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1. Lowering threshold of NaI(Tl) scintillator to 0.7 keV in the COSINE-100 experiment

Author

Yu, G. H., Carlin, N., Cho, J. Y., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., França, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Luan, N. T., Machado, V. H. A., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, J. C., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Son, M. K., Spooner, N. J. C., Truc, L. T., and Yang, L.

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

COSINE-100 is a direct dark matter search experiment, with the primary goal of testing the annual modulation signal observed by DAMA/LIBRA, using the same target material, NaI(Tl). In previous analyses, we achieved the same 1 keV energy threshold used in the DAMA/LIBRA's analysis that reported an annual modulation signal with 11.6$\sigma$ significance. In this article, we report an improved analysis that lowered the threshold to 0.7 keV, thanks to the application of Multi-Layer Perception network and a new likelihood parameter with waveforms in the frequency domain. The lower threshold would enable a better comparison of COSINE-100 with new DAMA results with a 0.75 keV threshold and account for differences in quenching factors. Furthermore the lower threshold can enhance COSINE-100's sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter searches.

Published
2024

2. Improved background modeling for dark matter search with COSINE-100

Author

Yu, G. H., Carlin, N., Cho, J. Y., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Luan, N. T., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, J. C., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Son, M. K., Spooner, N. J. C., Truc, L. T., and Yang, L.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

COSINE-100 aims to conclusively test the claimed dark matter annual modulation signal detected by DAMA/LIBRA collaboration. DAMA/LIBRA has released updated analysis results by lowering the energy threshold to 0.75 keV through various upgrades. They have consistently claimed to have observed the annual modulation. In COSINE-100, it is crucial to lower the energy threshold for a direct comparison with DAMA/LIBRA, which also enhances the sensitivity of the search for low-mass dark matter, enabling COSINE-100 to explore this area. Therefore, it is essential to have a precise and quantitative understanding of the background spectrum across all energy ranges. This study expands the background modeling from 0.7 to 4000 keV using 2.82 years of COSINE-100 data. The modeling has been improved to describe the background spectrum across all energy ranges accurately. Assessments of the background spectrum are presented, considering the nonproportionality of NaI(Tl) crystals at both low and high energies and the characteristic X-rays produced by the interaction of external backgrounds with materials such as copper. Additionally, constraints on the fit parameters obtained from the alpha spectrum modeling fit are integrated into this model. These improvements are detailed in the paper.

Published
2024

3. Development of MMC-based lithium molybdate cryogenic calorimeters for AMoRE-II

Author

Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Bae, H., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, S., Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Y. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwang, D. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, D. Y., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The AMoRE collaboration searches for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo using molybdate scintillating crystals via low temperature thermal calorimetric detection. The early phases of the experiment, AMoRE-pilot and AMoRE-I, have demonstrated competitive discovery potential. Presently, the AMoRE-II experiment, featuring a large detector array with about 90 kg of $^{100}$Mo isotope, is under construction.This paper discusses the baseline design and characterization of the lithium molybdate cryogenic calorimeters to be used in the AMoRE-II detector modules. The results from prototype setups that incorporate new housing structures and two different crystal masses (316 g and 517 - 521 g), operated at 10 mK temperature, show energy resolutions (FWHM) of 7.55 - 8.82 keV at the 2.615 MeV $^{208}$Tl $\gamma$ line, and effective light detection of 0.79 - 0.96 keV/MeV. The simultaneous heat and light detection enables clear separation of alpha particles with a discrimination power of 12.37 - 19.50 at the energy region around $^6$Li(n, $\alpha$)$^3$H with Q-value = 4.785 MeV. Promising detector performances were demonstrated at temperatures as high as 30 mK, which relaxes the temperature constraints for operating the large AMoRE-II array.

Published
2024

4. Improved limit on neutrinoless double beta decay of \mohundred~from AMoRE-I

Author

Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, Seonho, Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Y. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwang, D. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, Ho-Jong, Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, DongYeup, Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

AMoRE searches for the signature of neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo with a 100 kg sample of enriched $^{100}$Mo. Scintillating molybdate crystals coupled with a metallic magnetic calorimeter operate at milli-Kelvin temperatures to measure the energy of electrons emitted in the decay. As a demonstration of the full-scale AMoRE, we conducted AMoRE-I, a pre-experiment with 18 molybdate crystals, at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory for over two years. The exposure was 8.02 kg$\cdot$year (or 3.89 kg$_{\mathrm{^{100}Mo}}\cdot$year) and the total background rate near the Q-value was 0.025 $\pm$ 0.002 counts/keV/kg/year. We observed no indication of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay and report a new lower limit of the half-life of $^{100}$Mo $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay as $ T^{0\nu}_{1/2}>3.0\times10^{24}~\mathrm{years}$ at 90\% confidence level. The effective Majorana mass limit range is $m_{\beta\beta}<$(210--610) meV using nuclear matrix elements estimated in the framework of different models, including the recent shell model calculations., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures

Published
2024

5. Projected background and sensitivity of AMoRE-II

Author

Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, Seonho, Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Y. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwnag, D. H., Jeona, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, Ho-Jong, Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kuzminov, V. Kornoukhov V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, DongYeup, Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Rooh, S. S. Ratkevich G., Sari, M. B., Seob, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.

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

AMoRE-II aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay with an array of 423 Li$_2$$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals operating in the cryogenic system as the main phase of the Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE). AMoRE has been planned to operate in three phases: AMoRE-pilot, AMoRE-I, and AMoRE-II. AMoRE-II is currently being installed at the Yemi Underground Laboratory, located approximately 1000 meters deep in Jeongseon, Korea. The goal of AMoRE-II is to reach up to $T^{0\nu\beta\beta}_{1/2}$ $\sim$ 6 $\times$ 10$^{26}$ years, corresponding to an effective Majorana mass of 15 - 29 meV, covering all the inverted mass hierarchy regions. To achieve this, the background level of the experimental configurations and possible background sources of gamma and beta events should be well understood. We have intensively performed Monte Carlo simulations using the GEANT4 toolkit in all the experimental configurations with potential sources. We report the estimated background level that meets the 10$^{-4}$counts/(keV$\cdot$kg$\cdot$yr) requirement for AMoRE-II in the region of interest (ROI) and show the projected half-life sensitivity based on the simulation study.

Published
2024

6. Construction of Yemilab

Author

Park, K. S., Kim, Y. D., Bang, K. M., Park, H. K, Lee, M. H., Jang, J. H., Kim, J. H., So, J., Kim, S. H., and Kim, S. B.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The Center for Underground Physics of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea has been planning the construction of a deep underground laboratory since 2013 to search for extremely rare interactions such as dark matter and neutrinos. In September 2022, a new underground laboratory, Yemilab, was finally completed in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province, with a depth of 1,000 m and an exclusive experimental area spanning 3,000 m$^3$. The tunnel is encased in limestone and accommodates 17 independent experimental spaces. Over two years, from 2023 to 2024, the Yangyang Underground Laboratory facilities will be relocated to Yemilab. Preparations are underway for the AMoRE-II, a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment, scheduled to begin in Q2 2024 at Yemilab. Additionally, Yemilab includes a cylindrical pit with a volume of approximately 6,300 m$^3$, designed as a multipurpose laboratory for next-generation experiments involving neutrinos, dark matter, and related research. This article provides a focused overview of the construction and structure of Yemilab., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

Published
2024
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7. Background study of the AMoRE-pilot experiment

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Agrawal, A., Alenkov, V. V., Aryal, P., Beyer, J., Bhandari, B., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Byeon, C. R., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choe, J. S., Choi, Seonho, Choudhury, S., Chung, J. S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavrilyuk, Yu. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Gileva, O., Grigorieva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hwang, D. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Kempf, S., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, Ho-Jong, Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, M. B., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C. H., Lee, DongYeup, Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, Y. C., Leonard, D. S., Lim, H. S., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Nyanda, P., Oh, Y., Olsen, S. L., Panasenko, S. I., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Sharma, B., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. K., Song, J. W., Srisittipokakun, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yeon, H. J., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.

Subjects
Nuclear Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report a study on the background of the Advanced Molybdenum-Based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE), a search for neutrinoless double beta decay (\znbb) of $^{100}$Mo. The pilot stage of the experiment was conducted using $\sim$1.9 kg of \CAMOO~ crystals at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory, South Korea, from 2015 to 2018. We compared the measured $\beta/\gamma$ energy spectra in three experimental configurations with the results of Monte Carlo simulations and identified the background sources in each configuration. We replaced several detector components and enhanced the neutron shielding to lower the background level between configurations. A limit on the half-life of $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo was found at $T_{1/2}^{0\nu} \ge 3.0\times 10^{23}$ years at 90\% confidence level, based on the measured background and its modeling. Further reduction of the background rate in the AMoRE-I and AMoRE-II are discussed.

Published
2024

8. Nonproportionality of NaI(Tl) Scintillation Detector for Dark Matter Search Experiments

Author

Lee, S. M., Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Cho, J. Y., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., a, L. E. Fran., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. W., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Luan, N. T., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Nikkel, J. A., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, J. C., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Scarff, A., Son, M. K., Spooner, N. J. C., Truc, L. T., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

We present a comprehensive study of the nonproportionality of NaI(Tl) scintillation detectors within the context of dark matter search experiments. Our investigation, which integrates COSINE-100 data with supplementary $\gamma$ spectroscopy, measures light yields across diverse energy levels from full-energy $\gamma$ peaks produced by the decays of various isotopes. These $\gamma$ peaks of interest were produced by decays supported by both long and short-lived isotopes. Analyzing peaks from decays supported only by short-lived isotopes presented a unique challenge due to their limited statistics and overlapping energies, which was overcome by long-term data collection and a time-dependent analysis. A key achievement is the direct measurement of the 0.87 keV light yield, resulting from the cascade following electron capture decay of $^{22}$Na from internal contamination. This measurement, previously accessible only indirectly, deepens our understanding of NaI(Tl) scintillator behavior in the region of interest for dark matter searches. This study holds substantial implications for background modeling and the interpretation of dark matter signals in NaI(Tl) experiments., Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures

Published
2024
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9. Alpha backgrounds in NaI(Tl) crystals of COSINE-100

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Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Cho, J. Y., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. W., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Luan, N. T., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Nikkel, J. A., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, J. C., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Scar, A., Shin, K. A., Son, M. K., Spooner, N. J. C., Truc, L. T., Yang, L., Yu, G. H., and COSINE-100, for

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

COSINE-100 is a dark matter direct detection experiment with 106 kg NaI(Tl) as the target material. 210Pb and daughter isotopes are a dominant background in the WIMP region of interest and are detected via beta decay and alpha decay. Analysis of the alpha channel complements the background model as observed in the beta/gamma channel. We present the measurement of the quenching factors and Monte Carlo simulation results and activity quantification of the alpha decay components of the COSINE-100 NaI(Tl) crystals. The data strongly indicate that the alpha decays probabilistically undergo two possible quenching factors but require further investigation. The fitted results are consistent with independent measurements and improve the overall understanding of the COSINE-100 backgrounds. Furthermore, the half-life of 216Po has been measured to be 143.4 +/- 1.2 ms, which is consistent with and more precise than recent measurements.

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2023
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10. Search for inelastic WIMP-iodine scattering with COSINE-100

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Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, S., Luan, N. T., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Nikkel, J. A., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

We report the results of a search for inelastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) off $^{127}$I nuclei using NaI(Tl) crystals with a data exposure of 97.7 kg$\cdot$years from the COSINE-100 experiment. The signature of inelastic WIMP-$^{127}$I scattering is a nuclear recoil accompanied by a 57.6 keV $\gamma$-ray from the prompt deexcitation, producing a more energetic signal compared to the typical WIMP nuclear recoil signal. We found no evidence for this inelastic scattering signature and set a 90 $\%$ confidence level upper limit on the WIMP-proton spin-dependent, inelastic scattering cross section of $1.2 \times 10^{-37} {\rm cm^{2}}$ at the WIMP mass 500 ${\rm GeV/c^{2}}$., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2104.03537

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2023
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11. Search for Boosted Dark Matter in COSINE-100

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Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Luan, N. T., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Nikkel, J. A., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We search for energetic electron recoil signals induced by boosted dark matter (BDM) from the galactic center using the COSINE-100 array of NaI(Tl) crystal detectors at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory. The signal would be an excess of events with energies above 4 MeV over the well-understood background. Because no excess of events are observed in a 97.7 kg$\cdot$years exposure, we set limits on BDM interactions under a variety of hypotheses. Notably, we explored the dark photon parameter space, leading to competitive limits compared to direct dark photon search experiments, particularly for dark photon masses below 4\,MeV and considering the invisible decay mode. Furthermore, by comparing our results with a previous BDM search conducted by the Super-Kamionkande experiment, we found that the COSINE-100 detector has advantages in searching for low-mass dark matter. This analysis demonstrates the potential of the COSINE-100 detector to search for MeV electron recoil signals produced by the dark sector particle interactions., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures

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2023
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12. Search for bosonic super-weakly interacting massive particles at COSINE-100

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Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Luan, N. T., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Nikkel, J. A., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

We present results of a search for bosonic super-weakly interacting massive particles (BSW) as keV scale dark matter candidates that is based on an exposure of 97.7 kg$\cdot$year from the COSINE experiment. In this search, we employ, for the first time, Compton-like as well as absorption processes for pseudoscalar and vector BSWs. No evidence for BSWs is found in the mass range from 10 $\mathrm{keV/c}^2$ to 1 $\mathrm{MeV/c}^2$, and we present the exclusion limits on the dimensionless coupling constants to electrons $g_{ae}$ for pseudoscalar and $\kappa$ for vector BSWs at 90% confidence level. Our results show that these limits are improved by including the Compton-like process in masses of BSW, above $\mathcal{O}(100\,\mathrm{keV/c}^2)$.

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2023
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14. Search for solar bosonic dark matter annual modulation with COSINE-100

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Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., França, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Luan, N. T., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Nikkel, J. A., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Cavalcante, D. F. F. S., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We present results from a search for solar bosonic dark matter using the annual modulation method with the COSINE-100 experiment. The results were interpreted considering three dark sector bosons models: solar dark photon; DFSZ and KSVZ solar axion; and Kaluza-Klein solar axion. No modulation signal that is compatible with the expected from the models was found from a data-set of 2.82 yr, using 61.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals. Therefore, we set a 90$\%$ confidence level upper limits for each of the three models studied. For the solar dark photon model, the most stringent mixing parameter upper limit is $1.61 \times 10^{-14}$ for dark photons with a mass of 215 eV. For the DFSZ and KSVZ solar axion, and the Kaluza-Klein axion models, the upper limits exclude axion-electron couplings, $g_{ae}$, above $1.61 \times 10^{-11}$ for axion mass below 0.2 keV; and axion-photon couplings, $g_{a\gamma\gamma}$, above $1.83 \times 10^{-11}$ GeV$^{-1}$ for an axion number density of $4.07 \times 10^{13}$ cm$^{-3}$. This is the first experimental search for solar dark photons and DFSZ and KSVZ solar axions using the annual modulation method. The lower background, higher light yield and reduced threshold of NaI(Tl) crystals of the future COSINE-200 experiment are expected to enhance the sensitivity of the analysis shown in this paper. We show the sensitivities for the three models studied, considering the same search method with COSINE-200., Comment: 13 pages, 16 figures

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2023
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15. An induced annual modulation signature in COSINE-100 data by DAMA/LIBRA's analysis method

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Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Lee, Y. J., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Nikkel, J. A., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

The DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has reported the observation of an annual modulation in the event rate that has been attributed to dark matter interactions over the last two decades. However, even though tremendous efforts to detect similar dark matter interactions were pursued, no definitive evidence has been observed to corroborate the DAMA/LIBRA signal. Many studies assuming various dark matter models have attempted to reconcile DAMA/LIBRA's modulation signals and null results from other experiments, however no clear conclusion can be drawn. Apart from the dark matter hypothesis, several studies have examined the possibility that the modulation is induced by variations in their detector's environment or their specific analysis methods. In particular, a recent study presents a possible cause of the annual modulation from an analysis method adopted by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment in which the observed annual modulation could be reproduced by a slowly varying time-dependent background. Here, we study the COSINE-100 data using an analysis method similar to the one adopted by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment and observe a significant annual modulation, although the modulation phase is almost opposite to that of the DAMA/LIBRA data. Assuming the same background composition for COSINE-100 and DAMA/LIBRA, simulated experiments for the DAMA/LIBRA without dark matter signals also provide significant annual modulation with an amplitude similar to DAMA/LIBRA with opposite phase. Even though this observation does not explain the DAMA/LIBRA's results directly, this interesting phenomenon motivates deeper studies of the time-dependent DAMA/LIBRA background data.

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2022
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16. Three-year annual modulation search with COSINE-100

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Collaboration, COSINE-100, Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., França, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kwon, H. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

COSINE-100 is a direct detection dark matter experiment that aims to test DAMA/LIBRA's claim of dark matter discovery by searching for a dark matter-induced annual modulation signal with NaI(Tl) detectors. We present new constraints on the annual modulation signal from a dataset with a 2.82 yr livetime utilizing an active mass of 61.3 kg, for a total exposure of 173 kg$\cdot$yr. This new result features an improved event selection that allows for both lowering the energy threshold to 1 keV and a more precise time-dependent background model. In the 1-6 keV and 2-6 keV energy intervals, we observe best-fit values for the modulation amplitude of 0.0067$\pm$0.0042 and 0.0051$\pm$0.0047 counts/(day$\cdot$kg$\cdot$keV), respectively, with a phase fixed at 152.5 days., Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures

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2021
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17. IsoDAR@Yemilab: A Conceptual Design Report for the Deployment of the Isotope Decay-At-Rest Experiment in Korea's New Underground Laboratory, Yemilab

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Alonso, J. R., Bang, K. M., Barlow, R., Bartoszek, L., Bungau, A., Calabretta, L., Conrad, J. M., Kayser, S., Kim, Y. D., Park, K. S., Seo, S. H., Shaevitz, M. H., Spitz, J., Waites, L. H., and Winklehner, D.

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

This Conceptual Design Report addresses the site-specific issues associated with the deployment of the IsoDAR experiment at the Yemilab site. IsoDAR@Yemilab pairs the IsoDAR cyclotron-driven $\bar{\nu}_e$ source with the proposed Liquid Scintillator Counter (LSC) 2.5 kton detector. This document describes the proposed siting: requirements for the caverns to house the cyclotron, beam transport line, and target systems; issues associated with transport and assembly of components on the site; electrical power, cooling and ventilation; as well as issues associated with radiation protection of the environment and staff of Yemilab who will be interfacing with IsoDAR during its operational phases. The onset of construction of the IsoDAR area at Yemilab, in tandem with the release of this design report, represents a key step forward in establishing IsoDAR@Yemilab.

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2021

18. Searching for low-mass dark matter via Migdal effect in COSINE-100

Author

Adhikari, G., Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hollick, S. J., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kwon, H. J., Lee, D. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. D., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

We report on the search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates in the galactic halo that interact with sodium and iodine nuclei in the COSINE-100 experiment and produce energetic electrons that accompany recoil nuclei via the the Migdal effect. The WIMP mass sensitivity of previous COSINE-100 searches that relied on the detection of ionization signals produced by target nuclei recoiling from elastic WIMP-nucleus scattering was restricted to WIMP masses above $\sim$5 GeV/$c^2$ by the detectors' 1 keVee energy-electron-equivalent threshold. The search reported here looks for recoil signals enhanced by the Migdal electrons that are ejected during the scattering process. This is particularly effective for the detection of low-mass WIMP scattering from the crystals' sodium nuclei in which a relatively larger fraction of the WIMP's energy is transferred to the nucleus recoil energy and the excitation of its orbital electrons. In this analysis, the low-mass WIMP search window of the COSINE-100 experiment is extended to WIMP mass down to 200 MeV/$c^2$. The low-mass WIMP sensitivity will be further improved by lowering the analysis threshold based on a multivariable analysis technique. We consider the influence of these improvements and recent developments in detector performance to re-evaluate sensitivities for the future COSINE-200 experiment. With a 0.2 keVee analysis threshold and high light-yield NaI(Tl) detectors (22 photoelectrons/keVee), the COSINE-200 experiment can explore low-mass WIMPs down to 20 MeV/$c^2$ and probe previously unexplored regions of parameter space., Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures

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2021
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19. Study of $\chi_{bJ}(nP) \rightarrow \omega \Upsilon(1S)$ at Belle

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Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bauer, M., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Bennett, J., Bernlochner, F., Bessner, M., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Bilokin, S., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bodrov, D., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bra\v, M., Branchini, P., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Browder, T. E., Budano, A., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., \v, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Das, S., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., De Pietro, G., Dhamija, R., Di Capua, F., Dingfelder, J., Dole\v, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Dubey, S., Ecker, P., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Gong, G., Graziani, E., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Gu, T., Guan, Y., Gudkova, K., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hadjivasiliou, C., Halder, S., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., Hazra, S., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Villanueva, M. Hernandez, Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jang, E. -J., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Joo, C. W., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kim, Y. -K., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kody\v, P., Koga, Y., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korobov, A., Korpar, S., Kovalenko, E., Kri\v, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasni\v, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lalwani, K., Lange, J. S., Laurenza, M., Lee, I. S., Lee, J. K., Lee, J. Y., Lee, S. C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, J., Li, L. K., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Lieret, K., Limosani, A., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J. T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H. K., Moon, T. J., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, L., Nayak, M., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Pang, T., Panzenböck, E., Pardi, S., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Park, S. -H., Passeri, A., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pes\', L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podobnik, T., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M. V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P. K., Ribe\v, E., Ritter, M., R\", M., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schmolz, P., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Sharma, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smith, K., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stani\v, S., Stari\v, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z. S., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Thampi, A., Tiwary, R., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, K., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Van Tonder, R., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, D., Wang, E., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Werbycka, O., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Won, E., Xu, X., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report results from a study of hadronic transitions of the $\chi_{bJ}(nP)$ states of bottomonium at Belle. The $P$-wave states are reconstructed in transitions to the $\Upsilon(1S)$ with the emission of an $\omega$ meson. The transitions of the $n=2$ triplet states provide a unique laboratory in which to study nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics, as the kinematic threshold for production of an $\omega$ and $\Upsilon(1S)$ lies between the $J=0$ and $J=1$ states. A search for the $\chi_{bJ}(3P)$ states is also reported.

Published
2021

20. Alpha backgrounds in the AMoRE-Pilot experiment

Author

Alenkov, V., Bae, H. W., Beyer, J., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Choi, S. H., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A., Gastaldo, L., Gavriljuk, Yu. M., Gezhaev, A., Grigoryeva, V. D., Gurentsov, V., Ha, D. H., Ha, C., Ha, E. J., Hahn, I., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, S. J., Kang, W. G., Karki, S., Kazalov, V., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. -Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, I., Kim, W. T., Kim, S., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. S., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. W., Leonard, D. S., Li, J., Li, Y., Limkitjaroenporn, P., Mailyan, B., Makarov, E. P., Oh, S. Y., Oh, Y. M., Gileva, O., Olsen, S., Pabitra, A., Panasenko, S., Pandey, I., Park, C. W., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Ratkevich, S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, J., Seo, K. M., Shin, J. W., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., Sokur, N. V., Son, J. -K., Srisittipokakun, N., Toibaev, N., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yoon, Y. S., and Yue, Q.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

The Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE)-Pilot experiment is an initial phase of the AMoRE search for neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{100}$Mo, with the purpose of investigating the level and sources of backgrounds. Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay generally require ultimately low backgrounds. Surface $\alpha$ decays on the crystals themselves or nearby materials can deposit a continuum of energies that can be as high as the $Q$-value of the decay itself and may fall in the region of interest (ROI). To understand these background events, we studied backgrounds from radioactive contaminations internal to and on the surface of the crystals or nearby materials with Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulations. In this study, we report on the measured $\alpha$ energy spectra fitted with the corresponding simulated spectra for six crystal detectors, where sources of background contributions could be identified through high energy $\alpha$ peaks and continuum parts in the energy spectrum for both internal and surface contaminations. We determine the low-energy contributions from internal and surface $\alpha$ contaminations by extrapolating from the $\alpha$ background fitting model.

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2021
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21. The environmental monitoring system at the COSINE-100 experiment

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Kim, H., Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., França, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

The COSINE-100 experiment is designed to test the DAMA experiment which claimed an observation of a dark matter signal from an annual modulation in their residual event rate. To measure the 1 %-level signal amplitude, it is crucial to control and monitor nearly all environmental quantities that might systematically mimic the signal. The environmental monitoring also helps ensure a stable operation of the experiment. Here, we describe the design and performance of the centralized environmental monitoring system for the COSINE-100 experiment., Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures

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2021
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22. Strong constraints from COSINE-100 on the DAMA dark matter results using the same sodium iodide target

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Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., França, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scar, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

We present new constraints on dark matter interactions using 1.7 years of COSINE-100 data. The COSINE-100 experiment, consisting of 106 kg of tallium-doped sodium iodide (NaI(Tl)) target material, is aimed at testing DAMA's claim of dark matter observation using the same NaI(Tl) detectors. Improved event selection requirements, a more precise understanding of the detector background and the use of a larger data set considerably enhances the COSINE-100 sensitivity for dark matter detection. No signal consistent with the dark matter interaction is identified, and rules out model-dependent dark matter interpretations of the DAMA signals in the specific context of standard halo model with the same NaI(Tl) target for various interaction hypotheses.

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2021
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23. Identification of new isomers in $^{228}$Ac : Impact on dark matter searches

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Kim, K. W., Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, W. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, E. K., Lee, H., Lee, H. S., Lee, H. Y., Lee, I. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, S. M., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We report the identification of metastable isomeric states of $^{228}$Ac at 6.28 keV, 6.67 keV and 20.19 keV, with lifetimes of an order of 100 ns. These states are produced by the $\beta$-decay of $^{228}$Ra, a component of the $^{232}$Th decay chain, with $\beta$ Q-values of 39.52 keV, 39.13 keV and 25.61 keV, respectively. Due to its low Q-value as well as the relative abundance of $^{232}$Th and their progeny in low background experiments, these observations potentially impact the low-energy background modeling of dark matter search experiments., Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures

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2021
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24. Background modeling for dark matter search with 1.7 years of COSINE-100 data

Author

Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, G. S., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a background model for dark matter searches using an array of NaI(Tl) crystals in the COSINE-100 experiment that is located in the Yangyang underground laboratory. The model includes background contributions from both internal and external sources, including cosmogenic radionuclides and surface $^{210}$Pb contamination. To build the model in the low energy region, with a threshold of 1 keV, we used a depth profile of $^{210}$Pb contamination in the surface of the NaI(Tl) crystals determined in a comparison between measured and simulated spectra. We also considered the effect of the energy scale errors propagated from the statistical uncertainties and the nonlinear detector response at low energies. The 1.7 years COSINE-100 data taken between October 21, 2016 and July 18, 2018 were used for this analysis. Our Monte Carlo simulation provides a non-Gaussian peak around 50 keV originating from beta decays of bulk $^{210}$Pb in a good agreement with the measured background. This model estimates that the activities of bulk $^{210}$Pb and $^{3}$H are dominating the background rate that amounts to an average level of 2.85$\pm$0.15 counts/day/keV/kg in the energy region of (1-6) keV, using COSINE-100 data with a total exposure of 97.7 kg$\cdot$years.

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2021
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25. Search for sterile neutrino oscillation using RENO and NEOS data

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Atif, Z., Choi, J. H., Han, B. Y., Jang, C. H., Jang, H. I., Jang, J. S., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, S. H., Joo, K. K., Ju, K., Jung, D. E., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. S., Kim, J. G., Kim, J. H., Kim, B. R., Kim, J. Y., Kim, S. B., Kim, S. Y., Kim, W., Kim, Y. D., Ko, Y. J., Kwon, E., Lee, D. H., Lee, H. G., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Oh, Y. M., Lim, I. T., Moon, D. H., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pac, M. Y., Seo, H., Seo, J. W., Seo, K. M., Shin, C. D., Siyeon, K., Sun, G. M., Yang, B. S., Yoo, J., Yoon, S. G., Yeo, I. S., and Yu, I.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present a reactor model independent search for sterile neutrino oscillation using 2\,509\,days of RENO near detector data and 180 days of NEOS data. The reactor related systematic uncertainties are significantly suppressed as both detectors are located at the same reactor complex of Hanbit Nuclear Power Plant. The search is performed by electron antineutrino\,($\overline{\nu}_e$) disappearance between six reactors and two detectors with baselines of 294\,m\,(RENO) and 24\,m\,(NEOS). A spectral comparison of the NEOS prompt-energy spectrum with a no-oscillation prediction from the RENO measurement can explore reactor $\overline{\nu}_e$ oscillations to sterile neutrino. Based on the comparison, we obtain a 95\% C.L. excluded region of $0.1<|\Delta m_{41}^2|<7$\,eV$^2$. We also obtain a 68\% C.L. allowed region with the best fit of $|\Delta m_{41}^2|=2.41\,\pm\,0.03\,$\,eV$^2$ and $\sin^2 2\theta_{14}$=0.08$\,\pm\,$0.03 with a p-value of 8.2\%. Comparisons of obtained reactor antineutrino spectra at reactor sources are made among RENO, NEOS, and Daya Bay to find a possible spectral variation., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures: This manuscript has been significantly revised by the joint reanalysis by RENO and NEOS Collaborations. (In the previous edition, the RENO collaboration used publicly available NEOS data to evaluate the expected neutrino spectrum at NEOS.); auxiliary file for data release including error matrix (RENO_NEOS_data_release.txt)

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2020
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26. Pulse Shape Discrimination of Fast Neutron Background using Convolutional Neural Network for NEOS II

Author

NEOS II Collaboration, Jeong, Y., Han, B. Y., Jeon, E. J., Jo, H. S., Kim, D. K., Kim, J. Y., Kim, J. G., Kim, Y. D., Ko, Y. J., Lee, H. M., Lee, M. H., Lee, J., Moon, C. S., Oh, Y. M., Park, H. K., Park, K. S., Seo, S. H., Siyeon, K., Sun, G. M., Yoon, Y. S., and Yu, I.

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

Pulse shape discrimination plays a key role in improving the signal-to-background ratio in NEOS analysis by removing fast neutrons. Identifying particles by looking at the tail of the waveform has been an effective and plausible approach for pulse shape discrimination, but has the limitation in sorting low energy particles. As a good alternative, the convolutional neural network can scan the entire waveform as they are to recognize the characteristics of the pulse and perform shape classification of NEOS data. This network provides a powerful identification tool for all energy ranges and helps to search unprecedented phenomena of low-energy, a few MeV or less, neutrinos., Comment: 7 figures

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2020

27. Search for the Decay $B_s^0 \rightarrow \eta^\prime \eta$

Author

Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bauer, M., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Bennett, J., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F., Bessner, M., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Browder, T. E., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Das, S., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., Dhamija, R., Di Capua, F., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Dubey, S., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hadjivasiliou, C., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Villanueva, M. Hernandez, Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jang, E. -J., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, C. W., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kim, Y. -K., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kodyš, P., Koga, Y., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, M., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lalwani, K., Lange, J. S., Lee, I. S., Lee, J. K., Lee, J. Y., Lee, S. C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, J., Li, L. K., Li, Y., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Lieret, K., Limosani, A., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J. T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H. K., Moon, T. J., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, L., Nayak, M., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Pang, T., Panzenböck, E., Pardi, S., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Park, S. -H., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pesántez, L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podobnik, T., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M. V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P. K., Ribežl, E., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Rorie, J., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schlüter, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Sharma, C., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smith, K., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stanič, S., Starič, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Thampi, A., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Van Tonder, R., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, E., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Xu, X., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

In the Standard Model (SM) charmless hadronic decays $B_s^0 \rightarrow \eta^\prime \eta$ proceed via tree-level $b\to u$ and penguin $b\to s$ transitions. Penguin transitions are sensitive to Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics scenarios and could affect the branching fractions and {\it CP} asymmetries in such decays. Once branching fractions for two-body decays $B_s \to \eta\eta, \eta\eta^{\prime}, \eta^{\prime}\eta^{\prime} $ are measured, and the theoretical uncertainties are reduced, it would be possible to extract {\it CP} violating parameters from the data using the formalism based on SU(3)/U(3) symmetry. To achieve this goal, at least four of these six branching fractions need to be measured. Only the branching fraction for $B_s^0 \to \eta^{\prime}\eta^{\prime}$ has been measured so far.

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2020

28. Measurement of two-particle correlations in hadronic $e^{+}e^{-}$ collisions at Belle

Author

Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bauer, M., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Bennett, J., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F., Bessner, M., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Browder, T. E., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, Y., Chen, Y. -C., Chen, Y. -T., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Cho, S. -J., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., Dhamija, R., Di Capua, F., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Dubey, S., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hadjivasiliou, C., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Villanueva, M. Hernandez, Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jang, E. -J., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, C. W., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, Y., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. -H., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kim, Y. -K., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kodyš, P., Koga, Y., Komarov, I., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, R., Kumara, K., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lalwani, K., Lange, J. S., Lee, I. S., Lee, J. K., Lee, J. Y., Lee, S. C., Lee, Y. -J., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, J., Li, L. K., Li, Y., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Lieret, K., Limosani, A., Lin, C. -W., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J. T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H. K., Moon, T. J., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Natkaniec, Z., Natochii, A., Nayak, L., Nayak, M., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Pang, T., Panzenböck, E., Pardi, S., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Park, S. -H., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pesántez, L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L. E., Podobnik, T., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M. V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P. K., Ribežl, E., Ritter, M., Röhrken, M., Rorie, J., Rostomyan, A., Rout, N., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schlüter, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smith, K., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stanič, S., Starič, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Thampi, A., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Van Tonder, R., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, E., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Xu, X., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yan, W., Yang, S. B., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The enhancement of charged-particle pairs with large pseudorapidity difference and small azimuthal angle difference, often referred to as the ``ridge signal'', is a phenomenon widely observed in high multiplicity proton-proton, proton-ion and deutron-ion collisions, which is not yet fully understood. In heavy-ion collisions, the hydrodynamic expansion of the Quark-Gluon Plasma is one of the possible explanations of the origin of the ridge signal. Measurements in the $e^+e^-$ collision system, without the complexities introduced by hadron structure in the initial state, can serve as a complementary probe to examine the formation of a ridge signal. The first measurement of two-particle angular correlation functions in high multiplicity $e^+e^-$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=10.52$ GeV is reported. The hadronic $e^+e^-$ annihilation data collected by the Belle detector at KEKB are used in this study. Two-particle angular correlation functions are measured over the full azimuth and large pseudorapidity intervals which are defined by either the electron beam axis or the event thrust as a function of charged particle multiplicity. The measurement in the event thrust analysis, with mostly outgoing quark pairs determining the reference axis, is sensitive to the region of additional soft gluon emissions. No significant ridge signal is observed with either coordinates analyses. Near side jet correlations appear to be absent in the thrust axis analysis. The measurements are compared to predictions from various event generators and expected to provide new constraints to the phenomenological models in the low energy regime., Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures. Conference paper for ICHEP 2020

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2020

29. Lowering the energy threshold in COSINE-100 dark matter searches

Author

Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

COSINE-100 is a dark matter detection experiment that uses NaI(Tl) crystal detectors operating at the Yangyang underground laboratory in Korea since September 2016. Its main goal is to test the annual modulation observed by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment with the same target medium. Recently DAMA/LIBRA has released data with an energy threshold lowered to 1 keV, and the persistent annual modulation behavior is still observed at 9.5$\sigma$. By lowering the energy threshold for electron recoils to 1 keV, COSINE-100 annual modulation results can be compared to those of DAMA/LIBRA in a model-independent way. Additionally, the event selection methods provide an access to a few to sub-GeV dark matter particles using constant rate studies. In this article, we discuss the COSINE-100 event selection algorithm, its validation, and efficiencies near the threshold.

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2020
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30. Measurement of the cosmic muon annual and diurnal flux variation with the COSINE-100 detector

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Collaboration, COSINE-100, Prihtiadi, H., Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., França, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scraff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

We report measurements of annual and diurnal modulations of the cosmic-ray muon rate in the Yangyang underground laboratory (Y2L) using 952 days of COSINE-100 data acquired between September 2016 and July 2019. A correlation of the muon rate with the atmospheric temperature is observed and its amplitude on the muon rate is determined. The effective atmospheric temperature and muon rate variations are positively correlated with a measured effective temperature coefficient of $\alpha_{T}$ = 0.80 $\pm$ 0.11. This result is consistent with a model of meson production in the atmosphere. We also searched for a diurnal modulation in the underground muon rate by comparing one-hour intervals. No significant diurnal modulation of the muon rate was observed., Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures

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2020
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31. The COSINE-100 Liquid Scintillator Veto System

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Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Franca, L. E., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D. S., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

This paper describes the liquid scintillator veto system for the COSINE-100 dark matter experiment and its performance. The COSINE-100 detector consists of eight NaI(Tl) crystals immersed in 2200~L of linear alkylbenzene-based liquid scintillator. The liquid scintillator tags between 65 and 75\% of the internal $^{40}$K background in the 2--6 keV energy region. We also describe the background model for the liquid scintillator, which is primarily used to assess its energy calibration and threshold.

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2020
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32. Experimental determination of the isospin of $\Lambda_c(2765)^+/\Sigma_c(2765)^+$

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The Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Bansal, V., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Bennett, J., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Browder, T. E., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, Y., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Danilov, M., Dash, N., De Nardo, G., Di Carlo, S., Di Capua, F., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drȧsal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dubey, S., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hartbrich, O., Hasegawa, Y., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jang, E. -J., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, C. W., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, Y., Katrenko, P., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kodyš, P., Koga, Y., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kouzes, R. T., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lalwani, K., Lange, J. S., Lee, I. S., Lee, J. K., Lee, J. Y., Lee, S. C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, L. K., Li, Y., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Lieret, K., Limosani, A., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lu, P. -C., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J. T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H. K., Moon, T. J., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Neichi, K., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Onuki, Y., Oskin, P., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Pang, T., Panzenböck, E., Pardi, S., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Park, S. -H., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pavelkin, I., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pesàntez, L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L. E., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M. T., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M. V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P. K., Ribežl, E., Ritter, M., Rorie, J., Rostomyan, A., Rozanska, M., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sahoo, H., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schlüter, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smith, K., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stanič, S., Starič, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Van Tonder, R., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yang, S. B., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zakharov, S., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report an experimental determination of the isospin of $\Lambda_c(2765)^+/\Sigma_c(2765)^+$ using 980 fb$^{-1}$ data in the $e^+e^-$ annihilation around $\sqrt{s} = 10.6$ GeV collected by the Belle detector located at the KEKB collider. The isospin partners are searched for in the $\Sigma_c(2455)^{++/0} \pi^{0}$ channels, and no evidence was obtained. Thus the isospin is determined to be zero, and the particle is established to be a $\Lambda_c$., Comment: Conference paper submitted for Hadron2019

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2019

33. Comparison between DAMA/LIBRA and COSINE-100 in the light of Quenching Factors

Author

Ko, Y. J., Kim, K. W., Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, G. S., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

There is a long standing debate about whether or not the annual modulation signal reported by the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration is induced by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles~(WIMP) in the galaxy's dark matter halo scattering from nuclides in their NaI(Tl) crystal target/detector. This is because regions of WIMP-mass vs. WIMP-nucleon cross-section parameter space that can accommodate the DAMA/LIBRA-phase1 modulation signal in the context of the standard WIMP dark matter galactic halo and isospin-conserving~(canonical), spin-independent~(SI) WIMP-nucleon interactions have been excluded by many of other dark matter search experiments including COSINE-100, which uses the same NaI(Tl) target/detector material. Moreover, the recently released DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 results are inconsistent with an interpretation as WIMP-nuclide scattering via the canonical SI interaction and prefer, instead, isospin-violating or spin-dependent interactions. Dark matter interpretations of the DAMA/LIBRA signal are sensitive to the NaI(Tl) scintillation efficiency for nuclear recoils, which is characterized by so-called quenching factors~(QF), and the QF values used in previous studies differ significantly from recently reported measurements, which may have led to incorrect interpretations of the DAMA/LIBRA signal. In this article, the compatibility of the DAMA/LIBRA and COSINE-100 results, in light of the new QF measurements is examined for different possible types of WIMP-nucleon interactions. The resulting allowed parameter space regions associated with the DAMA/LIBRA signal are explicitly compared with 90\% confidence level upper limits from the initial 59.5~day COSINE-100 exposure. With the newly measured QF values, the allowed 3$\sigma$ regions from the DAMA/LIBRA data are still generally excluded by the COSINE-100 data., Comment: Accepted in JCAP

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2019
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34. Study of cosmogenic radionuclides in the COSINE-100 NaI(Tl) detectors

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de Souza, E. Barbosa, Park, B. J., Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., Carlin, N., Choi, J. J., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, G. S., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Manzato, B. B., Maruyama, R. H., Neal, R. J., Olsen, S. L., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., Yu, G. H., and Collaboration, COSINE-100

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract

COSINE-100 is a direct detection dark matter search experiment that uses a 106 kg array of eight NaI(Tl) crystals that are kept underground at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory to avoid cosmogenic activation of radioisotopes by cosmic rays. Even though the cosmogenic activity is declining with time, there are still significant background rates from the remnant nuclides. In this paper, we report measurements of cosmogenic isotope contaminations with less than one year half-lives that are based on extrapolations of the time dependent activities of their characteristic energy peaks to activity rates at the time the crystals were deployed underground. For longer-lived $^{109}$Cd ($T_{1/2}=1.6$ y) and $^{22}$Na ($T_{1/2}=2.6$ y), we investigate time correlations of characteristic $\gamma$/X-ray peaks. The inferred sea-level production rates are compared with caluclations based on the ACTIVIA and MENDL-2 model calculations and experimental data. For $^{3}$H, which has a long, 12.3 year half-life, we evaluated the activity levels from the exposure times and determined a cosmogenic activation rate that is consistent with other measurements.

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2019
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35. Measurement of $\mathcal{R}(D)$ and $\mathcal{R}(D^{\ast})$ with a semileptonic tagging method

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The Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Aso, T., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Bala, A., Ban, Y., Bansal, V., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Bay, A., Behera, P., Belhorn, M., Belous, K., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F. U., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Blyth, S., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bookwalter, C., Boulahouache, C., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Brodzicka, J., Browder, T. E., Caria, G., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Chen, P., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Dalseno, J., Danilov, M., Dash, N., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dubey, S., Dutta, D., Dutta, K., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Falke, S., Farhat, H., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B. G., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Ganguly, S., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Gillard, R., Giordano, F., Glattauer, R., Goh, Y. M., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hamer, P., Han, Y. L., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hasegawa, Y., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Higuchi, T., Himori, S., Hirose, S., Horiguchi, T., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huschle, M., Hyun, H. J., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itagaki, K., Itoh, R., Iwabuchi, M., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, E., Kato, Y., Katrenko, P., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, K. T., Kim, M. J., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Ko, B. R., Kobayashi, N., Koblitz, S., Kodyš, P., Koga, Y., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kouzes, R. T., Križan, P., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lange, J. S., Lee, D. H., Lee, I. S., Lee, S. -H., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, J., Li, L., Li, X., Li, Y., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Limosani, A., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liu, Z. Q., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lubej, M., Lukin, P., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., Matyja, A., Metzner, F., McOnie, S., Mikami, Y., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Mohapatra, D., Moll, A., Moon, H. K., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagamine, T., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, H., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Nedelkovska, E., Negishi, K., Neichi, K., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Nozaki, T., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Ono, Y., Onuki, Y., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Palka, H., Panzenböck, E., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Paul, S., Peak, L. S., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pesántez, L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Petrič, M., Piilonen, L. E., Poluektov, A., Prasanth, K., Prim, M., Prothmann, K., Pulvermacher, C., Purohit, M. V., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Ribežl, E., Ritter, M., Rorie, J., Rostomyan, A., Rozanska, M., Rummel, S., Ryu, S., Sahoo, H., Salehi, M., Saito, T., Sakai, K., Sakai, Y., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schlüter, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schönmeier, P., Schram, M., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shimizu, N., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smerkol, P., Sohn, Y. -S., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stanič, S., Starič, M., Steder, M., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Z., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Tikhomirov, I., Trabelsi, K., Trusov, V., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uchida, T., Uehara, S., Ueno, K., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Uozumi, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, J., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., White, E., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamaoka, J., Yamashita, Y., Yamauchi, M., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Ziegler, M., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report a measurement of the ratios of branching fractions $\mathcal{R}(D) = {\cal B}(\bar{B} \to D \tau^- \bar{\nu}_{\tau})/{\cal B}(\bar{B} \to D \ell^- \bar{\nu}_{\ell})$ and $\mathcal{R}(D^{\ast}) = {\cal B}(\bar{B} \to D^* \tau^- \bar{\nu}_{\tau})/{\cal B}(\bar{B} \to D^* \ell^- \bar{\nu}_{\ell})$, where $\ell$ denotes an electron or a muon. The results are based on a data sample containing $772\times10^6$ $B\bar{B}$ events recorded at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB $e^+ e^-$ collider. The analysis utilizes a method where the tag-side $B$ meson is reconstructed in a semileptonic decay mode, and the signal-side $\tau$ is reconstructed in a purely leptonic decay. The measured values are $\mathcal{R}(D)= 0.307 \pm 0.037 \pm 0.016$ and $\mathcal{R}(D^{\ast})= 0.283 \pm 0.018 \pm 0.014$, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. These results are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions within $0.2$ and $1.1$ standard deviations, respectively, while their combination agrees with the Standard Model predictions within $1.2$ standard deviations., Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures

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2019

36. A search for solar axion induced signals with COSINE-100

Author

Adhikari, P., Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kang, W., Kauer, M., Kim, G. S., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Maruyama, R. H., Mouton, F., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scar, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment
Abstract

We present results from a search for solar axions with the COSINE-100 experiment. We find no evidence of solar axion events from a data-set of 6,303.9 kg$\cdot$days exposure and set a 90\,\% confidence level upper limit on the axion-electron coupling, $g_{ae}$, at 1.70~$\times$~$10^{-11}$ for an axion mass less than 1\,keV/c$^2$. This limit excludes QCD axions heavier than 0.59\,eV/c$^2$ in the DFSZ model and 168.1\,eV/c$^2$ in the KSVZ model., Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures

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2019
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37. COSINE-100 and DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 in WIMP effective models

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Collaboration, COSINE-100, Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kang, W., Kauer, M., Kim, G. S., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Maruyama, R. H., Mouton, F., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., Group, G. H. Yu. The Sogang Phenomenology, Kang, Sunghyun, Scopel, Stefano, Tomar, Gaurav, and Yoon, Jong-Hyun

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

Assuming a standard Maxwellian for the WIMP velocity distribution, we obtain the bounds from null WIMP search results of 59.5 days of COSINE-100 data on the DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 modulation effect within the context of the non-relativistic effective theory of WIMP-nucleus scattering. Here, we systematically assume that one of the effective operators allowed by Galilean invariance dominates in the effective Hamiltonian of a spin-1/2 dark matter (DM) particle. We find that, although DAMA/LIBRA and COSINE-100 use the same sodium-iodide target, the comparison of the two results still depends on the particle-physics model. This is mainly due to two reasons: i) the WIMP signal spectral shape; ii) the expected modulation fractions, when the upper bound on the time-averaged rate in COSINE-100 is converted into a constraint on the annual modulation component in DAMA/LIBRA. We find that the latter effect is the dominant one. For several effective operators the expected modulation fractions are larger than in the standard spin-independent or spin-dependent interaction cases. As a consequence, compatibility between the modulation effect observed in DAMA/LIBRA and the null result from COSINE-100 is still possible for several non-relativistic operators. At low WIMP masses such relatively high values of the modulation fractions arise because COSINE-100 is mainly sensitive to WIMP-sodium scattering events, due to the higher threshold compared to DAMA/LIBRA. A next COSINE analysis is expected to have a full sensitivity for the 5$\sigma$ region of DAMA/LIBRA., Comment: 22 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Updated to published version

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2019
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38. Search for a Dark Matter-Induced Annual Modulation Signal in NaI(Tl) with the COSINE-100 Experiment

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Collaboration, COSINE-100, Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kang, W., Kauer, M., Kim, G. S., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Maruyama, R. H., Mouton, F., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

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

We present new constraints on the dark matter-induced annual modulation signal using 1.7 years, of COSINE-100 data with a total exposure of 97.7 kg$\cdot$years. The COSINE-100 experiment, consisting of 106 kg of NaI(Tl) target material, is designed to carry out a model-independent test of DAMA/LIBRA's claim of WIMP discovery by searching for the same annual modulation signal using the same NaI(Tl) target. The crystal data show a 2.7 cpd/kg/keV background rate on average in the 2--6 keV energy region of interest. Using a $\chi$-squared minimization method we observe best fit values for modulation amplitude and phase of 0.0092$\pm$0.0067 cpd/kg/keV and 127.2$\pm$45 d, respectively., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, revised version as published in PRL

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2019
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39. First Results from the AMoRE-Pilot neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

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Alenkov, V., Bae, H. W., Beyer, J., Boiko, R. S., Boonin, K., Buzanov, O., Chanthima, N., Cheoun, M. K., Chernyak, D. M., Choe, J. S., Choi, S., Danevich, F. A., Djamal, M., Drung, D., Enss, C., Fleischmann, A., Gangapshev, A. M., Gastaldo, L., Gavriljuk, Yu. M., Gezhaev, A. M., Grigoryeva, V. D., Gurentsov, V. I., Gylova, O., Ha, C., Ha, D. H., Ha, E. J., Hahn, I. S., Jang, C. H., Jeon, E. J., Jeon, J. A., Jo, H. S., Kaewkhao, J., Kang, C. S., Kang, S. J., Kang, W. G., Kazalov, V. V., Khan, A., Khan, S., Kim, D. Y., Kim, G. W., Kim, H. B., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. L., Kim, H. S., Kim, I., Kim, S. C., Kim, S. G., Kim, S. K., Kim, S. R., Kim, W. T., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kirdsiri, K., Ko, Y. J., Kobychev, V. V., Kornoukhov, V., Kuzminov, V. V., Kwon, D. H., Lee, C., Lee, E. K., Lee, H. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J. S., Lee, J. Y., Lee, K. B., Lee, M. H., Lee, M. K., Lee, S. W., Lee, S. H., Leonard, D., Li, J., Li, Y., Limkitjaroenporn, P., Makarov, E. P., Oh, S. Y., Oh, Y. M., Olsen, S. L., Pabitra, A., Panasenko, S. I., Pandey, I., Park, C. W., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Park, S. Y., Poda, D. V., Polischuk, O. G., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Ratkevich, S. S., Rooh, G., Sari, M. B., Seo, K. M., Shin, J. W., Shin, K. A., Shlegel, V. N., Siyeon, K., So, J. H., Son, J. K., Srisittipokakun, N., Sujita, K., Tretyak, V. I., Wirawan, R., Woo, K. R., Yoon, Y. S., Yue, Q., and Zaman, S. U.

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

The Advanced Molybdenum-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE) aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{100}$Mo with $\sim$100 kg of $^{100}$Mo-enriched molybdenum embedded in cryogenic detectors with a dual heat and light readout. At the current, pilot stage of the AMoRE project we employ six calcium molybdate crystals with a total mass of 1.9 kg, produced from $^{48}$Ca-depleted calcium and $^{100}$Mo-enriched molybdenum ($^{48\textrm{depl}}$Ca$^{100}$MoO$_4$). The simultaneous detection of heat(phonon) and scintillation (photon) signals is realized with high resolution metallic magnetic calorimeter sensors that operate at milli-Kelvin temperatures. This stage of the project is carried out in the Yangyang underground laboratory at a depth of 700 m. We report first results from the AMoRE-Pilot $0\nu\beta\beta$ search with a 111 kg$\cdot$d live exposure of $^{48\textrm{depl}}$Ca$^{100}$MoO$_4$ crystals. No evidence for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay of $^{100}$Mo is found, and a upper limit is set for the half-life of 0$\nu\beta\beta$ of $^{100}$Mo of $T^{0\nu}_{1/2} > 9.5\times10^{22}$ y at 90% C.L.. This limit corresponds to an effective Majorana neutrino mass limit in the range $\langle m_{\beta\beta}\rangle\le(1.2-2.1)$ eV.

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2019
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40. Measurement of the $D^{\ast-}$ polarization in the decay $B^0 \to D^{\ast -}\tau^+\nu_{\tau}$

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Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Bansal, V., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Browder, T. E., Campajola, M., Cao, L., Caria, G., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Cheaib, R., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, H. E., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Danilov, M., Dash, N., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dubey, S., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hasegawa, Y., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Horiguchi, T., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itagaki, K., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, C. W., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, E., Kato, Y., Katrenko, P., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, C. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kodyš, P., Koga, Y., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kouzes, R. T., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lalwani, K., Lange, J. S., Lee, I. S., Lee, J. K., Lee, J. Y., Lee, S. C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, L. K., Li, Y., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Lieret, K., Limosani, A., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lu, P. -C., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., McNeil, J. T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Mikami, Y., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H. K., Moon, T. J., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Müller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, H., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Neichi, K., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Ono, Y., Onuki, Y., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Panzenböck, E., Pardi, S., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Park, S. -H., Patra, S., Paul, S., Pavelkin, I., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pesántez, L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L. E., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M. V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P. K., Ribežl, E., Ritter, M., Rorie, J., Rostomyan, A., Rozanska, M., Rummel, S., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sahoo, H., Saito, T., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schlüter, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schönmeier, P., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Smith, K., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stanič, S., Starič, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Z., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uchida, T., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Hulse, C., Van Tonder, R., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yang, S. B., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zakharov, S., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the first measurement of the $D^{\ast -}$ meson polarization in the decay $B^0 \to D^{*-} \tau^+\nu_{\tau}$ using the full data sample of 772$\times 10^6$ $B\bar{B}$ pairs recorded with the Belle detector at the KEKB electron-positron collider. Our result, $F_L^{D^\ast} = 0.60 \pm 0.08 ({\rm stat}) \pm 0.04 ({\rm sys})$, where $F_L^{D^\ast}$ denotes the $D^{\ast-}$ meson longitudinal polarization fraction, agrees within about $1.7$ standard deviations of the standard model prediction., Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, CKM 2018

Published
2019

41. The First Direct Search for Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter with COSINE-100

Author

Ha, C., Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, S., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kang, W., Kauer, M., Kim, G. S., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Maruyama, R. H., Mouton, F., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, K. S., Pitta, R. L. C., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S. J., Rott, C., Shin, K. A., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yu, G. H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

A search for inelastic boosted dark matter (iBDM) using the COSINE-100 detector with 59.5 days of data is presented. This relativistic dark matter is theorized to interact with the target material through inelastic scattering with electrons, creating a heavier state that subsequently produces standard model particles, such as an electron-positron pair. In this study, we search for this electron-positron pair in coincidence with the initially scattered electron as a signature for an iBDM interaction. No excess over the predicted background event rate is observed. Therefore, we present limits on iBDM interactions under various hypotheses, one of which allows us to explore an area of the experimental search for iBDM using a terrestrial detector., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures

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2018
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42. Radioassay of the materials for AMoRE-II experiment

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Agrawal, A., primary, Alenkov, V. V., additional, Aryal, P., additional, Bae, H., additional, Beyer, J., additional, Bhandari, B., additional, Boiko, R. S., additional, Boonin, K., additional, Buzanov, O., additional, Byeon, C. R., additional, Chanthima, N., additional, Cheoun, M. K., additional, Choe, J. S., additional, Choi, S., additional, Choudhury, S., additional, Chung, J. S., additional, Danevich, F. A., additional, Djamal, M., additional, Drung, D., additional, Enss, C., additional, Fleischmann, A., additional, Gangapshev, A. M., additional, Gastaldo, L., additional, Gavrilyuk, Y. M., additional, Gezhaev, A. M., additional, Gileva, O., additional, Grigorieva, V. D., additional, Gurentsov, V. I., additional, Ha, C., additional, Ha, D. H., additional, Ha, E. J., additional, Hwang, D. H., additional, Jeon, E. J., additional, Jeon, J. A., additional, Jo, H. S., additional, Kaewkhao, J., additional, Kang, C. S., additional, Kang, W. G., additional, Kazalov, V. V., additional, Kempf, S., additional, Khan, A., additional, Khan, S., additional, Kim, D. Y., additional, Kim, G. W., additional, Kim, H. B., additional, Kim, H. J., additional, Kim, H. L., additional, Kim, H. S., additional, Kim, M. B., additional, Kim, S. C., additional, Kim, S. K., additional, Kim, S. R., additional, Kim, W. T., additional, Kim, Y. D., additional, Kim, Y. H., additional, Kirdsiri, K., additional, Ko, Y. J., additional, Kobychev, V. V., additional, Kornoukhov, V., additional, Kuzminov, V. V., additional, Kwon, D. H., additional, Lee, C. H., additional, Lee, D. Y., additional, Lee, E. K., additional, Lee, H. J., additional, Lee, H. S., additional, Lee, J., additional, Lee, J. Y., additional, Lee, K. B., additional, Lee, M. H., additional, Lee, M. K., additional, Lee, S. W., additional, Lee, Y. C., additional, Leonard, D. S., additional, Lim, H. S., additional, Mailyan, B., additional, Makarov, E. P., additional, Nyanda, P., additional, Oh, Y., additional, Olsen, S. L., additional, Panasenko, S. I., additional, Park, H. K., additional, Park, H. S., additional, Park, K. S., additional, Park, S. Y., additional, Polischuk, O. G., additional, Prihtiadi, H., additional, Ra, S., additional, Ratkevich, S. S., additional, Rooh, G., additional, Sari, M. B., additional, Seo, J., additional, Seo, K. M., additional, Sharma, B., additional, Shin, K. A., additional, Shlegel, V. N., additional, Siyeon, K., additional, So, J., additional, Sokur, N. V., additional, Son, J. K., additional, Song, J. W., additional, Srisittipokakun, N., additional, Tretyak, V. I., additional, Wirawan, R., additional, Woo, K. R., additional, Yeon, H. J., additional, Yoon, Y. S., additional, and Yue, Q., additional

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2024
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44. Construction of Yemilab

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Park, K. S., primary, Kim, Y. D., additional, Bang, K. M., additional, Park, H. K., additional, Lee, M. H., additional, So, J., additional, Kim, S. H., additional, Jang, J. H., additional, Kim, J. H., additional, and Kim, S. B., additional

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2024
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45. Study of charmless decays $B^{\pm} \to K^{0}_{S} K^{0}_{S} h^{\pm}$ ($h=K,\pi$) at Belle

Author

The Belle Collaboration, Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Bansal, V., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Behera, P., Beleno, C., Belous, K., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bracko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Brodzicka, J., Browder, T. E., Cao, L., Caria, G., Cervenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Danilov, M., Dash, N., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Dolezal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drasal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dubey, S., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Glattauer, R., Goh, Y. M., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hamer, 18 P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hasegawa, Y., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Horiguchi, T., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itagaki, K., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, E., Kato, Y., Katrenko, P., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kodys, P., Koga, Y., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kouzes, R. T., Krizan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnicka, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lange, J. S., Lee, I. S., Lee, S. C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, L. K., Li, Y., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Limosani, A., Liptak, Z., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lu, P. -C., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., Matyja, A., McNeil, J. T., Merola, M., Metzner, F., Mikami, Y., Miyabayashi, K., Miyachi, Y., Miyake, H., Miyata, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizuk, R., Mohanty, G. B., Mohanty, S., Moon, H. K., Mori, T., Morii, T., Moser, H. -G., Mrvar, M., Muller, T., Muramatsu, N., Mussa, R., Nagasaka, Y., Nakahama, Y., Nakamura, I., Nakamura, K. R., Nakano, E., Nakano, H., Nakano, T., Nakao, M., Nakayama, H., Nakazawa, H., Nanut, T., Nath, K. J., Natkaniec, Z., Nayak, M., Neichi, K., Ng, C., Niebuhr, C., Niiyama, M., Nisar, N. K., Nishida, S., Nishimura, K., Nitoh, O., Ogawa, A., Ogawa, K., Ogawa, S., Ohshima, T., Okuno, S., Olsen, S. L., Ono, H., Ono, Y., Onuki, Y., Ostrowicz, W., Oswald, C., Ozaki, H., Pakhlov, P., Pakhlova, G., Pal, B., Palka, H., Panzenbock, E., Pardi, S., Park, C. -S., Park, C. W., Park, H., Park, K. S., Paul, S., Pavelkin, I., Pedlar, T. K., Peng, T., Pesantez, L., Pestotnik, R., Peters, M., Piilonen, L. E., Poluektov, A., Popov, V., Prasanth, K., Prencipe, E., Prim, M., Prothmann, K., Purohit, M. V., Rabusov, A., Rauch, J., Reisert, B., Resmi, P. K., Ribezl, E., Ritter, M., Rorie, J., Rostomyan, A., Rozanska, M., Rummel, S., Russo, G., Sahoo, D., Sahoo, H., Saito, T., Sakai, Y., Salehi, M., Sandilya, S., Santel, D., Santelj, L., Sanuki, T., Sasaki, J., Sasao, N., Sato, Y., Savinov, V., Schluter, T., Schneider, O., Schnell, G., Schonmeier, P., Schram, M., Schueler, J., Schwanda, C., Schwartz, A. J., Schwenker, B., Seidl, R., Seino, Y., Semmler, D., Senyo, K., Seon, O., Seong, I. S., Sevior, M. E., Shang, L., Shapkin, M., Shebalin, V., Shen, C. P., Shibata, T. -A., Shibuya, H., Shinomiya, S., Shiu, J. -G., Shwartz, B., Sibidanov, A., Simon, F., Singh, J. B., Sinha, R., Sokolov, A., Soloviev, Y., Solovieva, E., Stanic, S., Staric, M., Steder, M., Stottler, Z., Strube, J. F., Stypula, J., Sugihara, S., Sugiyama, A., Sumihama, M., Sumisawa, K., Sumiyoshi, T., Sutcliffe, W., Suzuki, K., Suzuki, S., Suzuki, S. Y., Suzuki, Z., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Tikhomirov, I., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uchida, T., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Tonder, R., Van Hulse, C., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zakharov, S., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report a search for charmless hadronic decays of charged $B$ mesons to the final states $K^{0}_{S} K^{0}_{S} K^{\pm}$ and $K^{0}_{S} K^{0}_{S} \pi^{\pm}$ . The results are based on a $711 {fb}^{-1}$ data sample that contains $772 \times 10^6$ $B \bar{B}$ pairs, and was collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. For $B^{\pm} \to K^{0}_{S} K^{0}_{S} K^{\pm}$ decays, the measured branching fraction and direct $CP$ asymmetry are $[10.64\pm0.49(stat)\pm 0.44(syst)]\times10^{-6}$ and [$-0.6\pm3.9(stat)\pm 3.4(syst)$] %, respectively. In the absence of a statistically significant signal for $B^{\pm}\to K^{0}_{S} K^{0}_{S} \pi^{\pm}$, we set the 90 % confidence-level upper limit on its branching fraction at $1.14 \times 10^{-6}$.

Published
2018

46. Measurements of branching fraction and $CP$ asymmetry of the $\bar{B}^{0}(B^{0})\to K^{0}_{S}K^{\mp}\pi^{\pm}$ decay at Belle

Author

Abdesselam, A., Adachi, I., Adamczyk, K., Ahn, J. K., Aihara, H., Said, S. Al, Arinstein, K., Arita, Y., Asner, D. M., Atmacan, H., Aulchenko, V., Aushev, T., Ayad, R., Aziz, T., Babu, V., Badhrees, I., Bahinipati, S., Bakich, A. M., Ban, Y., Bansal, V., Barberio, E., Barrett, M., Bartel, W., Behera, P., Beleño, C., Belous, K., Berger, M., Bernlochner, F., Besson, D., Bhardwaj, V., Bhuyan, B., Bilka, T., Biswal, J., Bloomfield, T., Bobrov, A., Bondar, A., Bonvicini, G., Bozek, A., Bračko, M., Braun, N., Breibeck, F., Brodzicka, J., Browder, T. E., Cao, L., Caria, G., Červenkov, D., Chang, M. -C., Chang, P., Chao, Y., Chekelian, V., Chen, A., Chen, K. -F., Cheon, B. G., Chilikin, K., Chistov, R., Cho, K., Chobanova, V., Choi, S. -K., Choi, Y., Choudhury, S., Cinabro, D., Crnkovic, J., Cunliffe, S., Czank, T., Danilov, M., Dash, N., Di Carlo, S., Dingfelder, J., Doležal, Z., Dong, T. V., Dossett, D., Drásal, Z., Drutskoy, A., Dubey, S., Dutta, D., Eidelman, S., Epifanov, D., Fast, J. E., Feindt, M., Ferber, T., Frey, A., Frost, O., Fulsom, B. G., Garg, R., Gaur, V., Gabyshev, N., Garmash, A., Gelb, M., Gemmler, J., Getzkow, D., Giordano, F., Giri, A., Glattauer, R., Goh, Y. M., Goldenzweig, P., Golob, B., Greenwald, D., Perdekamp, M. Grosse, Grygier, J., Grzymkowska, O., Guan, Y., Guido, E., Guo, H., Haba, J., Hamer, P., Hara, K., Hara, T., Hasegawa, Y., Hasenbusch, J., Hayasaka, K., Hayashii, H., He, X. H., Heck, M., Hedges, M. T., Heffernan, D., Heider, M., Heller, A., Higuchi, T., Hirose, S., Horiguchi, T., Hoshi, Y., Hoshina, K., Hou, W. -S., Hsiung, Y. B., Hsu, C. -L., Huang, K., Huschle, M., Igarashi, Y., Iijima, T., Imamura, M., Inami, K., Inguglia, G., Ishikawa, A., Itagaki, K., Itoh, R., Iwasaki, M., Iwasaki, Y., Iwata, S., Jacobs, W. W., Jaegle, I., Jeon, H. B., Jia, S., Jin, Y., Joffe, D., Jones, M., Joo, K. K., Julius, T., Kahn, J., Kakuno, H., Kaliyar, A. B., Kang, J. H., Kang, K. H., Kapusta, P., Karyan, G., Kataoka, S. U., Kato, E., Kato, Y., Katrenko, P., Kawai, H., Kawasaki, T., Keck, T., Kichimi, H., Kiesling, C., Kim, B. H., Kim, D. Y., Kim, H. J., Kim, H. -J., Kim, J. B., Kim, K. T., Kim, S. H., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. J., Kimmel, T., Kindo, H., Kinoshita, K., Kleinwort, C., Klucar, J., Kobayashi, N., Kodyš, P., Koga, Y., Konno, T., Korpar, S., Kotchetkov, D., Kouzes, R. T., Križan, P., Kroeger, R., Krohn, J. -F., Krokovny, P., Kronenbitter, B., Kuhr, T., Kulasiri, R., Kumar, R., Kumita, T., Kurihara, E., Kuroki, Y., Kuzmin, A., Kvasnička, P., Kwon, Y. -J., Lai, Y. -T., Lange, J. S., Lee, I. S., Lee, S. C., Leitgab, M., Leitner, R., Levit, D., Lewis, P., Li, C. H., Li, H., Li, L. K., Li, Y., Li, Y. B., Gioi, L. Li, Libby, J., Limosani, A., Liu, C., Liu, Y., Liventsev, D., Loos, A., Louvot, R., Lu, P. -C., Lubej, M., Luo, T., MacNaughton, J., Masuda, M., Matsuda, T., Matvienko, D., Matyja, A., McNeil, J. 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Y., Suzuki, Z., Takeichi, H., Takizawa, M., Tamponi, U., Tanaka, M., Tanaka, S., Tanida, K., Taniguchi, N., Tao, Y., Taylor, G. N., Tenchini, F., Teramoto, Y., Tikhomirov, I., Trabelsi, K., Tsuboyama, T., Uchida, M., Uchida, T., Ueda, I., Uehara, S., Uglov, T., Unno, Y., Uno, S., Urquijo, P., Ushiroda, Y., Usov, Y., Vahsen, S. E., Van Tonder, R., Van Hulse, C., Vanhoefer, P., Varner, G., Varvell, K. E., Vervink, K., Vinokurova, A., Vorobyev, V., Vossen, A., Wagner, M. N., Waheed, E., Wang, B., Wang, C. H., Wang, M. -Z., Wang, P., Wang, X. L., Watanabe, M., Watanabe, Y., Watanuki, S., Wedd, R., Wehle, S., Widmann, E., Wiechczynski, J., Williams, K. M., Won, E., Yabsley, B. D., Yamada, S., Yamamoto, H., Yamashita, Y., Yashchenko, S., Ye, H., Yelton, J., Yin, J. H., Yook, Y., Yuan, C. Z., Yusa, Y., Zakharov, S., Zhang, C. C., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, Z. P., Zhao, L., Zhilich, V., Zhukova, V., Zhulanov, V., Zivko, T., Zupanc, A., and Zwahlen, N.

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

We report the measurement of the branching fraction and $CP$ asymmetry for the $\bar{B}^{0}(B^{0})\to K^{0}_{S}K^{\mp}\pi^{\pm}$ decay. The analysis is performed on a data sample of 711 $\rm{fb}^{-1}$ collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider. We obtain a branching fraction of $(3.60\pm0.33\pm0.15)\times10^{-6}$ and an $\mathcal{A}_{CP}$ of $(-8.5\pm8.9\pm0.2)\%$, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. Hints of peaking structures are also observed in the differential branching fraction as functions of Dalitz variables., Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures, ICHEP 2018

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2018

47. The COSINE-100 Data Acquisition System

Author

Collaboration, COSINE-100, Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, S., Choi, W., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hubbard, A. J. F., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kang, W. S., Kauer, M., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, M. C., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H, Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, M. H., Lim, K. E., Leonard, D. S., Maruyama, R. H., Mouton, F., Na, S., Olsen, S. L., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, J. S., Park, K. S., Pettus, W., Prihtiadi, H., Rott, C., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., and Yang, L.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

COSINE-100 is a dark matter direct detection experiment designed to test the annual modulation signal observed by the DAMA/LIBRA experiment. COSINE-100 consists of 8 NaI(Tl) crystals with a total mass of 106 kg, a 2200 L liquid scintillator veto, and 37 muon detector panels. We present details of the data acquisition system of COSINE-100, including waveform storage using flash analog-to-digital converters for crystal events and integrated charge storage using charge-sensitive analog-to-digital converters for liquid scintillator and plastic scintillator muon veto events. We also discuss several trigger conditions developed in order to distinguish signal events from photomultiplier noise events. The total trigger rate observed for the crystal/liquid scintillator (plastic scintillator) detector is 15 Hz (24 Hz).

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2018
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48. Limits on Interactions between Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and Nucleons Obtained with NaI(Tl) crystal Detectors

Author

Kim, K. W., Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., Choi, S., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Jeon, E. J., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kim, H. J., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Ko, Y. J., Lee, H. S., Lee, J. S., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Leonard, D. S., Olsen, S. L., Park, B. J., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., and Park, K. S.

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

Limits on the cross section for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scattering off nucleons in the NaI(Tl) detectors at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory are obtained with a 2967.4 kg*day data exposure. Nuclei recoiling are identified by the pulse shape of scintillating photon signals. Data are consistent with no nuclear recoil hypothesis, and 90% confidence level upper limits are set. These limits partially exclude the DAMA/LIBRA region of WIMP-sodium interaction with the same NaI(Tl) target detector. This 90% confidence level upper limit on WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section is 3.26*10^-4 pb for a WIMP mass at 10 GeV/c^2.

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2018
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49. Background model for the NaI(Tl) crystals in COSINE-100

Author

Adhikari, P., Adhikari, G., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, S., Choi, W. Q., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hubbard, A. J. F., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kang, W. S., Kim, B. H., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, M. C., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Leonard, D. S., Lynch, W. A., Maruyama, R. H., Mouton, F., Olsen, S. L., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, J. S., Park, K. S., Pettus, W., Prihtiadi, H., Ra, S., Rott, C., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yong, S. H.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract

The COSINE-100 dark matter search experiment is an array of NaI(Tl) crystal detectors located in the Yangyang Underground Laboratory (Y2L). To understand measured backgrounds in the NaI(Tl) crystals we have performed Monte Carlo simulations using the Geant4 toolkit and developed background models for each crystal that consider contributions from both internal and external sources, including cosmogenic nuclides. The background models are based on comparisons of measurement data with Monte Carlo simulations that are guided by a campaign of material assays and are used to evaluate backgrounds and identify their sources. The average background level for the six crystals (70 kg total mass) that are studied is 3.5 counts/day/keV/kg in the (2-6) keV energy interval. The dominant contributors in this energy region are found to be $^{210}$Pb and $^3$H.

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2018
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50. Muon detector for the COSINE-100 experiment

Author

Collaboration, COSINE-100, Prihtiadi, H., Adhikari, G., Adhikari, P., de Souza, E. Barbosa, Carlin, N., Choi, S., Choi, W. Q., Djamal, M., Ezeribe, A. C., Ha, C., Hahn, I. S., Hubbard, A. J. F., Jeon, E. J., Jo, J. H., Joo, H. W., Kang, W., Kang, W. G., Kauer, M., Kim, B. H., Kim, H., Kim, H. J., Kim, K. W., Kim, N. Y., Kim, S. K., Kim, Y. D., Kim, Y. H., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Lee, H. S., Lee, J., Lee, J. Y., Lee, M. H., Leonard, D. S., Lim, K. E., Lynch, W. A., Maruyama, R. H., Mouton, F., Olsen, S. L., Park, H. K., Park, H. S., Park, J. S., Park, K. S., Pettus, W., Pierpoint, Z. P., Ra, S., Rogers, F. R., Rott, C., Scarff, A., Spooner, N. J. C., Thompson, W. G., Yang, L., and Yong, S. H.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract

The COSINE-100 dark matter search experiment has started taking physics data with the goal of performing an independent measurement of the annual modulation signal observed by DAMA/LIBRA. A muon detector was constructed by using plastic scintillator panels in the outermost layer of the shield surrounding the COSINE-100 detector. It is used to detect cosmic ray muons in order to understand the impact of the muon annual modulation on dark matter analysis. Assembly and initial performance test of each module have been performed at a ground laboratory. The installation of the detector in Yangyang Underground Laboratory (Y2L) was completed in the summer of 2016. Using three months of data, the muon underground flux was measured to be 328 $\pm$ 1(stat.)$\pm$ 10(syst.) muons/m$^2$/day. In this report, the assembly of the muon detector and the results from the analysis are presented., Comment: 11 pages, 19 figures

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2017
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