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1. Neutrinoless double beta decay search in XENON1T and XENONnT

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Maxime Pierre, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), and XENON

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Physics, Particle physics, xenon: liquid, XENON, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, xenon: nuclide, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], dark matter: direct detection, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], sensitivity, background: radioactivity, activity report
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International audience; With the lowest background level ever reached by detectors searching for rare-events, XENON1Tproved to be the most sensitive dark matter direct detection experiment on earth. The unprecedentedlow level of radioactivity reached, made the XENON1T experiment suitable also for otherinteresting rare-events searches including the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe. In thisproceeding, I will report on the current status of neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe searchin XENON1T. Furthermore, in the context of the advancement of the XENON program, the nextgeneration experiment, XENONnT, designed with a high level of background reduction aimingto increase the predecessor sensitivity in rare-events searches is currently under commissioningphase in the underground National Laboratory of Gran Sasso (LNGS): it hosts 5.9 tonnes ofliquid xenon as a target mass. I will also discuss the ongoing sensitivity projection studies forneutrinoless double beta decay search in XENONnT.

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2021
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2. Observation of two-neutrino double electron capture in 124Xe with XENON1T

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Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Amaro, F. D., Anthony, M., Antochi, V. C., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Benabderrahmane, M. L., Berger, T., Breur, P. A., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M. R., Cichon, D., Coderre, D., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cussonneau, J. P., Decowski, M. P., de Perio, P., di Gangi, P., di Giovanni, A., Diglio, S., Elykov, A., Eurin, G., Fei, J., Ferella, A. D., Fieguth, A., FULGIONE, VALTER, Gallo Rosso, A., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Grandi, L., Greene, Z., Hasterok, C., Hogenbirk, E., Howlett, J., Iacovacci, M., Itay, R., Joerg, F., Kaminsky, B., Kazama, S., Kish, A., Koltman, G., Kopec, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lombardi, F., Lopes, J. A. M., López Fune, E., Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Manfredini, A., Marignetti, F., Marrodán Undagoitia, T., Masbou, J., Masson, D., Mastroianni, S., Messina, M., Micheneau, K., Miller, K., Molinario, A., Morå, K., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Odgers, K., Pelssers, B., Peres, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Podviianiuk, R., Priel, N., Qiu, H., Ramírez García, D., Reichard, S., Riedel, B., Rizzo, A., Rocchetti, A., Rupp, N., Dos Santos, J. M. F., Sartorelli, G., Šarčević, N., Scheibelhut, M., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schulte, D., Schumann, M., Scotto Lavina, L., Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Therreau, C., Thers, D., Toschi, F., TRINCHERO, GIAN CARLO, Tunnell, C., Upole, N., Vargas, M., Wack, O., Wang, H., Wang, Z., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Wenz, D., Wittweg, C., Wulf, J., Ye, J., Zhang, Y., Zhu, T., Zopounidis, J. P., XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Amaro, F. D., Anthony, M., Antochi, V. C., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Bauermeister2, B., Benabderrahmane, M. L., Berger, T., Breur, P. A., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M. R., Cichon, D., Coderre, D., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cussonneau, J. P., Decowski, M. P., de Perio, P., Di Gangi, P., Di Giovanni, A., Diglio, S., Elykov, A., Eurin, G., Fei, J., Ferella, A. D., Fieguth, A., Fulgione, W., Gallo Rosso, A., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Grandi, L., Greene, Z., Hasterok, C., Hogenbirk, E., Howlett, J., Iacovacci, M., Itay, R., Joerg, F., Kaminsky, B., Kazama, S., Kish, A., Koltman, G., Kopec, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lombardi, F., Lopes, J. A. M., López Fune, E., Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Manfredini, A., Marignetti, F., Marrodán Undagoitia, T., Masbou, J., Masson, D., Mastroianni, S., Messina, M., Micheneau, K., Miller, K., Molinario, A., Morå, K., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Odgers, K., Pelssers, B., Peres, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Podviianiuk, R., Priel, N., Qiu, H., Ramírez García, D., Reichard, S., Riedel, B., Rizzo, A., Rocchetti, A., Rupp, N., dos Santos, J. M. F., Sartorelli, G., Šarčević, N., Scheibelhut, M., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schulte, D., Schumann, M., Scotto Lavina, L., Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Therreau, C., Thers, D., Toschi, F., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C., Upole, N., Vargas, M., Wack, O., Wang, H., Wang, Z., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Wenz, D., Wittweg, C., Wulf, J., Ye, J., Zhang, Y., Zhu &amp, T., Zopounidis, J. P., E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, F. D. Amaro, M. Anthony, V. C. Antochi, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, D. Cichon, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, P. de Perio, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, S. Diglio, A. Elykov, G. Eurin, J. Fei, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, W. Fulgione, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, L. Grandi, Z. Greene, C. Hasterok, E. Hogenbirk, J. Howlett, M. Iacovacci, R. Itay, F. Joerg, B. Kaminsky, S. Kazama, A. Kish, G. Koltman, A. Kopec, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, L. Levinson, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, F. Lombardi, J. A. M. Lopes, E. López Fune, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Manfredini, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, D. Masson, S. Mastroianni, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, K. Miller, A. Molinario, K. Morå, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, K. Odgers, B. Pelssers, R. Peres, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, R. Podviianiuk, N. Priel, H. Qiu, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, B. Riedel, A. Rizzo, A. Rocchetti, N. Rupp, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, N. Šarčević, M. Scheibelhut, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, D. Schulte, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, C. Therreau, D. Thers, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, N. Upole, M. Vargas, O. Wack, H. Wang, Z. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, D. Wenz, C. Wittweg, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, T. Zhu & J. P. Zopounidis, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), XENON, Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique)

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electron, Particle physics, Xenon, half-life, Age of the universe, Electron capture, Dark matter, background: model, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, electron: capture, n: thermal, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, weak process, background: low, Neutrino, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, S076H2N, Physics, xenon: liquid, Multidisciplinary, Isotope, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, iodine, neutrino: Majorana: mass, higher-order: 2, Nuclear structure, double-beta decay, dark matter: detector, energy: calibration, Neutrino, Xenon, half-life, electron, double electron capture, weak process, double electron capture, Orders of magnitude (time), chemistry, Dark Matter detector Electron Capture Low Background Double Beta Decay, xenon: nuclide, target: mass, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, energy spectrum: measured, statistical, acceptance
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International audience; Two-neutrino double electron capture (2νECEC) is a second-order weak-interaction process with a predicted half-life that surpasses the age of the Universe by many orders of magnitude1. Until now, indications of 2νECEC decays have only been seen for two isotopes2,3,4,5, 78Kr and 130Ba, and instruments with very low background levels are needed to detect them directly with high statistical significance6,7. The 2νECEC half-life is an important observable for nuclear structure models8,9,10,11,12,13,14 and its measurement represents a meaningful step in the search for neutrinoless double electron capture—the detection of which would establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino and would give access to the absolute neutrino mass15,16,17. Here we report the direct observation of 2νECEC in 124Xe with the XENON1T dark-matter detector. The significance of the signal is 4.4 standard deviations and the corresponding half-life of 1.8 × 1022 years (statistical uncertainty, 0.5 × 1022 years; systematic uncertainty, 0.1 × 1022 years) is the longest measured directly so far. This study demonstrates that the low background and large target mass of xenon-based dark-matter detectors make them well suited for measuring rare processes and highlights the broad physics reach of larger next-generation experiments18,19,20.

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2019
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3. Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of $$^{136}$$Xe

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L. Grandi, A. Manfredini, J. Dierle, R. Peres, M. Clark, Auke-Pieter Colijn, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, P. Di Gangi, Ran Budnik, S. Milutinovic, L. Scotto Lavina, Ferenc Glück, C. Wittweg, Lawrence M. Krauss, A. D. Ferella, Y. Biondi, G. Khundzakishvili, M. Murra, J. Pienaar, C. Capelli, J.M.F. dos Santos, Guido Drexlin, F. Agostini, Marc Schumann, R. F. Lang, Kathrin Valerius, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, João Cardoso, A. Molinario, N. Rupp, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, Ch. Weinheimer, M. Pierre, M. Steidl, D. Cichon, Miguel Silva, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, Kai Zuber, F. Gao, K. Eitel, J. A. M. Lopes, P. Meinhardt, A. Depoian, R. Gumbsheimer, Biljana Antunović, M. P. Decowski, Laura Baudis, J. Qin, C. Therreau, Roberto Trotta, V. Pizzella, Manfred Lindner, Gabriella Sartorelli, D. Ramírez García, C. Tunnell, R. Größle, J. P. Zopounidis, M. Selvi, A. Terliuk, F. Jörg, Mila Pandurovic, P. A. Breur, A. Bismark, H. Landsman, A. Kopec, K. Thieme, Elena Aprile, F. D. Amaro, C. Macolino, L. Althueser, Eef Masson, Michelle Galloway, A. Di Giovanni, Stefan Lindemann, Sara Diglio, F. Girard, D. Vorkapic, Abbe Brown, P. Sanchez-Lucas, D. Schulte, C.M.B. Monteiro, Uwe Oberlack, H. Fischer, A. Loya Villalpando, D. Baur, Giacomo Bruno, J. J. Cuenca-García, G. Volta, S. Reichard, D. Thers, Joachim Wolf, Fabian Kuger, Julien Masbou, H. Simgen, Ralph Engel, University of Bologna, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Columbia University [New York], Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion (CERAG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DARWIN, DARWIN Collaboration, Agostini, F., Maouloud, S. E. M. Ahmed, Althueser, L., Amaro, F., Antunovic, B., Aprile, E., Baudis, L., Baur, D., Biondi, Y., Bismark, A., Breur, P. A., Brown, A., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J., Cichon, D., Clark, M., Colijn, A. P., Cuenca-García, J. J., Cussonneau, J. P., Decowski, M. P., Depoian, A., Dierle, J., Gangi, P. Di, Giovanni, A. Di, Diglio, S., Santos, J. M. F. do, Drexlin, G., Eitel, K., Engel, R., Ferella, A. D., Fischer, H., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Girard, F., Glück, F., Grandi, L., Größle, R., Gumbsheimer, R., Hansmann-Menzemer, S., Jörg, F., Khundzakishvili, G., Kopec, A., Kuger, F., Krauss, L. M., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lopes, J. A. M., Villalpando, A. Loya, Macolino, C., Manfredini, A., Undagoitia, T. Marrodán, Masbou, J., Masson, E., Meinhardt, P., Milutinovic, S., Molinario, A., Monteiro, C. M. B., Murra, M., Oberlack, U. G., Pandurovic, M., Peres, R., Pienaar, J., Pierre, M., Pizzella, V., Qin, J., García, D. Ramírez, Reichard, S., Rupp, N., Sanchez-Lucas, P., Sartorelli, G., Schulte, D., Schumann, M., Lavina, L. Scotto, Selvi, M., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Steidl, M., Terliuk, A., Therreau, C., Thers, D., Thieme, K., Trotta, R., Tunnell, C. D., Valerius, K., Volta, G., Vorkapic, D., Weinheimer, C., Wittweg, C., Wolf, J., Zopounidis, J. P., Zuber, K., and XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI)

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, Neutrino-less, Liquid Xenon, Sensitivity, Dark Matter search, Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, Isotopes of xenon, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, Sensitivity (control systems), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Nuclear Experiment, activity report, Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), dark matter: detector, sensitivity, time projection chamber, chemistry, xenon: nuclide, proposed experiment, numerical calculations: Monte Carlo, Energy (signal processing), Radioactive decay
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The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe. Out of its 50$\,$t total natural xenon inventory, 40$\,$t will be the active target of a time projection chamber which thus contains about 3.6 t of $^{136}$Xe. Here, we show that its projected half-life sensitivity is $2.4\times10^{27}\,$yr, using a fiducial volume of 5t of natural xenon and 10$\,$yr of operation with a background rate of less than 0.2$~$events/(t$\cdot$yr) in the energy region of interest. This sensitivity is based on a detailed Monte Carlo simulation study of the background and event topologies in the large, homogeneous target. DARWIN will be comparable in its science reach to dedicated double beta decay experiments using xenon enriched in $^{136}$Xe., 12 pages, 9 figures

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2020
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4. Topological background discrimination in the PandaX-III neutrinoless double beta decay experiment

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Galan, J, Chen, X, Du, H, Fu, C, Giboni, K, Giuliani, F, Han, K, Jiang, B, Ji, X, Lin, H, Lin, Y, Liu, J, Ni, K, Ren, X, Wang, S, Wu, S, Xie, C, Yang, Y, Zhang, D, Zhang, T, Zhao, L, Aune, S, Bedfer, Y, Berthoumieux, E, Calvet, D, d'Hose, N, Ferrer-Ribas, E, Kunne, F, Manier, B, Neyret, D, Papaevangelou, T, Chen, L, Hu, S, Jian, S, Li, P, Li, X, Zhang, H, Zhao, M, Zhou, J, Mao, Y, Qiao, H, Yuan, Y, Wang, M, Chen, Y, Khan, A N, Raper, N, Tang, J, Wang, W, Feng, C, Li, C, Liu, S, Wang, X, Zhu, D, Castel, J F, Cebrián, S, Dafni, T, Irastorza, I G, Luzón, G, Mirallas, H, Sun, X, Tan, A, Haxton, W, Mei, Y, Kobdaj, C, Yan, Y, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Topology, 01 natural sciences, programming, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, track data analysis, background, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), time projection chamber, Orders of magnitude (time), xenon: nuclide, Event (particle physics), Electron scattering, Energy (signal processing)
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The PandaX-III experiment plans to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$) of $^{136}$Xe in the China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL). The experiment will use a high pressure gaseous Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to register both the energy and the electron track topology of an event. This article is devoted to the software side of the experiment. As software tool we use REST, a framework developed for the reconstruction and simulation of TPC-based detector systems. We study the potential for background reduction by introducing appropiate parameters based on the properties of 0$\nu\beta\beta$ events. We exploit for the first time not only the energy density of the electron track-ends, but also the electron scattering angles produced by an electron near the end of its trajectory. To implement this, we have added new algorithms for detector signal and track processing inside REST. Their assessment shows that background can be reduced by about 7 orders of magnitude while keeping 0$\nu\beta\beta$ efficiency above 20% for the PandaX-III baseline readout scheme, a 2-dimensional 3mm-pitch stripped readout. More generally, we use the potential of REST to handle 2D/3D data to assess the impact on signal-to-background significance at different detector granularities, and to validate the PandaX-III baseline choice. Finally, we demonstrate the potential to discriminate surface background events generated at the readout plane in the absence of $t_o$, by making use of event parameters related with the diffusion of electrons., Comment: 40 pages, 15 figures. Prepared for submission to Journal of Physics G

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2020
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5. New Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of $^{129}$Xe using $^{3}$He Comagnetometry and SQUID Detection

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Sachdeva, N., Fan, I., Babcock, E., Burghoff, M., Chupp, T.E., Degenkolb, S., Fierlinger, P., Haude, S., Kraegeloh, E., Kilian, W., Knappe-Grüneberg, S., Kuchler, F., Liu, T., Marino, M., Meinel, J., Rolfs, K., Salhi, Z., Schnabel, A., Singh, J.T., Stuiber, S., Terrano, W.A., Trahms, L., Voigt, J., Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), and ILL

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spin: precession, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), measurement methods, FOS: Physical sciences, Molecular, electric moment: upper limit, and Optical Physics, Atomic, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph], Physics - Atomic Physics, xenon: nuclide, ddc:530, nucleus: electric moment, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], spin: polarization, helium: nuclide, interference: quantum, detector: design, experimental results
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We report results of a new technique to measure the electric dipole moment of $^{129}$Xe with $^3$He comagnetometry. Both species are polarized using spin-exchange optical pumping, transferred to a measurement cell, and transported into a magnetically shielded room, where SQUID magnetometers detect free precession in applied electric and magnetic fields. The result from a one week measurement campaign in 2017 and a 2.5 week campaign in 2018, combined with detailed study of systematic effects, is $d_A(^{129}\mathrm{Xe}) = (1.4 \pm 6.6_\mathrm{stat} \pm 2.0_\mathrm{syst})\times10^{-28}~e\,\mathrm{cm}$. This corresponds to an upper limit of $|d_A(^{129}\mathrm{Xe})| < 1.4 \times 10^{-27} ~e\,\mathrm{cm}~(95\%~\mathrm{CL})$, a factor of five more sensitive than the limit set in 2001., To be published in Physical Review Letters. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1902.02864

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2019
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6. Double-beta decay of $^{130}\hbox {Te}$ to the first $0^+$ excited state of $^{130}\hbox {Xe}$ with CUORE-0

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Alan R. Smith, Massimiliano Clemenza, Carlo Cosmelli, Oliviero Cremonesi, L. Canonica, L. Marini, Kevin Hickerson, L. Gladstone, M. Faverzani, C. Rosenfeld, R. Hennings-Yeomans, P. Gorla, F. Ferroni, B. X. Zhu, C. Tomei, S. Zucchelli, R. J. Creswick, Emanuele Ferri, Eugene E. Haller, C. Brofferio, James R. Wilson, P. J. Mosteiro, S. Zimmermann, C. Bucci, T. D. Gutierrez, Miriam Lucio Martinez, S. Morganti, D. R. Artusa, Monica Sisti, V. Palmieri, C. J. Davis, L. Carbone, N. Casali, A. Camacho, S. Copello, Eric B. Norman, T. Napolitano, Jeremy S. Cushman, G. Piperno, G. Bari, L. Zanotti, Ke Han, Reina H. Maruyama, Yu. G. Kolomensky, Luigi Cappelli, Davide Chiesa, K. E. Lim, Paolo Carniti, N. D. Scielzo, S. L. Wagaarachchi, Stuart J. Freedman, L. Taffarello, M. Maino, Lorenzo Cassina, Jeffrey W. Beeman, S. Trentalange, M. Biassoni, M. M. Deninno, S. Di Domizio, Y. Mei, I. Dafinei, Guimin Zhang, A. Bersani, A. D'Addabbo, N. Moggi, Simone Capelli, R. W. Kadel, M. Pavan, L. Gironi, F. T. Avignone, Claudio Gotti, H. Z. Huang, B. K. Fujikawa, S. Pirro, Stefano Dell'Oro, Carlo Ligi, Stefano Pozzi, C. Pira, Samuele Sangiorgio, H. W. Wang, G. Keppel, Xi-Guang Cao, A. Leder, F. Bellini, A. Nucciotti, Yu-Gang Ma, T. O'Donnell, A. Caminata, Ezio Previtali, T. I. Banks, K. M. Heeger, M. Vignati, A. Woodcraft, X. Liu, A. Giuliani, G. Fernandes, C. Alduino, F. Orio, Vasundhara Singh, J. Feintzeig, D. Santone, F. Terranova, Ettore Fiorini, E. V. Hansen, N. Chott, M. Tenconi, B. S. Wang, Marco Pallavicini, O. Azzolini, G. Pessina, K. Alfonso, M. L. Di Vacri, C. Nones, C. Rusconi, V. Pettinacci, L. Cardani, Lindley Winslow, L. Pattavina, A. Drobizhev, M. A. Franceschi, A. Giachero, D. Q. Fang, J. L. Ouellet, C. Pagliarone, T. Wise, Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière (CSNSM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, CUORE, and Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP)

Subjects
Semileptonic decay, topology, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), energy levels: splitting, data acquisition, detector: mass, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, energy: transition, CUORE, background: low, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics, S076H0N, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, excited state: energy, particle: Majorana, semileptonic decay, Excited state, xenon: nuclide, tellurium: nuclide, Neutrino, Atomic physics, Radioactive decay
Abstract

We report on a search for double beta decay of $$^{130}\hbox {Te}$$130Te to the first $$0^{+}$$0+ excited state of $$^{130}\hbox {Xe}$$130Xe using a $$9.8\,\hbox {kg}\cdot \hbox {yr}$$9.8kg·yr exposure of $$^{130}\hbox {Te}$$130Te collected with the CUORE-0 experiment. In this work we exploit different topologies of coincident events to search for both the neutrinoless and two-neutrino double beta decay modes. We find no evidence for either mode and place lower bounds on the half-lives: $$T^{0\nu }_{0^+_1}>7.9\cdot 10^{23}\hbox {yr}$$T01+0ν>7.9·1023yr and $$T^{2\nu }_{0^+_1}>2.4\cdot 10^{23}\hbox {yr}$$T01+2ν>2.4·1023yr ($$90\%\,\hbox {CL}$$90%CL). Combining our results with those obtained by the CUORICINO experiment, we achieve the most stringent constraints available for these processes: $$T^{0\nu }_{0^+_1}>1.4\cdot 10^{24}\hbox {yr}$$T01+0ν>1.4·1024yr and $$T^{2\nu }_{0^+_1}>2.5\cdot 10^{23}\hbox {yr}$$T01+2ν>2.5·1023yr ($$90\%\,\hbox {CL}$$90%CL).

Published
2019
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7. Study of a spherical Xenon gas TPC for neutrinoless double beta detection

Author

F. Piquemal, A. Dastgheibi-Fard, I. Katsioulas, J. Busto, X. F. Navick, L. Simard, M. Chauveau, S. Jullian, M. Gros, P. Lautridou, Ch. Marquet, F. Perrot, I. Giomataris, M. Zampaolo, A. Meregaglia, C. Cerna, C. Jollet, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM - UMR 6417), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-IMT Atlantique (IMT Atlantique), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan ( CENBG ), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille ( CPPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ), Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane ( LSM - UMR 6417 ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire ( LAL ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées ( SUBATECH ), and IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire ( IMT Atlantique ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Nantes ( UN )

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, energy resolution, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, time projection chamber: design, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, xenon: gas, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), energy: threshold, Xenon, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), chemistry, Weakly interacting massive particles, xenon: nuclide, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Radioactive decay
Abstract

Several efforts are ongoing for the development of spherical gaseous time projection chamber detectors for the observation of rare phenomena such as weakly interacting massive particles or neutrino interactions. The proposed detector, thanks to its simplicity, low energy threshold and energy resolution, could be used to observe the $\beta\beta0\nu$ process i.e. the neutrinoless double beta decay. In this work, a specific setup is presented for the measurement of $\beta\beta0\nu$ on 50~kg of $^{136}$Xe. The different backgrounds are studied, demonstrating the possibility to reach a total background per year in the detector mass at the level of 2 events per year. The obtained results are competitive with the present generation of experiments and could represent the first step of a more ambitious roadmap including the $\beta\beta0\nu$ search with different gases with the same detector and therefore the same background sources. The constraints in terms of detector constructions and material purity are also addressed, showing that none of them represents a show stopper for the proposed experimental setup.

Published
2018
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8. Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments with Xenon in Dual Phase

Author

Masbou, J., Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), and Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST)

Subjects
XENON, LUX, dark matter: interaction, exceptional, xenon: nuclide, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], talk: La Thuile 2017/03/18, dark matter: direct detection, sensitivity, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], WIMP: dark matter, experimental results
Abstract

International audience; Dual phase (liquid-gas) direct detection xenon experiments have recentlydemonstrated their exceptional capabilities for rare event detection. Theyexamine the interaction of dark matter particles through their scatter offnuclei in the target. This technology currently achieves the most stringentlimits on WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) searches: it is evolvingrapidly since the last decade and is expected to continue leading the field. Themost recent results from LUX, PandaX and XENON Collaborations are reviewed,focused on dark matter sensitivity limits.

Published
2017

9. PandaX-III: Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with high pressure$^{136}$Xe gas time projection chambers

Author

Hao Qiao, Huanqiao Zhang, N. Raper, Wei Wang, Mingrui Zhao, Fabienne Kunne, Jing Zhou, Meng Wang, Yu-Peng Yan, F. Sabatié, C. F. Feng, Ying Yuan, D. Calvet, F.J. Iguaz, Xun Chen, S. Cebrián, Xiangdong Ji, Karl Giboni, Linghui Gu, Andi Tan, I. G. Irastorza, Shaobo Wang, Shubin Liu, Siyu Jian, E. Ferrer-Ribas, E. Berthoumieux, Dan Zhang, Amir N. Khan, G. Luzón, Jianbei Liu, Wick Haxton, A. Delbart, H. Mirallas, Stephan Aune, Danyang Zhu, Javier Galan, Andrea Ferrero, T. Papaevangelou, Chinorat Kobdaj, T. Dafni, Yajun Mao, Xiangxiang Ren, Kaixiang Ni, J. F. Castel, Shouyang Hu, Yong Yang, Heng Lin, Xinglong Li, Xiaomei Li, Hiroki Kusano, Maria Diakaki, Cheng Li, Siguang Wang, Xiangming Sun, Changbo Fu, Damien Neyret, Tao Zhang, Y. Bedfer, Maxence Vanderbroucke, Ke Han, J.Q. Dong, Jian Tang, Nicole d’Hose, Hao Liang, Xiaolian Wang, J.G. Garza, Y Mei, Li Zhao, Jianglai Liu, Franco Giuliani, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) (DPHN), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département de Physique Nucléaire (ex SPhN) ( DPHN ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, energy resolution, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, neutrinoless double beta decay, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Xenon, double-beta decay: (0neutrino), [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Double beta decay, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Gas detector, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], [ PHYS.NEXP ] Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, [ PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET ] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment, spatial resolution, detector: design, Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, MicroMegas detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), time projection chamber, lepton number violation, chemistry, underground experiment, xenon: nuclide, TPC, Neutrino, PandaX, Micromegas
Abstract

International audience; Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay (NLDBD) is now regarded as the topmost promising technique to explore the nature of neutrinos after the discovery of neutrino masses in oscillation experiments. PandaX-III (particle and astrophysical xenon experiment III) will search for the NLDBD of$^{136}$Xe at the China Jin Ping Underground Laboratory (CJPL). In the first phase of the experiment, a high pressure gas Time Projection Chamber (TPC) will contain 200 kg, 90%$^{136}$Xe enriched gas operated at 10 bar. Fine pitch micro-pattern gas detector (Microbulk Micromegas) will be used at both ends of the TPC for the charge readout with a cathode in the middle. Charge signals can be used to reconstruct the electron tracks of the NLDBD events and provide good energy and spatial resolution. The detector will be immersed in a large water tank to ensure ~5 m of water shielding in all directions. The second phase, a ton-scale experiment, will consist of five TPCs in the same water tank, with improved energy resolution and better control over backgrounds.

Published
2017
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