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1. Model-independent searches of new physics in DARWIN with a semi-supervised deep learning pipeline

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Aalbers, J., Abe, K., Adrover, M., Maouloud, S. Ahmed, Althueser, L., Amaral, D. W. P., Andrieu, B., Angelino, E., Martin, D. Antón, Antunovic, B., Aprile, E., Babicz, M., Bajpai, D., Balzer, M., Barberio, E., Baudis, L., Bazyk, M., Bell, N. F., Bellagamba, L., Biondi, R., Biondi, Y., Bismark, A., Boehm, C., Boese, K., Braun, R., Breskin, A., Brommer, S., Brown, A., Bruni, G., Budnik, R., Cai, C., Capelli, C., Chauvin, A., Chavez, A. P. Cimental, Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cuenca-García, J. J., D'Andrea, V., Garcia, L. C. Daniel, Decowski, M. P., Deisting, A., Di Donato, C., Di Gangi, P., Diglio, S., Doerenkamp, M., Drexlin, G., Eitel, K., Elykov, A., Engel, R., Ferella, A. D., Ferrari, C., Fischer, H., Flehmke, T., Flierman, M., Fujikawa, K., Fulgione, W., Fuselli, C., Gaemers, P., Gaior, R., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garroum, N., Giacomobono, R., Girard, F., Glade-Beucke, R., Glück, F., Grandi, L., Grigat, J., Größle, R., Guan, H., Guida, M., Gyorgy, P., Hammann, R., Hannen, V., Hansmann-Menzemer, S., Hargittai, N., Higuera, A., Hils, C., Hiraoka, K., Hoetzsch, L., Hoferichter, M., Hood, N. F., Iacovacci, M., Itow, Y., Jakob, J., James, R. S., Joerg, F., Kahlert, F., Kaminaga, Y., Kara, M., Kavrigin, P., Kazama, S., Keller, M., Kharbanda, P., Kilminster, B., Kleifges, M., Klute, M., Kobayashi, M., Koke, D., Kopec, A., von Krosigk, B., Kuger, F., LaCascio, L., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Li, I., Li, A., Li, S., Liang, S., Liang, Z., Lin, Y. -T., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Liu, K., Loizeau, J., Lombardi, F., Long, J., Lopes, J. A. M., Lucchetti, G. M., Luce, T., Ma, Y., Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Maier, B., Mancuso, A., Manenti, L., Marignetti, F., Undagoitia, T. Marrodán, Martens, K., Masbou, J., Masson, E., Mastroianni, S., Melchiorre, A., Menéndez, J., Messina, M., Milosovic, B., Milutinovic, S., Miuchi, K., Miyata, R., Molinario, A., Monteiro, C. M. B., Morå, K., Moriyama, S., Morteau, E., Mosbacher, Y., Müller, J., Murra, M., Newstead, J. L., Ni, K., O'Hare, C., Oberlack, U., Obradovic, M., Ostrowskiy, I., Ouahada, S., Paetsch, B., Pan, Y., Pandurovic, M., Pellegrini, Q., Peres, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Pierre, M., Plante, G., Pollmann, T. R., Principe, L., Qi, J., Qiao, K., Qin, J., Rajado, M., García, D. Ramírez, Ravindran, A., Razeto, A., Sanchez, L., Sanchez-Lucas, P., Sartorelli, G., Scaffidi, A., Schreiner, J., Schulte, P., Eißing, H. Schulze, Schumann, M., Schwenck, A., Schwenk, A., Lavina, L. Scotto, Selvi, M., Semeria, F., Shagin, P., Sharma, S., Shen, W., Shi, S. Y., Shimada, T., Simgen, H., Singh, R., Solmaz, M., Stanley, O., Steidl, M., Stevens, A., Takeda, A., Tan, P. -L., Thers, D., Thümmler, T., Tönnies, F., Toschi, F., Trinchero, G., Trotta, R., Tunnell, C. D., Urquijo, P., Utoyama, M., Valerius, K., Vecchi, S., Vetter, S., Volta, G., Vorkapic, D., Wang, W., Weerman, K. M., Weinheimer, C., Weiss, M., Wenz, D., Wilson, M., Wittweg, C., Wolf, J., Wu, V. H. S., Wüstling, S., Wurm, M., Xing, Y., Xu, D., Xu, Z., Yamashita, M., Yang, L., Ye, J., Yuan, L., Zavattini, G., Zhong, M., and Zuber, K.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

We present a novel deep learning pipeline to perform a model-independent, likelihood-free search for anomalous (i.e., non-background) events in the proposed next generation multi-ton scale liquid Xenon-based direct detection experiment, DARWIN. We train an anomaly detector comprising a variational autoencoder and a classifier on extensive, high-dimensional simulated detector response data and construct a one-dimensional anomaly score optimised to reject the background only hypothesis in the presence of an excess of non-background-like events. We benchmark the procedure with a sensitivity study that determines its power to reject the background-only hypothesis in the presence of an injected WIMP dark matter signal, outperforming the classical, likelihood-based background rejection test. We show that our neural networks learn relevant energy features of the events from low-level, high-dimensional detector outputs, without the need to compress this data into lower-dimensional observables, thus reducing computational effort and information loss. For the future, our approach lays the foundation for an efficient end-to-end pipeline that eliminates the need for many of the corrections and cuts that are traditionally part of the analysis chain, with the potential of achieving higher accuracy and significant reduction of analysis time., Comment: 10 Figures, 3 Tables, 23 Pages (incl. references)

Published
2024

2. High-precision spectroscopy of $^{20}$O benchmarking ab-initio calculations in light nuclei

Author

Zanon, I., Clément, E., Goasduff, A., Menéndez, J., Miyagi, T., Assié, M., Ciemała, M., Flavigny, F., Lemasson, A., Matta, A., Ramos, D., Rejmund, M., Achouri, L., Ackermann, D., Barrientos, D., Beaumel, D., Benzoni, G., Boston, A. J., Boston, H. C., Bottoni, S., Bracco, A., Brugnara, D., de France, G., de Sereville, N., Delaunay, F., Desesquelles, P., Didierjean, F., Domingo-Prato, C., Dudouet, J., Eberth, J., Fernández, D., Fougères, C., Gadea, A., Galtarossa, F., Girard-Alcindor, V., Gonzales, V., Gottardo, A., Hammache, F., Harkness-Brennan, L. J., Hess, H., Judson, D. S, Jungclaus, A., Kaşkaş, A., Kim, Y. H., Kuşoğlu, A., Labiche, M., Leblond, S., Lenain, C., Lenzi, S. M., Leoni, S., Li, H., Ljungvall, J., Lois-Fuentes, J., Lopez-Martens, A., Maj, A., Menegazzo, R., Mengoni, D., Michelagnoli, C., Million, B., Napoli, D. R., Nyberg, J., Pasqualato, G., Podolyak, Zs., Pullia, A., Quintana, B., Recchia, F., Regueira-Castro, D., Reiter, P., Rezynkina, K., Rojo, J. S., Salsac, M. D., Sanchis, E., Şenyiğit, M., Siciliano, M., Sohler, D., Stezowski, O., Theisen, Ch., Utepov, A., Valiente-Dobón, J. J., Verney, D., and Zielinska, M.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The excited states of unstable $^{20}$O were investigated via $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy following the $^{19}$O$(d,p)^{20}$O reaction at 8 $A$MeV. By exploiting the Doppler Shift Attenuation Method, the lifetime of the 2$^+_2$ and 3$^+_1$ states were firmly established. From the $\gamma$-ray branching and E2/M1 mixing ratios for transitions deexciting the 2$^+_2$ and 3$^+_1$ states, the B(E2) and B(M1) were determined. Various chiral effective field theory Hamiltonians, describing the nuclear properties beyond ground states, along with a standard USDB interaction, were compared with the experimentally obtained data. Such a comparison for a large set of $\gamma$-ray transition probabilities with the valence space in medium similarity renormalization group ab-initio calculations was performed for the first time in a nucleus far from stability. It was shown that the ab-initio approaches using chiral EFT forces are challenged by detailed high-precision spectroscopic properties of nuclei. The reduced transition probabilities were found to be a very constraining test of the performance of the ab-initio models., Comment: Supplemental Material available

Published
2024
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3. Neutrinoless double beta decay rates in the presence of light sterile neutrinos

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Dekens, W., de Vries, J., Castillo, D., Menéndez, J., Mereghetti, E., Plakkot, V., Soriano, P., and Zhou, G.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We investigate neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) in minimal extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics where gauge-singlet right-handed neutrinos give rise to Dirac and Majorana neutrino mass terms. We argue that the standard treatment of these scenarios, based on mass-dependent nuclear matrix elements, is missing important contributions to the $0\nu\beta\beta$ amplitude. First, new effects arise from the exchange of neutrinos with very small (ultrasoft) momenta, for which we compute the associated nuclear matrix elements for the decays of ${}^{76}$Ge and ${}^{136}$Xe. These contributions can dominate the $0\nu\beta\beta$ rate in cases with light sterile neutrinos. The ultrasoft terms are also relevant in the more standard scenario of just three light Majorana neutrinos where they lead to a $10\%$ reduction of the total $0\nu\beta\beta$ amplitude. Secondly, we highlight the importance of short-range terms associated with medium-heavy sterile neutrinos and provide explicit formulae that can be used in phenomenological analyses. As examples we discuss impact of these new effects in several explicit scenarios, including a realistic $3+2$ model with two right-handed gauge-singlet neutrinos.

Published
2024

4. Shape coexistence and superdeformation in $^{28}$Si

Author

Frycz, D., Menéndez, J., Rios, A., and Romero, A. M.

Subjects
Nuclear Theory, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We study the shape coexistence of differently deformed states within $^{28}$Si using shell-model and beyond-mean-field techniques. Experimentally, $^{28}$Si exhibits shape coexistence between an oblate ground state and an excited prolate structure. The oblate rotational band is described well within the $sd$ shell using the USDB interaction. However, for the prolate band, a modification of this interaction is required, lowering the single-particle energy of the $1d_{3/2}$ orbit. Furthermore, we explore the possibility of a superdeformed configuration in $^{28}$Si. Our calculations, spanning both the $sd$ and $pf$ shells, rule out the existence of a superdeformed $0^+$ bandhead within an excitation energy range of 10-20 MeV., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures. To be published in XXXVII Mazurian Lakes Conference Proceedings

Published
2023

6. Quantum entanglement patterns in the structure of atomic nuclei within the nuclear shell model

Author

Pérez-Obiol, A., Masot-Llima, S., Romero, A. M., Menéndez, J., Rios, A., García-Sáez, A., and Juliá-Díaz, B.

Subjects
Nuclear Theory, Quantum Physics
Abstract

Quantum entanglement offers a unique perspective into the underlying structure of strongly-correlated systems such as atomic nuclei. In this paper, we use quantum information tools to analyze the structure of light and medium-mass berillyum, oxygen, neon and calcium isotopes within the nuclear shell model. We use different entanglement metrics, including single-orbital entanglement, mutual information, and von Neumann entropies for different equipartitions of the shell-model valence space and identify mode-entanglement patterns related to the energy, angular momentum and isospin of the nuclear single-particle orbitals. We observe that the single-orbital entanglement is directly related to the number of valence nucleons and the energy structure of the shell, while the mutual information highlights signatures of proton-proton and neutron-neutron pairing, as well as nuclear deformation. Proton and neutron orbitals are weakly entangled by all measures, and in fact have the lowest von Neumann entropies among all possible equipartitions of the valence space. In contrast, orbitals with opposite angular momentum projection have relatively large entropies, especially in spherical nuclei. This analysis provides a guide for designing more efficient quantum algorithms for the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era., Comment: Submitted to EPJA Topical Issue "Quantum computing in low-energy nuclear theory"

Published
2023
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8. Nuclear shell-model simulation in digital quantum computers

Author

Pérez-Obiol, A., Romero, A. M., Menéndez, J., Rios, A., García-Sáez, A., and Juliá-Díaz, B.

Subjects
Quantum Physics, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The nuclear shell model is one of the prime many-body methods to study the structure of atomic nuclei, but it is hampered by an exponential scaling on the basis size as the number of particles increases. We present a shell-model quantum circuit design strategy to find nuclear ground states by exploiting an adaptive variational quantum eigensolver algorithm. Our circuit implementation is in excellent agreement with classical shell-model simulations for a dozen of light and medium-mass nuclei, including neon and calcium isotopes. We quantify the circuit depth, width and number of gates to encode realistic shell-model wavefunctions. Our strategy also addresses explicitly energy measurements and the required number of circuits to perform them. Our simulated circuits approach the benchmark results exponentially with a polynomial scaling in quantum resources for each nucleus. This work paves the way for quantum computing shell-model studies across the nuclear chart and our quantum resource quantification may be used in configuration-interaction calculations of other fermionic systems., Comment: Version matching published version

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2023
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9. The Analytical Method algorithm for trigger primitives generation at the LHC Drift Tubes detector

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Abbiendi, G., Maestre, J. Alcaraz, Fernández, A. Álvarez, González, B. Álvarez, Amapane, N., Bachiller, I., Barcellan, L., Baldanza, C., Battilana, C., Bellato, M., Bencze, G., Benettoni, M., Beni, N., Benvenuti, A., Bergnoli, A., Ramos, L. C. Blanco, Borgonovi, L., Bragagnolo, A., Cafaro, V., Calderon, A., Calvo, E., Carlin, R., Montoya, C. A. Carrillo, Cavallo, F. R., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Cepeda, M., Cerrada, M., Checchia, P., Ciano, L., Colino, N., Corti, D., Cotto, G., Crupano, A., Calzada, S. Cuadrado, Cuevas, J., Cuffiani, M., Dallavalle, G. M., Dattola, D., De La Cruz, B., Rodríguez, C. I. de Lara, De Remigis, P., Cid, C. Erice, Eliseev, D., Fabbri, F., Fanfani, A., Fasanella, D., Bedoya, C. F., de Trocóniz, J. F., del Val, D. Fernández, Menéndez, J. Fernández, Ramos, J. P. Fernández, Folgueras, S., Fouz, M. C., Ferrero, D. Francia, Romero, J. García, Gasparini, F., Gasparini, U., Giordano, V., Gonella, F., Caballero, I. González, Fernández, J. R. González, López, O. González, López, S. Goy, Gozzelino, A., Griggio, A., Grosso, G., Guandalini, C., Guiducci, L., Gulmini, M., Hebbeker, T., Hoepfner, K., Isocrate, R., Josa, M. I., Kiani, B., Holgado, J. León, Meo, S. Lo, Lusiani, E., Lunerti, L., Marcellini, S., Margoni, M., Mariotti, C., Martín, I. Martín, Morales, J. J. Martínez, Maselli, S., Masetti, G., Meneguzzo, A. T., Merschmeyer, M., Migliorini, M., Modenese, L., Molnar, J., Montecassiano, F., Martínez, J. Mora, Moran, D., Mukherjee, S., Navarrete, J. J., Navarria, F., Tobar, A. Navarro, Nowotny, F., Cortezón, E. Palencia, Passaseo, M., Pazzini, J., Pelliccioni, M., Perrotta, A., Philipps, B., Gomez, J. Piedra, Primavera, F., Pelayo, J. Puerta, Sánchez, J. C. Puras, Álvarez, C. Ramón, Redondo, I., Ferrero, D. D. Redondo, Reithler, H., Reyes-Almanza, R., Bouza, V. Rodríguez, Ronchese, P., Rossi, A. M., Rossin, R., Rotondo, F., Rovelli, T., Cruz, S. Sánchez, Navas, S. Sánchez, Sastre, J., Sharma, A., Simonetto, F., Rodríguez, A. Soto, Staiano, A., Szillasi, Z., Teyssier, D. F., Toniolo, N., Torromeo, G., Trapote, A., Trevisani, N., Triossi, A., Trocino, D., Ujvari, B., Umoret, G., Gómez, L. Urda, Uwe, B., Ventura, S., Villalba, C. Vico, Wiedenbeck, S., Zanetti, M., Zantis, F. P., Zilizi, G., Zotto, P., and Zucchetta, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment prepares its Phase-2 upgrade for the high-luminosity era of the LHC operation (HL-LHC). Due to the increase of occupancy, trigger latency and rates, the full electronics of the CMS Drift Tube (DT) chambers will need to be replaced. In the new design, the time bin for the digitisation of the chamber signals will be of around 1~ns, and the totality of the signals will be forwarded asynchronously to the service cavern at full resolution. The new backend system will be in charge of building the trigger primitives of each chamber. These trigger primitives contain the information at chamber level about the muon candidates position, direction, and collision time, and are used as input in the L1 CMS trigger. The added functionalities will improve the robustness of the system against ageing. An algorithm based on analytical solutions for reconstructing the DT trigger primitives, called Analytical Method, has been implemented both as a software C++ emulator and in firmware. Its performance has been estimated using the software emulator with simulated and real data samples, and through hardware implementation tests. Measured efficiencies are 96 to 98\% for all qualities and time and spatial resolutions are close to the ultimate performance of the DT chambers. A prototype chain of the HL-LHC electronics using the Analytical Method for trigger primitive generation has been installed during Long Shutdown 2 of the LHC and operated in CMS cosmic data taking campaigns in 2020 and 2021. Results from this validation step, the so-called Slice Test, are presented., Comment: 16 pages, 11 figures

Published
2023
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10. $^{138}{\rm Ba}(d,\alpha)$ study of states in $^{136}{\rm Cs}$: Implications for new physics searches with xenon detectors

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Rebeiro, B. M., Triambak, S., Garrett, P. E., Ball, G. C., Brown, B. A., Menéndez, J., Romeo, B., Adsley, P., Lenardo, B. G., Lindsay, R., Bildstein, V., Burbadge, C., Coleman, R., Varela, A. Diaz, Dubey, R., Faestermann, T., Hertenberger, R., Kamil, M., Leach, K. G., Natzke, C., Ondze, J. C. Nzobadila, Radich, A., Rand, E., and Wirth, H. -F.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We used the $^{138}$Ba$(d,\alpha)$ reaction to carry out an in-depth study of states in $^{136}$Cs, up to around 2.5~MeV. In this work, we place emphasis on hitherto unobserved states below the first $1^+$ level, which are important in the context of solar neutrino and fermionic dark matter (FDM) detection in large-scale xenon experiments. We identify for the first time candidate metastable states in $^{136}$Cs, which would allow a real-time detection of solar neutrino and FDM events in xenon detectors, with high background suppression. Our results are also compared with shell-model calculations performed with three Hamiltonians that were previously used to evaluate the nuclear matrix element (NME) for $^{136}$Xe neutrinoless double beta decay. We find that one of these Hamiltonians, which also systematically underestimates the NME compared to the others, dramatically fails to describe the observed low-energy $^{136}$Cs spectrum, while the other two show reasonably good agreement.

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2023
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11. Sinterización reactiva de Hexaluminato de Calcio mediante 'Spark Plasma Sintering'

Author

De La Iglesia, P. G., García-Moreno, O., Torrecillas, R., and Menéndez, J. L.

Subjects
calcium dialuminate (CA2), calcium hexaluminate (CA6), SPS, reaction sintering, dialuminato de calcio (CA2), hexaluminato de calcio (CA6), sinterización reactiva, Clay industries. Ceramics. Glass, TP785-869
Abstract

Calcium hexaluminate (CaAl12O19) is the most alumina-rich intermediate compound of the CaO-Al2O3 system. The formation of this aluminate is produced by the reaction between calcium oxide and alumina with the consequent formation of intermediates compounds with lower alumina content with increasing temperature (CaAl2O4, CaAl4O7…). In this study we studied the variation of sintering parameters for obtaining dense and pure calcium hexaluminate by reaction sintering by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS). A mixing of Al2O3 and CaCO3 were used as reactive. Final densities close to the theoretical and phase transformation over 93% were achieved by this method.El hexaluminato de calcio (CaAl12O19 o CA6) es el material más rico en Al2O3 entre los compuestos intermedios en el sistema CaO-Al2O3. La formación de este aluminato se produce por la reacción entre el CaO y la Al2O3 con la consecuente formación de compuestos intermedios con menores contenidos en Al2O3 con el aumento de la temperatura (CaAl2O4, CaAl4O7,…). En este trabajo se ha estudiado la variación de los parámetros de sinterización para la obtención de hexaluminato de calcio (CA6) denso y puro por sinterización reactiva mediante Spark Plasma Sintering (Sinterización mediante corriente eléctrica pulsada o SPS), utilizando como reactivos Al2O3 y CaCO3 para su formación. Se han obtenido densidades cercanas a las teóricas y transformaciones superiores al 93% por este método.

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2012
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12. Relación entre los mecanismos de difusión atómica y las propiedades ópticas en la sinterización por Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) de la alúmina.

Author

Torrecillas, R., Fernández, A., Menéndez, J. L., and Suárez, M.

Subjects
alumina (Al2O3), atomic difusión mechanisms, Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS), transparency, alúmina (Al2O3), mecanismos de difusión atómica, transparencia, Clay industries. Ceramics. Glass, TP785-869
Abstract

The control of the sintering parameters during spark plasma sintering (SPS) of polycrystalline alumina allows modifying the contribution due to the different atomic diffusion mechanisms. Thus, changing the heating rate as a function of the sintering stage allows tailoring sintering cycles that optimize the final density of the material with a minimal grain growth. It is shown in this work how by using two heating rates, 100 and 4ºC/min, allows obtaining a polycrystalline transparent alumina with a higher real in-line transmittance than that obtained with constant heating rates sintering cycles.El control de los parámetros de sinterización de la alúmina policristalina por spark plasma sintering (SPS) permite modificar la contribución de los diferentes mecanismos de difusión atómica. Así, variar la rampa de calentamiento en función de la etapa de sinterización permite diseñar ciclos de sinterización que optimizan la densidad final del material con un mínimo crecimiento de grano. En este trabajo se demuestra cómo empleando dos velocidades, 100 y 4ºC/min, es posible obtener una alúmina policristalina con una transmitancia real en línea superior a la obtenida en ciclos con rampas constantes.

Published
2009

13. Theoretical tools for neutrino scattering: interplay between lattice QCD, EFTs, nuclear physics, phenomenology, and neutrino event generators

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Ruso, L. Alvarez, Ankowski, A. M., Bacca, S., Balantekin, A. B., Carlson, J., Gardiner, S., Gonzalez-Jimenez, R., Gupta, R., Hobbs, T. J., Hoferichter, M., Isaacson, J., Jachowicz, N., Jay, W. I., Katori, T., Kling, F., Kronfeld, A. S., Li, S. W., Lin, H. -W., Liu, K. -F., Lovato, A., Mahn, K., Menendez, J., Meyer, A. S., Morfin, J., Pastore, S., Rocco, N., Athar, M. Sajjad, Sato, T., Schwenk, A., Shanahan, P. E., Strigari, L. E., Wagman, M., Zhang, X., Zhao, Y., Acharya, B., Andreoli, L., Andreopoulos, C., Barrow, J. L., Bhattacharya, T., Brdar, V., Davoudi, Z., Giusti, C., Hayato, Y., Khan, A. N., Kim, D., Li, Y. F., Lin, M., Machado, P., Martini, M., Niewczas, K., Pandey, P., Papadopoulou, A., Plestid, R., Roda, M., Simo, I. Ruiz, Simone, J. N., Sufian, R. S., Tena-Vidal, J., Tomalak, O., Tsai, Y. -D., and Udias, J. M.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Lattice, Nuclear Theory, Physics - Computational Physics
Abstract

Maximizing the discovery potential of increasingly precise neutrino experiments will require an improved theoretical understanding of neutrino-nucleus cross sections over a wide range of energies. Low-energy interactions are needed to reconstruct the energies of astrophysical neutrinos from supernovae bursts and search for new physics using increasingly precise measurement of coherent elastic neutrino scattering. Higher-energy interactions involve a variety of reaction mechanisms including quasi-elastic scattering, resonance production, and deep inelastic scattering that must all be included to reliably predict cross sections for energies relevant to DUNE and other accelerator neutrino experiments. This white paper discusses the theoretical status, challenges, required resources, and path forward for achieving precise predictions of neutrino-nucleus scattering and emphasizes the need for a coordinated theoretical effort involved lattice QCD, nuclear effective theories, phenomenological models of the transition region, and event generators., Comment: 81 pages, contribution to Snowmass 2021

Published
2022

14. Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications

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Abdullah, M., Abele, H., Akimov, D., Angloher, G., Aristizabal-Sierra, D., Augier, C., Balantekin, A. B., Balogh, L., Barbeau, P. S., Baudis, L., Baxter, A. L., Beaufort, C., Beaulieu, G., Belov, V., Bento, A., Berge, L., Bernardi, I. A., Billard, J., Bolozdynya, A., Bonhomme, A., Bres, G., Bret, J-. L., Broniatowski, A., Brossard, A., Buck, C., Cadeddu, M., Calvo, M., Canonica, L., Cappella, F., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Cazes, A., Cerulli, R., Chaize, D., Chang, C., Chapellier, M., Chaplinsky, L., Chemin, G., Chen, R., Colantoni, I., Colas, J., Coloma, P., Corcoran, E. C., Crawford, S., Cruciani, A., Fard, A. Dastgheibi, De Jesus, M., de Marcillac, P., De Romeri, V., del Castello, G., del GalloRoccagiovine, M., Delicato, D., Demarteau, M., Deng, Y., Dent, J. B., Denton, P. B., Dering, K., Doblhammer, A., Dordei, F., Dorer, S., Dumoulin, L., Dunford, D., Dutta, B., Erhart, A., Exshaw, O., Ferriol, S., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Filippini, J. B., Flores, L . J., Formaggio, J. A., Friedl, M., Fuard, S., Gao, F., Garai, A., Garces, E. A., Gascon, J., Gehrlein, J., Gerbier, G., Ghete, V. M., Giomataris, I., Giroux, G., Giuliani, A., Giunti, C., Gorel, P., Goupy, C., Goupy, J., Goy, C., Green, M. P., Gros, M., Guerin, C., Guidi, V., Guillaudin, O., Guy, E., Ha, C., Hauff, D., Hakenmuller, J., Harrington, P. M., Hedges, S., Heine, S. T., Hertel, S., Heusch, M., Hoarau, C., Hoferichter, M., Hoppe, E. W., Hong, Z., Horiuchi, S., Huber, P., Ianigro, J. C., Jachowicz, N., Jericha, E., Jin, Y., Johnston, J. P., Juillard, A., Katsioulas, I., Kazarcev, S., Kaznacheeva, M., Kelly, F., Kelly, K. J., Kim, D., Kinast, A., Klinkenberg, L., Kluck, H., Knights, P., Ko, Y. J., Kosmas, T. S., Kwon, L., Lamblin, J., Lang, R. F., Langenkamper, A., Langrock, S., Lasserre, T., Lattaud, H., Lautridou, P., Lee, H. S., Lenardo, B. G., Lhuillier, D., Li, M., Li, S. C., Li, Y. F., Li, Z., Lindner, M., Liu, J., Loomba, D., Lubashevskiy, A., Machado, P. A. N., Mancuso, M., Maneschg, W., Markoff, D. M., Marnieros, S., Martin, R., Martin, R. D., Mauri, B., Mayer, D. W., Mazzolari, A., Mazzucato, E., Menendez, J., Minet, J., Miranda, O. G., Misiak, D., Mols, J. -P., Monfardini, A., Mounier, F., Muraz, J. F., Neep, T., Neilson, R., Newby, J., Newstead, J. L., Neyrial, H., Ni, K., Nikolopoulos, K., Nones, C., Norcini, D., Pandey, V., O'Brien, P., O'Hare, C. A. J., Oberauer, L., Oliver, W., Olivieri, E., Onillon, A., Oriol, C., Ortmann, T., Owen, R., Palladino, K. J., Papoulias, D. K., Park, J. C., Parno, D. S., Patel, P. K., Pattavina, L., Peinado, E., Perbet, E., Peters, L., Petricca, F., Pinckney, H. D., Piro, M. -C., Ponomarev, D., Poda, D., Potzel, W., Probst, F., Pucci, F., Rarbi, F., Rapp, R., Ray, H., Real, J. -S., Reindl, F., Rich, G. C., Ricol, J. S., Rink, T., Redon, T., Rogly, R., Robert, A., Rothe, J., Rozov, S., Rozova, I., Salagnac, T., Garcia, E. Sanchez, Garcia, G. Sanchez, Sanders, O., Sanglard, V., Santos, D., Sarkis, Y., Savu, V., Savvidis, G., Savvidis, I., Schermer, N., Schieck, J., Schmidt, B., Schonert, S., Scholberg, K., Schwenk, A., Schwertner, C., Scola, L., Shevchik, Ye., Shin, S., Sibille, V., Shoemaker, I. M., Snowden-Ifft, D. P., Soldner, T., Soum, G., Spooner, N. J. C., Stachurska, J., Stodolsky, L., Strauss, R., Strigari, L. E., Stutz, A., Suh, B. D., Suhonen, J., Tabrizi, Z., Takhistov, V., Thompson, A., Tomei, C., Tortola, M., Tripathi, M., Vagneron, L., Valle, J. W. F., Mirbach, K. v., Van De Ponteseele, W., Vignati, M., Vivier, M., Fernandez, F. Vazquez de Sola, Vezzu, F., Vidal, M., Wagner, V., Walker, J. W., Ward, R., Wex, A., Winslow, L., Wong, H. T., Wood, M. H., Xu, J., Yang, L., Yakushev, E., Zampaolo, M., Zettlemoyer, J., Zhang, Y. Y., and Zinatulina, D.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is large by neutrino standards, CE$\nu$NS has long proven difficult to detect, since the deposited energy into the nucleus is $\sim$ keV. In 2017, the COHERENT collaboration announced the detection of CE$\nu$NS using a stopped-pion source with CsI detectors, followed up the detection of CE$\nu$NS using an Ar target. The detection of CE$\nu$NS has spawned a flurry of activities in high-energy physics, inspiring new constraints on beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics, and new experimental methods. The CE$\nu$NS process has important implications for not only high-energy physics, but also astrophysics, nuclear physics, and beyond. This whitepaper discusses the scientific importance of CE$\nu$NS, highlighting how present experiments such as COHERENT are informing theory, and also how future experiments will provide a wealth of information across the aforementioned fields of physics., Comment: contribution to Snowmasss 2021. Contact authors: P. S. Barbeau, R. Strauss, L. E. Strigari

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2022

15. A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

Author

Aalbers, J., Abe, K., Aerne, V., Agostini, F., Maouloud, S. Ahmed, Akerib, D. S., Akimov, D. Yu., Akshat, J., Musalhi, A. K. Al, Alder, F., Alsum, S. K., Althueser, L., Amarasinghe, C. S., Amaro, F. D., Ames, A., Anderson, T. J., Andrieu, B., Angelides, N., Angelino, E., Angevaare, J., Antochi, V. C., Martin, D. Antón, Antunovic, B., Aprile, E., Araújo, H. M., Armstrong, J. E., Arneodo, F., Arthurs, M., Asadi, P., Baek, S., Bai, X., Bajpai, D., Baker, A., Balajthy, J., Balashov, S., Balzer, M., Bandyopadhyay, A., Bang, J., Barberio, E., Bargemann, J. W., Baudis, L., Bauer, D., Baur, D., Baxter, A., Baxter, A. L., Bazyk, M., Beattie, K., Behrens, J., Bell, N. F., Bellagamba, L., Beltrame, P., Benabderrahmane, M., Bernard, E. P., Bertone, G. F., Bhattacharjee, P., Bhatti, A., Biekert, A., Biesiadzinski, T. P., Binau, A. R., Biondi, R., Biondi, Y., Birch, H. J., Bishara, F., Bismark, A., Blanco, C., Blockinger, G. M., Bodnia, E., Boehm, C., Bolozdynya, A. I., Bolton, P. D., Bottaro, S., Bourgeois, C., Boxer, B., Brás, P., Breskin, A., Breur, P. A., Brew, C. A. J., Brod, J., Brookes, E., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Bui, T. K., Burdin, S., Buse, S., Busenitz, J. K., Buttazzo, D., Buuck, M., Buzulutskov, A., Cabrita, R., Cai, C., Cai, D., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M. R., Carmona-Benitez, M. C., Cascella, M., Catena, R., Chakraborty, S., Chan, C., Chang, S., Chauvin, A., Chawla, A., Chen, H., Chepel, V., Chott, N. I., Cichon, D., Chavez, A. Cimental, Cimmino, B., Clark, M., Co, R. T., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Converse, M. V., Costa, M., Cottle, A., Cox, G., Creaner, O., Garcia, J. J. Cuenca, Cussonneau, J. P., Cutter, J. E., Dahl, C. E., D'Andrea, V., David, A., Decowski, M. P., Dent, J. B., Deppisch, F. F., de Viveiros, L., Di Gangi, P., Di Giovanni, A., Di Pede, S., Dierle, J., Diglio, S., Dobson, J. E. Y., Doerenkamp, M., Douillet, D., Drexlin, G., Druszkiewicz, E., Dunsky, D., Eitel, K., Elykov, A., Emken, T., Engel, R., Eriksen, S. R., Fairbairn, M., Fan, A., Fan, J. J., Farrell, S. J., Fayer, S., Fearon, N. M., Ferella, A., Ferrari, C., Fieguth, A., Fiorucci, S., Fischer, H., Flaecher, H., Flierman, M., Florek, T., Foot, R., Fox, P. J., Franceschini, R., Fraser, E. D., Frenk, C. S., Frohlich, S., Fruth, T., Fulgione, W., Fuselli, C., Gaemers, P., Gaior, R., Gaitskell, R. J., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garcia, I. Garcia, Genovesi, J., Ghag, C., Ghosh, S., Gibson, E., Gil, W., Giovagnoli, D., Girard, F., Glade-Beucke, R., Glück, F., Gokhale, S., de Gouvêa, A., Gráf, L., Grandi, L., Grigat, J., Grinstein, B., van der Grinten, M. G. D., Grössle, R., Guan, H., Guida, M., Gumbsheimer, R., Gwilliam, C. B., Hall, C. R., Hall, L. J., Hammann, R., Han, K., Hannen, V., Hansmann-Menzemer, S., Harata, R., Hardin, S. P., Hardy, E., Hardy, C. A., Harigaya, K., Harnik, R., Haselschwardt, S. J., Hernandez, M., Hertel, S. A., Higuera, A., Hils, C., Hochrein, S., Hoetzsch, L., Hoferichter, M., Hood, N., Hooper, D., Horn, M., Howlett, J., Huang, D. Q., Huang, Y., Hunt, D., Iacovacci, M., Iaquaniello, G., Ide, R., Ignarra, C. M., Iloglu, G., Itow, Y., Jacquet, E., Jahangir, O., Jakob, J., James, R. S., Jansen, A., Ji, W., Ji, X., Joerg, F., Johnson, J., Joy, A., Kaboth, A. C., Kamaha, A. C., Kanezaki, K., Kar, K., Kara, M., Kato, N., Kavrigin, P., Kazama, S., Keaveney, A. W., Kellerer, J., Khaitan, D., Khazov, A., Khundzakishvili, G., Khurana, I., Kilminster, B., Kleifges, M., Ko, P., Kobayashi, M., Kodroff, D., Koltmann, G., Kopec, A., Kopmann, A., Kopp, J., Korley, L., Kornoukhov, V. N., Korolkova, E. V., Kraus, H., Krauss, L. M., Kravitz, S., Kreczko, L., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Kuger, F., Kumar, J., Paredes, B. López, LaCascio, L., Laine, Q., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Leason, E. A., Lee, J., Leonard, D. S., Lesko, K. T., Levinson, L., Levy, C., Li, I., Li, S. C., Li, T., Liang, S., Liebenthal, C. S., Lin, J., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lindote, A., Linehan, R., Lippincott, W. H., Liu, X., Liu, K., Liu, J., Loizeau, J., Lombardi, F., Long, J., Lopes, M. I., Asamar, E. Lopez, Lorenzon, W., Lu, C., Luitz, S., Ma, Y., Machado, P. A. N., Macolino, C., Maeda, T., Mahlstedt, J., Majewski, P. A., Manalaysay, A., Mancuso, A., Manenti, L., Manfredini, A., Mannino, R. L., Marangou, N., March-Russell, J., Marignetti, F., Undagoitia, T. Marrodán, Martens, K., Martin, R., Martinez-Soler, I., Masbou, J., Masson, D., Masson, E., Mastroianni, S., Mastronardi, M., Matias-Lopes, J. A., McCarthy, M. E., McFadden, N., McGinness, E., McKinsey, D. N., McLaughlin, J., McMichael, K., Meinhardt, P., Menéndez, J., Meng, Y., Messina, M., Midha, R., Milisavljevic, D., Miller, E. H., Milosevic, B., Milutinovic, S., Mitra, S. A., Miuchi, K., Mizrachi, E., Mizukoshi, K., Molinario, A., Monte, A., Monteiro, C. M. B., Monzani, M. E., Moore, J. S., Morå, K., Morad, J. A., Mendoza, J. D. Morales, Moriyama, S., Morrison, E., Morteau, E., Mosbacher, Y., Mount, B. J., Mueller, J., Murphy, A. St. J., Murra, M., Naim, D., Nakamura, S., Nash, E., Navaieelavasani, N., Naylor, A., Nedlik, C., Nelson, H. N., Neves, F., Newstead, J. L., Ni, K., Nikoleyczik, J. A., Niro, V., Oberlack, U. G., Obradovic, M., Odgers, K., O'Hare, C. A. J., Oikonomou, P., Olcina, I., Oliver-Mallory, K., Oranday, A., Orpwood, J., Ostrovskiy, I., Ozaki, K., Paetsch, B., Pal, S., Palacio, J., Palladino, K. J., Palmer, J., Panci, P., Pandurovic, M., Parlati, A., Parveen, N., Patton, S. J., Pěč, V., Pellegrini, Q., Penning, B., Pereira, G., Peres, R., Perez-Gonzalez, Y., Perry, E., Pershing, T., Petrossian-Byrne, R., Pienaar, J., Piepke, A., Pieramico, G., Pierre, M., Piotter, M., Pizella, V., Plante, G., Pollmann, T., Porzio, D., Qi, J., Qie, Y., Qin, J., Raj, N., Silva, M. Rajado, Ramanathan, K., García, D. Ramírez, Ravanis, J., Redard-Jacot, L., Redigolo, D., Reichard, S., Reichenbacher, J., Rhyne, C. A., Richards, A., Riffard, Q., Rischbieter, G. R. C., Rocchetti, A., Rosenfeld, S. L., Rosero, R., Rupp, N., Rushton, T., Saha, S., Sanchez, L., Sanchez-Lucas, P., Santone, D., Santos, J. M. F. dos, Sarnoff, I., Sartorelli, G., Sazzad, A. B. M. R., Scheibelhut, M., Schnee, R. W., Schrank, M., Schreiner, J., Schulte, P., Schulte, D., Eissing, H. Schulze, Schumann, M., Schwemberger, T., Schwenk, A., Schwetz, T., Lavina, L. Scotto, Scovell, P. R., Sekiya, H., Selvi, M., Semenov, E., Semeria, F., Shagin, P., Shaw, S., Shi, S., Shockley, E., Shutt, T. A., Si-Ahmed, R., Silk, J. J., Silva, C., Silva, M. C., Simgen, H., Šimkovic, F., Sinev, G., Singh, R., Skulski, W., Smirnov, J., Smith, R., Solmaz, M., Solovov, V. N., Sorensen, P., Soria, J., Sparmann, T. J., Stancu, I., Steidl, M., Stevens, A., Stifter, K., Strigari, L. E., Subotic, D., Suerfu, B., Suliga, A. M., Sumner, T. J., Szabo, P., Szydagis, M., Takeda, A., Takeuchi, Y., Tan, P. -L., Taricco, C., Taylor, W. C., Temples, D. J., Terliuk, A., Terman, P. A., Thers, D., Thieme, K., Thümmler, Th., Tiedt, D. R., Timalsina, M., To, W. H., Toennies, F., Tong, Z., Toschi, F., Tovey, D. R., Tranter, J., Trask, M., Trinchero, G. C., Tripathi, M., Tronstad, D. R., Trotta, R., Tsai, Y. D., Tunnell, C. D., Turner, W. G., Ueno, R., Urquijo, P., Utku, U., Vaitkus, A., Valerius, K., Vassilev, E., Vecchi, S., Velan, V., Vetter, S., Vincent, A. C., Vittorio, L., Volta, G., von Krosigk, B., von Piechowski, M., Vorkapic, D., Wagner, C. E. M., Wang, A. M., Wang, B., Wang, Y., Wang, W., Wang, J. J., Wang, L. -T., Wang, M., Watson, J. R., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Weisman, E., Weiss, M., Wenz, D., West, S. M., Whitis, T. J., Williams, M., Wilson, M. J., Winkler, D., Wittweg, C., Wolf, J., Wolf, T., Wolfs, F. L. H., Woodford, S., Woodward, D., Wright, C. J., Wu, V. H. S., Wu, P., Wüstling, S., Wurm, M., Xia, Q., Xiang, X., Xing, Y., Xu, J., Xu, Z., Xu, D., Yamashita, M., Yamazaki, R., Yan, H., Yang, L., Yang, Y., Ye, J., Yeh, M., Young, I., Yu, H. B., Yu, T. T., Yuan, L., Zavattini, G., Zerbo, S., Zhang, Y., Zhong, M., Zhou, N., Zhou, X., Zhu, T., Zhu, Y., Zhuang, Y., Zopounidis, J. P., Zuber, K., and Zupan, J.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leading technology to cover the available parameter space for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), while featuring extensive sensitivity to many alternative dark matter candidates. These detectors can also study neutrinos through neutrinoless double-beta decay and through a variety of astrophysical sources. A next-generation xenon-based detector will therefore be a true multi-purpose observatory to significantly advance particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, solar physics, and cosmology. This review article presents the science cases for such a detector., Comment: 77 pages, 40 figures, 1262 references

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2022
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22. $\gamma\gamma$ decay as a probe of neutrinoless $\beta\beta$ decay nuclear matrix elements

Author

Romeo, B., Menéndez, J., and Peña, C.

Subjects
Nuclear Theory, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We study double gamma ($\gamma\gamma$) decay nuclear matrix elements (NMEs) for a wide range of nuclei from titanium to xenon, and explore their relation to neutrinoless double-beta ($0\nu\beta\beta$) NMEs. To favor the comparison, we focus on double-magnetic dipole transitions in the final $\beta\beta$ nuclei, in particular the $\gamma\gamma$ decay of the double isobaric analog of the initial $\beta\beta$ state into the ground state. For the decay with equal-energy photons, our large-scale nuclear shell model results show a good linear correlation between the $\gamma\gamma$ and $0\nu\beta\beta$ NMEs. Our analysis reveals that the correlation holds for $\gamma\gamma$ transitions driven by the spin or orbital angular momentum due to the dominance of zero-coupled nucleon pairs, a feature common to $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay. Our shell-model findings point out the potential of future $\gamma\gamma$ decay measurements to constrain $0\nu\beta\beta$ NMEs, which are key to answer fundamental physics questions based on $0\nu\beta\beta$ experiments., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, matches published version

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2021
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23. $\boldsymbol{N=32}$ shell closure below calcium: Low-lying structure of $^{50}$Ar

Author

Cortés, M. L., Rodriguez, W., Doornenbal, P., Obertelli, A., Holt, J. D., Menéndez, J., Ogata, K., Schwenk, A., Shimizu, N., Simonis, J., Utsuno, Y., Yoshida, K., Achouri, L., Baba, H., Browne, F., Calvet, D., Château, F., Chen, S., Chiga, N., Corsi, A., Delbart, A., Gheller, J-M., Giganon, A., Gillibert, A., Hilaire, C., Isobe, T., Kobayashi, T., Kubota, Y., Lapoux, V., Liu, H. N., Motobayashi, T., Murray, I., Otsu, H., Panin, V., Paul, N., Sakurai, H., Sasano, M., Steppenbeck, D., Stuhl, L., Sun, Y. L., Togano, Y., Uesaka, T., Wimmer, K., Yoneda, K., Aktas, O., Aumann, T., Chung, L. X., Flavigny, F., Franchoo, S., Gašparić, I., Gerst, R. -B., Gibelin, J., Hahn, K. I., Kim, D., Koiwai, T., Kondo, Y., Koseoglou, P., Lee, J., Lehr, C., Linh, B. D., Lokotko, T., MacCormick, M., Moschner, K., Nakamura, T., Park, S. Y., Rossi, D., Sahin, E., Söderström, P. -A., Sohler, D., Takeuchi, S., Toernqvist, H., Vaquero, V., Wagner, V., Wang, S., Werner, V., Xu, X., Yamada, H., Yan, D., Yang, Z., Yasuda, M., and Zanetti, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

Low-lying excited states in the $N=32$ isotope $^{50}$Ar were investigated by in-beam $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy following proton- and neutron-knockout, multi-nucleon removal, and proton inelastic scattering at the RIKEN Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory. The energies of the two previously reported transitions have been confirmed, and five additional states are presented for the first time, including a candidate for a 3$^-$ state. The level scheme built using $\gamma\gamma$ coincidences was compared to shell-model calculations in the $sd-pf$ model space, and to ab initio predictions based on chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions. Theoretical proton- and neutron-knockout cross sections suggest that two of the new transitions correspond to $2^+$ states, while the previously proposed $4^+$ state could also correspond to a $2^+$ state., Comment: Accepted for Phys. Rev. C

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2020
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26. Testing ab initio nuclear structure in neutron-rich nuclei: lifetime measurements of second 2+ states in 16C and 20O

Author

Ciemala, M., Ziliani, S., Crespi, F. C. L., Leoni, S., Fornal, B., Maj, A., Bednarczyk, P., Benzoni, G., Bracco, A., Boiano, C., Bottoni, S., Brambilla, S., Bast, M., Beckers, M., Braunroth, T., Camera, F., Cieplicka-Orynczak, N., Clement, E., Coelli, S., Dorvaux, O., Erturk, S., de France, G., Fransen, C., Goldkuhle, A., Grebosz, J., Harakeh, M. N., Iskra, L. W., Jacquot, B., Karpov, A., Kicinska-Habior, M., Kim, Y., Kmiecik, M., Lemasson, A., Lenzi, S. M., Lewitowicz, M., Li, H., Matea, I., Mazurek, K., Michelagnoli, C., Matejska-Minda, M., Million, B., Muller-Gatermann, C., Nanal, V., Napiorkowski, P., Napoli, D. R., Palit, R., Rejmund, M., Schmitt, Ch., Stanoiu, M., Stefan, I., Vardaci, E., Wasilewska, B., Wieland, O., Zieblinski, M., Zielinska, M., Atac, A., Barrientos, D., Birkenbach, B., Boston, A. J., Cederwall, B., Charles, L., Collado, J., Cullen, D. M., Desesquelles, P., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dudouet, J., Eberth, J., Gonzalez, V., Goupil, J., Harkness-Brennan, L. J., Hess, H., Judson, D. S., Jungclaus, A., Korten, W., Labiche, M., Lefevre, A., Menegazzo, R., Mengoni, D., Nyberg, J., Perez-Vidal, R. M., Podolyak, Zs., Pullia, A., Recchia, F., Reiter, P., Saillant, F., Salsac, M. D., Sanchis, E., Stezowski, O., Theisen, Ch., Valiente-Dobon, J. J., Holt, J. D., Menendez, J., Schwenk, A., and Simonis, J.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

To test the predictive power of ab initio nuclear structure theory, the lifetime of the second 2+ state in neutron-rich 20O, tau(2+_2 ) = 150(+80-30) fs, and an estimate for the lifetime of the second 2+ state in 16C have been obtained, for the first time. The results were achieved via a novel Monte Carlo technique that allowed us to measure nuclear state lifetimes in the tens-to-hundreds femtoseconds range, by analyzing the Doppler-shifted gamma-transition line shapes of products of low-energy transfer and deep-inelastic processes in the reaction 18O (7.0 MeV/u) + 181Ta. The requested sensitivity could only be reached owing to the excellent performances of the AGATA gamma-tracking array, coupled to the PARIS scintillator array and to the VAMOS++ magnetic spectrometer. The experimental lifetimes agree with predictions of ab initio calculations using two- and three-nucleon interactions, obtained with the valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group for 20O, and with the no-core shell model for 16C. The present measurement shows the power of electromagnetic observables, determined with high-precision gamma spectroscopy, to assess the quality of first-principles nuclear structure calculations, complementing common benchmarks based on nuclear energies. The proposed experimental approach will be essential for short lifetimes measurements in unexplored regions of the nuclear chart, including r-process nuclei, when intense ISOL-type beams become available.

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2020
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27. First glimpse of the $N=82$ shell closure below $Z=50$ from masses of neutron-rich cadmium isotopes and isomers

Author

Manea, V., Karthein, J., Atanasov, D., Bender, M., Blaum, K., Cocolios, T. E., Eliseev, S., Herlert, A., Holt, J. D., Huang, W. J., Litvinov, Yu. A., Lunney, D., Menéndez, J., Mougeot, M., Neidherr, D., Schweikhard, L., Schwenk, A., Simonis, J., Welker, A., Wienholtz, F., and Zuber, K.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We probe the $N=82$ nuclear shell closure by mass measurements of neutron-rich cadmium isotopes with the ISOLTRAP spectrometer at ISOLDE-CERN. The new mass of $^{132}$Cd offers the first value of the $N=82$, two-neutron shell gap below $Z=50$ and confirms the phenomenon of mutually enhanced magicity at $^{132}$Sn. Using the recently implemented phase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance method, the ordering of the low-lying isomers in $^{129}$Cd and their energies are determined. The new experimental findings are used to test large-scale shell-model, mean-field and beyond-mean-field calculations, as well as the ab initio valence-space in-medium similarity renormalization group., Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures; reference added, minor editorial corrections

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2020
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28. Shell evolution of $N=40$ isotones towards $^{60}$Ca: First spectroscopy of $^{62}$Ti

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Cortés, M. L., Rodriguez, W., Doornenbal, P., Obertelli, A., Holt, J. D., Lenzi, S. M., Menéndez, J., Nowacki, F., Ogata, K., Poves, A., Rodríguez, T. R., Schwenk, A., Simonis, J., Stroberg, S. R., Yoshida, K., Achouri, L., Baba, H., Browne, F., Calvet, D., Château, F., Chen, S., Chiga, N., Corsi, A., Delbart, A., Gheller, J-M., Giganon, A., Gillibert, A., Hilaire, C., Isobe, T., Kobayashi, T., Kubota, Y., Lapoux, V., Liu, H. N., Motobayashi, T., Murray, I., Otsu, H., Panin, V., Paul, N., Sakurai, H., Sasano, M., Steppenbeck, D., Stuhl, L., Sun, Y. L., Togano, Y., Uesaka, T., Wimmer, K., Yoneda, K., Aktas, O., Aumann, T., Chung, L. X., Flavigny, F., Franchoo, S., Gašparić, I., Gerst, R. -B., Gibelin, J., Hahn, K. I., Kim, D., Koiwai, T., Kondo, Y., Koseoglou, P., Lee, J., Lehr, C., Linh, B. D., Lokotko, T., MacCormick, M., Moschner, K., Nakamura, T., Park, S. Y., Rossi, D., Sahin, E., Sohler, D., Söderström, P. -A., Takeuchi, S., Toernqvist, H., Vaquero, V., Wagner, V., Wang, S., Werner, V., Xu, X., Yamada, H., Yan, D., Yang, Z., Yasuda, M., and Zanetti, L.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Excited states in the $N=40$ isotone $^{62}$Ti were populated via the $^{63}$V$(p,2p)$$^{62}$Ti reaction at $\sim$200~MeV/u at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory and studied using $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy. The energies of the $2^+_1 \rightarrow 0^{+}_{\mathrm{gs}}$ and $4^+_1 \rightarrow 2^+_1$ transitions, observed here for the first time, indicate a deformed $^{62}$Ti ground state. These energies are increased compared to the neighboring $^{64}$Cr and $^{66}$Fe isotones, suggesting a small decrease of quadrupole collectivity. The present measurement is well reproduced by large-scale shell-model calculations based on effective interactions, while ab initio and beyond mean-field calculations do not yet reproduce our findings. The shell-model calculations for $^{62}$Ti show a dominant configuration with four neutrons excited across the $N=40$ gap. Likewise, they indicate that the $N=40$ island of inversion extends down to $Z=20$, disfavoring a possible doubly magic character of the elusive $^{60}$Ca.

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2019
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29. $^{78}$Ni revealed as a doubly magic stronghold against nuclear deformation

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Taniuchi, R., Santamaria, C., Doornenbal, P., Obertelli, A., Yoneda, K., Authelet, G., Baba, H., Calvet, D., Château, F., Corsi, A., Delbart, A., Gheller, J. -M., Gillibert, A., Holt, J. D., Isobe, T., Lapoux, V., Matsushita, M., Menéndez, J., Momiyama, S., Motobayashi, T., Niikura, M., Nowacki, F., Ogata, K., Otsu, H., Otsuka, T., Péron, C., Péru, S., Peyaud, A., Pollacco, E. C., Poves, A., Roussé, J. -Y., Sakurai, H., Schwenk, A., Shiga, Y., Simonis, J., Stroberg, S. R., Takeuchi, S., Tsunoda, Y., Uesaka, T., Wang, H., Browne, F., Chung, L. X., Dombradi, Z., Franchoo, S., Giacoppo, F., Gottardo, A., Hadyńska-Klęk, K., Korkulu, Z., Koyama, S., Kubota, Y., Lee, J., Lettmann, M., Louchart, C., Lozeva, R., Matsui, K., Miyazaki, T., Nishimura, S., Olivier, L., Ota, S., Patel, Z., Şahin, E., Shand, C., Söderström, P. -A., Stefan, I., Steppenbeck, D., Sumikama, T., Suzuki, D., Vajta, Z., Werner, V., Wu, J., and Xu, Z. Y.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

Nuclear magic numbers, which emerge from the strong nuclear force based on quantum chromodynamics, correspond to fully occupied energy shells of protons, or neutrons inside atomic nuclei. Doubly magic nuclei, with magic numbers for both protons and neutrons, are spherical and extremely rare across the nuclear landscape. While the sequence of magic numbers is well established for stable nuclei, evidence reveals modifications for nuclei with a large proton-to-neutron asymmetry. Here, we provide the first spectroscopic study of the doubly magic nucleus $^{78}$Ni, fourteen neutrons beyond the last stable nickel isotope. We provide direct evidence for its doubly magic nature, which is also predicted by ab initio calculations based on chiral effective field theory interactions and the quasi-particle random-phase approximation. However, our results also provide the first indication of the breakdown of the neutron magic number 50 and proton magic number 28 beyond this stronghold, caused by a competing deformed structure. State-of-the-art phenomenological shell-model calculations reproduce this shape coexistence, predicting further a rapid transition from spherical to deformed ground states with $^{78}$Ni as turning point.

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2019
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30. Study of the effects of radiation on the CMS Drift Tubes Muon Detector for the HL-LHC

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Abbiendi, G., Maestre, J. Alcaraz, Fernández, A. Álvarez, González, B. Álvarez, Amapane, N., Bachiller, I., Barcala, J. M., Barcellan, L., Battilana, C., Bellato, M., Bencze, G., Benettoni, M., Beni, N., Benvenuti, A., Ramos, L. C. Blanco, Boletti, A., Bragagnolo, A., Cifuentes, J. A. Brochero, Cafaro, V., Calderon, A., Calvo, E., Cappati, A., Carlin, R., Montoya, C. A. Carrillo, Cavallo, F. R., Ruiz, J. M. Cela, Cepeda, M., Cerrada, M., Quero, B. Chazin, Checchia, P., Ciano, L., Colino, N., Corti, D., Cotto, G., Cuevas, J., Cuffiani, M., Dallavalle, G. M., Dattola, D., De La Cruz, B., DeRemigis, P., Cid, C. Erice, Fabbri, F., Fanfani, A., Fasanella, D., Bedoya, C. F., de Trocóniz, J. F., Manteca, P. Fernandez, Menéndez, J. Fernández, Ramos, J. P. Fernández, Folgueras, S., Fouz, M. C., Ferrero, D. Francia, Romero, J. García, Gasparini, F., Gasparini, U., Ghosh, S., Giordano, V., Casademunt, F. Gomez, Gonella, F., Caballero, I. González, Fernández, J. R. González, López, O. González, López, S. Goy, Gozzelino, A., Griggio, A., Grosso, G., Guandalini, C., Guiducci, L., Gulmini, M., Hebbeker, T., Heidemann, C., Hernández, J. M., Hoepfner, K., Iemmi, F., Isocrate, R., Josa, M. I., Kiani, B., Lacaprara, S., Meo, S. Lo, Marcellini, S., Margoni, M., Marín, J., Mariotti, C., Martín, I. Martín, Morales, J. J. Martínez, Rivero, C. Martínez, Maselli, S., Masetti, G., Meneguzzo, A. T., Merschmeyer, M., Mocellin, G., Modenese, L., Molinero, A., Molnar, J., Montecassiano, F., Moran, D., Navarrete, J. J., Navarria, F., Tobar, Á. Navarro, Oller, J. C., Passaseo, M., Pazzini, J., Pegoraro, M., Pelayo, J. Puerta, Pelliccioni, M., Philipps, B., Gomez, J. Piedra, Angioni, G. L. Pinna, Pozzobon, N., Presilla, M., Prieels, C., Primavera, F., Sánchez, J. C. Puras, Redondo, I., Ferrero, D. D. Redondo, Reithler, H., Rodrigo, T., Bouza, V. Rodríguez, Roemer, J., Ronchese, P., Rossin, R., Rotondo, F., Rovelli, T., Cruz, S. Sánchez, Navas, S. Sánchez, Sastre, J., Scodellaro, L., Simonetto, F., Soares, M. S., Staiano, A., Szillasi, Z., Teyssier, D. F., Toniolo, N., Torassa, E., Trocino, D., Ujvari, B., Ventura, S., Cortabitarte, R. Vilar, Garcia, J. Vizan, Zanetti, M., Zantis, F. P., Zilizi, G., and Zotto, P.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The CMS drift tubes (DT) muon detector, built for withstanding the LHC expected integrated and instantaneous luminosities, will be used also in the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) at a 5 times larger instantaneous luminosity and, consequently, much higher levels of radiation, reaching about 10 times the LHC integrated luminosity. Initial irradiation tests of a spare DT chamber at the CERN gamma irradiation facility (GIF++), at large ($\sim$O(100)) acceleration factor, showed ageing effects resulting in a degradation of the DT cell performance. However, full CMS simulations have shown almost no impact in the muon reconstruction efficiency over the full barrel acceptance and for the full integrated luminosity. A second spare DT chamber was moved inside the GIF++ bunker in October 2017. The chamber was being irradiated at lower acceleration factors, and only 2 out of the 12 layers of the chamber were switched at working voltage when the radioactive source was active, being the other layers in standby. In this way the other non-aged layers are used as reference and as a precise and unbiased telescope of muon tracks for the efficiency computation of the aged layers of the chamber, when set at working voltage for measurements. An integrated dose equivalent to two times the expected integrated luminosity of the HL-LHC run has been absorbed by this second spare DT chamber and the final impact on the muon reconstruction efficiency is under study. Direct inspection of some extracted aged anode wires presented a melted resistive deposition of materials. Investigation on the outgassing of cell materials and of the gas components used at the GIF++ are underway. Strategies to mitigate the ageing effects are also being developed. From the long irradiation measurements of the second spare DT chamber, the effects of radiation in the performance of the DTs expected during the HL-LHC run will be presented., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, to be published in JINST, editor I. Gonz\'alez Caballero

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2019
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31. Electromagnetic properties of $^{21}$O for benchmarking nuclear Hamiltonians

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Heil, S., Petri, M., Vobig, K., Bazin, D., Belarge, J., Bender, P., Brown, B. A., Elder, R., Elman, B., Gade, A., Haylett, T., Holt, J. D., Hüther, T., Hufnagel, A., Iwasaki, H., Kobayashi, N., Loelius, C., Longfellow, B., Lunderberg, E., Mathy, M., Menéndez, J., Paschalis, S., Roth, R., Schwenk, A., Simonis, J., Syndikus, I., Weisshaar, D., and Whitmore, K.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

The structure of exotic nuclei provides valuable tests for state-of-the-art nuclear theory. In particular electromagnetic transition rates are more sensitive to aspects of nuclear forces and many-body physics than excitation energies alone. We report the first lifetime measurement of excited states in $^{21}$O, finding $\tau_{1/2^+}=420^{+35}_{-32}\text{(stat)}^{+34}_{-12}\text{(sys)}$\,ps. This result together with the deduced level scheme and branching ratio of several $\gamma$-ray decays are compared to both phenomenological shell-model and ab initio calculations based on two- and three-nucleon forces derived from chiral effective field theory. We find that the electric quadrupole reduced transition probability of $\rm B(E2;1/2^+ \rightarrow 5/2^+_{g.s.}) = 0.71^{+0.07\ +0.02}_{-0.06\ -0.06}$~e$^2$fm$^4$, derived from the lifetime of the $1/2^+$ state, is smaller than the phenomenological result where standard effective charges are employed, suggesting the need for modifications of the latter in neutron-rich oxygen isotopes. We compare this result to both large-space and valence-space ab initio calculations, and by using multiple input interactions we explore the sensitivity of this observable to underlying details of nuclear forces., Comment: 23 pages, 3 figures

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2019
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35. First results on the scalar WIMP-pion coupling, using the XENON1T experiment

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Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Amaro, F. D., Anthony, M., Antochi, V. C., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Benabderrahmane, M. L., Berger, T., Breur, P. A., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M. R., Cichon, D., Coderre, D., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cussonneau, J. P., Decowski, M. P., de Perio, P., Di Gangi, P., Di Giovanni, A., Diglio, S., Elykov, A., Eurin, G., Fei, J., Ferella, A. D., Fieguth, A., Fulgione, W., Rosso, A. Gallo, Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Grandi, L., Greene, Z., Hasterok, C., Hogenbirk, E., Howlett, J., Iacovacci, M., Itay, R., Joerg, F., Kaminsky, B., Kazama, S., Kish, A., Koltman, G., Kopec, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lombardi, F., Lopes, J. A. M., Fune, E. López, Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Manfredini, A., Marignetti, F., Undagoitia, T. Marrodán, Masbou, J., Masson, D., Mastroianni, S., Messina, M., Micheneau, K., Miller, K., Molinario, A., Morå, K., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Odgers, K., Pelssers, B., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Podviianiuk, R., Priel, N., Qiu, H., García, D. Ramírez, Reichard, S., Riedel, B., Rizzo, A., Rocchetti, A., Rupp, N., Santos, J. M. F. dos, Sartorelli, G., Šarčević, N., Scheibelhut, M., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schulte, D., Schumann, M., Lavina, L. Scotto, Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Therreau, C., Thers, D., Toschi, F., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C., Upole, N., Vargas, M., Wack, O., Wang, H., Wang, Z., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Wittweg, C., Wulf, J., Ye, J., Zhang, Y., Zhu, T., Zopounidis, J. P., Hoferichter, M., Klos, P., Menéndez, J., and Schwenk, A.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract

We present first results on the scalar WIMP-pion coupling from 1 t$\times$yr of exposure with the XENON1T experiment. This interaction is generated when the WIMP couples to a virtual pion exchanged between the nucleons in a nucleus. In contrast to most non-relativistic operators, these pion-exchange currents can be coherently enhanced by the total number of nucleons, and therefore may dominate in scenarios where spin-independent WIMP-nucleon interactions are suppressed. Moreover, for natural values of the couplings, they dominate over the spin-dependent channel due to their coherence in the nucleus. Using the signal model of this new WIMP-pion channel, no significant excess is found, leading to an upper limit cross section of $6.4\times10^{-46}$ cm$^2$ (90 % confidence level) at 30 GeV/c$^2$ WIMP mass.

Published
2018
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