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1. The XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

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E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, F. D. Amaro, M. Anthony, B. Antunes, F. Arneodo, M. Balata, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, A. Breskin, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, J. Calvén, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, A. Chiarini, D. Cichon, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, R. Corrieri, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, P. de Perio, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, S. Diglio, J.-M. Disdier, M. Doets, E. Duchovni, G. Eurin, J. Fei, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, D. Franco, D. Front, W. Fulgione, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, K.-L. Giboni, L. W. Goetzke, L. Grandi, Z. Greene, C. Grignon, C. Hasterok, E. Hogenbirk, C. Huhmann, R. Itay, A. James, B. Kaminsky, S. Kazama, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, F. Lombardi, J. A. M. Lopes, R. Maier, A. Manfredini, I. Maris, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Masson, D. Mayani, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, A. Molinario, K. Morå, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, D. Orlandi, R. Othegraven, P. Pakarha, S. Parlati, B. Pelssers, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, V. Pizzella, M.-C. Piro, G. Plante, N. Priel, D. Ramírez García, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, N. Rupp, J. M. F. dos Santos, R. Saldanha, G. Sartorelli, M. Scheibelhut, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. v. Sivers, M. Stern, A. Stein, D. Tatananni, L. Tatananni, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, N. Upole, M. Vargas, O. Wack, R. Walet, H. Wang, Z. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, C. Wittweg, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, XENON Collaboration, XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées ( SUBATECH ), IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire ( IMT Atlantique ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Nantes ( UN ), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies ( LPNHE ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), XENON, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Amaro, F.D., Anthony, M., Antunes, B., Arneodo, F., Balata, M., Barrow, P., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Benabderrahmane, M.L., Berger, T., Breskin, A., Breur, P.A., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Bütikofer, L., Calvén, J., Cardoso, J.M.R., Cervantes, M., Chiarini, A., Cichon, D., Coderre, D., Colijn, A.P., Conrad, J., Corrieri, R., Cussonneau, J.P., Decowski, M.P., de Perio, P., Gangi, P. Di, Giovanni, A. Di, Diglio, S., Disdier, J.-M., Doets, M., Duchovni, E., Eurin, G., Fei, J., Ferella, A.D., Fieguth, A., Franco, D., Front, D., Fulgione, W., Rosso, A. Gallo, Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Geis, C., Giboni, K.-L., Goetzke, L.W., Grandi, L., Greene, Z., Grignon, C., Hasterok, C., Hogenbirk, E., Huhmann, C., Itay, R., James, A., Kaminsky, B., Kazama, S., Kessler, G., Kish, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R.F., Lellouch, D., Levinson, L., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lombardi, F., Lopes, J.A.M., Maier, R., Manfredini, A., Maris, I., Undagoitia, T. Marrodán, Masbou, J., Massoli, F.V., Masson, D., Mayani, D., Messina, M., Micheneau, K., Molinario, A., Morå, K., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Orlandi, D., Othegraven, R., Pakarha, P., Parlati, S., Pelssers, B., Persiani, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Pizzella, V., Piro, M.-C., Plante, G., Priel, N., García, D. Ramírez, Rauch, L., Reichard, S., Reuter, C., Rizzo, A., Rosendahl, S., Rupp, N., Santos, J.M.Fdos., Saldanha, R., Sartorelli, G., Scheibelhut, M., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schumann, M., Lavina, L. Scotto, Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Sivers, Mv., Stern, M., Stein, A., Tatananni, D., Tatananni, L., Thers, D., Tiseni, A., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C., Upole, N., Vargas, M., Wack, O., Walet, R., Wang, H., Wang, Z., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Wittweg, C., Wulf, J., Ye, J., and Zhang, Y.

Subjects
xenon: target, Photomultiplier, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), WIMP, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Dark matter, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, lcsh:Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), XENON, Xenon, background: low, [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:QB460-466, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Dark Matter, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysique, Physics, Scintillation, xenon: liquid, Time projection chamber, photomultiplier, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), dark matter: detector, time projection chamber, chemistry, lcsh:QC770-798, TPC, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], performance, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the first WIMP dark matter detector operating with a liquid xenon target mass above the ton-scale. Out of its 3.2 t liquid xenon inventory, 2.0 t constitute the active target of the dual-phase time projection chamber. The scintillation and ionization signals from particle interactions are detected with low-background photomultipliers. This article describes the XENON1T instrument and its subsystems as well as strategies to achieve an unprecedented low background level. First results on the detector response and the performance of the subsystems are also presented. © 2017, The Author(s)., info:eu-repo/semantics/published

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2017
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2. The distributed Slow Control System of the XENON100 experiment

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Y. Mei, E. Pantic, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, F. V. Massoli, Qing Lin, A. Manzur, K. E. Lim, O. Vitells, A. C. C. Ribeiro, Giacomo Bruno, W. Fulgione, A. Rizzo, B. Choi, J. A. M. Lopes, L. Scotto Lavina, A. Kish, Ethan Brown, Gabriella Sartorelli, E. Duchovni, Laura Baudis, W. Hampel, A. D. Ferella, M. Weber, S. E. A. Orrigo, João Cardoso, M. Selvi, F. Gao, G. Plante, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Kaixuan Ni, Ch. Weinheimer, P. Beltrame, R. Persiani, Hui Wang, W. T. Chen, S. Rosendahl, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, A. Molinario, A. Teymourian, K. Arisaka, H. Simgen, Uwe Oberlack, P. R. Scovell, S. Fattori, Daniel McKinsey, H. Contreras, F. Arneodo, M. Garbini, Eilam Gross, Luke Goetzke, A. Behrens, K. Bokeloh, Y. Meng, Elena Aprile, E. Nativ, Ran Budnik, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, K. Lung, C. Levy, M. Alfonsi, J.M.F. dos Santos, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, Stefan Lindemann, J. Lamblin, J. Schreiner, M. P. Decowski, Manfred Lindner, C. Balan, N. Priel, D. Thers, C. Grignon, K. L. Giboni, J. V. Patricio, E Aprile, M Alfonsi, K Arisaka, F Arneodo, C Balan, L Baudi, A Behren, P Beltrame, K Bokeloh, E Brown, G M Bruno, R Budnik, M Le Calloch, J M Cardoso, W -T Chen, B Choi, H Contrera, J -P Cussonneau, M P Decowski, E Duchovni, S Fattori, A D Ferella, W Fulgione, F Gao, M Garbini, K -L Giboni, L W Goetzke, C Grignon, E Gro, W Hampel, D N McKinsey, A Kish, J Lamblin, R F Lang, C Levy, K E Lim, Q Lin, S Lindemann, M Lindner, J A M Lope, K Lung, A Manzur, T Marrodán Undagoitia, F V Massoli, Y Mei, A J Melgarejo Fernandez, Y Meng, A Molinario, E Nativ, K Ni, U Oberlack, S E A Orrigo, E Pantic, J V Patricio, R Persiani, G Plante, N Priel, A C C Ribeiro, A Rizzo, S Rosendahl, J M F dos Santo, G Sartorelli, J Schreiner, M Schumann, L Scotto Lavina, P R Scovell, M Selvi, P Shagin, H Simgen, A Teymourian, D Ther, O Vitell, H Wang, M Weber, C Weinheimer, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), XENON100, IoP (FNWI), Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam, GRAPPA (ITFA, IoP, FNWI), Faculty of Science, and Other Research IHEF (IoP, FNWI)

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, architecture, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Java, Computer science, Real-time computing, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Control and monitor systems online, Control systems, Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms, databases), algorithms, 01 natural sciences, Xenon, 0103 physical sciences, hardware, DETECTOR CONTROL SYSTEMS, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], CONTROL SYSTEMS, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, computer.programming_language, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, Emphasis (telecommunications), Volume (computing), Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Modular design, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], chemistry, Control system, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, databases), business, computer, System software
Abstract

The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy, was designed to search for evidence of dark matter interactions inside a volume of liquid xenon using a dual-phase time projection chamber. This paper describes the Slow Control System (SCS) of the experiment with emphasis on the distributed architecture as well as on its modular and expandable nature. The system software was designed according to the rules of Object-Oriented Programming and coded in Java, thus promoting code reusability and maximum flexibility during commissioning of the experiment. The SCS has been continuously monitoring the XENON100 detector since mid 2008, remotely recording hundreds of parameters on a few dozen instruments in real time, and setting emergency alarms for the most important variables., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures

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2012
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3. Dark Matter Results from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data

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K. Arisaka, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, F. Arneodo, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Kish, G. Sartorelli, K. E. Lim, R. Santorelli, Manfred Lindner, C. W. Lam, K. Bokeloh, S. Fattori, A. Behrens, M. Selvi, J. Lamblin, Eilam Gross, Elena Aprile, David B. Cline, D. Thers, Y. Mei, E. Pantic, R. F. Lang, A. Teymourian, R. Persiani, Ethan Brown, T. Bruch, K. L. Giboni, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, Hongwei Wang, M. Weber, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, C. Levy, Ch. Weinheimer, B. Choi, G. Plante, K. Lung, Laura Baudis, J.M.F. dos Santos, Sebastian Lindemann, Kaixuan Ni, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, S. E. A. Orrigo, A. C. C. Ribeiro, Giacomo Bruno, O. Vitells, Uwe Oberlack, Qing Lin, Ehud Duchovni, A. Askin, João Cardoso, F. Gao, W. T. Chen, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, A. Askin, L. Baudi, A. Behren, K. Bokeloh, E. Brown, T. Bruch, G. Bruno, J. M. R. Cardoso, W.-T. Chen, B. Choi, D. Cline, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, F. Gao, K.-L. Giboni, E. Gro, A. Kish, C. W. Lam, J. Lamblin, R. F. Lang, C. Levy, K. E. Lim, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lope, K. Lung, T. Marrodan Undagoitia, Y. Mei, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, K. Ni| U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, G. Plante, A. C. C. Ribeiro, R. Santorelli, J. M. F. dos Santo, G. Sartorelli, M. Schumann, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Ther, O. Vitell, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and XENON100

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large Underground Xenon experiment, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, DARK MATTER, Dark matter, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Elementary particle, Fermion, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, WIMPS, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), XENON, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], TPC, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present results from the direct search for dark matter with the XENON100 detector, installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN, Italy. XENON100 is a two-phase time projection chamber with a 62 kg liquid xenon target. Interaction vertex reconstruction in three dimensions with millimeter precision allows to select only the innermost 48 kg as ultra-low background fiducial target. In 100.9 live days of data, acquired between January and June 2010, no evidence for dark matter is found. Three candidate events were observed in a pre-defined signal region with an expected background of 1.8 +/- 0.6 events. This leads to the most stringent limit on dark matter interactions today, excluding spin-independent elastic WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-sections above 7.0x10^-45 cm^2 for a WIMP mass of 50 GeV/c^2 at 90% confidence level., 5 pages, 5 figures; matches accepted version

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2011
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4. Likelihood approach to the first dark matter results from XENON100

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Manfred Lindner, K. E. Lim, F. Arneodo, J. Lamblin, Laura Baudis, Eilam Gross, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, A. Askin, D. Thers, S. E. A. Orrigo, S. Fattori, R. F. Lang, Ethan Brown, Ch. Weinheimer, João Cardoso, A. C. C. Ribeiro, K. Arisaka, O. Vitells, M. Weber, G. Plante, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Kish, J.M.F. dos Santos, Ehud Duchovni, B. Choi, E. Pantic, K. L. Giboni, E. Tziaferi, David B. Cline, Kaixuan Ni, Sebastian Lindemann, A. Behrens, C. W. Lam, R. Santorelli, K. Bokeloh, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, Y. Mei, Elena Aprile, A. Teymourian, A. D. Ferella, Hongwei Wang, T. Bruch, Uwe Oberlack, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and XENON100

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Scale (ratio), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Monte Carlo method, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Statistical model, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Frequentist inference, Weakly interacting massive particles, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Test statistic, Limit (mathematics), Statistical physics, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Many experiments that aim at the direct detection of Dark Matter are able to distinguish a dominant background from the expected feeble signals, based on some measured discrimination parameter. We develop a statistical model for such experiments using the Profile Likelihood ratio as a test statistic in a frequentist approach. We take data from calibrations as control measurements for signal and background, and the method allows the inclusion of data from Monte Carlo simulations. Systematic detector uncertainties, such as uncertainties in the energy scale, as well as astrophysical uncertainties, are included in the model. The statistical model can be used to either set an exclusion limit or to make a discovery claim, and the results are derived with a proper treatment of statistical and systematic uncertainties. We apply the model to the first data release of the XENON100 experiment, which allows to extract additional information from the data, and place stronger limits on the spin-independent elastic WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section. In particular, we derive a single limit, including all relevant systematic uncertainties, with a minimum of 2.4x10^-44 cm^2 for WIMPs with a mass of 50 GeV/c^2., 8 pages, 6 figures, matches accepted version

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2011
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5. Xenon Recirculation-Purification with a Heat Exchanger

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K. E. Lim, R. F. Lang, Elena Aprile, G. Plante, B. Choi, Antonio Melgarejo, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, and K. L. Giboni

Subjects
Materials science, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Nuclear engineering, Detector, Evaporation, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Liquefaction, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Volumetric flow rate, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, chemistry, Getter, 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, Heat exchanger, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics
Abstract

Liquid-xenon based particle detectors have been dramatically growing in size during the last years, and are now exceeding the one-ton scale. The required high xenon purity is usually achieved by continuous recirculation of xenon gas through a high-temperature getter. This challenges the traditional way of cooling these large detectors, since in a thermally well insulated detector, most of the cooling power is spent to compensate losses from recirculation. The phase change during recondensing requires five times more cooling power than cooling the gas from ambient temperature to -100C (173 K). Thus, to reduce the cooling power requirements for large detectors, we propose to use the heat from the purified incoming gas to evaporate the outgoing xenon gas, by means of a heat exchanger. Generally, a heat exchanger would appear to be only of very limited use, since evaporation and liquefaction occur at zero temperature difference. However, the use of a recirculation pump reduces the pressure of the extracted liquid, forces it to evaporate, and thus cools it down. We show that this temperature difference can be used for an efficient heat exchange process. We investigate the use of a commercial parallel plate heat exchanger with a small liquid xenon detector. Although we expected to be limited by the available cooling power to flow rates of about 2 SLPM, rates in excess of 12 SLPM can easily be sustained, limited only by the pump speed and the impedance of the flow loop. The heat exchanger operates with an efficiency of (96.8 +/- 0.5)%. This opens the possibility for fast xenon gas recirculation in large-scale experiments, while minimizing thermal losses., 10 pages, 3 figures

Published
2011

6. Study of the electromagnetic background in the XENON100 experiment

Author

Ethan Brown, R. Santorelli, A. Askin, S. Fattori, João Cardoso, F. Arneodo, E. Pantic, S. E. A. Orrigo, J. Lamblin, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, K. Arisaka, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, Y. Mei, A. C. C. Ribeiro, Kaixuan Ni, E. Tziaferi, Laura Baudis, D. Thers, Manfred Lindner, Hongwei Wang, R. F. Lang, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, David B. Cline, J. A. M. Lopes, K. E. Lim, A. Kish, Qing Lin, B. Choi, J.M.F. dos Santos, K. Bokeloh, Sebastian Lindemann, Elena Aprile, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Ch. Weinheimer, K. L. Giboni, C. W. Lam, Uwe Oberlack, K. Lung, M. Weber, G. Plante, A. Teymourian, A. Behrens, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and XENON100

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, Dark matter, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Particle detector, Nuclear physics, Xenon, Recoil, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Elastic scattering, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], chemistry, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Radioactive decay, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The XENON100 experiment, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), aims to directly detect dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their elastic scattering off xenon nuclei. We present a comprehensive study of the predicted electronic recoil background coming from radioactive decays inside the detector and shield materials, and intrinsic contamination. Based on GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations using a detailed geometry together with the measured radioactivity of all detector components, we predict an electronic recoil background in the WIMP-search energy range (0-100 keV) in the 30 kg fiducial mass of less than 10e-2 events/(kg-day-keV), consistent with the experiment's design goal. The predicted background spectrum is in very good agreement with the data taken during the commissioning of the detector, in Fall 2009., 10 pages, 12 figures The updated version of the paper takes into account the new measurement of $^{136}$Xe 2$\nu$ $\beta\beta$ decay by EXO-200, with a half-life of (2.11$\pm0.04\pm$0.021)$\times10^{21}$ years

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2011
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7. First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment

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A. C. C. Ribeiro, C. W. Lam, D. Thers, R. F. Lang, A. Askin, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, Y. Mei, B. Choi, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, João Cardoso, Laura Baudis, G. Plante, Uwe Oberlack, A. Behrens, S. E. A. Orrigo, Ethan Brown, Kaixuan Ni, E. Pantic, R. Santorelli, E. Tziaferi, J.M.F. dos Santos, K. Bokeloh, K. E. Lim, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Kish, Elena Aprile, A. Teymourian, J. Lamblin, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, S. Fattori, David B. Cline, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Ch. Weinheimer, K. L. Giboni, A. D. Ferella, Hongwei Wang, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and XENON100

Subjects
Elastic scattering, Physics, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Elementary particle, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, WIMP, Weakly interacting massive particles, DAMA/NaI, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, is designed to search for dark matter WIMPs scattering off 62 kg of liquid xenon in an ultra-low background dual-phase time projection chamber. In this letter, we present first dark matter results from the analysis of 11.17 live days of non-blind data, acquired in October and November 2009. In the selected fiducial target of 40 kg, and within the pre-defined signal region, we observe no events and hence exclude spin-independent WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross-sections above 3.4 x 10^-44 cm^2 for 55 GeV/c^2 WIMPs at 90% confidence level. Below 20 GeV/c^2, this result constrains the interpretation of the CoGeNT and DAMA signals as being due to spin-independent, elastic, light mass WIMP interactions., 5 pages, 5 figures. Matches published version

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2010
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8. New measurement of the relative scintillation efficiency of xenon nuclear recoils below 10 keV

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Guillaume Plante, B. Choi, A. Manalaysay, Laura Baudis, M. E. Monzani, Elena Aprile, K. E. Lim, K. L. Giboni, R. Santorelli, Masaki Yamashita, University of Zurich, and Aprile, E

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 530 Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, 10192 Physics Institute, Scintillator, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Nuclear physics, Xenon, 0103 physical sciences, Electron equivalent, 3106 Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010306 general physics, Elastic scattering, Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Gamma ray, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), chemistry, Scintillation counter, Atomic physics
Abstract

Liquid xenon is an important detection medium in direct dark matter experiments, which search for low-energy nuclear recoils produced by the elastic scattering of WIMPs with quarks. The two existing measurements of the relative scintillation efficiency of nuclear recoils below 20 keV lead to inconsistent extrapolations at lower energies. This results in a different energy scale and thus sensitivity reach of liquid xenon dark matter detectors. We report a new measurement of the relative scintillation efficiency below 10 keV performed with a liquid xenon scintillation detector, optimized for maximum light collection. Greater than 95% of the interior surface of this detector was instrumented with photomultiplier tubes, giving a scintillation yield of 19.6 photoelectrons/keV electron equivalent for 122 keV gamma rays. We find that the relative scintillation efficiency for nuclear recoils of 5 keV is 0.14, staying constant around this value up to 10 keV. For higher energy recoils we measure a value around 20%, consistent with previously reported data. In light of this new measurement, the XENON10 experiment's results on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section, which were calculated assuming a constant 0.19 relative scintillation efficiency, change from $8.8\times10^{-44}$ cm$^2$ to $9.9\times10^{-44}$ cm$^2$ for WIMPs of mass 100 GeV/c$^2$, and from $4.4\times10^{-44}$ cm$^2$ to $5.6\times10^{-44}$ cm$^2$ for WIMPs of mass 30 GeV/c$^2$., Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures

Published
2009

9. Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from the XENON10 experiment

Author

Alexander Bolozdynya, J.M.F. dos Santos, C.E. Dahl, P. Sorensen, A. Bernstein, L.M.P. Fernandes, J. Orboeck, L. Kastens, J. A. M. Lopes, Kaixuan Ni, S. Fiorucci, S. Schulte, J. Kwong, T. A. Shutt, P. Shagin, F. Arneodo, M. E. Monzani, J. Angle, Laura Baudis, Luis Coelho, K. L. Giboni, R. Hasty, L. DeViveiros, Uwe Oberlack, R. J. Gaitskell, A. D. Ferella, C. Winant, A. Manzur, R. Santorelli, Daniel McKinsey, Elena Aprile, Guillaume Plante, Masaki Yamashita, N. Madden, R. Gomez, and A. Manalaysay

Subjects
Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, media_common.quotation_subject, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Galactic halo, Nuclear physics, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Light dark matter, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Universe, Weakly interacting massive particles, Neutralino, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino
Abstract

XENON10 is an experiment to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMPs), which may comprise the bulk of the non-baryonic dark matter in our Universe. We report new results for spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions with 129-Xe and 131-Xe from 58.6 live-days of operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). Based on the non-observation of a WIMP signal in 5.4 kg of fiducial liquid xenon mass, we exclude previously unexplored regions in the theoretically allowed parameter space for neutralinos. We also exclude a heavy Majorana neutrino with a mass in the range of 10 GeV -2 TeV as a dark matter candidate under standard assumptions for its density and distribution in the galactic halo., 4 pages, 4 figures; final version published in PRL (added DAMA region to Figure 1)

Published
2008

10. Observation and applications of single-electron charge signals in the XENON100 experiment

Author

F. V. Massoli, Qing Lin, W. Fulgione, Y. Meng, H. Landsman, Uwe Oberlack, M. Garbini, João Cardoso, B. Choi, F. Gao, W. T. Chen, S. E. A. Orrigo, M. Messina, K. Arisaka, A. Behrens, M. Weber, Auke-Pieter Colijn, K. E. Lim, F. Piastra, S. Fattori, Abbe Brown, G. Kessler, G. Plante, W. Hampel, O. Vitells, R. Persiani, R. Itay, J. Naganoma, F. Arneodo, M. Selvi, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Kaixuan Ni, Hui Wang, E. Pantic, H. Simgen, M. Le Calloch, M. Alfonsi, C. Grignon, K. L. Giboni, Florian Kaether, Boris Bauermeister, C. Balan, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Kish, Elena Aprile, Eilam Gross, Giacomo Bruno, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Luke Goetzke, S. Bruenner, Ch. Weinheimer, C. Ghag, K. Bokeloh, C. Levy, J. Schreiner, M. P. Decowski, H. Contreras, Manfred Lindner, R. F. Lang, A. Molinario, N. Priel, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, P. Beltrame, S. Rosendahl, A. Teymourian, A. Rizzo, Ethan Brown, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, J. Lamblin, D. Thers, E. Duchovni, Laura Baudis, Ran Budnik, Gabriella Sartorelli, L. Scotto Lavina, K. Lung, A. D. Ferella, J.M.F. dos Santos, Sebastian Lindemann, E Aprile, M Alfonsi, K Arisaka, F Arneodo, C Balan, L Baudi, B Bauermeister, A Behren, P Beltrame, K Bokeloh, A Brown, E Brown, S Bruenner, G Bruno, R Budnik, J M R Cardoso, W-T Chen, B Choi, A P Colijn, H Contrera, J P Cussonneau, M P Decowski, E Duchovni, S Fattori, A D Ferella, W Fulgione, F Gao, M Garbini, C Ghag, K-L Giboni, L W Goetzke, C Grignon, E Gro, W Hampel, R Itay, F Kaether, G Kessler, A Kish, J Lamblin, H Landsman, R F Lang, M Le Calloch, C Levy, K E Lim, Q Lin, S Lindemann, M Lindner, J A M Lope, K Lung, T Marrodán Undagoitia, F V Massoli, A J Melgarejo Fernandez, Y Meng, M Messina, A Molinario, J Naganoma, K Ni, U Oberlack, S E A Orrigo, E Pantic, R Persiani, F Piastra, G Plante, N Priel, A Rizzo, S Rosendahl, J M F dos Santo, G Sartorelli, J Schreiner, M Schumann, L Scotto Lavina, M Selvi, P Shagin, H Simgen, A Teymourian, D Ther, O Vitell, H Wang, M Weber, C Weinheimer, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), XENON100, Astroparticle Physics (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), and The XENON100 collaboration

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Drift velocity, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, double phase TPC, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, WIMP, photoionization, single electron, xenon, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 3. Good health, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], chemistry, Weakly interacting massive particles, Atomic physics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon in a time projection chamber (TPC) to measure xenon nuclear recoils resulting from the scattering of dark matter Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this paper, we report the observation of single-electron charge signals which are not related to WIMP interactions. These signals, which show the excellent sensitivity of the detector to small charge signals, are explained as being due to the photoionization of impurities in the liquid xenon and of the metal components inside the TPC. They are used as a unique calibration source to characterize the detector. We explain how we can infer crucial parameters for the XENON100 experiment: the secondary-scintillation gain, the extraction yield from the liquid to the gas phase and the electron drift velocity., Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

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2014
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11. Simultaneous Measurement of Ionization and Scintillation from Nuclear Recoils in Liquid Xenon as Target for a Dark Matter Experiment

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T. A. Shutt, L. de Viveiros, K. L. Giboni, C. E. Dahl, Elena Aprile, Masaki Yamashita, R. J. Gaitskell, J. Kwong, Kaixuan Ni, and P. Majewski

Subjects
Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Astrophysics (astro-ph), General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Neutron scattering, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, Xenon, chemistry, Ionization, Electric field, Yield (chemistry), 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic Physics, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report the first measurements of the absolute ionization yield of nuclear recoils in liquid xenon, as a function of energy and electric-field. Independent experiments were carried out with two dual-phase time projection chamber prototypes, developed for the XENON Dark Matter project. We find that the charge yield increases with decreasing recoil energy, and exhibits only a weak field dependence. These results are a first demonstration of the capability of dual phase xenon detectors to discriminate between electron and nuclear recoils, a key requirement for a sensitive dark matter search at recoil energies down to 20 keV.

Published
2006

12. Dark matter results from 225 live days of XENON100 data

Author

W. Hampel, M. Garbini, J.M.F. dos Santos, J. Lamblin, K. Bokeloh, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, S. Rosendahl, Ethan Brown, M. Selvi, Sebastian Lindemann, Eilam Gross, Boris Bauermeister, P. Beltrame, Jochen Schreiner, Luke Goetzke, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, G. Sartorelli, A. Teymourian, F. Arneodo, Laura Baudis, H. Landsman, M. Le Calloch, J. A. M. Lopes, S. Fattori, Y. Meng, O. Vitells, A. Rizzo, David B. Cline, S. E. A. Orrigo, A. Kish, João Cardoso, K. Arisaka, R. Persiani, L. Scotto Lavina, C. Grignon, K. L. Giboni, H. Contreras, F. Gao, A. Behrens, E. Pantic, C. Balan, D. Thers, Ehud Duchovni, W. T. Chen, K. E. Lim, M. Weber, Auke-Pieter Colijn, R. F. Lang, Uwe Oberlack, Elena Aprile, Kaixuan Ni, E. Nativ, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, G. Plante, B. Choi, Ch. Weinheimer, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, P. R. Scovell, C. Ghag, F. V. Massoli, Qing Lin, M. Alfonsi, K. Lung, A. Molinario, W. Fulgione, Giacomo Bruno, C. Levy, N. Priel, Hui Wang, Florian Kaether, M. P. Decowski, Manfred Lindner, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, Ran Budnik, Astroparticle Physics (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, C. Balan, L. Baudi, B. Bauermeister, A. Behren, P. Beltrame, K. Bokeloh, E. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, J. M. R. Cardoso, W.-T. Chen, B. Choi, D. Cline, A. P. Colijn, H. Contrera, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Ghag, K.-L. Giboni, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gro, W. Hampel, F. Kaether, A. Kish, J. Lamblin, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, C. Levy, K. E. Lim, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lope, K. Lung, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, F. V. Massoli, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Y. Meng, A. Molinario, E. Nativ, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, G. Plante, N. Priel, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santo, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, P. R. Scovell, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Ther, O. Vitell, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), and XENON100

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Large Underground Xenon experiment, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, WIMP Argon Programme, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Liquid Xenon, Physics, Range (particle radiation), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, DARK MATTER, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], DAMA/NaI, TPC, PandaX, Direct search for Dark Matter, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report on a search for particle dark matter with the XENON100 experiment, operated at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) for 13 months during 2011 and 2012. XENON100 features an ultra-low electromagnetic background of (5.3 \pm 0.6) \times 10^-3 events (kg day keVee)^-1 in the energy region of interest. A blind analysis of 224.6 live days \times 34 kg exposure has yielded no evidence for dark matter interactions. The two candidate events observed in the pre-defined nuclear recoil energy range of 6.6-30.5 keVnr are consistent with the background expectation of (1.0 \pm 0.2) events. A Profile Likelihood analysis using a 6.6-43.3 keVnr energy range sets the most stringent limit on the spin-independent elastic WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section for WIMP masses above 8 GeV/c^2, with a minimum of 2 \times 10^-45 cm^2 at 55 GeV/c^2 and 90% confidence level., 6 pages, 5 figures. Matches version accepted by PRL. Includes limits up to 10 TeV/c^2, published as supplementary material: http://prl.aps.org/supplemental/PRL/v109/i18/e181301 Please cite high mass limits as "Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 181301 (2012), online supplementary material."

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2012
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13. Response of the XENON100 dark matter detector to nuclear recoils

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Aprile, E., Alfonsi, M., Arisaka, K., Arneodo, F., Balan, C., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Behrens, A., Beltrame, P., Bokeloh, K., Brown, A., Brown, E., Brünner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Cardoso, J., Chen, W., Choi, B., Colijn, A., Contreras, H., Cussonneau, J., Decowski, M., Duchovni, E., Fattori, S., Ferella, A., Fulgione, W., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Geis, C., Ghag, C., Giboni, K., Goetzke, L., Grignon, C., Gross, E., Hampel, W., Itay, R., Kaether, F., Kessler, G., Kish, A., Lamblin, J., Landsman, H., Lang, R., Calloch, M., Levy, C., Lim, K., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lopes, J., Lung, K., Marrodan Undagoitia, T., Undagoitia, T., Fernandez, A., Meng, Y., Messina, M., Molinario, A., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Orrigo, S., Pantic, E., Persiani, R., Plante, G., Priel, N., Rizzo, A., Rosendahl, S., Santos, J., Sartorelli, G., Schreiner, J., Schumann, M., Lavina, L., Scovell, P., Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Simgen, H., Teymourian, A., Thers, D., Vitells, O., Wang, H., Weber, M., Weinheimer, C., Schuhmacher, H., Wiegel, B., Astroparticle Physics (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), XENON100, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, C. Balan, L. Baudi, B. Bauermeister, A. Behren, P. Beltrame, K. Bokeloh, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, J. M. R. Cardoso, W.-T. Chen, B. Choi, A. P. Colijn, H. Contrera, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Gei, C. Ghag, K.-L. Giboni, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gro, W. Hampel, R. Itay, F. Kaether, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, C. Levy, K. E. Lim, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lope, K. Lung, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, F. V. Massoli, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Y. Meng, M. Messina, A. Molinario, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, G. Plante, N. Priel, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santo, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, P. R. Scovell, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Ther, O. Vitell, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, H. Schuhmacher, B. Wiegel, and XENON Collaboration

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, Particle detector, Nuclear physics, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Recoil, Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Neutron source, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Results from the nuclear recoil calibration of the XENON100 dark matter detector installed underground at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy are presented. Data from measurements with an external 241AmBe neutron source are compared with a detailed Monte Carlo simulation which is used to extract the energy dependent charge-yield Qy and relative scintillation efficiency Leff. A very good level of absolute spectral matching is achieved in both observable signal channels - scintillation S1 and ionization S2 - along with agreement in the 2-dimensional particle discrimination space. The results confirm the validity of the derived signal acceptance in earlier reported dark matter searches of the XENON100 experiment., Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures. Matches version accepted by PRD. Contains revised representation of expected WIMP event signature. Conclusions remain unaffected

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2013
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14. Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data

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Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, A. Behrens, Ehud Duchovni, E. Pantic, M. Messina, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Kish, M. Garbini, K. Arisaka, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, D. Thers, Boris Bauermeister, R. F. Lang, João Cardoso, K. Lung, A. P. Colijn, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Ch. Weinheimer, Laura Baudis, Hui Wang, F. Gao, M. P. Decowski, Manfred Lindner, C. Ghag, C. Levy, M. Selvi, W. T. Chen, J. Lamblin, H. Landsman, Daniel Lellouch, P. R. Scovell, H. Contreras, P. Beltrame, Florian Kaether, Kaixuan Ni, Ran Budnik, F. V. Massoli, A. Molinario, Qing Lin, B. Choi, J.M.F. dos Santos, L. Scotto Lavina, Sebastian Lindemann, S. Rosendahl, S. Fattori, A. Teymourian, N. Priel, C. Balan, W. Hampel, Karl Giboni, W. Fulgione, Ethan Brown, Elena Aprile, F. Arneodo, April S. Brown, Uwe Oberlack, K. E. Lim, Jochen Schreiner, C. Grignon, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, M. Le Calloch, M. Alfonsi, O. Vitells, A. Rizzo, S. E. A. Orrigo, Y. Meng, Giacomo Bruno, G. Sartorelli, M. Weber, G. Plante, Luke Goetzke, K. Bokeloh, E. K. U. Gross, R. Persiani, Astroparticle Physics (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes), XENON100, E. Aprile, M. Alfonsi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, C. Balan, L. Baudi, B. Bauermeister, A. Behren, P. Beltrame, K. Bokeloh, A. Brown, E. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, J. M. R. Cardoso, W.-T. Chen, B. Choi, A. P. Colijn, H. Contrera, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Ghag, K.-L. Giboni, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gro, W. Hampel, F. Kaether, A. Kish, J. Lamblin, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, D. Lellouch, C. Levy, K. E. Lim, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lope, K. Lung, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, F. V. Massoli, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Y. Meng, M. Messina, A. Molinario, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, G. Plante, N. Priel, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santo, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, P. R. Scovell, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Ther, O. Vitell, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, and XENON100 collaboration

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Cross section (physics), High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 010306 general physics, Pseudovector, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Spin-½, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Nucleon, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present new experimental constraints on the elastic, spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section using recent data from the XENON100 experiment, operated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. An analysis of 224.6 live days x 34 kg of exposure acquired during 2011 and 2012 revealed no excess signal due to axial-vector WIMP interactions with 129-Xe and 131-Xe nuclei. This leads to the most stringent upper limits on WIMP-neutron cross sections for WIMP masses above 6 GeV, with a minimum cross section of 3.5 x 10^{-40} cm^2 at a WIMP mass of 45 GeV, at 90% confidence level., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; corrected caption of figure 3

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2013
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15. Implications on inelastic dark matter from 100 live days of XENON100 data

Author

E. Pantic, Ethan Brown, M. Selvi, David B. Cline, Y. Mei, J.M.F. dos Santos, Hui Wang, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Manfred Lindner, Ch. Weinheimer, B. Choi, A. Behrens, Sebastian Lindemann, Karl Giboni, K. Arisaka, R. Santorelli, F. Arneodo, M. Weber, G. Plante, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, S. Fattori, J. A. M. Lopes, K. Lung, A. Kish, Laura Baudis, A. Teymourian, C. W. Lam, D. Thers, R. F. Lang, A. C. C. Ribeiro, Giacomo Bruno, Elena Aprile, C. Levy, T. Bruch, Kaixuan Ni, K. E. Lim, S. E. A. Orrigo, J. Lamblin, Uwe Oberlack, O. Vitells, Ehud Duchovni, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Qing Lin, A. Askin, João Cardoso, F. Gao, W. T. Chen, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, G. Sartorelli, R. Persiani, K. Bokeloh, E. K. U. Gross, E. Aprile, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, A. Askin, L. Baudi, A. Behren, K. Bokeloh, E. Brown, T. Bruch, G. Bruno, J. M. R. Cardoso, W.-T. Chen, B. Choi, D. Cline, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, F. Gao, K.-L. Giboni, E. Gro, A. Kish, C. W. Lam, J. Lamblin, R. F. Lang, C. Levy, K. E. Lim, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lope, K. Lung, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Y. Mei, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, G. Plante, A. C. C. Ribeiro, R. Santorelli, J. M. F. dos Santo, G Sartorelli, M. Schumann, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Ther, O. Vitell, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and XENON100

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, DARK MATTER, Signal region, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, WIMPS, Nuclear physics, XENON, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], TPC, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The XENON100 experiment has recently completed a dark matter run with 100.9 live-days of data, taken from January to June 2010. Events in a 48kg fiducial volume in the energy range between 8.4 and 44.6 keVnr have been analyzed. A total of three events have been found in the predefined signal region, compatible with the background prediction of (1.8 \pm 0.6) events. Based on this analysis we present limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section for inelastic dark matter. With the present data we are able to rule out the explanation for the observed DAMA/LIBRA modulation as being due to inelastic dark matter scattering off iodine at a 90% confidence level., Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures

Published
2011
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