgrounds, thereby enabling in-situ calibration and monitoring of the detector response. In this work we describe a process for producing the source and preliminary experimental tests. We then use …
Erratum: Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector [Phys. Rev. D 102 …
Authors
P Adhikari,R Ajaj,DJ Auty,CE Bina,W Bonivento,MG Boulay,M Cadeddu,B Cai,M Cárdenas-Montes,S Cavuoti,Y Chen,BT Cleveland,JM Corning,S Daugherty,P DelGobbo,P Di Stefano,L Doria,M Dunford,A Erlandson,SS Farahani,N Fatemighomi,G Fiorillo,D Gallacher,EA Garcés,P García Abia,S Garg,P Giampa,D Goeldi,P Gorel,K Graham,A Grobov,AL Hallin,M Hamstra,T Hugues,A Ilyasov,A Joy,B Jigmeddorj,CJ Jillings,O Kamaev,G Kaur,A Kemp,I Kochanek,M Kuźniak,M Lai,S Langrock,B Lehnert,N Levashko,X Li,O Litvinov,J Lock,G Longo,I Machulin,AB McDonald,T McElroy,JB McLaughlin,C Mielnichuk,J Monroe,G Oliviéro,S Pal,SJM Peeters,V Pesudo,M-C Piro,TR Pollmann,ET Rand,C Rethmeier,F Retière,I Rodríguez-García,L Roszkowski,E Sanchez García,T Sánchez-Pastor,R Santorelli,D Sinclair,P Skensved,B Smith,NJT Smith,T Sonley,R Stainforth,M Stringer,B Sur,E Vázquez-Jáuregui,S Viel,AC Vincent,J Walding,M Waqar,M Ward,S Westerdale,J Willis,A Zuñiga-Reyes,DEAP Collaboration
Journal
Physical Review D
Published Date
2022/1/19
In the article, the Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theory (NREFT) rate calculations were determined using the WIMpy_NREFT software [1], which was updated on September 29, 2021, to include a previously missing ðq= mNÞ2 factor in the implementation. This update affects the results related to the O3 operator that now scales as ðq= mNÞ4 instead of ðq= mNÞ2. The corrections to Figs. 2, 6, 9, 10, and 11 are presented below. The couplings to O3 constrained by this analysis are higher than those reported in the article. Additionally:(i) In Sec. VA, operator O3 is suppressed at low recoil energies, exhibiting now a peak around 50 keV (Fig. 2).(ii) The third paragraph in Sec. VB should read as follows:“The operator O3 is proportional to ðq= mNÞ4, while O11 goes as ðq= mNÞ2. O3 is described by the Φ 00 multipole operator [discussed in Eqs.(9) and (10)], while O11 is described by M. Since the former operator is …
First direct detection constraints on Planck-scale mass dark matter with multiple-scatter signatures using the DEAP-3600 detector
Authors
P Adhikari,R Ajaj,M Alpízar-Venegas,DJ Auty,H Benmansour,CE Bina,W Bonivento,MG Boulay,M Cadeddu,B Cai,M Cárdenas-Montes,S Cavuoti,Y Chen,BT Cleveland,JM Corning,S Daugherty,P DelGobbo,P Di Stefano,L Doria,M Dunford,E Ellingwood,A Erlandson,SS Farahani,N Fatemighomi,G Fiorillo,D Gallacher,P García Abia,S Garg,P Giampa,D Goeldi,P Gorel,K Graham,A Grobov,AL Hallin,M Hamstra,T Hugues,A Ilyasov,A Joy,B Jigmeddorj,CJ Jillings,O Kamaev,G Kaur,A Kemp,I Kochanek,M Kuźniak,M Lai,S Langrock,B Lehnert,A Leonhardt,N Levashko,X Li,M Lissia,O Litvinov,J Lock,G Longo,I Machulin,AB McDonald,T McElroy,JB McLaughlin,C Mielnichuk,L Mirasola,J Monroe,G Oliviéro,S Pal,SJM Peeters,M Perry,V Pesudo,E Picciau,M-C Piro,TR Pollmann,N Raj,ET Rand,C Rethmeier,F Retière,I Rodríguez-García,L Roszkowski,JB Ruhland,E Sanchez García,T Sánchez-Pastor,R Santorelli,S Seth,D Sinclair,P Skensved,B Smith,NJT Smith,T Sonley,R Stainforth,M Stringer,B Sur,E Vázquez-Jáuregui,S Viel,J Walding,M Waqar,M Ward,S Westerdale,J Willis,A Zuñiga-Reyes,DEAP Collaboration
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Published Date
2022/1/5
Dark matter with Planck-scale mass (≃ 10 19 GeV/c 2) arises in well-motivated theories and could be produced by several cosmological mechanisms. A search for multiscatter signals from supermassive dark matter was performed with a blind analysis of data collected over a 813 d live time with DEAP-3600, a 3.3 t single-phase liquid argon-based detector at SNOLAB. No candidate signals were observed, leading to the first direct detection constraints on Planck-scale mass dark matter. Leading limits constrain dark matter masses between 8.3× 10 6 and 1.2× 10 19 GeV/c 2, and Ar 40-scattering cross sections between 1.0× 10− 23 and 2.4× 10− 18 cm 2. These results are interpreted as constraints on composite dark matter models with two different nucleon-to-nuclear cross section scalings.
arXiv: Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Authors
C Adams,R Brugnera,F Mamedov,C Brofferio,L Gironi,N Di Marco,DH Speller,T Mitsui,PA Breur,E Church,SL Watkins,DE Fields,TI Totev,BJP Jones,DR Nygren,L Darroch,T Brunner,PC Rowson,D Mayer,SI Vasilyev,R Castillo Fernández,E Mereghetti,L Pagani,L Yang,S Wilde,V D'Andrea,K Lang,S Al Kharusi,JAA Asaadi,W Tornow,D Chernyak,TD Gutierrez,U Wichoski,D Waters,VN Kornoukhov,EW Hoppe,G Zuzel,IS Guinn,R Saakyan,M Watts,K Mistry,AS Barabash,E Bossio,OA Tyuka,SJ Meijer,R Gornea,M Pavan,M Macko,KM Heeger,V Biancacci,JC Ondze,MJ Dolinski,J Dalmasson,AC Sousa,C Gingras,L Baudis,JL Orrell,R Lindsay,F Salamida,W Xu,S Mertens,PT Surukuchi,S Triambak,L Rogers,T O'Donnell,AT Mastbaum,Y Guan,J Gruszko,C Nones,C Sada,M Febbraro,L Winslow,V Cirigliano,M Elbeltagi,J Kaizer,MF Kidd,P Krause,P-H Chu,A Pullia,I Lippi,A Garfagnini,S Calgaro,K Inoue,K von Strum,H Yang,A Li,JA Formaggio,FL Spadoni,J Masbou,C Licciardi,W Pettus,GD Orebi Gann,BT Foust,JP Brodsky,L Cao,F Psihas,SN Axani,J Farine,L Pertoldi,E Brown,SR Elliott,J Jochum,JF Wilkerson,XE Ngwadla,A Piepke,G Gratta,H Rasiwala,Y Mei,Yu G Kolomensky,PS Barbeau,Y Fu,S Riboldi,L Cardani,MP Decowski,G Richardson,P Povinec,SE Schwartz,X Wu,M Biassoni,Y Shitov,S Schönert,A Perna,V Palusova,M Gold,DJ Salvat,Z Li,R Henning,G Gallina,B Franke,R Tayloe,L Fabris,J Zennamo,GF Cao,G Li,BK Fujikawa,W-Z Wei,J Liu,D Gallacher,E Rukhadze,S De Meireles Peixoto,M Schwarz,GJ Ramonnye,Yu Efremenko,M Heffner,JD Holt,VE Guiseppe,V Singh,HZ Huang,CD Christofferson,T Comellato
Published Date
2022/12/21
Abstract This White Paper, prepared for the Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting related to the 2023 Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan, makes the case for double beta decay as a critical component of the future nuclear physics program. The major experimental collaborations and many theorists have endorsed this white paper.
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