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1. Characterisation of SiPM Photon Emission in the Dark

Author

Joseph Biagio McLaughlin, Giacomo Gallina, Fabrice Retière, Austin De St. Croix, Pietro Giampa, Mahsa Mahtab, Peter Margetak, Lars Martin, Nicolas Massacret, Jocelyn Monroe, Mayur Patel, Kurtis Raymond, Jolie Roiseux, Liang Xie, and Guoqing Zhang

Subjects
Silicon Photomultipliers, Multi-Pixel Photon Counters, FBK VUV-HD3, HPK VUV4, spectroscopy, microscopy, Chemical technology, TP1-1185
Abstract

In this paper, we report on the photon emission of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) from avalanche pulses generated in dark conditions, with the main objective of better understanding the associated systematics for next-generation, large area, SiPM-based physics experiments. A new apparatus for spectral and imaging analysis was developed at TRIUMF and used to measure the light emitted by the two SiPMs considered as photo-sensor candidates for the nEXO neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment: one Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) VUV-HD Low Field (LF) Low After Pulse (Low AP) (VUV-HD3) SiPM and one Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (HPK) VUV4 Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC). Spectral measurements of their light emissions were taken with varying over-voltage in the wavelength range of 450–1020 nm. For the FBK VUV-HD3, at an over-voltage of 12.1±1.0 V, we measured a secondary photon yield (number of photons (γ) emitted per charge carrier (e−)) of (4.04±0.02)×10−6γ/e−. The emission spectrum of the FBK VUV-HD3 contains an interference pattern consistent with thin-film interference. Additionally, emission microscopy images (EMMIs) of the FBK VUV-HD3 show a small number of highly localized regions with increased light intensity (hotspots) randomly distributed over the SiPM surface area. For the HPK VUV4 MPPC, at an over-voltage of 10.7±1.0 V, we measured a secondary photon yield of (8.71±0.04)×10−6γ/e−. In contrast to the FBK VUV-HD3, the emission spectra of the HPK VUV4 did not show an interference pattern—likely due to a thinner surface coating. The EMMIs of the HPK VUV4 also revealed a larger number of hotspots compared to the FBK VUV-HD3, especially in one of the corners of the device. The photon yield reported in this paper may be limited if compared with the one reported in previous studies due to the measurement wavelength range, which is only up to 1020 nm.

Published
2021
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2. Commissioning of a High Pressure Time Projection Chamber with Optical Readout

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Alexander Deisting, Abigail Victoria Waldron, Edward Atkin, Gary Barker, Anastasia Basharina-Freshville, Christopher Betancourt, Steven Boyd, Dominic Brailsford, Zachary Chen-Wishart, Linda Cremonesi, Adriana Dias, Patrick Dunne, Jennifer Haigh, Philip Hamacher-Baumann, Sebastian Jones, Asher Kaboth, Alexander Korzenev, William Ma, Philippe Mermod, Maria Mironova, Jocelyn Monroe, Ryan Nichol, Toby Nonnenmacher, Jaroslaw Nowak, William Parker, Harrison Ritchie-Yates, Stefan Roth, Ruben Saakyan, Nicola Serra, Yuri Shitov, Jochen Steinmann, Adam Tarrant, Melissa Uchida, Sammy Valder, Mark Ward, and Morgan O. Wascko

Subjects
time projection chamber, optical readout, neutrino detector development, hybrid charge and optical readout, gaseous detectors, Physics, QC1-999, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

The measurements of proton–nucleus scattering and high resolution neutrino–nucleus interaction imaging are key in reducing neutrino oscillation systematic uncertainties in future experiments. A High Pressure Time Projection Chamber (HPTPC) prototype has been constructed and operated at the Royal Holloway University of London and CERN as a first step in the development of a HPTPC that is capable of performing these measurements as part of a future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. In this paper, we describe the design and operation of the prototype HPTPC with an argon based gas mixture. We report on the successful hybrid charge and optical readout using four CCD cameras of signals from 241Am sources.

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2021
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4. Dosimetry and Calorimetry Performance of a Scientific CMOS Camera for Environmental Monitoring

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Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Xavier Bertou, Carles Canet, Miguel Angel Cruz-Pérez, Alexander Deisting, Adriana Dias, Juan Carlos D’Olivo, Francisco Favela-Pérez, Estela A. Garcés, Adiv González Muñoz, Jaime Octavio Guerra-Pulido, Javier Mancera-Alejandrez, Daniel José Marín-Lámbarri, Mauricio Martinez Montero, Jocelyn Monroe, Sean Paling, Simon J. M. Peeters, Paul Scovell, Cenk Türkoğlu, Eric Vázquez-Jáuregui, and Joseph Walding

Subjects
lead-210, commercial CMOS cameras, scientific CMOS sensor, gamma detection, X-ray detection, lead in drinking water, Chemical technology, TP1-1185
Abstract

This paper explores the prospect of CMOS devices to assay lead in drinking water, using calorimetry. Lead occurs together with traces of radioisotopes, e.g., 210Pb, producing γ-emissions with energies ranging from 10 keV to several 100 keV when they decay; this range is detectable in silicon sensors. In this paper we test a CMOS camera (Oxford Instruments Neo 5.5) for its general performance as a detector of X-rays and low energy γ-rays and assess its sensitivity relative to the World Health Organization upper limit on lead in drinking water. Energies from 6 keV to 60 keV are examined. The CMOS camera has a linear energy response over this range and its energy resolution is for the most part slightly better than 2%. The Neo sCMOS is not sensitive to X-rays with energies below ∼10 keV. The smallest detectable rate is 40±3mHz, corresponding to an incident activity on the chip of 7±4Bq. The estimation of the incident activity sensitivity from the detected activity relies on geometric acceptance and the measured efficiency vs. energy. We report the efficiency measurement, which is 0.08(2)% (0.0011(2)%) at 26.3keV (59.5keV). Taking calorimetric information into account we measure a minimal detectable rate of 4±1mHz (1.5±1mHz) for 26.3keV (59.5keV) γ-rays, which corresponds to an incident activity of 1.0±6Bq (57±33Bq). Toy Monte Carlo and Geant4 simulations agree with these results. These results show this CMOS sensor is well-suited as a γ- and X-ray detector with sensitivity at the few to 100 ppb level for 210Pb in a sample.

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2020
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5. Recent progress in neutrino factory and muon collider research within the Muon Collaboration

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Mohammad M. Alsharo’a, Charles M. Ankenbrandt, Muzaffer Atac, Bruno R. Autin, Valeri I. Balbekov, Vernon D. Barger, Odette Benary, J. Roger J. Bennett, Michael S. Berger, J. Scott Berg, Martin Berz, Edgar L. Black, Alain Blondel, S. Alex Bogacz, M. Bonesini, Stephen B. Bracker, Alan D. Bross, Luca Bruno, Elizabeth J. Buckley-Geer, Allen C. Caldwell, Mario Campanelli, Kevin W. Cassel, M. Gabriela Catanesi, Swapan Chattopadhyay, Weiren Chou, David B. Cline, Linda R. Coney, Janet M. Conrad, John N. Corlett, Lucien Cremaldi, Mary Anne Cummings, Christine Darve, Fritz DeJongh, Alexandr Drozhdin, Paul Drumm, V. Daniel Elvira, Deborah Errede, Adrian Fabich, William M. Fawley, Richard C. Fernow, Massimo Ferrario, David A. Finley, Nathaniel J. Fisch, Yasuo Fukui, Miguel A. Furman, Tony A. Gabriel, Raphael Galea, Juan C. Gallardo, Roland Garoby, Alper A. Garren, Stephen H. Geer, Simone Gilardoni, Andreas J. Van Ginneken, Ilya F. Ginzburg, Romulus Godang, Maury Goodman, Michael R. Gosz, Michael A. Green, Peter Gruber, John F. Gunion, Ramesh Gupta, John R Haines, Klaus Hanke, Gail G. Hanson, Tao Han, Michael Haney, Don Hartill, Robert E. Hartline, Helmut D. Haseroth, Ahmed Hassanein, Kara Hoffman, Norbert Holtkamp, E. Barbara Holzer, Colin Johnson, Rolland P. Johnson, Carol Johnstone, Klaus Jungmann, Stephen A. Kahn, Daniel M. Kaplan, Eberhard K. Keil, Eun-San Kim, Kwang-Je Kim, Bruce J. King, Harold G. Kirk, Yoshitaka Kuno, Tony S. Ladran, Wing W. Lau, John G. Learned, Valeri Lebedev, Paul Lebrun, Kevin Lee, Jacques A. Lettry, Marco Laveder, Derun Li, Alessandra Lombardi, Changguo Lu, Kyoko Makino, Vladimir Malkin, D. Marfatia, Kirk T. McDonald, Mauro Mezzetto, John R. Miller, Frederick E. Mills, I. Mocioiu, Nikolai V. Mokhov, Jocelyn Monroe, Alfred Moretti, Yoshiharu Mori, David V. Neuffer, King-Yuen Ng, James H. Norem, Yasar Onel, Mark Oreglia, Satoshi Ozaki, Hasan Padamsee, Sandip Pakvasa, Robert B. Palmer, Brett Parker, Zohreh Parsa, Gregory Penn, Yuriy Pischalnikov, Milorad B. Popovic, Zubao Qian, Emilio Radicioni, Rajendran Raja, Helge L. Ravn, Claude B. Reed, Louis L. Reginato, Pavel Rehak, Robert A. Rimmer, Thomas J. Roberts, Thomas Roser, Robert Rossmanith, Roman V. Samulyak, Ronald M. Scanlan, Stefan Schlenstedt, Peter Schwandt, Andrew M. Sessler, Michael H. Shaevitz, Robert Shrock, Peter Sievers, Gregory I. Silvestrov, Nick Simos, Alexander N. Skrinsky, Nickolas Solomey, Philip T. Spampinato, Panagiotis Spentzouris, R. Stefanski, Peter Stoltz, Iuliu Stumer, Donald J. Summers, Lee C. Teng, Peter A. Thieberger, Maury Tigner, Michael Todosow, Alvin V. Tollestrup, Yağmur Torun, Dejan Trbojevic, Zafar U. Usubov, Tatiana A. Vsevolozhskaya, Yau Wah, Chun-xi Wang, Haipeng Wang, Robert J. Weggel, K. Whisnant, Erich H. Willen, Edmund J. N. Wilson, David R. Winn, Jonathan S. Wurtele, Vincent Wu, Takeichiro Yokoi, Moohyun Yoon, Richard York, Simon Yu, Al Zeller, Yongxiang Zhao, and Michael S. Zisman

Subjects
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

We describe the status of our effort to realize a first neutrino factory and the progress made in understanding the problems associated with the collection and cooling of muons towards that end. We summarize the physics that can be done with neutrino factories as well as with intense cold beams of muons. The physics potential of muon colliders is reviewed, both as Higgs factories and compact high-energy lepton colliders. The status and time scale of our research and development effort is reviewed as well as the latest designs in cooling channels including the promise of ring coolers in achieving longitudinal and transverse cooling simultaneously. We detail the efforts being made to mount an international cooling experiment to demonstrate the ionization cooling of muons.

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2003
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6. Contextual Isotope Ranking Criteria for Peak Identification in Gamma Spectroscopy Using a Large Database

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Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Xavier Bertou, Carles Canet, Miguel A. Cruz-Perez, Alexander Deisting, Adriana Dias, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, J. Francisco Favela-Perez, Estela A. Garces, Adiv Gonzalez Munoz, Jaime Octavio Guerra-Pulido, Javier Mancera-Alejandrez, Daniel Jose Marin-Lambarri, Mauricio Martinez-Montero, Jocelyn Monroe, Sean Paling, Simon Peeters, Paul R. Scovell, Cenk Turkoglu, Eric Vazquez-Jauregui, and Joseph Walding

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Physics - Computational Physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Isotope identification is a recurrent problem in gamma spectroscopy with high purity germanium detectors. In this work, new strategies are introduced to facilitate this type of analysis. Five criteria are used to identify the parent isotopes making a query on a large database of gamma-lines from a multitude of isotopes producing an output list whose entries are sorted so that the gamma-lines with the highest chance of being present in a sample are placed at the top. A metric to evaluate the performance of the different criteria is introduced and used to compare them. Two of the criteria are found to be superior than the others: one based on fuzzy logic, and another that makes use of the gamma relative emission probabilities. A program called histoGe implements these criteria using a SQLite database containing the gamma-lines of isotopes which was parsed from WWW Table of Radioactive Isotopes. histoGe is Free Software and is provided along with the database so they can be used to analyze spectra obtained with generic gamma-ray detectors., 12 pages, 7 tables, 7 figures

Published
2022

7. The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600

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N. J. T. Smith, V. Strickland, M. Batygov, B. Lehnert, J. B. McLaughlin, K. Dering, I. N. Machulin, P. Garcia Abia, T. Pollmann, J. F. Bueno, D. Goeldi, C. Ng, R. Santorelli, J. M. Corning, P. Skensved, D. Gallacher, Jocelyn Monroe, M. Waqar, E. A. Garcés, F. La Zia, M. Kuźniak, C. Rethmeier, Laurelle Maria Veloce, Miguel Cárdenas-Montes, G. Fiorillo, Stefano Cavuoti, T. Sánchez-Pastor, Mark Guy Boulay, P. Pasuthip, C. Hearns, F. Retiere, C. J. Jillings, C. Ouellet, C. Nantais, B. Smith, Bei Cai, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, O. Kamaev, M. C. Piro, C. Stone, N. Levashko, A. Butcher, S. Westerdale, Darren Grant, P. Giampa, F. A. Duncan, B. Broerman, B. Beltran, N. Seeburn, O. Litvinov, P. Nadeau, A. Joy, X. Li, Monica Dunford, T. Sonley, S. Viel, A. L. Hallin, V. Pesudo, S. J. M. Peeters, N. Fatemighomi, R. Ford, P. Adhikari, E. Sanchez Garcia, Giuseppe Longo, J. Walding, P. Majewski, A. Kemp, G. Kaur, R. Ajaj, R. Mehdiyev, A. Ilyasov, S. Langrock, P. Gorel, B. T. Cleveland, Martin Ward, C. Mielnichuk, Bhaskar Sur, C. E. Bina, G. R. Araujo, P. J. Harvey, I. Kochanek, J. Lock, A. Zuñiga-Reyes, S. J. Daugherty, A. Erlandson, J. Willis, Luca Doria, S. Pal, S. Garg, E. T. Rand, V. V. Golovko, T. McGinn, T. McElroy, R. Stainforth, P. Di Stefano, A. Grobov, K. Graham, A. B. McDonald, Y. Chen, A. Flower, M. Stringer, A. J. Noble, G. Oliviéro, M. Hamstra, R. Gagnon, Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Araujo, G. R., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, Y., Cleveland, B. T., Corning, J. M., Daugherty, S. J., Di Stefano, P., Dering, K., Doria, L., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., Garcés, E. A., García Abia, P., Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Grobov, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Ilyasov, A., Joy, A., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Li, X., Litvinov, O., Lock, J., Longo, G., Machulin, I., Majewski, P., Mcdonald, A. B., Mcelroy, T., Mcginn, T., Mclaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., Oliviéro, G., Ouellet, C., Pal, S., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pesudo, V., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Sanchez García, E., Sánchez-Pastor, T., Santorelli, R., Seeburn, N., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Stringer, M., Sur, B., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.

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Photomultiplier, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, lcsh:Astrophysics, Scintillator, Wavelength shifter, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, DEAP, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:QB460-466, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillation counter, lcsh:QC770-798, business
Abstract

DEAP-3600 is a liquid-argon scintillation detector looking for dark matter. Scintillation events in the liquid argon (LAr) are registered by 255 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and pulseshape discrimination (PSD) is used to suppress electromagnetic background events. The excellent PSD performance of LAr makes it a viable target for dark matter searches, and the LAr scintillation pulseshape discussed here is the basis of PSD. The observed pulseshape is a combination of LAr scintillation physics with detector effects. We present a model for the pulseshape of electromagnetic background events in the energy region of interest for dark matter searches. The model is composed of (a) LAr scintillation physics, including the so-called intermediate component, (b) the time response of the TPB wavelength shifter, including delayed TPB emission at $${\mathcal {O}}$$O(ms) time-scales, and c) PMT response. TPB is the wavelength shifter of choice in most LAr detectors. We find that approximately 10% of the intensity of the wavelength-shifted light is in a long-lived state of TPB. This causes light from an event to spill into subsequent events to an extent not usually accounted for in the design and data analysis of LAr-based detectors.

Published
2020

9. Characterisation of SiPM Photon Emission in the Dark

Author

Liang Xie, Austin De St. Croix, G. Zhang, Peter Margetak, Nicolas Massacret, Giacomo Gallina, Mahsa Mahtab, Mayur Patel, Jocelyn Monroe, Pietro Giampa, Jolie Roiseux, Kurtis Raymond, Joseph Biagio McLaughlin, Fabrice Retiere, and L. Martin

Subjects
spectroscopy, Photon, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, TP1-1185, 01 natural sciences, Biochemistry, Article, dark noise, Analytical Chemistry, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, nEXO, darkside, 0103 physical sciences, Emission spectrum, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy, Instrumentation, 010302 applied physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Chemical technology, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Silicon Photomultipliers, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, external cross-talk, Surface coating, Light intensity, FBK VUV-HD3, Multi-Pixel Photon Counters, microscopy, Photonics, business, HPK VUV4, Dark current
Abstract

In this paper, we report on the photon emission of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) from avalanche pulses generated in dark condition, with the main objective of better understanding the associated systematics for next-generation, large area, SiPM-based physics experiments. A new apparatus for spectral and imaging analysis was developed at TRIUMF and used to measure the light emitted by the two SiPMs considered as photo-sensor candidates for the nEXO neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment: one Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) VUV-HD Low Field (LF) Low After Pulse (Low AP) (VUV-HD3) SiPM, and one Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (HPK) VUV4 Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC). Spectral measurements of their light emission were taken with varying over-voltage in the wavelength range of 450--1020\,nm. For the FBK VUV-HD3, at an over-voltage of $12.1\pm1.0$\,V, we measure a secondary photon yield (number of photons ($\gamma$) emitted per charge carrier ($e^{-}$)) of $(4.04\pm0.02)\times 10^{-6}$ $\gamma/e^{-}$. The emission spectrum of the FBK VUV-HD3 contains an interference pattern consistent with thin-film interference. Additionally, emission microscopy images (EMMIs) of the FBK VUV-HD3 show a small number of highly localized regions with increased light intensity (hotspots) randomly distributed over the SiPM surface area. For the HPK VUV4 MPPC, at an over-voltage of $10.7\pm1.0$\,V, we measure a secondary photon yield of $(8.71\pm0.04)\times 10^{-6}$ $\gamma/e^{-}$. In contrast to the FBK VUV-HD3, the emission spectra of the HPK VUV4 don't show an interference pattern -- most likely due to a thinner surface coating. EMMIs of the HPK VUV4 also reveal a larger number of hotspots compared to the FBK VUV-HD3, especially in one of the corners of the device., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures

Published
2021
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10. Commissioning of a high pressure time projection chamber with optical readout

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Ruben Saakyan, Stefan Roth, Edward Atkin, T.S. Nonnenmacher, Melissa Uchida, Maria Mironova, William Ma, Steven Boyd, Z. Chen-Wishart, P. Mermod, Adam Tarrant, Nicola Serra, A. Korzenev, Y. Shitov, Mark Ward, Alexander Deisting, Asher Kaboth, Jennifer Haigh, R. J. Nichol, Harrison Ritchie-Yates, D. Brailsford, Christopher Betancourt, P. Hamacher-Baumann, Adriana Dias, William Parker, A. Basharina-Freshville, Jochen Steinmann, J. A. Nowak, Jocelyn Monroe, A. V. Waldron, M. O. Wascko, Patrick Dunne, S. Valder, L. Cremonesi, S. Jones, and Gary Barker

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, QC1-999, hybrid charge and optical readout, High resolution, chemistry.chemical_element, QC770-798, 01 natural sciences, Gaseous detectors, Optics, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Instrumentation, Physics, optical readout, Time projection chamber, Large Hadron Collider, Argon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, business.industry, time projection chamber, chemistry, gaseous detectors, neutrino detector development, High Energy Physics::Experiment, business
Abstract

The measurements of proton–nucleus scattering and high resolution neutrino–nucleus interaction imaging are key in reducing neutrino oscillation systematic uncertainties in future experiments. A High Pressure Time Projection Chamber (HPTPC) prototype has been constructed and operated at the Royal Holloway University of London and CERN as a first step in the development of a HPTPC that is capable of performing these measurements as part of a future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment, such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. In this paper, we describe the design and operation of the prototype HPTPC with an argon based gas mixture. We report on the successful hybrid charge and optical readout using four CCD cameras of signals from 241Am sources.

Published
2021

11. SiPM-matrix readout of two-phase argon detectors using electroluminescence in the visible and near infrared range

Author

F. Pietropaolo, Min-Xin Guan, S. Rescia, Federica Villa, F. Coccetti, A. Sheshukov, D. A. Semenov, Alberto Masoni, C. Savarese, F. Ameli, S. Bussino, Jocelyn Monroe, Paola Sala, Lelio Luzzi, R. Tartaglia, B. Hosseini, Chung-Yao Yang, I. Kochanek, Andrea Messina, S. Davini, A. V. Derbin, Paul H. Humble, V. Strickland, A. Franceschi, A. L. Hallin, P. Skensved, O. Smirnov, A. De Falco, C. Ripoli, E. Paoloni, B. Lehnert, E. Segreto, Laura A. Pellegrini, André Rubbia, Manuel Colocci, Aldo Ghisi, Marzio Nessi, V. Cocco, R. Graciani Diaz, Pietro Antonioli, M. G. Boulay, L. La Delfa, P. Cavalcante, V. Barbaryan, A.E. Bondar, W. Bonivento, C. Cantini, M. Lai, J. Mason, G. Fiorillo, Sara Sulis, L. P. Rignanese, T. N. Thorpe, Mariano Cadoni, T. Pollmann, E. V. Unzhakov, Q. Liqiang, Giovanni Covone, S. De Cecco, E. Scapparone, Andrea Gabrieli, Marino Simeone, C. Dionisi, N. Rossi, R. Stainforth, Mauro Marinelli, C. Regenfus, Gillian Kopp, Mauro Mariani, I. N. Machulin, G. De Guido, M. Lissia, Federico Perotti, S. S. Poudel, A. B. McDonald, G. Dellacasa, Carlo Muscas, M. Fernandez Diaz, Darren Price, George E. Froudakis, A. Oleinik, N. Canci, H. O. Back, G. De Rosa, O. Gorchakov, R. B. Vogelaar, G. K. Giovanetti, Simonetta Palmas, Marco Pallavicini, A. D. Martinez Rojas, W. Mu, V. Oleynikov, Paolo Attilio Pegoraro, F. Di Eusanio, M. Grab, An. Ianni, Rudi Lussana, G. L. Usai, Luciano Pandola, M. D. Skorokhvatov, E. Borisova, Pascal Pralavorio, F. Pazzona, M. Gromov, A. Grobov, M. M. Wojcik, G. Dolganov, S. Manecki, A. K. Alton, E. Frolov, J. Wahl, Anselmo Margotti, Xiang Xiao, I. Nikulin, Aldo Romani, Annalisa Vacca, E. Conde Vilda, O. Dadoun, V. N. Muratova, S. Cebrián, B. Bottino, M. L. Gligan, R. Milincic, J. A. Wilson, G. Zuzel, Thomas Alexander, M. D'Incecco, L. Romero, S. Murphy, C. L. Kendziora, A. Devoto, L. Di Noto, E. V. Hungerford, A. Asunskis, S. Westerdale, P. Agnes, Yanchu Wang, E. Sandford, B. Schlitzer, Stefania Moioli, C. Giganti, M. Downing, R. Santorelli, Rosario Nania, Alberto Tosi, Mario Patricio Padilla Martínez, A.V. Shchagin, A. Buzulutskov, M. Caravati, F. Raffaelli, P. Giampa, Davide Portaluppi, Fabrice Hubaut, C. J. Jillings, K. Pelczar, Cristiano Galbiati, L. Pagani, J. A. Nowak, A. Sotnikov, Y. Suvorov, M. Da Rocha Rolo, A. Ilyasov, Eric W. Hoppe, S. Abdelhakim, M. K. Daniel, J. Rode, L. Mapelli, F. Retiere, Han Wang, M. Garbini, D. De Gruttola, M. Haranczyk, R. Kugathasan, R. Bunker, Raffaele Ardito, V. Bocci, G. Di Pietro, Z. Ye, N. Funicello, A. S. Kubankin, D. Franco, A. Pocar, N. Levashko, W. Cheng, A. Mandarano, A. Caminata, V. Pesudo, F. Gabriele, Francesca Dordei, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, A. Vishneva, F. Cossio, G. Batignani, A. Steri, M. Orsini, D. Santone, M. Ave, P. Garcia Abia, B. Celano, T. Mroz, Stefano Cavuoti, Francesco Ragusa, R. K. Haaland, A. Gendotti, Mario Giorgi, Jay W. Grate, Marcelo Braga Bueno Guerra, M. La Commara, A. M. Szelc, D. Gascon Fora, A. Castellani, S. Chashin, G. U. 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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), darkside, cmos, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Detectors and Experimental Techniques, sipm, physics.ins-det, Physics, ESPALHAMENTO, Bremsstrahlung, neutrinos, Noble gas, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), argon, photoluminescence, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, physics, Particle Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Photomultiplier, SiPM readout two-phase argon detectors electroluminescence visible near infrared, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, lcsh:Astrophysics, physics, detector, cmos, dark matter, darkside, photoluminescence, sipm, radiation, neutrinos, argon, Electroluminescence, dark matter, Electron avalanche, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, lcsh:QB460-466, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Engineering (miscellaneous), Scintillation, Argon, detector, hep-ex, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, radiation, chemistry, lcsh:QC770-798, SiPM, dual-phase TPC, Darkside-20k, business, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

Proportional electroluminescence (EL) in noble gases is used in two-phase detectors for dark matter searches to record (in the gas phase) the ionization signal induced by particle scattering in the liquid phase. The "standard" EL mechanism is considered to be due to noble gas excimer emission in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV). In addition, there are two alternative mechanisms, producing light in the visible and near infrared (NIR) ranges. The first is due to bremsstrahlung of electrons scattered on neutral atoms ("neutral bremsstrahlung", NBrS). The second, responsible for electron avalanche scintillation in the NIR at higher electric fields, is due to transitions between excited atomic states. In this work, we have for the first time demonstrated two alternative techniques of the optical readout of two-phase argon detectors, in the visible and NIR range, using a silicon photomultiplier matrix and electroluminescence due to either neutral bremsstrahlung or avalanche scintillation. The amplitude yield and position resolution were measured for these readout techniques, which allowed to assess the detection threshold for electron and nuclear recoils in two-phase argon detectors for dark matter searches. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first practical application of the NBrS effect in detection science., Comment: 26 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables

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2021

12. Feebly-interacting particles : FIPs 2020 workshop report

Author

S. Cebrián, Pilar Hernández, Gian F. Giudice, G. Lanfranchi, Jacobo Lopez-Pavon, Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Simon Knapen, Andreas Ringwald, Yu-Dai Tsai, Oleg Ruchayskiy, Julian Heeck, James Baker Beacham, I. G. Irastorza, M. Hostert, S. N. Gninenko, Evgueni Goudzovski, Maurizio Giannotti, Felix Kahlhoefer, Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen, Joshua T. Ruderman, Asher Berlin, Marco Drewes, Joerg Jaeckel, Jocelyn Monroe, H. Russell, Philip Schuster, P. Agrawal, Maxim Pospelov, X. CidVidal, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, David D'Enterria, V. I. Martinez Outschoorn, Yotam Soreq, Kohsaku Tobioka, Silvia Pascoli, Lesya Shchutska, D. Redigolo, Gordan Krnjaic, A. De Roeck, Martin Bauer, Alexey Boyarsky, J. Swallow, S. Gori, A. Izmaylov, J. Shelton, B. Echenard, Agrawal, P, Bauer, M, Beacham, J, Berlin, A, Boyarsky, A, Cebrian, S, Cid-Vidal, X, D'Enterria, D, De Roeck, A, Drewes, M, Echenard, B, Giannotti, M, Giudice, GF, Gninenko, S, Gori, S, Goudzovski, E, Heeck, J, Hernandez, P, Hostert, M, Irastorza, IG, Izmaylov, A, Jaeckel, J, Kahlhoefer, F, Knapen, S, Krnjaic, G, Lanfranchi, G, Monroe, J, Outschoorn, VIM, Lopez-Pavon, J, Pascoli, S, Pospelov, M, Redigolo, D, Ringwald, A, Ruchayskiy, O, Ruderman, J, Russell, H, Salfeld-Nebgen, J, Schuster, P, Shaposhnikov, M, Shchutska, L, Shelton, J, Soreq, Y, Stadnik, Y, Swallow, J, Tobioka, K, and Tsai, YD

Subjects
interpretation of experiments: CERN LHC Coll, CERN Lab, scale: TeV, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), LEPTON FLAVOR VIOLATION, Physics beyond the Standard Model, PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, MODEL CP-VIOLATION, QC770-798, dark matter: direct detection, SOLAR AXION SEARCHES, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), ELECTROWEAK PHASE-TRANSITION, law, COHERENT PRIMAKOFF CONVERSION, VECTOR GAUGE BOSON, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 0103 physical sciences, TeV [scale], Particle theory, particle phenomenology, Dark sector, ddc:530, Beam dump, 010306 general physics, Collider, Engineering (miscellaneous), direct detection [dark matter], Particle Physics - Phenomenology, Physics, LEFT-RIGHT SYMMETRY, Large Hadron Collider, new physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ph, Data science, QB460-466, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, NEUTRAL HEAVY-LEPTONS, axion, CERN LHC Coll [interpretation of experiments], beam dump, Neutrino, experimental results, BARYON-NUMBER NONCONSERVATION
Abstract

The European physical journal / C 81(11), 1015 (2021). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09703-7, With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebly-interacting particles as a paradigm complementary to a New Physics sector at the TeV scale and beyond. FIPs 2020 has been the first workshop fully dedicated to the physics of feebly-interacting particles and was held virtually from 31 August to 4 September 2020. The workshop has gathered together experts from collider, beam dump, fixed target experiments, as well as from astrophysics, axions/ALPs searches, current/future neutrino experiments, and dark matter direct detection communities to discuss progress in experimental searches and underlying theory models for FIPs physics, and to enhance the cross-fertilisation across different fields. FIPs 2020 has been complemented by the topical workshop ���Physics Beyond Colliders meets theory���, held at CERN from 7 June to 9 June 2020. This document presents the summary of the talks presented at the workshops and the outcome of the subsequent discussions held immediately after. It aims to provide a clear picture of this blooming field and proposes a few recommendations for the next round of experimental results., Published by Springer, Heidelberg

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2021

13. Separating $${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$$ from $${^{40}\hbox {Ar}}$$ by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark-matter searches

Author

T. Napolitano, Stefano Cavuoti, A.E. Bondar, H. O. Back, G. De Rosa, Silvia Arcelli, A. Navrer Agasson, Jocelyn Monroe, M. Della Valle, Min-Xin Guan, M. Garbini, Francesca Dordei, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, M. Gromov, M. Carlini, A. M. Goretti, A. Vishneva, E. V. Hungerford, V. Pesudo, P. Garcia Abia, Paolo Castello, S. Torres-Lara, S. Stracka, S. Westerdale, Mario Giorgi, Lance S. Lidey, R. Stefanizzi, G. Fiorillo, T. Erjavec, M. La Commara, A. M. Szelc, O. Dadoun, T. Hugues, Han Wang, D. Dongiovanni, S. Copello, A. Barrado Olmedo, Manuel Colocci, Giovanni Paternoster, Federico Perotti, F. Pietropaolo, S. Rescia, M. Razeti, A. Oleinik, A. Santucci, Sara Sulis, L. P. Rignanese, C. Cicalo, A. Sheshukov, Filippo Resnati, A. Marasciulli, C. Savarese, G. Dolganov, Chung-Yao Yang, Andrea Messina, A. V. Derbin, M. Wada, S. Davini, Alessia Tricomi, F. Coccetti, Thomas Alexander, Angelo Rivetti, Eugenio Scapparone, A. L. Hallin, N. Maccioni, M. Rossi, E. V. Canesi, P. D. Meyers, T. Vallivilayil John, V. N. Muratova, V. Goicoechea Casanueva, E. Picciau, Ivone F. M. Albuquerque, D. A. Semenov, P. Di Stefano, Mariano Cadoni, B. Celano, G. K. Giovanetti, Yanchu Wang, K. Kondo, A. Grobov, N. Canci, M. Kuźniak, L. Romero, Z. Balmforth, S. Tosti, S. Farenzena, L. Pagani, Marino Simeone, T. Miletic, D. Franco, A. Devoto, A. Mazzi, Carlo Muscas, V. Cocco, S. Chashin, G. De Guido, P. Kachru, M. Lissia, Gilda Scioli, Valerio Ippolito, V. Strickland, A. K. Alton, E. Frolov, G. Korga, A. L. Renshaw, S. Sanfilippo, M. Rescigno, G. De Filippis, A. Moggi, R. Graciani Diaz, Luisa Cifarelli, S. De Pasquale, A. de Candia, E. Pantic, D. Cintas, J. B. McLaughlin, M. Stringer, Alberto Masoni, S. Cebrián, Marzio Nessi, E. Sandford, B. Schlitzer, E. Sanchez Garcia, Stefania Moioli, S. Bussino, C. J. Jillings, Piero Salatino, M. M. Wojcik, R. Miola, S. Viel, A. D. Martinez Rojas, M. Fernandez Diaz, Darren Price, D. De Gruttola, M. D’Aniello, A. Murenu, C. James, S. De Cecco, Giuseppe Longo, L. Mapelli, Paolo Attilio Pegoraro, E. Conde Vilda, Anselmo Margotti, Xiang Xiao, Andrea Alici, C. Ripoli, E. Paoloni, Miguel Cárdenas-Montes, A. Razeto, Pasquale Arpaia, T. N. Thorpe, C. Guo, M. Cadeddu, B. Shaw, A. Basco, G. M. Sabiu, M. P. Zykova, L. Williams, R. I. Avetisov, D. M. Poehlmann, Y. Suvorov, P. Barrillon, A. Kish, I. N. Machulin, R. B. Vogelaar, An. Ianni, A. Martini, A.V. Shchagin, S. Vescovi, A. Buzulutskov, M. Da Rocha Rolo, P. Czudak, T. Viant, Marisa Gulino, Saverio D'Auria, M. K. Daniel, F. Retiere, Marco Pallavicini, B. Bottino, V. A. Sangiorgio, G. Zuzel, Jose Busto, C. Pellegrino, Gigi Cappello, B. Smith, S. Morisi, Vittorio Cataudella, S. S. Poudel, R. A. Giampaolo, J. Maricic, L. Musenich, Simonetta Palmas, F. Lippi, Francesco Ragusa, N. Cargioli, Michele Mascia, A. Gendotti, M. Lai, M. Leyton, O. Smirnov, M. Tuveri, G. Y. Grigoriev, I. Nikulin, Xiujiang Li, T. Pinna, M. I. Martínez, M. Downing, Rosario Nania, M. Masetto, Matteo Morrocchi, M. Kuss, N. Funicello, C. Giganti, G. Batignani, M. Ave, A. Castellani, M. G. Boulay, G. Testera, J. A. Nowak, J. Z. Szucs-Balazs, M. Arba, E. V. Unzhakov, S. Horikawa, S. M. Mari, A. S. Chepurnov, C. Filip, Sebastiano Albergo, M. D. Skorokhvatov, S. Pordes, G. L. Usai, M. L. Gligan, L. La Delfa, F. Raffaelli, A. Moharana, R. Milincic, A. Pocar, A. Franceschi, A. A. Kemp, A. De Falco, R. Santorelli, J. M. Corning, M. Guetti, A. V. Khomyakov, A. S. Kubankin, R. Tartaglia, G. Buccino, P. Skensved, André Rubbia, T. Mroz, E. Borisova, Pascal Pralavorio, Giovanni Covone, K. Pelczar, Cristiano Galbiati, G. Dellacasa, Giorgio Keppel, S. Langrock, C. L. Kendziora, S. Hill, M. Caravati, F. Carnesecchi, Fabrice Hubaut, R. Kugathasan, Luciano Pandola, A. Caminata, M. Rucaj, R. J. Wheadon, O. Azzolini, F. Gabriele, A. Tonazzo, C. Dionisi, P. Podda, I. Kochanek, J. Rode, M. Guerzoni, Laura A. Pellegrini, Paolo Musico, W. Bonivento, I. Ch. Avetissov, Mauro Marinelli, E. N. Mozhevitina, Andrey Sokolov, B. R. Hackett, A. B. McDonald, F. Zenobio, C. Ghiano, V. Oleynikov, F. Di Eusanio, L. Consiglio, O. Samoylov, P. Cavalcante, L. Di Noto, D. Santone, P. Agnes, S. Falciano, A. Ramirez, M. Haranczyk, S. Catalanotti, Andrea Zani, Antonino Zichichi, V. Santacroce, J. M. Cela Ruiz, D. La Grasta, V. Barbarian, N. Lami, Alberto Gola, and A. Steri

Subjects
Physics, Air separation, Argon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dark matter, chemistry.chemical_element, Natural abundance, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, chemistry, Fractionating column, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous)
Abstract

Aria is a plant hosting a$${350}\,\hbox {m}$$350mcryogenic isotopic distillation column, the tallest ever built, which is being installed in a mine shaft at Carbosulcis S.p.A., Nuraxi-Figus (SU), Italy. Aria is one of the pillars of the argon dark-matter search experimental program, lead by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. It was designed to reduce the isotopic abundance of$${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$$39Arin argon extracted from underground sources, called Underground Argon (UAr), which is used for dark-matter searches. Indeed,$${^{39}\hbox {Ar}}$$39Aris a$$\beta $$β-emitter of cosmogenic origin, whose activity poses background and pile-up concerns in the detectors. In this paper, we discuss the requirements, design, construction, tests, and projected performance of the plant for the isotopic cryogenic distillation of argon. We also present the successful results of the isotopic cryogenic distillation of nitrogen with a prototype plant.

Published
2021

14. Search for hep solar neutrinos and the diffuse supernova neutrino background using all three phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Author

C. E. Okada, Ilan Levine, David A. Sinclair, D. Chauhan, J. Wendland, J. F. Wilkerson, B. Beltran, F. B. Descamps, Jocelyn Monroe, M. H. Schwendener, N. Gagnon, M. Jerkins, T. Sonley, F. Zhang, N. S. Oblath, G. D. Orebi Gann, H. Deng, B. Aharmim, J. R. Leslie, L. C. Stonehill, R. W. Ollerhead, J. Law, A. L. Hallin, B. T. Cleveland, B. C. Robertson, E. Blucher, Bei Cai, Ryuta Hazama, G. Doucas, K. Boudjemline, N. Tolich, M. Huang, H. Wan Chan Tseung, S. Habib, S. Majerus, Yuen-Dat Chan, K. Graham, T. Kutter, T. J. Winchester, Alain Bellerive, D. L. Wark, M. L. Miller, J. Heise, S. M. Oser, M. Bergevin, L. L. Kormos, R. D. Martin, Andrew Hime, N. McCauley, P. Jagam, S. R. Elliott, G. T. Ewan, C. Kraus, A. Krüger, Keith Rielage, R. G. H. Robertson, S. D. Reitzner, S. N. Ahmed, M. Kos, J. C. Loach, O. Simard, R. Van Berg, P. L. Drouin, K. Gilje, R. L. Hahn, I. Lawson, R. J. Ford, Monica Dunford, C. J. Virtue, E. W. Beier, A. J. Noble, J. Maneira, A. W. P. Poon, J. Caravaca, F. Fleurot, B. L. Wall, A. E. Anthony, Christopher C. M. Kyba, P. J. Doe, G. Prior, N. West, W. J. Heintzelman, Hal Evans, S. J. M. Peeters, C. Howard, J. Farine, H. M. O'Keeffe, K. T. Lesko, S. D. Biller, R. A. Ott, Bernie G. Nickel, P. J. Harvey, Jochen Klein, K. J. Keeter, E. Guillian, H. B. Mak, Minfang Yeh, G. Tešić, N. A. Jelley, S. McGee, J. Tm. Goon, N. Barros, A. B. McDonald, E. D. Hallman, R. MacLellan, T. Tsui, S. R. Seibert, Min Chen, C. B. Krauss, B. A. VanDevender, P. Skensved, D. Waller, B. Jamieson, R. Bonventre, James R. Wilson, B. J. Land, X. Dai, J. A. Secrest, J. A. Detwiler, G. A. Cox, R. Lange, Benjamin Monreal, A. Mastbaum, H. Fergani, R. L. Helmer, Kai Zuber, A. Wright, M. G. Boulay, A. LaTorre, E. J. Callaghan, K. Labe, and Joseph A. Formaggio

Subjects
Physics, Standard solar model, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Supernova, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

A search has been performed for neutrinos from two sources, the $hep$ reaction in the solar $pp$ fusion chain and the $��_e$ component of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB), using the full dataset of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with a total exposure of 2.47 kton-years after fiducialization. The $hep$ search is performed using both a single-bin counting analysis and a likelihood fit. We find a best-fit flux that is compatible with solar model predictions while remaining consistent with zero flux, and set a one-sided upper limit of $��_{hep} < 30\times10^{3}~\mathrm{cm}^{-2}~\mathrm{s}^{-1}$ [90% credible interval (CI)]. No events are observed in the DSNB search region, and we set an improved upper bound on the $��_e$ component of the DSNB flux of $��^\mathrm{DSNB}_{��_e} < 19~\textrm{cm}^{-2}~\textrm{s}^{-1}$ (90% CI) in the energy range $22.9 < E_��< 36.9$~MeV., 11 pages, 6 figures

Published
2020

15. Off-axis characterisation of the CERN T10 beam for low momentum proton measurements with a high pressure gas time projection chamber

Author

Christopher Betancourt, A. Dias, Maria Mironova, Alexander Deisting, Z. Chen-Wishart, Patrick Dunne, R. Saakyan, E. Atkin, Nicola Serra, W. C. Parker, J. T. Haigh, W. Ma, J. A. Nowak, Jochen Steinmann, Jocelyn Monroe, S. B. Boyd, Y. Shitov, S. Jones, Gareth J. Barker, A. Korzenev, D. Brailsford, M. A. Uchida, T. S. Nonnenmacher, A. V. Waldron, A. Tarrant, A. C. Kaboth, A. Basharina-Freshville, H. Ritchie-Yates, S. Roth, S. Valder, M. O. Wascko, R. J. Nichol, Philippe Mermod, Martin Ward, L. Cremonesi, P. Hamacher-Baumann, and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Proton, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Hadron, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, beam test, Kinetic energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), neutrino physics, 0103 physical sciences, CERN, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Physics, Argon, Time projection chamber, Large Hadron Collider, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), lcsh:QC1-999, time projection chamber, Time of flight, high pressure, chemistry, Beamline, off axis, time of flight, lcsh:QC770-798, Physics::Accelerator Physics, lcsh:Physics
Abstract

We present studies of proton fluxes in the T10 beamline at CERN. A prototype high pressure gas time projection chamber (TPC) was exposed to the beam of protons and other particles, using the 0.8 GeV/c momentum setting in T10, in order to make cross section measurements of low energy protons in argon. To explore the energy region comparable to hadrons produced by GeV-scale neutrino interactions at oscillation experiments, i.e., near 0.1 GeV of kinetic energy, methods of moderating the T10 beam were employed: the dual technique of moderating the beam with acrylic blocks and measuring scattered protons off the beam axis was used to decrease the kinetic energy of incident protons, as well as change the proton/minimum ionising particle (MIP) composition of the incident flux. Measurements of the beam properties were made using time of flight systems upstream and downstream of the TPC. The kinetic energy of protons reaching the TPC was successfully changed from &sim, 0.3 GeV without moderator blocks to less than 0.1 GeV with four moderator blocks (40 cm path length). The flux of both protons and MIPs off the beam axis was increased. The ratio of protons to MIPs vary as a function of the off-axis angle allowing for possible optimisation of the detector to select the type of required particles. Simulation informed by the time of flight measurements show that with four moderator blocks placed in the beamline, (5.6&plusmn, 0.1) protons with energies below 0.1 GeV per spill traversed the active TPC region. Measurements of the beam composition and energy are presented.

Published
2020

17. Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector

Author

Miguel Cárdenas-Montes, G. Oliviéro, Luca Doria, M. G. Boulay, A. Kemp, G. Kaur, R. Stainforth, Stefano Cavuoti, Bei Cai, O. Litvinov, P. Gorel, M. C. Piro, Monica Dunford, O. Kamaev, F. Retiere, S. Viel, P. Skensved, Xiujiang Li, C. Rethmeier, S. S. Farahani, I. Kochanek, J. Lock, A. Zuñiga-Reyes, C. Jillings, T. Hugues, N. J. T. Smith, D. Gallacher, C. E. Bina, C. Mielnichuk, M. Cadeddu, S. Westerdale, Bhaskar Sur, S. Langrock, J. B. McLaughlin, M. Hamstra, T. Pollmann, P. DelGobbo, S. Garg, M. Kuźniak, V. Pesudo, T. Sonley, B. Jigmeddorj, Jocelyn Monroe, David A. Sinclair, Leszek Roszkowski, A. C. Vincent, S. J. M. Peeters, G. Fiorillo, W. Bonivento, J. Walding, R. Santorelli, J. M. Corning, P. Giampa, T. Sánchez-Pastor, B. C. Smith, A. Ilyasov, D. J. Auty, I. N. Machulin, M. Lai, M. Stringer, A. B. McDonald, N. Fatemighomi, R. Ajaj, P. Adhikari, E. Sanchez Garcia, A. Erlandson, Martin Ward, Giuseppe Longo, E. T. Rand, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, P. Garcia Abia, S. Pal, A. Joy, J. Willis, B. Lehnert, N. Levashko, A. L. Hallin, B. T. Cleveland, M. Waqar, E. A. Garcés, A. Grobov, K. Graham, I. Rodríguez-García, S. J. Daugherty, Y. Chen, D. Goeldi, T. McElroy, P. Di Stefano, Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Auty, D. J., Bina, C. E., Bonivento, W., Boulay, M. G., Cadeddu, M., Cai, B., Cardenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, Y., Cleveland, B. T., Corning, J. M., Daugherty, S., Delgobbo, P., Di Stefano, P., Doria, L., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Farahani, S. S., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Gallacher, D., Garces, E. A., Abia, P. Garcia, Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grobov, A., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Hugues, T., Ilyasov, A., Joy, A., Jigmeddorj, B., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I, Kuzniak, M., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lehnert, B., Levashko, N., Li, X., Litvinov, O., Lock, J., Longo, G., Machulin, I, Mcdonald, A. B., Mcelroy, T., Mclaughlin, J. B., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Oliviero, G., Pal, S., Peeters, S. J. M., Pesudo, V, Piro, M-C, Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retiere, F., Rodriguez-Garcia, I, Roszkowski, L., Sanchez Garcia, E., Sanchez-Pastor, T., Santorelli, R., Sinclair, D., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stringer, M., Sur, B., Vazquez-Jauregui, E., Viel, S., Vincent, A. C., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuniga-Reyes, A.

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Isovector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Isoscalar, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Dark matter halo, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Weakly interacting massive particles, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Effective field theory, Halo, 010306 general physics, Magnetic dipole, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon detector aiming to directly detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), located at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). After analyzing data taken during the first year of operation, a null result was used to place an upper bound on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent, isoscalar cross section. This study reinterprets this result within a Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theory framework, and further examines how various possible substructures in the local dark matter halo may affect these constraints. Such substructures are hinted at by kinematic structures in the local stellar distribution observed by the Gaia satellite and other recent astronomical surveys. These include the Gaia Sausage (or Enceladus), as well as a number of distinct streams identified in recent studies. Limits are presented for the coupling strength of the effective contact interaction operators $\mathcal{O}_1$, $\mathcal{O}_3$, $\mathcal{O}_5$, $\mathcal{O}_8$, and $\mathcal{O}_{11}$, considering isoscalar, isovector, and xenonphobic scenarios, as well as the specific operators corresponding to millicharge, magnetic dipole, electric dipole, and anapole interactions. The effects of halo substructures on each of these operators are explored as well, showing that the $\mathcal{O}_5$ and $\mathcal{O}_8$ operators are particularly sensitive to the velocity distribution, even at dark matter masses above 100 GeV/$c^2$.

Published
2020

18. Basic Research Needs for High Energy Physics Detector Research & Development: Report of the Office of Science Workshop on Basic Research Needs for HEP Detector Research and Development: December 11-14, 2019

Author

Bonnie Fleming, Ian Shipsey, Marcel Demarteau, James Fast, Sunil Golwala, Young-Kee Kim, Abraham Seiden, James Hirschauer, Gabriella Sciolla, Ornella Palamara, Kate Scholberg, Jodi Cooley, Dan McKinsey, Clarence Chang, Brenna Flaugher, Sarah Demers, Monica Pepe-Altarelli, Francesco Lanni, Roger Rusack, Roxanne Guenette, Jocelyn Monroe, Lindley Winslow, Peter Krizan, Andrew Geraci, Kent Irwin, Gabriella Carini, Mitch Newcomer, Marina Artuso, Carl Haber, Darin Acosta, Tulika Bose, Michael Begel, Meenakshi Narain, Daniel Dwyer, Amy Connolly, Andrew Sonnenschein, Reyco Henning, Kyle Dawson, Laura Newburgh, Matthew Reece, Nicola Serra, Nural Akchurin, Sarah Eno, Paolo Rumerio, Renyuan Zhu, Jennifer Raaf, Andrea Pocar, Jonathan Asaadi, Hugh Lippincott, Graham Giovanetti, Adriana Lita, Felix Sefkow, Gretchen Campbell, Alexander Sushkov, Ronald Walsworth, Anna Grassellino, Angelo Dragone, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, Terri Shaw, Julia Thom-Levy, Alessandro Tricoli, Petra Merkel, Wesley Ketchum, Jinlong Zhang, Paul O'Connor, Georgia Karagiorgi, Christie Ashton, Lali Chaterjee, Peter Lee, Donald Hornback, Helmut Marsiske, Michelle Shinn, Karen Byrum, Glen Crawford, Elaine Lessner, Donna Nevels, Gulshan Rai, Kathy Turner, and Randall Ruchti

Published
2019

19. A method for characterizing after-pulsing and dark noise of PMTs and SiPMs

Author

Jocelyn Monroe, J. Walding, B. Smith, A. Butcher, Luca Doria, and F. Retiere

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Scintillation, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Photodetector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, Noise (electronics), Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, 0103 physical sciences, Subatomic particle, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation, Dark current
Abstract

Photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are detectors sensitive to single photons that are widely used for the detection of scintillation and Cerenkov light in subatomic physics and medical imaging. This paper presents a method for characterizing two of the main noise sources that PMTs and SiPMs share: dark noise and correlated noise (after-pulsing). The proposed method allows for a model-independent measurement of the after-pulsing timing distribution and dark noise rate., Comment: Accepted by Nucl. Instr. Meth. A. 11 pages, 8 figures. Added application of method to SiPM data in new version

Published
2017

20. Exploring the hidden interior of the Earth with directional neutrino measurements

Author

Stephen T. Dye, Michael Leyton, and Jocelyn Monroe

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Article, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Mantle (geology), High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics::Geophysics, Physics - Geophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, Thermal, 010306 general physics, Physics, Elastic scattering, Multidisciplinary, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, General Chemistry, Geophysics (physics.geo-ph), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, 13. Climate action, Physics::Space Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Neutrino
Abstract

Roughly 40% of the Earth’s total heat flow is powered by radioactive decays in the crust and mantle. Geo-neutrinos produced by these decays provide important clues about the origin, formation and thermal evolution of our planet, as well as the composition of its interior. Previous measurements of geo-neutrinos have all relied on the detection of inverse beta decay reactions, which are insensitive to the contribution from potassium and do not provide model-independent information about the spatial distribution of geo-neutrino sources within the Earth. Here we present a method for measuring previously unresolved components of Earth’s radiogenic heating using neutrino-electron elastic scattering and low-background, direction-sensitive tracking detectors. We calculate the exposures needed to probe various contributions to the total geo-neutrino flux, specifically those associated to potassium, the mantle and the core. The measurements proposed here chart a course for pioneering exploration of the veiled inner workings of the Earth., The detection of Earth’s anti neutrino emission from potassium and the mantle remain elusive. Here the authors propose a method for measuring potassium and mantle geo-neutrinos by detecting their elastic scattering on electrons with direction-sensitive detectors.

Published
2017

21. Electromagnetic backgrounds and potassium-42 activity in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector

Author

C. Rethmeier, Laurelle Maria Veloce, C. Jillings, C. E. Bina, S. Langrock, T. Sonley, C. M. Nantais, Stefano Cavuoti, Peter Majewski, M. C. Piro, V. V. Golovko, K. Graham, N. J. T. Smith, O. Litvinov, P. Skensved, J. B. McLaughlin, Darren Grant, E. Sanchez Garcia, P. Nadeau, O. Kamaev, I. Kochanek, M. G. Boulay, Min Chen, Martin Ward, D. Gallacher, R. J. Ford, J. Lock, A. Zuñiga-Reyes, F. La Zia, N. Fatemighomi, Giuseppe Longo, T. McGinn, S. Viel, A. B. McDonald, Y. Chen, M. Hamstra, P. J. Harvey, A. Erlandson, D. Goeldi, B. Lehnert, V. Pesudo, N. Seeburn, V. Strickland, E. T. Rand, S. Garg, R. Gagnon, K. Dering, C. Mielnichuk, R. Santorelli, Bhaskar Sur, P. Pasuthip, T. McElroy, A. J. Noble, P. Gorel, Xiujiang Li, S. J. M. Peeters, R. Ajaj, B. Beltran, A. Flower, C. Ng, Jocelyn Monroe, A. Joy, J. Walding, M. Waqar, A. Kemp, G. Kaur, J. Willis, M. Batygov, C. Hearns, T. Pollmann, J. F. Bueno, G. R. Araujo, R. Mehdiyev, A. L. Hallin, G. Fiorillo, B. T. Cleveland, F. Retiere, Miguel Cárdenas-Montes, B. C. Smith, M. Kuźniak, C. Stone, S. Westerdale, F. A. Duncan, R. Stainforth, B. Broerman, A. Butcher, Bei Cai, C. Ouellet, M. Dunford, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, P. M. Burghardt, P. Giampa, P. Garcia Abia, Ajaj, R., Araujo, G. R., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Bina, C. E., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., Cai, B., Cárdenas-Montes, M., Cavuoti, S., Chen, M., Chen, Y., Cleveland, B. T., Dering, K., Duncan, F. A., Dunford, M., Erlandson, A., Fatemighomi, N., Fiorillo, G., Flower, A., Ford, R. J., Gagnon, R., Gallacher, D., García Abia, P., Garg, S., Giampa, P., Goeldi, D., Golovko, V. V., Gorel, P., Graham, K., Grant, D. R., Hallin, A. L., Hamstra, M., Harvey, P. J., Hearns, C., Joy, A., Jillings, C. J., Kamaev, O., Kaur, G., Kemp, A., Kochanek, I., Kuźniak, M., Langrock, S., La Zia, F., Lehnert, B., Li, X., Litvinov, O., Lock, J., Longo, G., Majewski, P., Mcdonald, A. B., Mcelroy, T., Mcginn, T., Mclaughlin, J. B., Mehdiyev, R., Mielnichuk, C., Monroe, J., Nadeau, P., Nantais, C., Ng, C., Noble, A. J., Ouellet, C., Pasuthip, P., Peeters, S. J. M., Pesudo, V., Piro, M. -C., Pollmann, T. R., Rand, E. T., Rethmeier, C., Retière, F., Sanchez García, E., Santorelli, R., Seeburn, N., Skensved, P., Smith, B., Smith, N. J. T., Sonley, T., Stainforth, R., Stone, C., Strickland, V., Sur, B., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Veloce, L., Viel, S., Walding, J., Waqar, M., Ward, M., Westerdale, S., Willis, J., and Zuñiga-Reyes, A.

Subjects
Dark matter, Analytical chemistry, FOS: Physical sciences, nucl-ex, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, DEAP, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Single phase, 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, QC, Prior information, Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Liquid argon, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

Author(s): Ajaj, R; Araujo, GR; Batygov, M; Beltran, B; Bina, CE; Boulay, MG; Broerman, B; Bueno, JF; Burghardt, PM; Butcher, A; Cai, B; Cardenas-Montes, M; Cavuoti, S; Chen, M; Chen, Y; Cleveland, BT; Dering, K; Duncan, FA; Dunford, M; Erlandson, A; Fatemighomi, N; Fiorillo, G; Flower, A; Ford, RJ; Gagnon, R; Gallacher, D; Garcia Abia, P; Garg, S; Giampa, P; Goeldi, D; Golovko, VV; Gorel, P; Graham, K; Grant, DR; Hallin, AL; Hamstra, M; Harvey, PJ; Hearns, C; Joy, A; Jillings, CJ; Kamaev, O; Kaur, G; Kemp, A; Kochanek, I; Kuźniak, M; Langrock, S; La Zia, F; Lehnert, B; Li, X; Litvinov, O; Lock, J; Longo, G; Majewski, P; McDonald, AB; McElroy, T; McGinn, T; McLaughlin, JB; Mehdiyev, R; Mielnichuk, C; Monroe, J; Nadeau, P; Nantais, C; Ng, C; Noble, AJ; Ouellet, C; Pasuthip, P; Peeters, SJM; Pesudo, V; Piro, MC; Pollmann, TR; Rand, ET; Rethmeier, C; Retiere, F; Sanchez Garcia, E; Santorelli, R; Seeburn, N; Skensved, P; Smith, B; Smith, NJT; Sonley, T; Stainforth, R; Stone, C; Strickland, V; Sur, B; Vazquez-Jauregui, E | Abstract: The DEAP-3600 experiment is searching for weakly interacting massive particles dark matter with a 3.3 ×103 kg single phase liquid argon (LAr) target, located 2.1 km underground at SNOLAB. The experimental signature of dark matter interactions is kilo electron volt-scale Ar40 nuclear recoils producing 128 nm LAr scintillation photons observed by photomultiplier tubes. The largest backgrounds in DEAP-3600 are electronic recoils (ERs) induced by β and γ rays originating from internal and external radioactivity in the detector material. A background model of the ER interactions in DEAP-3600 was developed and is described in this work. The model is based on several components which are expected from radioisotopes in the LAr, from ex situ material assay measurements, and from dedicated independent in situ analyses. This prior information is used in a Bayesian fit of the ER components to a 247.2 d dataset to model the radioactivity in the surrounding detector materials. Pulse-shape discrimination separates ER and NR events. However, detailed knowledge of the ER background and activity of detector components sets valuable constraints on NR backgrounds including neutrons and alphas. In addition, the activity of Ar42 in LAr in DEAP-3600 is determined by measuring the daughter decay of K42. This cosmogenically activated trace isotope is a relevant background at higher energies for other rare event searches using atmospheric argon, e.g., DarkSide-20k, GERDA, or LEGEND. The specific activity of Ar42 in the atmosphere is found to be 40.4±5.9 μBq/kg of argon.

Published
2019

22. Design and construction of the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector

Author

C. Hearns, B. Lehnert, P. Gorel, Randall White, S. Florian, J. B. McLaughlin, A. Kemp, T. Pollmann, S. J. M. Peeters, C. Lim, A. J. Noble, R. Mathew, D. Bishop, K. Olchanski, J. F. Bueno, N. Seeburn, A. Muir, Y. Linn, W. Rau, Shuai Liu, P. Liimatainen, T. McElroy, C. Rethmeier, Stephen Kam-wah Chan, T. Bromwich, Monica Dunford, K. S. Olsen, C. Ouellet, R. Chouinard, P. Nadeau, C. Nantais, C. Ohlmann, C. Ng, Laurelle Maria Veloce, O. Kamaev, S. Langrock, R. Gagnon, P. Amaudruz, A. Butcher, M. Hamstra, Jocelyn Monroe, C. Mielnichuk, B. T. Cleveland, Bhaskar Sur, F. Duncan, F. Retiere, Min Chen, K. W. McFarlane, A. Hall, O. Li, J. Tang, P. Giampa, J. Walding, J. Soukup, M. Batygov, K. Graham, K. Singhrao, R. Stainforth, T. Lindner, A. B. McDonald, Martin Ward, Darren Grant, S. Mead, B. Smith, Bei Cai, R. Gornea, Mark Guy Boulay, Peter Majewski, N. Fatemighomi, P. Skensved, P. Pasuthip, P. M. Burghardt, R. Ford, J. DiGioseffo, J. Lidgard, J. Bonatt, C. Stone, M. Kuźniak, S. Westerdale, N. J. T. Smith, B. Broerman, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, A. Flower, Joanne Taylor, E. Grace, T. Sonley, P. J. Harvey, R. Mehdiyev, A. Erlandson, F. La Zia, V. V. Golovko, T. McGinn, K. Dering, E. Gulyev, E. O'Dwyer, B. Beltran, S. Dittmeier, E. Woolsey, A. L. Hallin, Gary Boorman, C. J. Jillings, M. Baldwin, B. Shaw, E. T. Rand, C. E. Bina, J. Zielinski, V. Strickland, S. Churchwell, and D. Cranshaw

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, DEAP, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Physics, Argon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, chemistry, Weakly interacting massive particles, Nucleon, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target. The projected cross section sensitivity for DEAP-3600 to the spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is $10^{-46}~\rm{cm}^{2}$ for a 100 GeV/$c^2$ WIMP mass with a fiducial exposure of 3 tonne-years. This paper describes the physical properties and construction of the DEAP-3600 detector., minor corrections in version 2. 70 pages, 24 figures, to be submitted to Astroparticle Physics Journal

Published
2019

23. DarkSide-50 results and the future liquid argon dark matter program

Author

Caminata, A., Aalseth, C. E., Abdelhakim, S., Acerbi, F., Agnes, P., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Ameli, F., Antonioli, P., Arcelli, S., Ardito, R., Arnquist, I. J., Arpaia, P., Asner, D. M., Asunskis, A., Ave, M., Back, H. O., Barrado Olmedo, A., Batignani, G., Bisogni, M. G., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bonfini, G., Bonivento, W., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Bunker, R., Bussino, S., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Canci, N., Candela, A., Cantini, C., Caravati, M., Cariello, M., Carpinelli, M., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Celano, B., Cereseto, R., Cheng, W., Chepurnov, A., Cicalò, C., Ci-Farelli, L., Citterio, M., Cocco, A. G., Colocci, M., Consiglio, L., Cossio, F., Covone, G., Crivelli, P., D Antone, I., D Incecco, M., D Urso, D., Da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Daniel, M., Davini, S., Candia, A., Cecco, S., Deo, M., Falco, A., Filippis, G., Gruttola, D., Guido, G., Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Demontis, P., Depaquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Eusanio, F., Di Pietro, G., Di Stefano, P., Dionisi, C., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Edalatfar, F., Empl, A., Fernandez Diaz, M., Ferri, A., Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Fomenko, K., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Froudakis, G. E., Gabriele, F., Gabrieli, A., Gal-Biati, C., Garcia Abia, P., Gascón Fora, D., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Ghisi, A., Giagu, S., Giampa, P., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Gola, A., Gorchakov, O., Grab, M., Graciani Diaz, R., Granato, F., Grassi, M., Grate, J. W., Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerra, M. B. B., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Haaland, R. K., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Harrop, B., Hoppe, E. W., Horikawa, S., Hosseini, B., Hubaut, F., Humble, P., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An, Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Jimenez Cabre, S., Keeter, K., Kendziora, C. L., Kim, S., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Kopp, G., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., La Commara, M., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lebois, M., Lehnert, B., Li, X., Liqiang, Q., Lissia, M., Lodi, G. U., Longo, G., Lussana, R., Luzzi, L., Machado, A. A., Machulin, I. N., Mandarano, A., Mapelli, L., Marcante, M., Margotti, A., Mari, S. M., Mariani, M., Maricic, J., Marinelli, M., Marras, D., Martinez Rojas, A. D., Martoff, C. J., Mascia, M., Masoni, A., Mazzi, A., Mcdonald, A. B., Messina, A., Meyers, P. D., Miletic, T., Milincic, R., Moggi, A., Moioli, S., Jocelyn Monroe, Morrocchi, M., Mroz, T., Mu, W., Muratova, V. N., Murphy, S., Muscas, C., Musico, P., Nania, R., Napolitano, T., Navrer Agasson, A., Nessi, M., Nikulin, I., Nozdrina, A. O., Nurakhov, N. N., Oleinik, A., Oleynikov, V., Orsini, M., Ortica, F., Pagani, L., Pallavicini, M., Pal-Mas, S., Pandola, L., Pantic, E., Paoloni, E., Paternoster, G., Pavletcov, V., Pazzona, F., Peeters, S., Pegoraro, P. A., Pelczar, K., Pellegrini, L. A., Pelliccia, N., Perotti, F., Pesudo, V., Picciau, E., Piemonte, C., Pietropaolo, F., Pocar, A., Pollman, T., Portaluppi, D., Poudel, S. S., Price, D., Pugachev, D. A., Radics, B., Raffaelli, F., Ragusa, F., Razeti, M., Razeto, A., Regazzoni, V., Regenfus, C., Renshaw, A. L., Rescia, S., Rescigno, M., Retiere, F., Riffard, Q., Rivetti, A., Romani, A., Romero, L., Rossi, N., Rubbia, A., Sablone, D., Sala, P., Salatino, P., Samoylov, O., Sànchez Garcìa, E., Sanfilippo, S., Sant, M., Santone, D., San-Torelli, R., Savarese, C., Scapparone, E., Schlitzer, B., Scioli, G., Segreto, E., Seifert, A., Semenov, D. A., Shchagin, A., She-Myakina, E., Sheshukov, A., Siddhanta, S., Simeone, M., Singh, P. N., Skensved, P., Skorokhvatov, M. D., Smirnov, O., So-Brero, G., Sokolov, A., Sotnikov, A., Stainforth, R., Stracka, S., Suffritti, G. B., Sulis, S., Suvorov, Y., Szelc, A. M., Tartaglia, R., Testera, G., Thorpe, T., Tonazzo, A., Tosi, A., Unzhakov, E. V., Usai, G., Vacca, A., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Verducci, M., Viant, T., Viel, S., Villa, F., Vishneva, A., Vogelaar, R. B., Wada, M., Wahl, J., Walding, J. J., Wang, H., Wang, Y., Westerdale, S., Wheadon, R. J., Williams, R., Wilson, J., Wojcik, M., Wu, S., Xiao, X., Yang, C., Ye, Z., Zuzel, G., Caminata, A., Aalseth, C. E., Abdelhakim, S., Acerbi, F., Agnes, P., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alici, A., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Ameli, F., Antonioli, P., Arcelli, S., Ardito, R., Arnquist, I. J., Arpaia, P., Asner, D. M., Asunskis, A., Ave, M., Back, H. O., Barrado Olmedo, A., Batignani, G., Bisogni, M. G., Bocci, V., Bondar, A., Bonfini, G., Bonivento, W., Bottino, B., Boulay, M. G., Bunker, R., Bussino, S., Buzulutskov, A., Cadeddu, M., Cadoni, M., Canci, N., Candela, A., Cantini, C., Caravati, M., Cariello, M., Carpinelli, M., Castellani, A., Castello, P., Catalanotti, S., Cataudella, V., Cavalcante, P., Cavuoti, S., Cebrian, S., Celano, B., Cereseto, R., Cheng, W., Chepurnov, A., Cicalo, C., Ci-Farelli, L., Citterio, M., Cocco, A. G., Colocci, M., Consiglio, L., Cossio, F., Covone, G., Crivelli, P., D'Antone, I., D'Incecco, M., D'Urso, D., da Rocha Rolo, M. D., Daniel, M., Davini, S., de Candia, A., de Cecco, S., de Deo, M., de Falco, A., de Filippis, G., de Gruttola, D., de Guido, G., de Rosa, G., Dellacasa, G., Demontis, P., Depaquale, S., Derbin, A. V., Devoto, A., Di Eusanio, F., Di Pietro, G., Di Stefano, P., Dionisi, C., Dordei, F., Downing, M., Edalatfar, F., Empl, A., Fernandez Diaz, M., Ferri, A., Filip, C., Fiorillo, G., Fomenko, K., Franceschi, A., Franco, D., Froudakis, G. E., Gabriele, F., Gabrieli, A., Gal-Biati, C., Garcia Abia, P., Gascon Fora, D., Gendotti, A., Ghiano, C., Ghisi, A., Giagu, S., Giampa, P., Giampaolo, R. A., Giganti, C., Giorgi, M. A., Giovanetti, G. K., Gligan, M. L., Gola, A., Gorchakov, O., Grab, M., Graciani Diaz, R., Granato, F., Grassi, M., Grate, J. W., Grigoriev, G. Y., Grobov, A., Gromov, M., Guan, M., Guerra, M. B. B., Guerzoni, M., Gulino, M., Haaland, R. K., Hackett, B. R., Hallin, A., Harrop, B., Hoppe, E. W., Horikawa, S., Hosseini, B., Hubaut, F., Humble, P., Hungerford, E. V., Ianni, An., Ippolito, V., Jillings, C., Jimenez Cabre, S., Keeter, K., Kendziora, C. L., Kim, S., Kochanek, I., Kondo, K., Kopp, G., Korablev, D., Korga, G., Kubankin, A., Kugathasan, R., Kuss, M., Kuzniak, M., la Commara, M., Lai, M., Langrock, S., Lebois, M., Lehnert, B., Li, X., Liqiang, Q., Lissia, M., Lodi, G. U., Longo, G., Lussana, R., Luzzi, L., Machado, A. A., Machulin, I. 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Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Time projection chamber, Argon, Dark matter, Detector, chemistry.chemical_element, Galaxie, Germanium compound, Silicon photomultiplier, WIMP, chemistry, Dark Matter, Neutrino, Low Mass, Liquefied gases
Abstract

DarkSide uses a dual-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to search for WIMP dark matter. The paper will present the latest result on the search for low mass (MW IMP < 20 Gev/c2) and high mass (MW IMP > 100 Gev/c2) WIMPs from the current experiment, DarkSide-50, running since mid 2015 a 50-kg-active-mass TPC, filled with argon from an underground source. The next stage of the DarkSide program will be a new generation experiment involving a global collaboration from all the current Argon based experiments. DarkSide-20k, is designed as a 20-tonne fiducial mass TPC with SiPM based photosensors, expected to be free of any background for an exposure of >100 ton x years. Like its predecessor DarkSide-20k will be housed at the Gran Sasso (LNGS) underground laboratory, and it is expected to attain a WIMP-nucleon cross section exclusion sensitivity of 10−47 cm2 for a WIMP mass of 1 TeV /c2 in a 5 yr run. A subsequent objective, towards the end of the next decade, will be the construction of the ultimate detector, ARGO, with a 300 t fiducial mass to push the sensitivity to the neutrino floor region for high mass WIMPs. The combination of the three experiments, part of a single family, will cover completely the WIMP hypothesis from 1 GeV /c2 to several hundreds of TeV /c2 masses.

Published
2019

24. A review of the discovery reach of directional Dark Matter detection

Author

N. Phan, Ciaran A. J. O'Hare, Paolo Gondolo, Anne M. Green, D. Loomba, S. E. Vahsen, Samuel K. Lee, B. Morgan, James Battat, Graciela B. Gelmini, Nassim Bozorgnia, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Annika H. G. Peter, J. Billard, F. Mayet, Jocelyn Monroe, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), and GRAPPA (ITFA, IoP, FNWI)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Recoil, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QB, Elastic scattering, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Rest frame, Dipole, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Weakly interacting massive particles, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], Particle, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Cosmological observations indicate that most of the matter in the Universe is Dark Matter. Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) can be detected directly, via its elastic scattering off target nuclei. Most current direct detection experiments only measure the energy of the recoiling nuclei. However, directional detection experiments are sensitive to the direction of the nuclear recoil as well. Due to the Sun's motion with respect to the Galactic rest frame, the directional recoil rate has a dipole feature, peaking around the direction of the Solar motion. This provides a powerful tool for demonstrating the Galactic origin of nuclear recoils and hence unambiguously detecting Dark Matter. Furthermore, the directional recoil distribution depends on the WIMP mass, scattering cross section and local velocity distribution. Therefore, with a large number of recoil events it will be possible to study the physics of Dark Matter in terms of particle and astrophysical properties. We review the potential of directional detectors for detecting and characterizing WIMPs., 57 pages, 23 figures, to appear in Physics Reports

Published
2016

25. Characterization of germanium detectors for the first underground laboratory in Mexico

Author

F. Favela-Perez, C. Iván Ortega-Hernández, X. Bertou, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, S. J. M. Peeters, M. Martinez Montero, Javier Mancera-Alejandrez, J. Walding, A. González Muñoz, D. J. Marín-Lámbarri, Jaime Octavio Guerra-Pulido, Miguel A. Cruz-Pérez, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. Alvarado-Mijangos, C. Türkoğlu, P.R. Scovell, Alexander Deisting, E. A. Garcés, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, D. Ruíz Esparza Rodríguez, Sean Paling, Jocelyn Monroe, Adriana Dias, and Carles Canet

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Monte Carlo method, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Germanium, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Remote sensing, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Characterization (materials science), chemistry, Underground laboratory, Environmental science, High Energy Physics::Experiment
Abstract

This article reports the characterization of two High Purity Germanium detectors performed by extracting and comparing their efficiencies using experimental data and Monte Carlo simulations. The efficiencies were calculated for pointlike $\gamma$-ray sources as well as for extended calibration sources. Characteristics of the detectors such as energy linearity, energy resolution, and full energy peak efficiencies are reported from measurements performed on surface laboratories. The detectors will be deployed in a $\gamma$-ray assay facility that will be located in the first underground laboratory in Mexico, Laboratorio Subterr\'aneo de Mineral del Chico (LABChico), in the Comarca Minera UNESCO Global Geopark, Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures

Published
2020

26. DarkSide-20k: A 20 tonne two-phase LAr TPC for direct dark matter detection at LNGS

Author

Craig E. Aalseth, P. F. Loverre, T. Viant, Fabrizio Giulio Luca Pilo, A. Vishneva, R. Perruzza, E. Segreto, P. Garcia Abia, T. N. Johnson, Manuel Colocci, Lelio Luzzi, R. Tartaglia, M. Bossa, S. Murphy, I. N. Machulin, M. Razeti, V. Pavletcov, M. Kuźniak, H. O. Back, N. Canci, P. D. Meyers, A.V. Shchagin, R. Cereseto, P. Skensved, Jocelyn Monroe, A. Buzulutskov, Davide Portaluppi, Giovanni Covone, G. Dellacasa, Vittorio Cataudella, P. Giampa, B. Rossi, D. Korablev, V. Pesudo, André Rubbia, Marco Pallavicini, Ivone F. M. Albuquerque, K. Fomenko, G. Fiorillo, G. Testera, K. Pelczar, A. Dolgov, F. Retiere, L. Shekhtman, George E. Froudakis, Mariano Cadoni, A. Moggi, L. Romero, M. La Commara, Aldo Ghisi, P. Cavalcante, S. Corgiolu, A. Oleinik, E. V. Hungerford, Cristiano Galbiati, Piero Salatino, D. D'Urso, M. Wada, Rosario Nania, M. Rescigno, Yuting Wang, T. Pollmann, Alan Watson, N. Rossi, C. J. Jillings, F. Gabriele, A. Empl, M. G. Boulay, S. Sanfilippo, A. Mandarano, S. J. M. Peeters, L. Pagani, M. D'Incecco, Alessandro Ferri, S. Westerdale, K. Keeter, R. Bunker, Claudio Piemonte, Andrea Alici, Federica Villa, D. Sablone, G. Di Pietro, Gilda Scioli, Allen Seifert, Marisa Gulino, P. Trinchese, G. Bonfini, S. Catalanotti, F. Granato, D. A. Semenov, M. Carlini, Luciano Pandola, A. Sotnikov, Min-Xin Guan, Alberto Tosi, H. Qian, M. D. Skorokhvatov, S. Bettarini, A. de Candia, An. Ianni, A. Sheshukov, W. Bonivento, V. Regazzoni, E. Pantic, F. Speziale, M. Mayer, Annalisa Vacca, X. Xiang, P. N. Singh, M. Gromov, S. Wu, A. G. Cocco, V. N. Muratova, B. Bottino, Andrea Gabrieli, Mario Giorgi, E. Sanchez Garcia, Jay W. Grate, Y. Suvorov, R. Milincic, G. Batignani, E. Bertoldo, M. Orsini, B. Radics, Giuseppe Longo, C. L. Kendziora, S. Bussino, M. Ave, V. Bocci, B. Reinhold, S. Dussoni, Eugenio Scapparone, A. L. Hallin, Richard M. Williams, S. Horikawa, B. Hosseini, S. Kim, D. Hughes, I. D'Antone, A. M. Goretti, A. S. Chepurnov, C. Giganti, I. J. Arnquist, Antonino Zichichi, A. Castellani, M. Fernandez Diaz, A. L. Renshaw, C. Filip, Silvia Arcelli, Fabio Acerbi, D. M. Asner, Monica Verducci, Marco Sant, Giovanni Paternoster, C. Dionisi, M. Da Rocha Rolo, S. Davini, C. J. Martoff, M. Marcante, M. Cadeddu, Paul H. Humble, E. Paoloni, Z. Ye, C. Cicalo, W. Mu, Laura A. Pellegrini, F. Pazzona, A. S. Kubankin, C. Savarese, G. Sobrero, Stefano Giagu, M. Caravati, A. A. Machado, Chung-Yao Yang, N. N. Nurakhov, G. Koh, Paolo Crivelli, M. Carpinelli, S. De Cecco, Fausto Ortica, G. De Rosa, I. Dormia, Federico Perotti, A. Yllera de Llano, Franco Zappa, J. Wahl, M. Guerzoni, Andrea Messina, Pietro Antonioli, Rudi Lussana, C. Cantini, Pierfranco Demontis, B. Vogelaar, O. Gorchakov, Angelo Rivetti, Simonetta Palmas, Hui Wang, Ben Loer, A. Devoto, J. Walding, Paolo Musico, Alberto Gola, G. Gibertoni, Thomas Alexander, I. Nikulin, D. A. Pugachev, R. Stainforth, A. Monte, A. V. Derbin, Andrey Sokolov, G. Zuzel, J. Maricic, A. B. McDonald, A. 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Particle physics, VAPOR-PRESSURE, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Scintillator, SCINTILLATION EFFICIENCY, 01 natural sciences, PROPERTIES, Nuclear physics, Physics and Astronomy (all), Silicon photomultiplier, WIMP, LIQUID-ARGON, RADIOACTIVITY, DESIGN, SEARCH, 0103 physical sciences, ISOTOPIC LIQUIDS, 010306 general physics, Cherenkov radiation, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), MODEL, THERMODYNAMIC, IONIZATION, Dark Matter – WIMP – Nobel Liquid Detector – Low-background Detectors – Liquid Scintillator – SiPM – Silicon Photomultiplier – Underground Argon – Low-radioactivity Argon, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a two-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) with an active (fiducial) mass of 23 t (20 t). This paper describes a preliminary design for the experiment, in which the DarkSide-20k LAr TPC is deployed within a shield/veto with a spherical Liquid Scintillator Veto (LSV) inside a cylindrical Water Cherenkov Veto (WCV). This preliminary design provides a baseline for the experiment to achieve its physics goals, while further development work will lead to the final optimization of the detector parameters and an eventual technical design. Operation of DarkSide-50 demonstrated a major reduction in the dominant 39Ar background when using argon extracted from an underground source, before applying pulse shape analysis. Data from DarkSide-50, in combination with MC simulation and analytical modeling, shows that a rejection factor for discrimination between electron and nuclear recoils of $>3 \times 10^{9}$ is achievable. This, along with the use of the veto system and utilizing silicon photomultipliers in the LAr TPC, are the keys to unlocking the path to large LAr TPC detector masses, while maintaining an experiment in which less than $< 0.1$ events (other than $\nu$ -induced nuclear recoils) is expected to occur within the WIMP search region during the planned exposure. DarkSide-20k will have ultra-low backgrounds than can be measured in situ, giving sensitivity to WIMP-nucleon cross sections of $1.2 \times 10^{-47}$ cm2 ( $1.1 \times 10^{-46}$ cm2) for WIMPs of 1 TeV/c2 (10 TeV/c2) mass, to be achieved during a 5 yr run producing an exposure of 100 t yr free from any instrumental background.

Published
2018

27. Significant Excess of ElectronLike Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

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W. Marsh, Zelimir Djurcic, B. Osmanov, Jocelyn Monroe, Teppei Katori, B. C. Brown, R. Dharmapalan, M. H. Shaevitz, G. Karagiorgi, L. Bugel, J. Grange, P. Nienaber, I. Stancu, M. Tzanov, F. G. Garcia, C. Mariani, G. B. Mills, R. L. Cooper, R. Ford, J. Mousseau, G. Cheng, J. Spitz, D. A. Wickremasinghe, R. Tayloe, Byron P. Roe, T. Kobilarcik, W. C. Louis, Alejandro Diaz, W. Huelsnitz, G. T. Garvey, D. Perevalov, E. D. Zimmerman, C. M. Ignarra, D. A. Finley, R. A. Johnson, Janet Conrad, Z. Pavlovic, R. T. Thornton, E. C. Huang, C. D. Moore, J. Mirabal, D. H. White, A. D. Russell, H. Ray, R. G. Van de Water, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, J. A. Nowak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Bugel, Leonard G., Conrad, Janet Marie, Diaz, Alejandro, Ignarra, Christina, and Katori, Teppei

Subjects
Physics, Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, MiniBooNE, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Neutrino detector, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Fermilab, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Energy (signal processing), Charged current
Abstract

The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reports results from an analysis of $\nu_e$ appearance data from $12.84 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target in neutrino mode, an increase of approximately a factor of two over previously reported results. A $\nu_e$ charged-current quasielastic event excess of $381.2 \pm 85.2$ events ($4.5 \sigma$) is observed in the energy range $200, Comment: Improved some of the figures and improved the correlation between neutrino and antineutrino data

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2018
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28. Update on the MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

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E. Grace, Daniel McKinsey, R. Bourque, Jeff Griego, Jocelyn Monroe, S. Jaditz, I. T. Lawson, B. Wang, Y. Chen, Joseph A. Formaggio, Kevin J. Coakley, F. Giuliani, G. D. Orebi Gann, J. R. Klein, C. Kachulis, S. Seibert, E. Kearns, S. MacMullin, B. Buck, Keith Rielage, G. Perumpilly, John A. Oertel, K. J. Palladino, V. E. Guiseppe, A. LaTorre, Chao Zhang, E. Flores, J. Kelsey, J. Walding, M. Akashi-Ronquest, Natalia Guerrero, A. Hime, James Nikkel, M. Bodmer, Reyco Henning, A. Mastbaum, A. Butcher, J. Wang, Dongming Mei, T. Caldwell, S. K. Linden, D. Gastler, L. Rodriguez, Michael Gold, F. E. Lopez, R. W. Schnee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Buck, Benjamin R., Formaggio, Joseph A, Kelsey, James E, and Guerrero, Natalia M.

Subjects
Photomultiplier, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, WIMP, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics and Astronomy(all), dark matter, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, Neon, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Recoil, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Scintillation, Argon, scintillation, Detector, liquid neon, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), liquid argon, chemistry, solar neutrinos, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The direct search for dark matter is entering a period of increased sensitivity to the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). One such technology that is being examined is a scintillation only noble liquid experiment, MiniCLEAN. MiniCLEAN utilizes over 500 kg of liquid cryogen to detect nuclear recoils from WIMP dark matter and serves as a demonstration for a future detector of order 50 to 100 tonnes. The liquid cryogen is interchangeable between argon and neon to study the A2 dependence of the potential signal and examine backgrounds. MiniCLEAN utilizes a unique modular design with spherical geometry to maximize the light yield using cold photomultiplier tubes in a single-phase detector. Pulse shape discrimination techniques are used to separate nuclear recoil signals from electron recoil backgrounds. MiniCLEAN will be spiked with additional 39Ar to demonstrate the effective reach of the pulse shape discrimination capability. Assembly of the experiment is underway at SNOLAB and an update on the project is given., Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science, National Science Foundation (U.S.), National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)

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2015
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29. Measurement of the directional sensitivity of Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber detectors

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Jocelyn Monroe, Shawn Wesley Henderson, R. Corliss, Peter H. Fisher, Richard Eggleston, Michael Leyton, Gabriela Druitt, Cosmin Deaconu, Natalia Guerrero, and Jeremy Lopez

Subjects
Physics, Elastic scattering, Time projection chamber, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Detector, Dark matter, 01 natural sciences, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Carbon–fluorine bond, Sensitivity (control systems), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks, Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber
Abstract

The dark matter time projection chamber (DMTPC) is a direction-sensitive detector designed to measure the direction of recoiling $^{19}\mathrm{F}$ and $^{12}\mathrm{C}$ nuclei in low-pressure ${\mathrm{CF}}_{4}$ gas using optical and charge readout systems. In this paper, we employ measurements from two DMTPC detectors, with operating pressures of 30--60 torr, to develop and validate a model of the directional response and performance of such detectors as a function of recoil energy. Using our model as a benchmark, we formulate the necessary specifications for a scalable directional detector with sensitivity comparable to that of current-generation counting (nondirectional) experiments, which measure only recoil energy. Assuming the performance of existing DMTPC detectors, as well as current limits on the spin-dependent WIMP-nucleus cross section, we find that a 10--20 kg scale direction-sensitive detector is capable of correlating the measured direction of nuclear recoils with the predicted direction of incident dark matter particles and providing decisive ($3\ensuremath{\sigma}$) confirmation that a candidate signal from a nondirectional experiment was indeed induced by elastic scattering of dark matter particles off of target nuclei.

Published
2017

30. In-situ characterization of the Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier tubes used in the DEAP-3600 experiment

Author

J. B. McLaughlin, V. Strickland, M. Batygov, P. Nadeau, C. E. Bina, P. Skensved, T. Pollmann, T. Sonley, Y. Linn, B. Lehnert, C. Stone, W. Rau, S. Westerdale, J. F. Bueno, N. Seeburn, T. McElroy, J. Walding, B. Broerman, J. Lidgard, C. Ng, K. Olchanski, C. Rethmeier, Laurelle Maria Veloce, S. J. M. Peeters, A. Muir, T. Lindner, D. Bishop, K. Graham, K. Singhrao, S. Mead, C. Hearns, K. W. McFarlane, M. Kuźniak, E. T. Rand, P. Gorel, T. Bromwich, A. J. Noble, S. Churchwell, A. Kemp, Joanne Taylor, C. Lim, P. Liimatainen, C. Mielnichuk, E. O'Dwyer, Bhaskar Sur, B. Smith, P. Giampa, E. Grace, Bei Cai, N. Fatemighomi, R. Gornea, R. Ford, R. Mathew, D. Cranshaw, K. Dering, Monica Dunford, P. Pasuthip, O. Kamaev, M. Hamstra, R. Mehdiyev, V. V. Golovko, P. J. Harvey, Martin Ward, Min Chen, N. J. T. Smith, J. Zielinski, A. Erlandson, Gary Boorman, E. Gulyev, F. La Zia, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, Stephen Kam-wah Chan, S. Langrock, B. T. Cleveland, A. Hall, Mark Guy Boulay, R. Gagnon, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Jocelyn Monroe, Shuai Liu, J. Bonatt, R. Stainforth, A. B. McDonald, O. Li, J. Tang, B. Beltran, S. Dittmeier, E. Woolsey, A. L. Hallin, C. J. Jillings, C. Ouellet, C. Nantais, A. Butcher, B. Shaw, R. Chouinard, C. Ohlmann, F. Duncan, F. Retiere, Darren Grant, Randall White, and K. S. Olsen

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Optical fiber, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Noise (electronics), law.invention, DEAP, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation, Dark current
Abstract

The Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier-tube (PMT) is a novel high-quantum efficiency PMT. It is currently used in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and is of significant interest for future dark matter and neutrino experiments where high signal yields are needed. We report on the methods developed for in-situ characterization and monitoring of DEAP's 255 R5912-HQE PMTs. This includes a detailed discussion of typical measured single-photoelectron charge distributions, correlated noise (afterpulsing), dark noise, double, and late pulsing characteristics. The characterization is performed during the detector commissioning phase using laser light injected through a light diffusing sphere and during normal detector operation using LED light injected through optical fibres.

Published
2017
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31. The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber 4Shooter directional dark matter detector: Calibration in a surface laboratory

Author

Shawn W. Henderson, Gabriela Druitt, S. E. Vahsen, Pietro Giampa, Jocelyn Monroe, James Battat, Cosmin Deaconu, H. Wellenstein, Adam Strandberg, I. Jaegle, Vincent C. Gregoric, Peter H. Fisher, Jeremy Lopez, Jay Lawhorn, Richard Eggleston, Kristen A. Recine, and H. Tomita

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Time projection chamber, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Detector, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Optics, Recoil, Carbon–fluorine bond, business, Instrumentation, Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks, Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber
Abstract

The 4Shooter is a prototype dark matter detector built by the Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration. The aim of the collaboration is to observe dark matter with directional sensitivity by measuring the recoil directions of nuclei struck by dark matter particles. The 4Shooter is a single time projection chamber containing CF4 gas, with both optical (CCD and photomultiplier tube) and charge readout. This paper describes the 4Shooter and presents results from the commissioning of the detector in a surface laboratory.

Published
2014

32. Improving Photoelectron Counting and Particle Identification in Scintillation Detectors with Bayesian Techniques

Author

Laurelle Maria Veloce, I. T. Lawson, P. Liimatainen, J. R. Klein, Y. Chen, B. Buck, K. Graham, S. Jaditz, T. Sonley, T. S. Caldwell, Natalia Guerrero, V. E. Guiseppe, Dongming Mei, D. Gastler, M. Bodmer, M. Kuźniak, B. T. Cleveland, T. Pollmann, J. Wang, F. Giuliani, G. D. Orebi Gann, E. O'Dwyer, C. M. Nantais, P. Amaudruz, Martin Ward, M. Akashi-Ronquest, A. Muir, C. Zhang, C. J. Jillings, Keith Rielage, James Nikkel, Andrew Hime, B. Beltran, C. Kachulis, J. Kelsey, R. W. Schnee, K. Dering, Jocelyn Monroe, C. Ouellet, S. MacMullin, A. Mastbaum, J. Walding, O. Li, A. B. McDonald, S. Linden, V. V. Golovko, P. Skensved, R. Mathew, F. Duncan, F. Retiere, B. Wang, Bei Cai, A. Butcher, A. Latorre, K. McFarlane, A. L. Hallin, P. Rau, B. Broerman, M. Gold, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, Daniel McKinsey, J. Hofgartner, Min Chen, K. S. Olsen, Reyco Henning, Joseph A. Formaggio, J. Lidgard, K. Palladino, P. Pasuthip, E. Kearns, E. Grace, P. J. Harvey, K. Nicolics, R. Gagnon, C. Hearns, Kevin J. Coakley, P. Gorel, M. Batygov, S. Seibert, T. Noble, G. Perumpilly, Mark Guy Boulay, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Buck, Benjamin R., Formaggio, Joseph A, Jaditz, Stephen Hunter, and Kelsey, James E

Subjects
Particle physics, Photomultiplier, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Physics, Scintillation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Neutrino detector, Scintillation counter, Deconvolution, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business
Abstract

Many current and future dark matter and neutrino detectors are designed to measure scintillation light with a large array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The energy resolution and particle identification capabilities of these detectors depend in part on the ability to accurately identify individual photoelectrons in PMT waveforms despite large variability in pulse amplitudes and pulse pileup. We describe a Bayesian technique that can identify the times of individual photoelectrons in a sampled PMT waveform without deconvolution, even when pileup is present. To demonstrate the technique, we apply it to the general problem of particle identification in single-phase liquid argon dark matter detectors. Using the output of the Bayesian photoelectron counting algorithm described in this paper, we construct several test statistics for rejection of backgrounds for dark matter searches in argon. Compared to simpler methods based on either observed charge or peak finding, the photoelectron counting technique improves both energy resolution and particle identification of low energy events in calibration data from the DEAP-1 detector and simulation of the larger MiniCLEAN dark matter detector., Comment: 16 pages, 16 figures

Published
2016

33. SEARCHES FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS IN THE B-8 SOLAR NEUTRINO FLUX AT THE SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY

Author

E. D. Hallman, G. Prior, Benjamin Monreal, E. D. Earle, P. J. Doe, S. J. M. Peeters, K. J. Keeter, T. Tsui, F. A. Duncan, P. Skensved, M. DiMarco, K. Boudjemline, Yuen-Dat Chan, J. M. Wouters, J. Heise, S. Habib, K. Graham, X. Dai, S. M. Oser, J. A. Detwiler, Keith Rielage, H. Wan Chan Tseung, M. L. Miller, A. B. McDonald, R. D. Martin, Andrew Hime, I. Levine, Jocelyn Monroe, Alain Bellerive, D. L. Wark, R. J. Ford, T. J. Sonley, R. L. Hahn, H. Fergani, R. G. H. Robertson, M. H. Schwendener, R. MacLellan, Monica Dunford, J. Maneira, B. Beltran, Mark Guy Boulay, Bei Cai, David A. Sinclair, C. A. Duba, F. Zhang, J. Law, D. Chauhan, Peter Watson, B. Jamieson, A. W. P. Poon, Christopher C. M. Kyba, P.-L. Drouin, N. Tolich, C. B. Krauss, N. S. Oblath, B. Aharmim, T.H. Burritt, Kai Zuber, C. D. Tunnell, A. L. Hallin, R. L. Helmer, B. Morissette, J. A. Secrest, I. T. Lawson, C. Kraus, B. T. Cleveland, S. R. Seibert, D. Waller, G. A. Cox, R. A. Ott, N. West, W. J. Heintzelman, K. T. Lesko, J. R. Wilson, M. Kos, A. Wright, O. Simard, E. W. Beier, B.A. VanDevender, L. C. Stonehill, C. Howard, J. Farine, A. J. Noble, C. J. Virtue, B. C. Robertson, G. Doucas, E. Guillian, T. Kutter, N. Barros, Joseph A. Formaggio, Minfang Yeh, J. C. Loach, N. A. Jelley, Hal Evans, S. D. Reitzner, S. N. Ahmed, Joshua R. Klein, M. Bergevin, N. McCauley, R. Van Berg, M. L. Chen, S. Majerus, L. L. Kormos, G. T. Ewan, N. Gagnon, R. Hazama, G. D. Orebi Gann, H. Deng, B. L. Wall, H. M. O'Keeffe, H. B. Mak, S. McGee, S. D. Biller, Bernie G. Nickel, P. J. Harvey, J. F. Wilkerson, Steven Elliott, M. A. Howe, M. Huang, G. Tešić, J. R. Leslie, F. Fleurot, A. E. Anthony, and J. Tm. Goon

Subjects
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Physics, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Solar observatory, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, Neutrino detector, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, Measurements of neutrino speed, Neutrino
Abstract

We have performed three searches for high-frequency signals in the solar neutrino flux measured by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), motivated by the possibility that solar $g$-mode oscillations could affect the production or propagation of solar $^8$B neutrinos. The first search looked for any significant peak in the frequency range 1/day to 144/day, with a sensitivity to sinusoidal signals with amplitudes of 12% or greater. The second search focused on regions in which $g$-mode signals have been claimed by experiments aboard the SoHO satellite, and was sensitive to signals with amplitudes of 10% or greater. The third search looked for extra power across the entire frequency band. No statistically significant signal was detected in any of the three searches., 37 pages, 17 figures, submitted to ApJ

Published
2016

34. Readout technologies for directional WIMP Dark Matter detection

Author

J. A. Kadyk, T. N. Thorpe, A. Buonaura, H. Nishimura, Giuliana Galati, M. T. Hedges, Gabriela Druitt, Kentaro Miuchi, Ken'ichi Kuge, Hiroyuki Sekiya, M. Garcia-Sciveres, T. Hashimoto, L. Consiglio, H. Mirallas, Toru Tanimori, M. Tanaka, P. Monacelli, S. E. Vahsen, Javier Galan, Tetsuya Mizumoto, J. P. Lopez, T. Asada, G. De Lellis, A. Takada, I. G. Irastorza, O. Guillaudin, M. Ali Guler, M. Yoshimoto, A. B. Aleksandrov, Jerome Bouvier, T. Dafni, Maria Cristina Montesi, N. J. C. Spooner, F. Mayet, Philip Lewis, F.J. Iguaz, J. Lamblin, N. Di Marco, V. Gentile, T. Papevangelou, Ryosuke Taishaku, Adele Lauria, Natalia Guerrero, H. Tomita, Q. Riffard, J. P. Richer, Valeri Tioukov, S. Komura, Cosmin Deaconu, Y. Giomataris, Joseph D. Parker, Tatsuya Sawano, Daniel P. Snowden-Ifft, I. Jaegle, S. Cebrián, D. Loomba, Jocelyn Monroe, G. Bosson, Gianfranca De Rosa, A. Umemoto, E. Zayas, Taishi Katsuragawa, H. Kubo, Ihn Sik Seong, Nicola D'Ambrosio, Tatsuhiro Naka, P. Colas, J. Billard, F. Pupilli, E. R. Lee, Y. Mizumura, Koji Nakamura, O. Bourrion, Y. Yamaguchi, James Battat, D. Santos, E. Ferrer-Ribas, J. A. Garcia, Richard Eggleston, J. L. Harton, G. Luzón, M. Leyton, J. G. Garza, Atsuhiko Ochi, A. Di Crescenzo, K. Burdge, T. Descombes, A. Sugiyama, Takahiro Fusayasu, N. S. Phan, E. Baracchini, T. Ikeda, A. Takeda, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MIMAC, Battat, J. B. R., Irastorza, I. G., Aleksandrov, A., Asada, T., Baracchini, E., Billard, J., Bosson, G., Bourrion, O., Bouvier, J., Buonaura, Annarita, Burdge, K., Cebrián, S., Colas, P., Consiglio, L., Dafni, T., D’Ambrosio, N., Deaconu, C., DE LELLIS, Giovanni, Descombes, T., DI CRESCENZO, Antonia, Di Marco, N., Druitt, G., Eggleston, R., Ferrer Ribas, E., Fusayasu, T., Galán, J., Galati, Giuliana, García, J. A., Garza, J. G., Gentile, V., Garcia Sciveres, M., Giomataris, Y., Guerrero, N., Guillaudin, O., Guler, A. M., Harton, J., Hashimoto, T., Hedges, M. T., Iguaz, F. J., Ikeda, T., Jaegle, I., Kadyk, J. A., Katsuragawa, T., Komura, S., Kubo, H., Kuge, K., Lamblin, J., Lauria, Adele, Lee, E. R., Lewis, P., Leyton, M., Loomba, D., Lopez, J. P., Luzón, G., Mayet, F., Mirallas, H., Miuchi, K., Mizumoto, T., Mizumura, Y., Monacelli, P., Monroe, J., Montesi, MARIA CRISTINA, Naka, T., Nakamura, K., Nishimura, H., Ochi, A., Papevangelou, T., Parker, J. D., Phan, N. S., Pupilli, F., Richer, J. P., Riffard, Q., Rosa, G., Santos, D., Sawano, T., Sekiya, H., Seong, I. S., Snowden Ifft, D. P., Spooner, N. J. C., Sugiyama, A., Taishaku, R., Takada, A., Takeda, A., Tanaka, M., Tanimori, T., Thorpe, T. N., Tioukov, V., Tomita, H., Umemoto, A., Vahsen, S. E., Yamaguchi, Y., Yoshimoto, M., Zayas, E., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Recoil, Optics, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, High spatial resolution, [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, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Signature (logic), 3. Good health, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The measurement of the direction of WIMP-induced nuclear recoils is a compelling but technologically challenging strategy to provide an unambiguous signature of the detection of Galactic dark matter. Most directional detectors aim to reconstruct the dark-matter-induced nuclear recoil tracks, either in gas or solid targets. The main challenge with directional detection is the need for high spatial resolution over large volumes, which puts strong requirements on the readout technologies. In this paper we review the various detector readout technologies used by directional detectors. In particular, we summarize the challenges, advantages and drawbacks of each approach, and discuss future prospects for these technologies., Comment: 58 pages, 26 figures, accepted by Physics Reports

Published
2016

35. Rejection of Electronic Recoils with the DMTPC Dark Matter Search

Author

D. Dujmic, H. Tomita, H. Yegoryan, F. Golub, A. Lee, A. Dushkin, Richard C. Lanza, Jeremy Lopez, William Fedus, L. Kirsch, M. Chernicoff, Peter H. Fisher, T. Caldwell, Andrew Inglis, G. Kohse, H. Ouyang, G. Sciolla, James Battat, H. Wellenstein, N. Skvorodnev, T. Sahin, A. C. Kaboth, Shawn Wesley Henderson, R. K. Yamamoto, Cosmin Deaconu, Jocelyn Monroe, S. P. Ahlen, I. Wolfe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Lopez, Jeremy Paul, Caldwell, T., Deaconu, Cosmin Stefan, Dujmic, Denis, Fedus, William B., Monroe, J., Fisher, Peter H., Henderson, Shawn Wesley, Kaboth, Asher Cunningham, Kohse, Gordon E., Lanza, Richard C., Lee, A., Sahin, T., Wolfe, I., Yamamoto, R., and Yegoryan, H.

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, WIMP, Direct detection, Detector, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Electron, Physics and Astronomy(all), Signal, Dark matter wind, Nuclear physics, Modulation, Ionization, TPC, Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber
Abstract

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing a low-pressure gas TPC for detecting WIMP-nucleon interactions. DMTPC detectors use optical readout with CCD cameras to search for the daily modulation of the directional signal of the dark matter wind. An analysis of several charge readout channels has been developed to obtain additional information about ionization events in the detector. In order to reach sensitivities required for the WIMP detection, the detector needs to minimize backgrounds from electron recoils. This article shows that by using the readout of charge signals in addition to CCD readout, a preliminary statistics-limited 90% C.L. upper limit on the γ and e[superscript −] rejection factor of 5.6 × 10[superscript −6] is obtained for energies between 40 keV[subscript ee] and 200 keV[subscript ee]., United States. Dept. of Energy (Grant DE-FG02-05ER41360), United States. Dept. of Energy. Advanced Detector Research Program (Contract 6916448), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. James H. Ferry Fund for Innovation in Research Education, MIT Department of Physics Pappalardo Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Charles E. Reed Faculty Initiative Fund), Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Bates Linear Accelerator Center

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2012
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36. Status and Prospects of the DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Experiment

Author

Jocelyn Monroe, null DMTPC Collaboration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, and Monroe, Jocelyn

Subjects
Physics, Scintillation, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Photon, Time projection chamber, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Detector, Dark matter, General Engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Nuclear physics, Recoil, Space and Planetary Science
Abstract

The DMTPC directional dark matter detection experiment is a low-pressure CF4 gas time projection chamber, instrumented with charge and scintillation photon readout. This detector design strategy emphasizes reconstruction of WIMP-induced nuclear recoil tracks, in order to determine the direction of incident dark matter particles. Directional detection has the potential to make the definitive observation of dark matter using the unique angular signature of the dark matter wind, which is distinct from all known backgrounds. This talk will briefly review the experimental technique and current status of DMTPC., Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on Directional Detection of Dark Matter (CYGNUS 2011), Aussois, France, 8-10 June 2011

Published
2012

37. Charge amplification concepts for direction-sensitive dark matter detectors

Author

Valentina Dutta, G. Sciolla, A. Roccaro, N. Skvorodnev, Shawn Wesley Henderson, R. Vanderspek, Jocelyn Monroe, R. K. Yamamoto, Richard C. Lanza, Peter H. Fisher, D. Dujmic, A. C. Kaboth, S. P. Ahlen, H. Tomita, G. Kohse, and H. Wellenstein

Subjects
Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Detector, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Charge (physics), Context (language use), Astrophysics, Nuclear physics, WIMP, Weakly interacting massive particles, Carbon–fluorine bond, Scaling
Abstract

Direction measurement of weakly interacting massive particles in time-projection chambers can provide definite evidence of their existence and help to determine their properties. This article demonstrates several concepts for charge amplification in time-projection chambers that can be used in direction-sensitive dark matter search experiments. We demonstrate reconstruction of the 'head-tail' effect for nuclear recoils above 100keV, and discuss the detector performance in the context of dark matter detection and scaling to large detector volumes., 15 pages, 9 figures

Published
2008

38. Physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment using a J-PARC neutrino beam and Hyper-Kamiokande

Author

Masahiro Kuze, A. Himmel, Jan T. Sobczyk, A. Shaikhiev, I. M. Anghel, S. M. Oser, M. Zito, A. Blondel, Y. Seiya, M. Posiadala-Zezula, Jocelyn Monroe, S. Nakayama, M. Askins, M. Quinto, R. A. Wendell, S. Yen, R. A. Intonti, Y. Nishimura, M. M. Khabibullin, M. Y. Pac, T. Yano, A. T. Suzuki, C. K. Jung, Yusuke Suda, J. F. Martin, O. Drapier, F. d. M. Blaszczyk, A. K. Ichikawa, C. Riccio, J. H. Choi, T. Iijima, J. Kameda, M. Ikeda, C. Pistillo, Carsten Rott, C. Mariani, E. Scantamburlo, Masato Shiozawa, L. Ludovici, J. Imber, M. B. Smy, Y. Takeuchi, S. Berkman, Alexander Finch, M. Needham, J. D. Perkin, Makoto Sakuda, D. R. Hadley, A. Haesler, Mcd Sanchez, T. Kajita, H. M. O'Keeffe, S. Bhadra, A. Minamino, T. Tomura, S. L. Cartwright, James R. Wilson, M. O. Wascko, E. Kearns, Seiko Hirota, M. Gonin, L. Labarga, J. L. Palomino, Atsushi Takeda, M. R. Vagins, J. J. Back, N. McCauley, E. Radicioni, W. R. Kropp, K. S. Ganezer, S. Tobayama, F. Bay, Masashi Yokoyama, P. N. Ratoff, T. Kutter, R. Svoboda, John Hill, Jose L. Perez, J. A. Detwiler, Gus Sinnis, M. Nirkko, Y. Karadhzov, F. Muheim, Gareth J. Barker, T. Nicholls, M. Friend, Teppei Katori, C. Yanagisawa, G. A. Cowan, K. Choi, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, Gavin Davies, T. Sekiguchi, Erin O'Sullivan, S. D. Rountree, A. C. Kaboth, H.A. Tanaka, N. Tolich, T. Tsukamoto, C. W. Walter, Tracey Berry, Peter Ballett, S. Mine, Akimichi Taketa, Yuichi Oyama, Takaaki Mori, Christopher Martin, Yu. Kudenko, A. Redij, S. B. Kim, Akitaka Ariga, Ko Okumura, A. Korzenev, Hiromasa Tanaka, J. L. Stone, J. Insler, L. Cremonesi, L. L. Kormos, M. Mezzetto, Yasunari Suzuki, H. Aihara, Y. Okajima, S. Playfer, G.D. Barr, Brandon L. Hartfiel, R. B. Vogelaar, Koji Nakamura, A. N. Khotjantsev, I. T. Lim, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Koji Yamamoto, B. Jamieson, J. M. Poutissou, C. Bronner, Yoshitaka Itow, C. J. Densham, S. Bolognesi, Y. Fukuda, K. S. McFarland, M. Hartz, Kendall Mahn, T. Ishida, T. Mueller, T. Ovsiannikova, Ke. Abe, L. Marti, Kunio Inoue, R. Sacco, T. Feusels, Hiroshi Nunokawa, P. Beltrame, J. Kim, Leïla Haegel, C. McGrew, Y. Haga, M. Tzanov, J. G. Learned, Y. Hayato, C. Andreopoulos, O. V. Mineev, R. Asfandiyarov, André Rubbia, V. Galymov, E. Richard, R. J. Wilkes, H. K. Tanaka, M. Barbi, T. Lindner, D. Dewhurst, R. A. Owen, H. J. Rose, Hyper-Kamiokande Proto-Collaboraion, A. Bravar, C. Touramanis, H. Minakata, M. Hierholzer, S. Short, M. Bergevin, M. Jiang, Antonio Ereditato, N. Yershov, G. De Rosa, Yasuhiro Kishimoto, Todd D. Stewart, K. K. Joo, M. J. Wilking, E. Rondio, M. Miura, S. Di Luise, Masaki Ishitsuka, Takashi Kobayashi, A. Konaka, Kate Scholberg, R. Terri, M. Ross-Lonergan, K. Huang, P. Martins, E. Mazzucato, M. A. M. Rayner, I. Shimizu, Yusuke Koshio, David A. Wark, A. C. Weber, Hirokazu Ishino, J. Lagoda, G. Collazuol, Mark Scott, F. Retiere, V. Palladino, R. Tacik, D. Fukuda, M. G. Catanesi, F. Di Lodovico, D. J. Payne, L. Magaletti, J. A. Nowak, H. I. Jang, M. Koga, S. B. Boyd, Artur F. Izmaylov, S. Emery, Shunsaku Horiuchi, G. Carminati, V. Paolone, W. Y. Ma, L. F. Thompson, Yuki Fujii, Vincenzo Berardi, Pablo Fernandez, Etam Noah, Tomoko Ariga, T. Xin, G. Vasseur, Michael Thorpe, P. Gumplinger, F. Cafagna, M. Lawe, H. W. Sobel, Magdalena Malek, B. Quilain, Marco Laveder, T. J. Irvine, M. Fitton, A. Longhin, M. Ravonel, O. Perevozchikov, S. Moriyama, Masayuki Nakahata, Y. Uchida, Abe, K., Aihara, H., Andreopoulos, C., Anghel, I., Ariga, A., Ariga, T., Asfandiyarov, R., Askins, M., Back, J. J., Ballett, P., Barbi, M., Barker, G. J., Barr, G., Bay, F., Beltrame, P., Berardi, V., Bergevin, M., Berkman, S., Berry, T., Bhadra, S., Blaszczyk, F. d. M., Blondel, A., Bolognesi, S., Boyd, S. B., Bravar, A., Bronner, C., Cafagna, F. S., Carminati, G., Cartwright, S. L., Catanesi, M. G., Choi, K., Choi, J. H., Collazuol, G., Cowan, G., Cremonesi, L., Davies, G., DE ROSA, Gianfranca, Densham, C., Detwiler, J., Dewhurst, D., Di Lodovico, F., Di Luise, S., Drapier, O., Emery, S., Ereditato, A., Fernandez, P., Feusels, T., Finch, A., Fitton, M., Friend, M., Fujii, Y., Fukuda, Y., Fukuda, D., Galymov, V., Ganezer, K., Gonin, M., Gumplinger, P., Hadley, D. R., Haegel, L., Haesler, A., Haga, Y., Hartfiel, B., Hartz, M., Hayato, Y., Hierholzer, M., Hill, J., Himmel, A., Hirota, S., Horiuchi, S., Huang, K., Ichikawa, A. K., Iijima, T., Ikeda, M., Imber, J., Inoue, K., Insler, J., Intonti, R. A., Irvine, T., Ishida, T., Ishino, H., Ishitsuka, M., Itow, Y., Izmaylov, A., Jamieson, B., Jang, H. I., Jiang, M., Joo, K. K., Jung, C. K., Kaboth, A., Kajita, T., Kameda, J., Karadhzov, Y., Katori, T., Kearns, E., Khabibullin, M., Khotjantsev, A., Kim, J. Y., Kim, S. B., Kishimoto, Y., Kobayashi, T., Koga, M., Konaka, A., Kormos, L. L., Korzenev, A., Koshio, Y., Kropp, W. R., Kudenko, Y., Kutter, T., Kuze, M., Labarga, L., Lagoda, J., Laveder, M., Lawe, M., Learned, J. G., Lim, I. T., Lindner, T., Longhin, A., Ludovici, L., Ma, W., Magaletti, L., Mahn, K., Malek, M., Mariani, C., Marti, L., Martin, J. F., Martin, C., Martins, P. P. J., Mazzucato, E., Mccauley, N., Mcfarland, K. S., Mcgrew, C., Mezzetto, M., Minakata, H., Minamino, A., Mine, S., Mineev, O., Miura, M., Monroe, J., Mori, T., Moriyama, S., Mueller, T., Muheim, F., Nakahata, M., Nakamura, K., Nakaya, T., Nakayama, S., Needham, M., Nicholls, T., Nirkko, M., Nishimura, Y., Noah, E., Nowak, J., Nunokawa, H., O'Keeffe, H. M., Okajima, Y., Okumura, K., Oser, S. M., O'Sullivan, E., Ovsiannikova, T., Owen, R. A., Oyama, Y., Perez, J., Pac, M. Y., Palladino, Vittorio, Palomino, J. L., Paolone, V., Payne, D., Perevozchikov, O., Perkin, J. D., Pistillo, C., Playfer, S., Posiadala Zezula, M., Poutissou, J. M., Quilain, B., Quinto, M., Radicioni, E., Ratoff, P. N., Ravonel, M., Rayner, M. A., Redij, A., Retiere, F., Riccio, Ciro, Richard, E., Rondio, E., Rose, H. J., Ross Lonergan, M., Rott, C., Rountree, S. D., Rubbia, A., Sacco, R., Sakuda, M., Sanchez, M. C., Scantamburlo, E., Scholberg, K., Scott, M., Seiya, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiya, H., Shaikhiev, A., Shimizu, I., Shiozawa, M., Short, S., Sinnis, G., Smy, M. B., Sobczyk, J., Sobel, H. W., Stewart, T., Stone, J. L., Suda, Y., Suzuki, Y., Suzuki, A. T., Svoboda, R., Tacik, R., Takeda, A., Taketa, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tanaka, H. A., Tanaka, H. K. M., Tanaka, H., Terri, R., Thompson, L. F., Thorpe, M., Tobayama, S., Tolich, N., Tomura, T., Touramanis, C., Tsukamoto, T., Tzanov, M., Uchida, Y., Vagins, M. R., Vasseur, G., Vogelaar, R. B., Walter, C. W., Wark, D., Wascko, M. O., Weber, A., Wendell, R., Wilkes, R. J., Wilking, M. J., Wilson, J. R., Xin, T., Yamamoto, K., Yanagisawa, C., Yano, T., Yen, S., Yershov, N., Yokoyama, M., Zito, M., Asfandiyarov, Ruslan, Blondel, Alain, Bravar, Alessandro, Haegel, Leïla, Haesler, Alexis, Karadzhov, Yordan Ivanov, Korzenev, Alexander, Martin Mari, Carlos, Noah Messomo, Etam Albert, Ravonel Salzgeber, Melody, Rayner, Mark, Scantamburlo, Enrico, UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Subjects
Physics potential, Proton, MINIBOONE, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), NONCONSERVATION, law, Long-baseline, Physics, J-PARC neutrino, T2K experiment, 3. Good health, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physical Sciences, SYMMETRIES, Neutrino, SUPER-KAMIOKANDE, Particle physics, Neutrino oscillation, Cherenkov detector, 530 Physics, Physics, Multidisciplinary, CONSERVATION, FOS: Physical sciences, Proton Synchrotron, ddc:500.2, MASS, Hyper-Kamiokande, Physics and Astronomy (all), 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, DETECTOR, Science & Technology, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Física, MODEL, CP-VIOLATION, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, J-PARC, Lepton
Abstract

Artículo escrito por muchos autores, sólo se referencian el primero, los autores que firman como Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y el grupo de colaboración en el caso de que aparezca en el artículo, Hyper-Kamiokande will be a next-generation underground water Cherenkov detector with a total (fiducial) mass of 0.99 (0.56) million metric tons, approximately 20 (25) times larger than that of Super-Kamiokande. One of the main goals of Hyper-Kamiokande is the study of CP asymmetry in the lepton sector using accelerator neutrino and anti-neutrino beams. In this paper, the physics potential of a long-baseline neutrino experiment using the Hyper- Kamiokande detector and a neutrino beam from the J-PARC proton synchrotron is presented. The analysis uses the framework and systematic uncertainties derived from the ongoing T2K experiment. With a total exposure of 7.5 MW ×107 s integrated proton beam power (corresponding to 1.56 × 1022 protons on target with a 30 GeV proton beam) to a 2.5° off-axis neutrino beam, it is expected that the leptonic CP phase δCP can be determined to better than 19 degrees for all possible values of δCP, and CP violation can be established with a statistical significance of more than 3 σ (5 σ) for 76% (58%) of the δCP parameter space. Using both νeappearance and νμ disappearance data, the expected 1 σ uncertainty of sin2 Θ23 is 0.015(0.006) for sin2 Θ23= 0.5(0.45), This work was supported by a MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas Number 25105004, titled “Unification and Development of the Neutrino Science Frontier.” In addition, the participation of individual researchers has been further supported by funds from JSPS, Japan; the European Union ERC-207282, H2020 RISE-GA644294-JENNIFER, and H2020 RISE-GA641540-SKPLUS; RSF, RFBR, and MES, Russia; and JSPS and RFBR under the Japan–Russia Research Cooperative Program

Published
2015

39. Index of refraction, Rayleigh scattering length, and Sellmeier coefficients in solid and liquid argon and xenon

Author

James Nikkel, A. Butcher, Jocelyn Monroe, and E. Grace

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, Physics::Optics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, Xenon, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Rayleigh scattering, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Physics, Scintillation, Argon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 3. Good health, Wavelength, chemistry, symbols, Neutrino, Atomic physics, business, Refractive index
Abstract

Large liquid argon detectors have become widely used in low rate experiments, including dark matter and neutrino research. However, the optical properties of liquid argon are not well understood at the large scales relevant for current and near-future detectors.The index of refraction of liquid argon at the scin- tillation wavelength has not been measured, and current Rayleigh scattering length calculations disagree with measurements. Furthermore, the Rayleigh scattering length and index of refraction of solid argon and solid xenon at their scintillation wavelengths have not been previously measured or calculated. We introduce a new calculation using existing data in liquid and solid argon and xenon to extrapolate the optical properties at the scintillation wavelengths using the Sellmeier dispersion relationship., 11 pages, 4 figures

Published
2015

40. Can tonne-scale direct detection experiments discover nuclear dark matter?

Author

Jocelyn Monroe, Russell Kirk, Stephen M. West, and A. Butcher

Subjects
Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Recoil, WIMP, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Nucleon, Phenomenology (particle physics), Nucleus, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Models of nuclear dark matter propose that the dark sector contains large composite states consisting of dark nucleons in analogy to Standard Model nuclei. We examine the direct detection phenomenology of a particular class of nuclear dark matter model at the current generation of tonne-scale liquid noble experiments, in particular DEAP-3600 and XENON1T. In our chosen nuclear dark matter scenario distinctive features arise in the recoil energy spectra due to the non-point-like nature of the composite dark matter state. We calculate the number of events required to distinguish these spectra from those of a standard point-like WIMP state with a decaying exponential recoil spectrum. In the most favourable regions of nuclear dark matter parameter space, we find that a few tens of events are needed to distinguish nuclear dark matter from WIMPs at the $3\,\sigma$ level in a single experiment. Given the total exposure time of DEAP-3600 and XENON1T we find that at best a $2\,\sigma$ distinction is possible by these experiments individually, while $3\,\sigma$ sensitivity is reached for a range of parameters by the combination of the two experiments. We show that future upgrades of these experiments have potential to distinguish a large range of nuclear dark matter models from that of a WIMP at greater than $3\,\sigma$., Comment: 23 pages, 7 multipanel figures

Published
2017

41. Directional dark matter detection beyond the neutrino bound

Author

Jocelyn Monroe, Malcolm Fairbairn, and Philipp Grothaus

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Hot dark matter, Solar neutrino, Dark matter, Scalar field dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Weakly interacting massive particles, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), Neutrino, Light dark matter, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Coherent scattering of solar, atmospheric and diffuse supernovae neutrinos creates an irreducible background for direct dark matter experiments with sensitivities to WIMP-nucleon spin-independent scattering cross-sections of 10^(-46)-10^(-48) cm^2, depending on the WIMP mass. Even if one could eliminate all other backgrounds, this "neutrino floor" will limit future experiments with projected sensitivities to cross-sections as small as 10^(-48) cm^2. Direction-sensitive detectors have the potential to study dark matter beyond the neutrino bound by fitting event distributions in multiple dimensions: recoil kinetic energy, recoil track angle with respect to the sun, and event time. This work quantitatively explores the impact of direction-sensitivity on the neutrino bound in dark matter direct detection., Comment: matches the published version, figure 4 updated plus extended discussion about neutrino flux uncertainties and detector resolutions, 13 pages, 11 figures

Published
2014

42. Design of the MiniCLEAN dark matter search veto detector subsystem

Author

K. J. Palladino, Stephen Jaditz, Jocelyn Monroe, B. Buck, J. Kelsey, and Robert Abruzzio

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Particle physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Dark matter, Veto, Detector, Electrical engineering, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Data acquisition, Electronics, business, Instrumentation
Abstract

This paper describes the design of the active muon veto subsystem for the MiniCLEAN dark matter direct detection experiment at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The water-filled veto is instrumented with 48 PMTs which are read out by front end electronics to time multiplex 48 photomultiplier channels into 6 digitizer channels and provide an instantaneous hit sum across the subsystem (N-Hit) for the veto trigger. We describe the primary system components: the PMTs, the support structure, the front-end electronics, and the data acquisition system., 11 Pages

Published
2014

43. Search for Neutral Heavy Leptons in a High-Energy Neutrino Beam

Author

Vaitaitis, A., Drucker, R. B., Formaggio, J., Koutsoliotas, S., Adams, T., Alton, A., Avvakumov, S., Barbara, L., Barbara, P., Bernstein, R. H., Bodek, A., Bolton, T., Brau, J., Buchholz, D., Budd, H., Bugel, L., Conrad, J., Fleming, B. T., Frey, R., Goldman, J., Goncharov, M., Harris, D. A., Johnson, R. A., Kim, J. H., Lamm, M. J., Marsh, W., Mason, D., Mcfarland, K. S., Mcnulty, C., Jocelyn Monroe, Naples, D., Nienaber, P., Romosan, A., Sakumoto, W. K., Schellman, H., Shaevitz, M. H., Spentzouris, P., Stern, E. G., Vakili, M., Wu, V., Yang, U. K., Yu, J., Zeller, G. P., and Zimmerman, E. D.

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Muon, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Standard Model, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Pion, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Fermilab, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Energy (signal processing), Lepton
Abstract

A search for neutral heavy leptons (NHLs) has been performed using an instrumented decay channel at the NuTeV (E-815) experiment at Fermilab. The decay channel was composed of helium bags interspersed with drift chambers, and was used in conjunction with the NuTeV neutrino detector to search for NHL decays. The data were examined for NHLs decaying into muonic final states (mu mu nu, mu e nu, mu pi, and mu rho); no evidence has been found for NHLs in the 0.25 - 2.0 GeV mass range. This analysis places limits on the mixing of NHLs with standard light neutrinos at a level up to an order of magnitude more restrictive than previous search limits in this mass range., Comment: 5 pages; 4 figures; submitted to Physical Review Letters

Published
1999

44. Combined analysis of all three phases of solar neutrino data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Author

M. Kos, Peter Watson, L. L. Kormos, Jocelyn Monroe, B. C. Robertson, G. T. Ewan, K. Boudjemline, M. H. Schwendener, M. Huang, E. Guillian, B. Aharmim, T. Kutter, B. G. Nickel, P. J. Doe, F. Zhang, J. R. Leslie, A. W. P. Poon, M. Bergevin, N. Gagnon, J. Law, G. D. Orebi Gann, P.-L. Drouin, Yuen-Dat Chan, K. Graham, F. A. Duncan, S. M. Oser, Hal Evans, N. McCauley, M. L. Miller, B. Beltran, G. Prior, S. D. Reitzner, S. N. Ahmed, R. D. Martin, H. Deng, Christopher C. M. Kyba, Steven Elliott, R. G. H. Robertson, R. J. Ford, C. Kraus, T. Sonley, R. Van Berg, Kai Zuber, P. Jagam, Rachel Rosten, M. Dunford, J. Wendland, S. J. M. Peeters, Olivier Simard, Keith Rielage, A. L. Hallin, A. Krüger, J. F. Wilkerson, G. Doucas, R. W. Ollerhead, A. Hime, N. West, A. J. Noble, C. B. Krauss, W. J. Heintzelman, F. Fleurot, A. E. Anthony, H. Wan Chan Tseung, M. L. Chen, S. Habib, Bei Cai, H. M. O'Keeffe, K. T. Lesko, D. L. Wark, D. Chauhan, Joseph A. Formaggio, Minfang Yeh, J. M. Wouters, Ryuta Hazama, B. T. Cleveland, S. Majerus, J. C. Loach, N. A. Jelley, H. B. Mak, J. Maneira, M. Jerkins, N. Tolich, J. J. Simpson, G. Tešić, J. Tm. Goon, A. B. McDonald, S. McGee, R. L. Hahn, S. D. Biller, R. A. Ott, P. J. Harvey, C. J. Virtue, E. D. Hallman, N. Barros, B.A. VanDevender, C. Howard, J. Farine, J. R. Wilson, J. Heise, T. Tsui, E. W. Beier, M. DiMarco, B. Jamieson, S. Seibert, R. MacLellan, N. S. Oblath, Mark Guy Boulay, R. L. Helmer, J. R. Klein, P. Skensved, X. Dai, J. A. Detwiler, R. Lange, J. A. Secrest, I. T. Lawson, L. C. Stonehill, G. A. Cox, Benjamin Monreal, E. D. Earle, K. J. Keeter, A. Wright, H. Fergani, and Alain Bellerive

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Solar neutrino, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Nuclear Experiment, Charged current, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Physics, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Neutral current, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, QC0793, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Neutrino
Abstract

We report results from a combined analysis of solar neutrino data from all phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. By exploiting particle identification information obtained from the proportional counters installed during the third phase, this analysis improved background rejection in that phase of the experiment. The combined analysis resulted in a total flux of active neutrino flavors from 8B decays in the Sun of (5.25 \pm 0.16(stat.)+0.11-0.13(syst.))\times10^6 cm^{-2}s^{-1}. A two-flavor neutrino oscillation analysis yielded \Deltam^2_{21} = (5.6^{+1.9}_{-1.4})\times10^{-5} eV^2 and tan^2{\theta}_{12}= 0.427^{+0.033}_{-0.029}. A three-flavor neutrino oscillation analysis combining this result with results of all other solar neutrino experiments and the KamLAND experiment yielded \Deltam^2_{21} = (7.41^{+0.21}_{-0.19})\times10^{-5} eV^2, tan^2{\theta}_{12} = 0.446^{+0.030}_{-0.029}, and sin^2{\theta}_{13} = (2.5^{+1.8}_{-1.5})\times10^{-2}. This implied an upper bound of sin^2{\theta}_{13} < 0.053 at the 95% confidence level (C.L.).

Published
2013

45. Background Rejection in the DMTPC Dark Matter Search Using Charge Signals

Author

Lopez, J. P., Caldwell, T., Deaconu, C., Fedus, W., Henderson, S., Kaboth, A., Lee, A., Sahin, T., Wolfe, I., Yamamoto, R., Yegoryan, H., Ahlen, S., Chernicoff, M., Inglis, A., Tomita, H., Battat, J., Dujmic, D., Dushkin, A., Golub, F., Kirsch, L., Ouyang, H., Sciolla, G., Skvorodnev, N., Wellenstein, H., Fisher, P., Kohse, G., Lanza, R., Jocelyn Monroe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Lopez, Jeremy P., Dujmic, Denis, Battat, James, Deaconu, Cosmin, Fisher, Peter H., Henderson, S., Kaboth, Asher, Monroe, Jocelyn, Sciolla, Gabriella, and Yamamoto, Richard

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Time projection chamber, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Dark matter, Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), WIMP, Ionization energy, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber, Order of magnitude
Abstract

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing a low pressure gas TPC for detecting Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP)-nucleon interactions. Optical readout with CCD cameras allows for the detection of the daily modulation of the direction of the dark matter wind. In order to reach sensitivities required for WIMP detection, the detector needs to minimize backgrounds from electron recoils. This paper demonstrates that a simplified CCD analysis achieves 7.3 × 10[superscript −5] rejection of electron recoils while a charge analysis yields an electron rejection factor of 3.3 × 10[superscript −4] for events with [superscript 241]Am-equivalent ionization energy loss between 40 keV and 200 keV. A combined charge and CCD analysis yields a background-limited upper limit of 1.1 × 10[superscript −5] (90% confidence level) for the rejection of γγ and electron events. Backgrounds from alpha decays from the field cage are eliminated by introducing a veto electrode that surrounds the sensitive region in the TPC. CCD-specific backgrounds are reduced more than two orders of magnitude when requiring a coincidence with the charge readout., United States. Dept. of Energy (Grant DE-FG02-05ER41360), United States. Dept. of Energy. Advanced Detector Research Program (Contract 6916448), Reed Award Program, Ferry Fund, MIT Department of Physics Pappalardo Program (Fellowship), Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT Bates Research and Engineering Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

Published
2013

46. Measurement of theνeand total8B solar neutrino fluxes with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory phase-III data set

Author

M. DiMarco, R. J. Ford, R. W. Ollerhead, R. MacLellan, Mark Guy Boulay, P. Jagam, M. H. Schwendener, A. Krüger, B. C. Robertson, J. Tm. Goon, N. Gagnon, G. Doucas, F. Zhang, J. R. Wilson, J. B. Wilhelmy, S. Habib, R. L. Helmer, S. R. Seibert, J. Law, T. Kutter, J. Heise, N. West, P.-L. Drouin, P. Skensved, Hal Evans, F. Fleurot, G. D. Orebi Gann, J. F. Amsbaugh, Ryuta Hazama, H. Wan Chan Tseung, M. L. Miller, A. E. Anthony, J. V. Germani, E. D. Hallman, W. J. Heintzelman, H. Deng, K. M. Heeger, E. Guillian, C. Kraus, S. D. Biller, J. R. Leslie, S. Majerus, Yuen-Dat Chan, K. Boudjemline, K. Graham, M. W.E. Smith, L. L. Kormos, Alain Bellerive, Bernie G. Nickel, J. Wendland, S. M. Oser, S. R. Elliott, G. T. Ewan, Andrew Hime, Joshua R. Klein, A. W. Myers, P. J. Harvey, Juan-Manuel Anaya, J. Banar, K. T. Lesko, Monica Dunford, J. Maneira, M. A. Howe, M. Huang, Reyco Henning, P. M. Thornewell, N. Barros, T. J. Sonley, A. W. P. Poon, S. D. Reitzner, S. N. Ahmed, R. D. Martin, J. J. Simpson, Malcolm M. Fowler, Kai Zuber, T. J. Bowles, C. D. Tunnell, P. J. Doe, G. Tešić, J. A. Formaggio, M. Bergevin, C. A. Duba, N. McCauley, A. Goldschmidt, Bei Cai, Minfang Yeh, E. Rollin, R. G. H. Robertson, R. A. Ott, T.H. Burritt, D. Chauhan, R. Van Berg, H. B. Mak, C. J. Virtue, B. Jamieson, J. F. Wilkerson, T. D. Van Wechel, K. J. Keeter, A. Wright, J. C. Loach, C. Currat, N. A. Jelley, S. J. M. Peeters, T. D. Steiger, M. L. Chen, T. V. Bullard, M. Kos, A. A. Hamian, O. Simard, X. Dai, J. A. Detwiler, R. Lange, G. Prior, C. Howard, E. W. Beier, J. Farine, R. L. Hahn, M. C. Browne, A. J. Noble, L. C. Stonehill, S. McGee, J. M. Wouters, A. B. McDonald, Christopher C. M. Kyba, B. L. Wall, B. T. Cleveland, H. M. O'Keeffe, Keith Rielage, Jocelyn Monroe, B. Aharmim, B. Beltran, A. L. Hallin, C. Mifflin, N. S. Oblath, C. B. Krauss, M. R. Dragowsky, B. A. VanDevender, N. Tolich, Guthrie Miller, B. Morissette, Benjamin Monreal, E. D. Earle, G. C. Harper, F. A. Duncan, J. A. Secrest, I. T. Lawson, D. Waller, G. A. Cox, H. Fergani, and T. Tsui

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Solar energetic particles, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Solar neutrino, Cosmic ray, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, 010306 general physics, Neutrino oscillation, Charged current, Lepton
Abstract

This paper details the solar neutrino analysis of the 385.17-day phase-III data set acquired by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). An array of He-3 proportional counters was installed in the heavy-water target to measure precisely the rate of neutrino-deuteron neutral-current interactions. This technique to determine the total active B-8 solar neutrino flux was largely independent of the methods employed in previous phases. The total flux of active neutrinos was measured to be 5.54(-0.31)(+0.33)(stat.)(-0.34)(+0.36)(syst.) x 10(6) cm(-2) s(-1), consistent with previous measurements and standard solar models. A global analysis of solar and reactor neutrino mixing parameters yielded the best-fit values of Delta m(2) = 7.59(-0.21)(+0.19) x 10(-5) eV(2) and theta = 34.4(-1.2)(+1.3) degrees. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.87.015502

Published
2013

47. A Search for Astrophysical Burst Signals at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Author

P. Skensved, Monica Dunford, J. Maneira, S. J. M. Peeters, A. W. P. Poon, J. Tm. Goon, Jocelyn Monroe, J. A. Secrest, I. T. Lawson, S. Habib, J. Wendland, C. J. Virtue, G. Prior, N. Barros, D. Waller, Yuen-Dat Chan, K. Graham, David A. Sinclair, T. Tsui, G. A. Cox, Kai Zuber, Joseph A. Formaggio, J. Heise, Christopher C. M. Kyba, A. Wright, X. Dai, Minfang Yeh, E. D. Hallman, K. Boudjemline, M. DiMarco, F. Fleurot, J. A. Detwiler, R. Lange, S. M. Oser, Benjamin Monreal, B. Aharmim, E. D. Earle, J. C. Loach, N. A. Jelley, O. Simard, I. Levine, D. Chauhan, C. Kraus, A. E. Anthony, B. Beltran, M. L. Miller, K. J. Keeter, B. C. Robertson, S. D. Reitzner, S. N. Ahmed, S. Majerus, J. F. Wilkerson, N. West, G. Doucas, M. Bergevin, C. B. Krauss, N. S. Oblath, A. Krueger, W. J. Heintzelman, T. Kutter, J. J. Simpson, R. A. Ott, M. H. Schwendener, N. McCauley, T. J. Sonley, P. J. Doe, H. Fergani, P. Jagam, F. Zhang, A. L. Hallin, R. L. Hahn, Keith Rielage, K. T. Lesko, Peter Watson, Alain Bellerive, R. Van Berg, R. J. Ford, Bei Cai, J. Law, N. Tolich, J. R. Wilson, M. Kos, B. T. Cleveland, P.-L. Drouin, R. MacLellan, S. R. Seibert, E. W. Beier, Mark Guy Boulay, Min Chen, H. Wan Chan Tseung, Steven Elliott, L. C. Stonehill, D. L. Wark, Hal Evans, J. M. Wouters, Joshua R. Klein, J. R. Leslie, E. Guillian, A. B. McDonald, B.A. VanDevender, Andrew Hime, C. Howard, J. Farine, A. J. Noble, M. Jerkins, F. A. Duncan, M. Huang, Miriam Diamond, G. Tešić, R. D. Martin, R. G. H. Robertson, H. B. Mak, L. L. Kormos, S. McGee, G. T. Ewan, B. L. Wall, N. Gagnon, R. Hazama, G. D. Orebi Gann, H. Deng, H. M. O'Keeffe, S. D. Biller, R. L. Helmer, Bernie G. Nickel, P. J. Harvey, R.W. Ollerhead, B. Jamieson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Formaggio, Joseph A., Miller, Michael L., Monreal, Benjamin, Monroe, Jocelyn, Solomon-Oblath, Noah, Ott, Richard A., and Sonley, Thomas J.

Subjects
Physics, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Solar neutrino, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Solar neutrino problem, Neutrino detector, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Measurements of neutrino speed, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino astronomy, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Neutrino oscillation, Nuclear Experiment, QC, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has confirmed the standard solar model and neutrino oscillations through the observation of neutrinos from the solar core. In this paper we present a search for neutrinos associated with sources other than the solar core, such as gamma-ray bursts and solar flares. We present a new method for looking for temporal coincidences between neutrino events and astrophysical bursts of widely varying intensity. No correlations were found between neutrinos detected in SNO and such astrophysical sources., United States. Dept. of Energy, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (U.S.), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Published
2013
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48. Dual baseline search for muon neutrino disappearance at0.5 eV2<Δm2<40 eV2

Author

L. Bugel, Panagiotis Spentzouris, D. Orme, S. Mizugashira, E. Hawker, T. A. Shibata, H. Ray, J. A. Green, H. B. White, B. J. P. Jones, R. G. Van de Water, Y. Kobayashi, W. Metcalf, J. A. Nowak, R. B. Patterson, J. J. Walding, J. Grange, J. L. Raaf, P. D. Meyers, G. Karagiorgi, P. Nienaber, J. Catala-Perez, G. P. Zeller, V. T. McGary, A. Curioni, R. Dharmapalan, I. Stancu, R. Imlay, G. Cheng, M. O. Wascko, Zelimir Djurcic, C. C. Polly, M. Sung, S. Ouedraogo, H. Takei, R. A. Johnson, C. Giganti, S. Masuike, R. Ford, T. L. Hart, A. O. Bazarko, C. Green, R. H. Nelson, Y. Uchida, A. D. Russell, Z. Pavlovic, M. H. Shaevitz, M. Soderberg, I. J. Taylor, I. Kourbanis, Yasuhiro Nakajima, David Smith, E. D. Zimmerman, G. Mitsuka, R. Napora, L. Ludovici, M. Sorel, Federico Sanchez, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, B. Osmanov, S. Koutsoliotas, F. Mills, D. A. Finley, Katsuki Hiraide, Jocelyn Monroe, C. E. Anderson, D. H. White, M. Tzanov, W. C. Louis, F. G. Garcia, Y. Miyachi, Y. L. Liu, W. Huelsnitz, T. Kobilarcik, B. C. Brown, B. P. Roe, C. Mariani, M. J. Wilking, Y. Hayato, J. Mousseau, S. J. Brice, D. W. Schmitz, E. M. Laird, R. J. Tesarek, D. C. Cox, Masashi Yokoyama, M. Tanaka, P. H. Kasper, G. McGregor, Andrew J. Hanson, A. J. Franke, Kodai Matsuoka, H. K. Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Nakaya, U. Dore, V. D. Sandberg, Hidetoshi Kubo, C. Mauger, J. M. Link, Y. Kurimoto, C. D. Moore, H. A. Tanaka, H. J. Yang, G. Jover-Manas, P. Guzowski, Rex Tayloe, Janet Conrad, B. T. Fleming, S. K. Linden, E.J. Prebys, J. Spitz, R. J. Stefanski, L. Coney, R. Schirato, G. T. Garvey, J.J. Gómez-Cadenas, Jun Cao, F. C. Shoemaker, D. Perevalov, J. L. Alcaraz-Aunion, G. B. Mills, Kendall Mahn, W. Marsh, Minoru Otani, Teppei Katori, and P. F. Loverre

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Cherenkov detector, Detector, law.invention, Nuclear physics, MiniBooNE, law, Muon neutrino, Fermilab, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Charged current
Abstract

The SciBooNE and MiniBooNE collaborations report the results of a νμ disappearance search in the Δ'm2 region of 0.5-40 eV2. The neutrino rate as measured by the SciBooNE tracking detectors is used to constrain the rate at the MiniBooNE Cherenkov detector in the first joint analysis of data from both collaborations. Two separate analyses of the combined data samples set 90% confidence level (CL) limits on νμ disappearance in the 0.5-40 eV2 Δm2 region, with an improvement over previous experimental constraints between 10 and 30 eV2

Published
2012

49. Measurement ofνμ-induced charged-current neutral pion production cross sections on mineral oil atEν∈0.5–2.0 GeV

Author

Janet Conrad, R. Ford, C. Green, B. T. Fleming, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. Koutsoliotas, R. J. Stefanski, F. Mills, M. Soderberg, S. K. Linden, J. Spitz, R. Dharmapalan, W. Marsh, E.J. Prebys, A. Curioni, W. Metcalf, B. P. Roe, M. Sung, David Smith, S. Ouedraogo, B. C. Brown, A. D. Russell, Teppei Katori, H. J. Yang, V. D. Sandberg, T. L. Hart, D. W. Schmitz, R. Schirato, M. H. Shaevitz, G. T. Garvey, J. M. Link, C. E. Anderson, M. J. Wilking, R. B. Patterson, R. H. Nelson, G. P. Zeller, D. Perevalov, M. Tzanov, Rex Tayloe, P. D. Meyers, F. G. Garcia, Jun Cao, Z. Djurcic, G. Karagiorgi, Jocelyn Monroe, P. H. Kasper, P. Nienaber, I. Stancu, Kendall Mahn, L. Bugel, D. H. White, G. B. Mills, R. Imlay, W. C. Louis, B. Osmanov, M. O. Wascko, D. C. Cox, G. McGregor, E. D. Zimmerman, T. Kobilarcik, Y. L. Liu, J. Grange, F. C. Shoemaker, S. J. Brice, A. O. Bazarko, M. Sorel, E. Hawker, H. Ray, R. G. Van de Water, V. T. McGary, J. A. Nowak, C. Mauger, C. D. Moore, H. A. Tanaka, J. Mousseau, E. M. Laird, J. A. Green, Panagiotis Spentzouris, J. L. Raaf, R. A. Johnson, C. C. Polly, I. Kourbanis, D. A. Finley, Z. Pavlovic, and L. Coney

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Muon, Meson, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear physics, Pion, Physics::Accelerator Physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Fermilab, Neutrino, Energy source, Charged current, Lepton
Abstract

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Fermilab, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation in the construction, operation, and data analysis of the Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment.

Published
2011

50. LOW-MULTIPLICITY BURST SEARCH AT THE SUDBURY NEUTRINO OBSERVATORY

Author

J. A. Secrest, G. T. Ewan, E. Guillian, B. C. Robertson, G. Doucas, T. Kutter, S. D. Biller, J. J. Simpson, Bernie G. Nickel, F. Fleurot, A. E. Anthony, P. J. Harvey, N. West, C. J. Virtue, T. Tsui, W. J. Heintzelman, R. A. Ott, Benjamin Monreal, E. D. Earle, M. Huang, K. T. Lesko, K. Boudjemline, Monica Dunford, N. Barros, Hal Evans, E. D. Hallman, M. L. Miller, J. Maneira, S. R. Seibert, Christopher C. M. Kyba, B. Beltran, A. W. P. Poon, T. J. Sonley, Keith Rielage, M. Kos, S. D. Reitzner, S. N. Ahmed, Joseph A. Formaggio, R. D. Martin, Minfang Yeh, J. R. Wilson, G. Prior, R. G. H. Robertson, Joshua R. Klein, J. R. Leslie, J. Heise, J. C. Loach, N. A. Jelley, N. Gagnon, G. Tešić, H. M. O'Keeffe, R. J. Ford, H. Fergani, A. Wright, R. Hazama, G. D. Orebi Gann, Bei Cai, E. W. Beier, S. Habib, A. L. Hallin, Steven Elliott, R. MacLellan, R. L. Helmer, H. Deng, Jocelyn Monroe, H. B. Mak, B.A. VanDevender, Mark Guy Boulay, O. Simard, C. Howard, J. Farine, B. Aharmim, M. Jerkins, A. J. Noble, C. B. Krauss, N. S. Oblath, J. F. Wilkerson, David A. Sinclair, S. J. M. Peeters, C. Kraus, Peter Watson, J. T.M. Goon, Yuen-Dat Chan, F. A. Duncan, K. Graham, D. Chauhan, S. M. Oser, N. Tolich, P. Skensved, A. B. McDonald, L. C. Stonehill, and K. Zuber, R. L. Hahn, H. Wan Chan Tseung, B. T. Cleveland, M. Bergevin, Alain Bellerive, X. Dai, J. A. Detwiler, N. McCauley, R. Van Berg, B. Jamieson, M. L. Chen, S. Majerus, Andrew Hime, M. H. Schwendener, F. Zhang, J. Law, and P.-L. Drouin

Subjects
Physics, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Elementary particle, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Massless particle, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Supernova, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, Multiplicity (chemistry), 010306 general physics
Abstract

Results are reported from a search for low-multiplicity neutrino bursts in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). Such bursts could indicate detection of a nearby core-collapse supernova explosion. The data were taken from Phase I (November 1999 - May 2001), when the detector was filled with heavy water, and Phase II (July 2001 - August 2003), when NaCl was added to the target. The search was a blind analysis in which the potential backgrounds were estimated and analysis cuts were developed to eliminate such backgrounds with 90% confidence before the data were examined. The search maintained a greater than 50% detection probability for standard supernovae occurring at a distance of up to 60 kpc for Phase I and up to 70 kpc for Phase II. No low-multiplicity bursts were observed during the data-taking period., 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

Published
2011

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