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1. The XENONnT dark matter experiment

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XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, K. Abe, S. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser, B. Andrieu, E. Angelino, J. R. Angevaare, V. C. Antochi, D. Antón Martin, F. Arneodo, M. Balata, L. Baudis, A. L. Baxter, M. Bazyk, L. Bellagamba, R. Biondi, A. Bismark, E. J. Brookes, A. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, T. K. Bui, C. Cai, J. M. R. Cardoso, F. Cassese, A. Chiarini, D. Cichon, A. P. Cimental Chavez, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, R. Corrieri, J. J. Cuenca-García, J. P. Cussonneau, O. Dadoun, V. D’Andrea, M. P. Decowski, B. De Fazio, P. Di Gangi, S. Diglio, J. M. Disdier, D. Douillet, K. Eitel, A. Elykov, S. Farrell, A. D. Ferella, C. Ferrari, H. Fischer, M. Flierman, S. Form, D. Front, W. Fulgione, C. Fuselli, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, R. Gardner, N. Garroum, R. Glade-Beucke, L. Grandi, J. Grigat, H. Guan, M. Guerzoni, M. Guida, R. Hammann, A. Higuera, C. Hils, L. Hoetzsch, N. F. Hood, J. Howlett, C. Huhmann, M. Iacovacci, G. Iaquaniello, L. Iven, Y. Itow, J. Jakob, F. Joerg, A. Joy, M. Kara, P. Kavrigin, S. Kazama, M. Kobayashi, G. Koltman, A. Kopec, F. Kuger, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, L. Levinson, I. Li, S. Li, S. Liang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, K. Liu, J. Loizeau, F. Lombardi, J. Long, J. A. M. Lopes, Y. Ma, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Mancuso, L. Manenti, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, P. Martella, K. Martens, J. Masbou, D. Masson, E. Masson, S. Mastroianni, E. Mele, M. Messina, R. Michinelli, K. Miuchi, A. Molinario, S. Moriyama, K. Morå, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, J. Müller, K. Ni, S. Nisi, U. Oberlack, D. Orlandi, R. Othegraven, B. Paetsch, J. Palacio, S. Parlati, P. Paschos, Q. Pellegrini, R. Peres, C. Peters, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, G. Plante, T. R. Pollmann, J. Qi, J. Qin, D. Ramírez García, M. Rynge, J. Shi, R. Singh, L. Sanchez, J. M. F. dos Santos, I. Sarnoff, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, D. Schulte, P. Schulte, H. Schulze Eißing, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, F. Semeria, P. Shagin, S. Shi, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, J. Stephen, M. Stern, B. K. Stillwell, A. Takeda, P.-L. Tan, D. Tatananni, A. Terliuk, D. Thers, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, F. Tönnies, K. Valerius, G. Volta, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss, D. Wenz, J. Westermann, C. Wittweg, T. Wolf, V. H. S. Wu, Y. Xing, D. Xu, Z. Xu, M. Yamashita, L. Yang, J. Ye, L. Yuan, G. Zavattini, M. Zhong, and T. Zhu

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Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The multi-staged XENON program at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso aims to detect dark matter with two-phase liquid xenon time projection chambers of increasing size and sensitivity. The XENONnT experiment is the latest detector in the program, planned to be an upgrade of its predecessor XENON1T. It features an active target of 5.9 tonnes of cryogenic liquid xenon (8.5 tonnes total mass in cryostat). The experiment is expected to extend the sensitivity to WIMP dark matter by more than an order of magnitude compared to XENON1T, thanks to the larger active mass and the significantly reduced background, improved by novel systems such as a radon removal plant and a neutron veto. This article describes the XENONnT experiment and its sub-systems in detail and reports on the detector performance during the first science run.

Published
2024
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2. Improved treatment of the T $$_2$$ 2 molecular final-states uncertainties for the KATRIN neutrino-mass measurement

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S. Schneidewind, J. Schürmann, A. Lokhov, C. Weinheimer, and A. Saenz

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to determine the effective mass of the electron antineutrino via a high-precision measurement of the tritium $$\upbeta $$ β -decay spectrum in its end-point region. The target neutrino-mass sensitivity of $${0.2}~\text {eV}/\text {c}^2$$ 0.2 eV / c 2 at 90% CL can only be achieved in the case of high statistics and good control of the systematic uncertainties. One key systematic effect originates from the calculation of the molecular final states of T $$_2$$ 2 $$\upbeta $$ β decay. In the first neutrino-mass analyses of KATRIN the contribution of the uncertainty of the molecular final-states distribution (FSD) was estimated via a conservative phenomenological approach to be $$2 \times 10^{-2}~\text {eV}^{2}/\text {c}^{4}.$$ 2 × 10 - 2 eV 2 / c 4 . In this work a new procedure is presented for estimating the FSD-related uncertainties by considering the details of the final-states calculation, i.e. the uncertainties of constants, parameters, and functions used in the calculation as well as its convergence itself as a function of the basis-set size used in expanding the molecular wave functions. The calculated uncertainties are directly propagated into the experimental observable, the squared neutrino mass $$m_\nu ^2,$$ m ν 2 , and thus have to be determined individually for each experimental configuration. For the experimental conditions of the first KATRIN measurement campaign the new procedure is presented in detail, allowing for the application of this procedure to other experiments. This specific calculation leads to a constraint of the FSD-related uncertainty of $$1.3 \times 10^{-3}~\text {eV}^{2}/\text {c}^{4},$$ 1.3 × 10 - 3 eV 2 / c 4 , well below the design limit of $$7.5 \times 10^{-3}~\text {eV}^{2}/\text {c}^{4}$$ 7.5 × 10 - 3 eV 2 / c 4 for any individual systematic contribution.

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2024
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3. Cosmogenic background simulations for neutrinoless double beta decay with the DARWIN observatory at various underground sites

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DARWIN Collaboration, M. Adrover, L. Althueser, B. Andrieu, E. Angelino, J. R. Angevaare, B. Antunovic, E. Aprile, M. Babicz, D. Bajpai, E. Barberio, L. Baudis, M. Bazyk, N. Bell, L. Bellagamba, R. Biondi, Y. Biondi, A. Bismark, C. Boehm, A. Breskin, E. J. Brookes, A. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, A. Chauvin, A. P. Cimental Chavez, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. J. Cuenca-García, V. D’Andrea, M. P. Decowski, A. Deisting, P. Di Gangi, S. Diglio, M. Doerenkamp, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, A. Elykov, R. Engel, S. Farrell, A. D. Ferella, C. Ferrari, H. Fischer, M. Flierman, W. Fulgione, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, M. Galloway, N. Garroum, S. Ghosh, F. Girard, R. Glade-Beucke, F. Glück, L. Grandi, J. Grigat, R. Größle, H. Guan, M. Guida, R. Hammann, V. Hannen, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, N. Hargittai, T. Hasegawa, C. Hils, A. Higuera, K. Hiraoka, L. Hoetzsch, M. Iacovacci, Y. Itow, J. Jakob, F. Jörg, M. Kara, P. Kavrigin, S. Kazama, M. Keller, B. Kilminster, M. Kleifges, M. Kobayashi, A. Kopec, B. von Krosigk, F. Kuger, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, I. Li, S. Li, S. Liang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, F. Lombardi, J. Loizeau, T. Luce, Y. Ma, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Mancuso, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. A. M. Lopes, F. Marignetti, K. Martens, J. Masbou, S. Mastroianni, S. Milutinovic, K. Miuchi, R. Miyata, A. Molinario, C. M. B. Monteiro, K. Morå, E. Morteau, Y. Mosbacher, J. Müller, M. Murra, J. L. Newstead, K. Ni, U. G. Oberlack, I. Ostrovskiy, B. Paetsch, M. Pandurovic, Q. Pellegrini, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, M. Piotter, G. Plante, T. R. Pollmann, L. Principe, J. Qi, J. Qin, M. Rajado Silva, D. Ramírez García, A. Razeto, S. Sakamoto, L. Sanchez, P. Sanchez-Lucas, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, A. Scaffidi, P. Schulte, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, H. Schulze Eißing, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, F. Semeria, P. Shagin, S. Sharma, W. Shen, M. Silva, H. Simgen, R. Singh, M. Solmaz, O. Stanley, M. Steidl, P.-L. Tan, A. Terliuk, D. Thers, T. Thümmler, F. Tönnies, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, R. Trotta, C. Tunnell, P. Urquijo, K. Valerius, S. Vecchi, S. Vetter, G. Volta, D. Vorkapic, W. Wang, K. M. Weerman, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss, D. Wenz, C. Wittweg, J. Wolf, T. Wolf, V. H. S. Wu, M. Wurm, Y. Xing, M. Yamashita, J. Ye, G. Zavattini, and K. Zuber

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract Xenon dual-phase time projections chambers (TPCs) have proven to be a successful technology in studying physical phenomena that require low-background conditions. With $$40\,\textrm{t}$$ 40 t of liquid xenon (LXe) in the TPC baseline design, DARWIN will have a high sensitivity for the detection of particle dark matter, neutrinoless double beta decay ( $$0\upnu \upbeta \upbeta $$ 0 ν β β ), and axion-like particles (ALPs). Although cosmic muons are a source of background that cannot be entirely eliminated, they may be greatly diminished by placing the detector deep underground. In this study, we used Monte Carlo simulations to model the cosmogenic background expected for the DARWIN observatory at four underground laboratories: Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM) and SNOLAB. We present here the results of simulations performed to determine the production rate of $${}^{137}$$ 137 Xe, the most crucial isotope in the search for $$0\upnu \upbeta \upbeta $$ 0 ν β β of $${}^{136}$$ 136 Xe. Additionally, we explore the contribution that other muon-induced spallation products, such as other unstable xenon isotopes and tritium, may have on the cosmogenic background.

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2024
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4. Erratum to: Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of $$^{136}$$ 136 Xe

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F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser, F. Amaro, B. Antunovic, E. Aprile, L. Baudis, D. Baur, Y. Biondi, A. Bismark, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. Cardoso, D. Cichon, M. Clark, A. P. Colijn, J. J. Cuenca-García, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, A. Depoian, J. Dierle, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, S. Diglio, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, R. Engel, A. D. Ferella, H. Fischer, M. Galloway, F. Gao, F. Girard, F. Glück, L. Grandi, R. Größle, R. Gumbsheimer, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, F. Jörg, G. Khundzakishvili, A. Kopec, F. Kuger, L. M. Krauss, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Loya Villalpando, C. Macolino, A. Manfredini, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, E. Masson, P. Meinhardt, S. Milutinovic, A. Molinario, C. M. B. Monteiro, M. Murra, U. G. Oberlack, M. Pandurovic, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, V. Pizzella, J. Qin, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, N. Rupp, P. Sanchez-Lucas, G. Sartorelli, D. Schulte, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. Steidl, A. Terliuk, C. Therreau, D. Thers, K. Thieme, R. Trotta, C. D. Tunnell, K. Valerius, G. Volta, D. Vorkapic, C. Weinheimer, C. Wittweg, J. Wolf, J. P. Zopounidis, K. Zuber, and DARWIN Collaboration

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract We correct an overestimation of the production rate of $$^{137}$$ 137 Xe in the DARWIN detector operated at LNGS. This formerly dominant intrinsic background source is now at a level similar to the irreducible background from solar $$^8$$ 8 B neutrinos, thus unproblematic at the LNGS depth. The projected half-life sensitivity for the neutrinoless double beta decay ( $$0\nu \beta \beta $$ 0 ν β β ) of $$^{136}$$ 136 Xe improves by $$22\%$$ 22 % compared to the previously reported number and is now $$T^{0\nu }_{1/2}= {3.0\times 10^{27}} \hbox { yr}$$ T 1 / 2 0 ν = 3.0 × 10 27 yr (90% C.L.) after 10 years of DARWIN operation.

Published
2023
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5. Search for keV-scale sterile neutrinos with the first KATRIN data

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M. Aker, D. Batzler, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, B. Bieringer, F. Block, S. Bobien, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, M. Böttcher, T. Brunst, T. S. Caldwell, S. Chilingaryan, W. Choi, K. Debowski, M. Descher, D. Díaz Barrero, P. J. Doe, O. Dragoun, G. Drexlin, F. Edzards, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, A. Felden, J. A. Formaggio, F. M. Fränkle, G. B. Franklin, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, K. Gauda, A. S. Gavin, W. Gil, F. Glück, R. Grössle, R. Gumbsheimer, V. Hannen, N. Haußmann, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, R. Hiller, D. Hillesheimer, D. Hinz, T. Höhn, T. Houdy, A. Huber, A. Jansen, C. Karl, J. Kellerer, M. Kleifges, M. Klein, C. Köhler, L. Köllenberger, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalík, B. Krasch, H. Krause, L. La Cascio, T. Lasserre, T. L. Le, O. Lebeda, B. Lehnert, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, E. Malcherek, M. Mark, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, C. Melzer, S. Mertens, J. Mostafa, K. Müller, H. Neumann, S. Niemes, P. Oelpmann, D. S. Parno, A. W. P. Poon, J. M. L. Poyato, F. Priester, J. Ráliš, S. Ramachandran, R. G. H. Robertson, W. Rodejohann, C. Rodenbeck, M. Röllig, C. Röttele, M. Ryšavý, R. Sack, A. Saenz, R. Salomon, P. Schäfer, L. Schimpf, M. Schlösser, K. Schlösser, L. Schlüter, S. Schneidewind, M. Schrank, A. Schwemmer, M. Šefǧík, V. Sibille, D. Siegmann, M. Slezák, F. Spanier, M. Steidl, M. Sturm, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thümmler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, K. Urban, K. Valerius, D. Vénos, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, C. Weinheimer, S. Welte, J. Wendel, M. Wetter, C. Wiesinger, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wüstling, J. Wydra, W. Xu, S. Zadoroghny, and G. Zeller

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract In this work we present a keV-scale sterile-neutrino search with a low-tritium-activity data set of the KATRIN experiment, acquired in a commissioning run in 2018. KATRIN performs a spectroscopic measurement of the tritium $$\upbeta $$ β -decay spectrum with the main goal of directly determining the effective electron anti-neutrino mass. During this commissioning phase a lower tritium activity facilitated the measurement of a wider part of the tritium spectrum and thus the search for sterile neutrinos with a mass of up to $$1.6\, \textrm{keV}$$ 1.6 keV . We do not find a signal and set an exclusion limit on the sterile-to-active mixing amplitude of $$\sin ^2\theta < 5\times 10^{-4}$$ sin 2 θ < 5 × 10 - 4 ( $$95\%$$ 95 % C.L.) at a mass of 0.3 keV. This result improves current laboratory-based bounds in the sterile-neutrino mass range between 0.1 and 1.0 keV.

Published
2023
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6. Low-energy calibration of XENON1T with an internal $$^{{\textbf {37}}}$$ 37 Ar source

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E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini, S. Ahmed Maouloud, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, B. Andrieu, E. Angelino, J. R. Angevaare, V. C. Antochi, D. Antón Martin, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, A. L. Baxter, L. Bellagamba, R. Biondi, A. Bismark, A. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, T. K. Bui, C. Cai, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, D. Cichon, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. J. Cuenca-García, J. P. Cussonneau, V. D’Andrea, M. P. Decowski, P. Di Gangi, S. Di Pede, S. Diglio, K. Eitel, A. Elykov, S. Farrell, A. D. Ferella, C. Ferrari, H. Fischer, W. Fulgione, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, R. Glade-Beucke, L. Grandi, J. Grigat, M. Guida, R. Hammann, A. Higuera, C. Hils, L. Hoetzsch, J. Howlett, M. Iacovacci, Y. Itow, J. Jakob, F. Joerg, A. Joy, N. Kato, M. Kara, P. Kavrigin, S. Kazama, M. Kobayashi, G. Koltman, A. Kopec, F. Kuger, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, L. Levinson, I. Li, S. Li, S. Liang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, K. Liu, J. Loizeau, F. Lombardi, J. Long, J. A. M. Lopes, Y. Ma, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Mancuso, L. Manenti, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, K. Martens, J. Masbou, D. Masson, E. Masson, S. Mastroianni, M. Messina, K. Miuchi, K. Mizukoshi, A. Molinario, S. Moriyama, K. Morå, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, J. Müller, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, B. Paetsch, J. Palacio, R. Peres, C. Peters, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, J. Qi, J. Qin, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, A. Rocchetti, N. Rupp, L. Sanchez, P. Sanchez-Lucas, J. M. F. dos Santos, I. Sarnoff, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, D. Schulte, P. Schulte, H. Schulze Eißing, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, F. Semeria, P. Shagin, S. Shi, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, A. Takeda, P.-L. Tan, A. Terliuk, D. Thers, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, F. Tönnies, K. Valerius, G. Volta, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss, D. Wenz, C. Wittweg, T. Wolf, D. Xu, Z. Xu, M. Yamashita, L. Yang, J. Ye, L. Yuan, G. Zavattini, S. Zerbo, M. Zhong, T. Zhu, C. Geppert, J. Riemer, and XENON Collaboration

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract A low-energy electronic recoil calibration of XENON1T, a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, with an internal $${}^{37}$$ 37 Ar source was performed. This calibration source features a 35-day half-life and provides two mono-energetic lines at 2.82 keV and 0.27 keV. The photon yield and electron yield at 2.82 keV are measured to be ( $$32.3\,\pm \,0.3$$ 32.3 ± 0.3 ) photons/keV and ( $$40.6\,\pm \,0.5$$ 40.6 ± 0.5 ) electrons/keV, respectively, in agreement with other measurements and with NEST predictions. The electron yield at 0.27 keV is also measured and it is ( $$68.0^{+6.3}_{-3.7}$$ 68 . 0 - 3.7 + 6.3 ) electrons/keV. The $${}^{37}$$ 37 Ar calibration confirms that the detector is well-understood in the energy region close to the detection threshold, with the 2.82 keV line reconstructed at ( $$2.83\,\pm \,0.02$$ 2.83 ± 0.02 ) keV, which further validates the model used to interpret the low-energy electronic recoil excess previously reported by XENON1T. The ability to efficiently remove argon with cryogenic distillation after the calibration proves that $${}^{37}$$ 37 Ar can be considered as a regular calibration source for multi-tonne xenon detectors.

Published
2023
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7. Design, construction and commissioning of a high-flow radon removal system for XENONnT

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M. Murra, D. Schulte, C. Huhmann, and C. Weinheimer

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract A high-flow radon removal system based on cryogenic distillation was developed and constructed to reduce radon-induced backgrounds in liquid xenon detectors for rare event searches such as XENONnT. A continuous purification of the XENONnT liquid xenon inventory of 8.4 tonnes at process flows up to 71 kg/h (200 slpm) is required to achieve a radon reduction by a factor larger than two for radon sources inside the detector. To reach such high flows, the distillation column’s design features liquid xenon inlet and outlets along with novel custom-made bath-type heat exchangers with high liquefaction capabilities. The distillation process was designed using a modification of the McCabe–Thiele approach without a bottom product extraction. The thermodynamic concept is based on a Clausius–Rankine cooling cycle with phase-changing medium, in this case the xenon itself. To drastically reduce the external cooling power requirements, an energy efficient heat pump concept was developed applying a custom-made four cylinder magnetically-coupled piston pump as compressor. The distillation system was operated at thermodynamically stable conditions at a process flow of $$({91\pm 2})\,\mathrm{kg/h}$$ ( 91 ± 2 ) kg / h (( $$258\pm 6$$ 258 ± 6 ) slpm), 30% over design. With this flow, a activity concentration $$

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2022
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8. An approximate likelihood for nuclear recoil searches with XENON1T data

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E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini, S. Ahmed Maouloud, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, B. Andrieu, E. Angelino, J. R. Angevaare, V. C. Antochi, D. Antón Martin, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, A. L. Baxter, L. Bellagamba, R. Biondi, A. Bismark, A. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, D. Cichon, B. Cimmino, M. Clark, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. J. Cuenca-García, J. P. Cussonneau, V. D’Andrea, M. P. Decowski, P. Di Gangi, S. Di Pede, A. Di Giovanni, R. Di Stefano, S. Diglio, A. Elykov, S. Farrell, A. D. Ferella, H. Fischer, W. Fulgione, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, M. Galloway, F. Gao, R. Glade-Beucke, L. Grandi, J. Grigat, A. Higuera, C. Hils, L. Hoetzsch, J. Howlett, M. Iacovacci, Y. Itow, J. Jakob, F. Joerg, A. Joy, N. Kato, P. Kavrigin, S. Kazama, M. Kobayashi, G. Koltman, A. Kopec, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, L. Levinson, I. Li, S. Li, S. Liang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, K. Liu, F. Lombardi, J. Long, J. A. M. Lopes, Y. Ma, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Mancuso, L. Manenti, A. Manfredini, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, K. Martens, J. Masbou, D. Masson, E. Masson, S. Mastroianni, M. Messina, K. Miuchi, K. Mizukoshi, A. Molinario, S. Moriyama, K. Morå, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, J. Müller, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, B. Paetsch, J. Palacio, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, J. Qi, J. Qin, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, A. Rocchetti, N. Rupp, L. Sanchez, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, D. Schulte, P. Schulte, H. Schulze Eißing, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, F. Semeria, P. Shagin, S. Shi, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, A. Takeda, P. L. Tan, A. Terliuk, D. Thers, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, F. Tönnies, K. Valerius, G. Volta, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss, D. Wenz, C. Wittweg, T. Wolf, Z. Xu, M. Yamashita, L. Yang, J. Ye, L. Yuan, G. Zavattini, Y. Zhang, M. Zhong, T. Zhu, and XENON Collaboration

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The XENON collaboration has published stringent limits on specific dark matter – nucleon recoil spectra from dark matter recoiling on the liquid xenon detector target. In this paper, we present an approximate likelihood for the XENON1T 1 t-year nuclear recoil search applicable to any nuclear recoil spectrum. Alongside this paper, we publish data and code to compute upper limits using the method we present. The approximate likelihood is constructed in bins of reconstructed energy, profiled along the signal expectation in each bin. This approach can be used to compute an approximate likelihood and therefore most statistical results for any nuclear recoil spectrum. Computing approximate results with this method is approximately three orders of magnitude faster than the likelihood used in the original publications of XENON1T, where limits were set for specific families of recoil spectra. Using this same method, we include toy Monte Carlo simulation-derived binwise likelihoods for the upcoming XENONnT experiment that can similarly be used to assess the sensitivity to arbitrary nuclear recoil signatures in its eventual 20 t-year exposure.

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2022
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9. An active transverse energy filter to differentiate low energy particles with large pitch angles in a strong magnetic field

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K. Gauda, S. Schneidewind, G. Drexlin, A. Fulst, V. Hannen, T. König, A. Lokhov, P. Oelpmann, H.-W. Ortjohann, W. Pernice, R. G. H. Robertson, R. W. J. Salomon, M. Stappers, and C. Weinheimer

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract We present the idea and proof of principle measurements for an angular-selective active filter for charged particles. The motivation for the setup arises from the need to distinguish background electrons from signal electrons in a spectrometer of MAC-E filter type. While a large fraction of the background electrons exhibit predominantly small angles relative to the magnetic guiding field (corresponding to a low amount of kinetic energy in the motion component transverse to the field lines, in the following referred to as transverse energy) and pass the filter mostly unhindered, signal electrons from an isotropically emitting source interact with the active filter and are detected. The concept is demonstrated using a microchannel plate (MCP) as an active filter element. When correctly aligned with the magnetic field, electrons with a small transverse energy pass the channels of the MCP without interaction while electrons with large transverse energies hit the channel walls and trigger an avalanche of secondary electrons that is subsequently detected. Due to several drawbacks of MCPs for an actual transverse energy filter, an alternative detection technique using microstructured Si-PIN diodes is proposed.

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2022
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10. Material radiopurity control in the XENONnT experiment

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E. Aprile, K. Abe, F. Agostini, S. Ahmed Maouloud, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, E. Angelino, J. R. Angevaare, V. C. Antochi, D. Antón Martin, F. Arneodo, L. Baudis, A. L. Baxter, L. Bellagamba, R. Biondi, A. Bismark, A. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, D. Cichon, B. Cimmino, M. Clark, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. J. Cuenca-García, J. P. Cussonneau, V. D’Andrea, M. P. Decowski, P. Di Gangi, S. Di Pede, A. Di Giovanni, R. Di Stefano, S. Diglio, A. Elykov, S. Farrell, A. D. Ferella, H. Fischer, W. Fulgione, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, M. Galloway, F. Gao, R. Glade-Beucke, L. Grandi, J. Grigat, A. Higuera, C. Hils, K. Hiraide, L. Hoetzsch, J. Howlett, M. Iacovacci, Y. Itow, J. Jakob, F. Joerg, N. Kato, P. Kavrigin, S. Kazama, M. Kobayashi, G. Koltman, A. Kopec, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, L. Levinson, I. Li, S. Liang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, K. Liu, F. Lombardi, J. Long, J. A. M. Lopes, Y. Ma, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Mancuso, L. Manenti, A. Manfredini, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, K. Martens, J. Masbou, D. Masson, E. Masson, S. Mastroianni, M. Messina, K. Miuchi, K. Mizukoshi, A. Molinario, S. Moriyama, K. Morå, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, J. Palacio, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, J. Qi, J. Qin, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, A. Rocchetti, N. Rupp, L. Sanchez, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, J. Schreiner, D. Schulte, H. Schulze Eißing, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, F. Semeria, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, A. Takeda, P. L. Tan, A. Terliuk, C. Therreau, D. Thers, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, F. Tönnies, K. Valerius, G. Volta, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss, D. Wenz, J. Westermann, C. Wittweg, T. Wolf, Z. Xu, M. Yamashita, L. Yang, J. Ye, L. Yuan, G. Zavattini, Y. Zhang, M. Zhong, T. Zhu, J. P. Zopounidis, XENON Collaboration, M. Laubenstein, and S. Nisi

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of the utmost importance for rare-event searches and thus critical to the XENONnT experiment. Results of an extensive radioassay program are reported, in which material samples have been screened with gamma-ray spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn emanation measurements. Furthermore, the cleanliness procedures applied to remove or mitigate surface contamination of detector materials are described. Screening results, used as inputs for a XENONnT Monte Carlo simulation, predict a reduction of materials background ( $$\sim $$ ∼ 17%) with respect to its predecessor XENON1T. Through radon emanation measurements, the expected $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn activity concentration in XENONnT is determined to be 4.2 ( $$^{+0.5}_{-0.7}$$ - 0.7 + 0.5 ) $$\upmu $$ μ Bq/kg, a factor three lower with respect to XENON1T. This radon concentration will be further suppressed by means of the novel radon distillation system.

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2022
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11. Precision measurement of the electron energy-loss function in tritium and deuterium gas for the KATRIN experiment

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M. Aker, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, B. Bieringer, F. Block, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, M. Böttcher, T. Brunst, T. S. Caldwell, R. M. D. Carney, S. Chilingaryan, W. Choi, K. Debowski, M. Deffert, M. Descher, D. Díaz Barrero, P. J. Doe, O. Dragoun, G. Drexlin, F. Edzards, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, A. El Miniawy, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, A. Felden, J. A. Formaggio, F. M. Fränkle, G. B. Franklin, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, K. Gauda, W. Gil, F. Glück, S. Groh, R. Grössle, R. Gumbsheimer, V. Hannen, N. Haußmann, F. Heizmann, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, R. Hiller, D. Hillesheimer, D. Hinz, T. Höhn, T. Houdy, A. Huber, A. Jansen, C. Karl, J. Kellerer, M. Kleesiek, M. Klein, C. Köhler, L. Köllenberger, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalík, B. Krasch, H. Krause, N. Kunka, T. Lasserre, L. La Cascio, O. Lebeda, B. Lehnert, T. L. Le, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, E. Malcherek, M. Mark, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, M. Meier, C. Melzer, A. Menshikov, S. Mertens, J. Mostafa, K. Müller, S. Niemes, P. Oelpmann, D. S. Parno, A. W. P. Poon, J. M. L. Poyato, F. Priester, P. C.-O. Ranitzsch, R. G. H. Robertson, W. Rodejohann, C. Rodenbeck, M. Röllig, C. Röttele, M. Ryšavý, R. Sack, A. Saenz, P. Schäfer, A. Schaller (née Pollithy), L. Schimpf, K. Schlösser, M. Schlösser, L. Schlüter, S. Schneidewind, M. Schrank, B. Schulz, C. Schwachtgen, M. Šefčík, H. Seitz-Moskaliuk, V. Sibille, D. Siegmann, M. Slezák, M. Steidl, M. Sturm, M. Sun, D. Tcherniakhovski, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thümmler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, N. Trost, K. Urban, K. Valerius, D. Vénos, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, C. Weinheimer, S. Welte, J. Wendel, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wüstling, W. Xu, Y.-R. Yen, S. Zadoroghny, and G. Zeller

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The KATRIN experiment is designed for a direct and model-independent determination of the effective electron anti-neutrino mass via a high-precision measurement of the tritium $$\upbeta $$ β -decay endpoint region with a sensitivity on $$m_\nu $$ m ν of 0.2 $$\hbox {eV}/\hbox {c}^2$$ eV / c 2 (90% CL). For this purpose, the $$\upbeta $$ β -electrons from a high-luminosity windowless gaseous tritium source traversing an electrostatic retarding spectrometer are counted to obtain an integral spectrum around the endpoint energy of 18.6 keV. A dominant systematic effect of the response of the experimental setup is the energy loss of $$\upbeta $$ β -electrons from elastic and inelastic scattering off tritium molecules within the source. We determined the energy-loss function in-situ with a pulsed angular-selective and monoenergetic photoelectron source at various tritium-source densities. The data was recorded in integral and differential modes; the latter was achieved by using a novel time-of-flight technique. We developed a semi-empirical parametrization for the energy-loss function for the scattering of 18.6-keV electrons from hydrogen isotopologs. This model was fit to measurement data with a 95% $$\hbox {T}_2$$ T 2 gas mixture at 30 K, as used in the first KATRIN neutrino-mass analyses, as well as a $$\hbox {D}_2$$ D 2 gas mixture of 96% purity used in KATRIN commissioning runs. The achieved precision on the energy-loss function has abated the corresponding uncertainty of $$\sigma (m_\nu ^2)< {{10}^{-2}}{\hbox {eV}^{2}}$$ σ ( m ν 2 ) < 10 - 2 eV 2 [1] in the KATRIN neutrino-mass measurement to a subdominant level.

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2021
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12. $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn emanation measurements for the XENON1T experiment

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XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, F. D. Amaro, V. C. Antochi, E. Angelino, J. R. Angevaare, F. Arneodo, D. Barge, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, L. Bellagamba, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, D. Cichon, B. Cimmino, M. Clark, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, A. Depoian, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, R. Di Stefano, S. Diglio, A. Elykov, G. Eurin, A. D. Ferella, W. Fulgione, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, L. Grandi, M. Garbini, C. Hasterok, C. Hils, K. Hiraide, L. Hoetzsch, E. Hogenbirk, J. Howlett, M. Iacovacci, Y. Itow, F. Joerg, N. Kato, S. Kazama, M. Kobayashi, 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, L. Manenti, A. Manfredini, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, K. Martens, J. Masbou, D. Masson, S. Mastroianni, M. Messina, K. Miuchi, A. Molinario, K. Morå, S. Moriyama, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, K. Odgers, J. Palacio, B. Pelssers, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, J. Qin, H. Qiu, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, 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, F. Semeria, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, A. Takeda, C. Therreau, D. Thers, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, M. Vargas, G. Volta, O. Wack, H. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss, D. Wenz, J. Westermann, C. Wittweg, J. Wulf, Z. Xu, M. Yamashita, J. Ye, G. Zavattini, Y. Zhang, T. Zhu, and J. P. Zopounidis

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of utmost importance for the success of low-energy rare event search experiments. Besides radioactive contaminants in the bulk, the emanation of radioactive radon atoms from material surfaces attains increasing relevance in the effort to further reduce the background of such experiments. In this work, we present the $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn emanation measurements performed for the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Together with the bulk impurity screening campaign, the results enabled us to select the radio-purest construction materials, targeting a $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn activity concentration of $$10\,\mathrm{\,}\upmu \mathrm{Bq}/\mathrm{kg}$$ 10 μ Bq / kg in $$3.2\,\mathrm{t}$$ 3.2 t of xenon. The knowledge of the distribution of the $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn sources allowed us to selectively eliminate problematic components in the course of the experiment. The predictions from the emanation measurements were compared to data of the $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn activity concentration in XENON1T. The final $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn activity concentration of $$(4.5\pm 0.1)\,\mathrm{\,}\upmu \mathrm{Bq}/\mathrm{kg}$$ ( 4.5 ± 0.1 ) μ Bq / kg in the target of XENON1T is the lowest ever achieved in a xenon dark matter experiment.

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2021
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13. Solar neutrino detection sensitivity in DARWIN via electron scattering

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DARWIN Collaboration, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, F. D. Amaro, J. Angevaare, V. C. Antochi, B. Antunovic, E. Aprile, L. Arazi, F. Arneodo, M. Balzer, L. Baudis, D. Baur, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Y. Biondi, A. Bismark, C. Bourgeois, A. Breskin, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Brünner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. Cardoso, D. Cichon, M. Clark, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. J. Cuenca-García, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, A. Depoian, J. Dierle, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, S. Diglio, D. Douillet, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, R. Engel, E. Erdal, A. D. Ferella, H. Fischer, P. Fischer, W. Fulgione, P. Gaemers, M. Galloway, F. Gao, D. Giovagnoli, F. Girard, R. Glade-Beucke, F. Glück, L. Grandi, S. Grohmann, R. Größle, R. Gumbsheimer, V. Hannen, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, C. Hils, B. Holzapfel, J. Howlett, G. Iaquaniello, F. Jörg, M. Keller, J. Kellerer, G. Khundzakishvili, B. Kilminster, M. Kleifges, T. K. Kleiner, G. Koltmann, A. Kopec, A. Kopmann, L. M. Krauss, F. Kuger, L. LaCascio, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, F. Lombardi, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Loya Villalpando, Y. Ma, C. Macolino, J. Mahlstedt, A. Manfredini, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, D. Masson, E. Masson, N. McFadden, P. Meinhardt, R. Meyer, B. Milosevic, S. Milutinovic, A. Molinario, C. M. B. Monteiro, K. Morå, E. Morteau, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, J. L. Newstead, K. Ni, U. G. Oberlack, M. Obradovic, K. Odgers, I. Ostrovskiy, J. Palacio, M. Pandurovic, B. Pelssers, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, J. Qi, J. Qin, D. Ramírez García, S. E. Reichard, N. Rupp, P. Sanchez-Lucas, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, D. Schulte, H. C. Schultz-Coulon, H. Schulze Eißing, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, S. Sharma, W. Shen, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. Steidl, S. Stern, D. Subotic, P. Szabo, A. Terliuk, C. Therreau, D. Thers, K. Thieme, F. Toennies, R. Trotta, C. D. Tunnell, K. Valerius, G. Volta, D. Vorkapic, M. Weber, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss, D. Wenz, C. Wittweg, J. Wolf, S. Wuestling, M. Wurm, Y. Xing, T. Zhu, Y. Zhu, J. P. Zopounidis, and K. Zuber

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract We detail the sensitivity of the proposed liquid xenon DARWIN observatory to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. We find that DARWIN will have the potential to measure the fluxes of five solar neutrino components: pp, $$^7$$ 7 Be, $$^{13}$$ 13 N, $$^{15}$$ 15 O and pep. The precision of the $$^{13}$$ 13 N, $$^{15}$$ 15 O and pep components is hindered by the double-beta decay of $$^{136}$$ 136 Xe and, thus, would benefit from a depleted target. A high-statistics observation of pp neutrinos would allow us to infer the values of the electroweak mixing angle, $$\sin ^2\theta _w$$ sin 2 θ w , and the electron-type neutrino survival probability, $$P_{ee}$$ P ee , in the electron recoil energy region from a few keV up to 200 keV for the first time, with relative precision of 5% and 4%, respectively, with 10 live years of data and a 30 tonne fiducial volume. An observation of pp and $$^7$$ 7 Be neutrinos would constrain the neutrino-inferred solar luminosity down to 0.2%. A combination of all flux measurements would distinguish between the high- (GS98) and low-metallicity (AGS09) solar models with 2.1–2.5 $$\sigma $$ σ significance, independent of external measurements from other experiments or a measurement of $$^8$$ 8 B neutrinos through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in DARWIN. Finally, we demonstrate that with a depleted target DARWIN may be sensitive to the neutrino capture process of $$^{131}$$ 131 Xe.

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2020
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14. Time-focusing time-of-flight, a new method to turn a MAC-E-filter into a quasi-differential spectrometer

Author

A. Fulst, A. Lokhov, M. Fedkevych, N. Steinbrink, and C. Weinheimer

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract Spectrometers based on the magnetic adiabatic collimation followed by an electrostatic filter (MAC-E-filter) principle combine high angular acceptance with an excellent energy resolution. These features make MAC-E-filters very valuable for experiments where the kinetic energy of ions or electrons from rare processes has to be measured with utmost sensitivity and precision. Examples are direct neutrino mass experiments like KATRIN which investigate the energy of electrons in the endpoint region of the tritium $$\beta $$ β -spectrum. However, the MAC-E-filter is a very sharp energy high-pass filter but not a differential spectrometer. To determine a spectral shape of a charged particle source, different electric retarding potentials have to be used sequentially, reducing the statistics. In a previous work we have shown that the advantages of the standard MAC-E-filter can be combined with a measurement of the time-of-flight (TOF), allowing to determine spectral information over a certain energy range with one retarding potential only, with the corresponding gain in statistics. This TOF method requires one to know the start time of the charged particles, which is not always possible. Therefore, we propose a new method which does not require the determination of the start time and which we call “time-focusing time-of-flight” (tfTOF): by applying a time dependent acceleration and deceleration potential at a subsequent MAC-E-filter, an energy dependent post-bunching of the charged particles is achieved.

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2020
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15. Suppression of Penning discharges between the KATRIN spectrometers

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M. Aker, K. Altenmüller, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, K. Blaum, F. Block, S. Bobien, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, H. Bouquet, T. Brunst, T. S. Caldwell, S. Chilingaryan, W. Choi, K. Debowski, M. Deffert, M. Descher, D. Díaz Barrero, P. J. Doe, O. Dragoun, G. Drexlin, S. Dyba, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, D. Eversheim, M. Fedkevych, A. Felden, J. A. Formaggio, F. Fränkle, G. B. Franklin, H. Frankrone, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, K. Gauda, W. Gil, F. Glück, S. Grohmann, R. Grössle, R. Gumbsheimer, M. Hackenjos, V. Hannen, J. Hartmann, N. Haußmann, F. Heizmann, J. Heizmann, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, D. Hillesheimer, D. Hinz, T. Höhn, B. Holzapfel, S. Holzmann, T. Houdy, A. Jansen, C. Karl, J. Kellerer, N. Kernert, L. Kippenbrock, M. Klein, C. Köhler, L. Köllenberger, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalík, B. Krasch, H. Krause, B. Kuffner, N. Kunka, T. Lasserre, L. La Cascio, O. Lebeda, B. Lehnert, J. Letnev, F. Leven, T. L. Le, S. Lichter, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, E. Malcherek, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, C. Melzer, A. Menshikov, S. Mertens, S. Mirz, B. Monreal, K. Müller, U. Naumann, H. Neumann, S. Niemes, M. Noe, H.-W. Ortjohann, A. Osipowicz, E. Otten, D. S. Parno, A. Pollithy, A. W. P. Poon, J. M. L. Poyato, F. Priester, P. C.-O. Ranitzsch, O. Rest, R. Rinderspacher, R. G. H. Robertson, C. Rodenbeck, P. Rohr, M. Röllig, C. Röttele, M. Ryšavý, R. Sack, A. Saenz, P. Schäfer, L. Schimpf, K. Schlösser, M. Schlösser, L. Schlüter, M. Schrank, B. Schulz, H. Seitz-Moskaliuk, W. Seller, V. Sibille, D. Siegmann, M. Slezák, F. Spanier, M. Steidl, M. Steven, M. Sturm, M. Suesser, M. Sun, D. Tcherniakhovski, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thümmler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, N. Trost, K. Valerius, D. Vénos, R. Vianden, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, C. Weiss, S. Welte, J. Wendel, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wüstling, W. Xu, Y.-R. Yen, S. Zadoroghny, and G. Zeller

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) aims to determine the effective electron (anti)-neutrino mass with a sensitivity of 0.2eV/c $$^2$$ 2 by precisely measuring the endpoint region of the tritium $$\beta $$ β -decay spectrum. It uses a tandem of electrostatic spectrometers working as magnetic adiabatic collimation combined with an electrostatic (MAC-E) filters. In the space between the pre-spectrometer and the main spectrometer, creating a Penning trap is unavoidable when the superconducting magnet between the two spectrometers, biased at their respective nominal potentials, is energized. The electrons accumulated in this trap can lead to discharges, which create additional background electrons and endanger the spectrometer and detector section downstream. To counteract this problem, “electron catchers” were installed in the beamline inside the magnet bore between the two spectrometers. These catchers can be moved across the magnetic-flux tube and intercept on a sub-ms time scale the stored electrons along their magnetron motion paths. In this paper, we report on the design and the successful commissioning of the electron catchers and present results on their efficiency in reducing the experimental background.

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2020
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16. Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of $$^{136}$$ 136 Xe

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F. Agostini, S. E. M. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser, F. Amaro, B. Antunovic, E. Aprile, L. Baudis, D. Baur, Y. Biondi, A. Bismark, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. Cardoso, D. Cichon, M. Clark, A. P. Colijn, J. J. Cuenca-García, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, A. Depoian, J. Dierle, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, S. Diglio, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, R. Engel, A. D. Ferella, H. Fischer, M. Galloway, F. Gao, F. Girard, F. Glück, L. Grandi, R. Größle, R. Gumbsheimer, S. Hansmann-Menzemer, F. Jörg, G. Khundzakishvili, A. Kopec, F. Kuger, L. M. Krauss, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Loya Villalpando, C. Macolino, A. Manfredini, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, E. Masson, P. Meinhardt, S. Milutinovic, A. Molinario, C. M. B. Monteiro, M. Murra, U. G. Oberlack, M. Pandurovic, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, M. Pierre, V. Pizzella, J. Qin, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, N. Rupp, P. Sanchez-Lucas, G. Sartorelli, D. Schulte, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. Steidl, A. Terliuk, C. Therreau, D. Thers, K. Thieme, R. Trotta, C. D. Tunnell, K. Valerius, G. Volta, D. Vorkapic, C. Weinheimer, C. Wittweg, J. Wolf, J. P. Zopounidis, K. Zuber, and DARWIN Collaboration

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The DARWIN observatory is a proposed next-generation experiment to search for particle dark matter and for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $$^{136}$$ 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 $$^{136}$$ 136 Xe. Here, we show that its projected half-life sensitivity is $$2.4\times {10}^{27}\,{\hbox {year}}$$ 2.4×1027year , using a fiducial volume of 5 t of natural xenon and 10 year of operation with a background rate of less than 0.2 events/(t $$\cdot $$ · year) 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 $$^{136}$$ 136 Xe.

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2020
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17. Energy resolution and linearity of XENON1T in the MeV energy range

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E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, F. D. Amaro, V. C. Antochi, E. Angelino, J. Angevaare, F. Arneodo, D. Barge, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, L. Bellagamba, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, C. Capelli, J. M. R. Cardoso, D. Cichon, B. Cimmino, M. Clark, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, A. Depoian, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, R. Di Stefano, S. Diglio, A. Elykov, G. Eurin, A. D. Ferella, W. Fulgione, P. Gaemers, R. Gaior, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, L. Grandi, C. Hasterok, C. Hils, K. Hiraide, L. Hoetzsch, E. Hogenbirk, J. Howlett, M. Iacovacci, Y. Itow, F. Joerg, N. Kato, S. Kazama, M. Kobayashi, 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, L. Manenti, A. Manfredini, F. Marignetti, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, K. Martens, J. Masbou, D. Masson, S. Mastroianni, M. Messina, K. Miuchi, A. Molinario, K. Morå, S. Moriyama, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, K. Odgers, J. Palacio, B. Pelssers, R. Peres, J. Pienaar, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, J. Qin, H. Qiu, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, 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, F. Semeria, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, A. Takeda, C. Therreau, D. Thers, F. Toschi, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, M. Vargas, G. Volta, O. Wack, H. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, M. Weiss Xu, D. Wenz, C. Wittweg, J. Wulf, Z. Xu, M. Yamashita, J. Ye, G. Zavattini, Y. Zhang, T. Zhu, and J. P. Zopounidis

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract Xenon dual-phase time projection chambers designed to search for weakly interacting massive particles have so far shown a relative energy resolution which degrades with energy above $$\sim $$ ∼ 200 keV due to the saturation effects. This has limited their sensitivity in the search for rare events like the neutrinoless double-beta decay of $$^{136} \hbox {Xe}$$ 136Xe at its Q value, $$Q_{\beta \beta }\simeq 2.46\,\hbox {MeV}$$ Qββ≃2.46MeV . For the XENON1T dual-phase time projection chamber, we demonstrate that the relative energy resolution at $$1\,\sigma /\mu $$ 1σ/μ is as low as ($$0.80 \pm 0.02$$ 0.80±0.02 ) % in its one-ton fiducial mass, and for single-site interactions at $$Q_{\beta \beta }$$ Qββ . We also present a new signal correction method to rectify the saturation effects of the signal readout system, resulting in more accurate position reconstruction and indirectly improving the energy resolution. The very good result achieved in XENON1T opens up new windows for the xenon dual-phase dark matter detectors to simultaneously search for other rare events.

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2020
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18. Gamma-induced background in the KATRIN main spectrometer

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K. Altenmüller, M. Arenz, W.-J. Baek, M. Beck, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, K. Blaum, F. Block, S. Bobien, T. Bode, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, H. Bouquet, T. Brunst, N. Buzinsky, S. Chilingaryan, W. Q. Choi, M. Deffert, P. J. Doe, O. Dragoun, G. Drexlin, S. Dyba, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, M. Erhard, D. Eversheim, M. Fedkevych, J. A. Formaggio, F. M. Fränkle, G. B. Franklin, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, W. Gil, F. Glück, A. Gonzalez Ureña, R. Grössle, R. Gumbsheimer, M. Hackenjos, V. Hannen, F. Harms, N. Haußmann, F. Heizmann, K. Helbing, W. Herz, S. Hickford, D. Hilk, D. Hillesheimer, M. A. Howe, A. Huber, A. Jansen, C. Karl, J. Kellerer, N. Kernert, L. Kippenbrock, M. Klein, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalík, B. Krasch, A. Kraus, M. Kraus, T. Lasserre, O. Lebeda, B. Lehnert, J. Letnev, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, S. Mertens, S. Mirz, B. Monreal, H. Neumann, S. Niemes, A. Osipowicz, E. Otten, D. S. Parno, A. Pollithy, A. W. P. Poon, F. Priester, P. C.-O. Ranitzsch, O. Rest, R. G. H. Robertson, C. Rodenbeck, M. Röllig, C. Röttele, M. Ryšavý, R. Sack, A. Saenz, L. Schimpf, K. Schlösser, M. Schlösser, L. Schlüter, M. Schrank, H. Seitz-Moskaliuk, V. Sibille, M. Slezák, M. Steidl, N. Steinbrink, M. Sturm, M. Suchopar, D. Tcherniakhovski, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thümmler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, N. Trost, K. Valerius, D. Vénos, R. Vianden, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, C. Weiss, S. Welte, J. Wendel, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wüstling, S. Zadoroghny, and G. Zeller

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The KATRIN experiment aims to measure the effective electron antineutrino mass $$m_{\overline{\nu }_e}$$ mν¯e with a sensitivity of $${0.2}\,{\hbox {eV}/\hbox {c}^2}$$ 0.2eV/c2 using a gaseous tritium source combined with the MAC-E filter technique. A low background rate is crucial to achieving the proposed sensitivity, and dedicated measurements have been performed to study possible sources of background electrons. In this work, we test the hypothesis that gamma radiation from external radioactive sources significantly increases the rate of background events created in the main spectrometer (MS) and observed in the focal-plane detector. Using detailed simulations of the gamma flux in the experimental hall, combined with a series of experimental tests that artificially increased or decreased the local gamma flux to the MS, we set an upper limit of $${0.006}\,{\hbox {count}/\hbox {s}}$$ 0.006count/s (90% C.L.) from this mechanism. Our results indicate the effectiveness of the electrostatic and magnetic shielding used to block secondary electrons emitted from the inner surface of the MS.

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2019
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19. $$\upbeta $$ β -Decay spectrum, response function and statistical model for neutrino mass measurements with the KATRIN experiment

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M. Kleesiek, J. Behrens, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, M. Erhard, J. A. Formaggio, F. Glück, S. Groh, M. Hötzel, S. Mertens, A. W. P. Poon, C. Weinheimer, and K. Valerius

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The objective of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is to determine the effective electron neutrino mass $$m(\upnu _\text {e})$$ m(νe) with an unprecedented sensitivity of $$0.2 \hbox {eV}/\hbox {c}^2$$ 0.2eV/c2 ($$90 \%\,\hbox {C.L.}$$ 90%C.L. ) by precision electron spectroscopy close to the endpoint of the $$\upbeta $$ β -decay of tritium. We present a consistent theoretical description of the $$\upbeta $$ β -electron energy spectrum in the endpoint region, an accurate model of the apparatus response function, and the statistical approaches suited to interpret and analyze tritium $$\upbeta $$ β -decay data observed with KATRIN with the envisaged precision. In addition to providing detailed analytical expressions for all formulae used in the presented model framework with the necessary detail of derivation, we discuss and quantify the impact of theoretical and experimental corrections on the measured $$m(\upnu _\text {e})$$ m(νe) . Finally, we outline the statistical methods for parameter inference and the construction of confidence intervals that are appropriate for a neutrino mass measurement with KATRIN. In this context, we briefly discuss the choice of the $$\upbeta $$ β -energy analysis interval and the distribution of measuring time within that range.

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2019
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20. Reduction of stored-particle background by a magnetic pulse method at the KATRIN experiment

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M. Arenz, W.-J. Baek, S. Bauer, M. Beck, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, R. Berendes, T. Bergmann, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, K. Blaum, T. Bode, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, T. Brunst, W. Buglak, N. Buzinsky, S. Chilingaryan, W. Q. Choi, M. Deffert, P. J. Doe, O. Dragoun, G. Drexlin, S. Dyba, F. Edzards, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, M. Erhard, D. Eversheim, M. Fedkevych, J. A. Formaggio, F. M. Fränkle, G. B. Franklin, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, D. Furse, W. Gil, F. Glück, A. Gonzalez Ureña, S. Grohmann, R. Grössle, R. Gumbsheimer, M. Hackenjos, V. Hannen, F. Harms, N. Haußmann, F. Heizmann, K. Helbing, W. Herz, S. Hickford, D. Hilk, M. A. Howe, A. Huber, A. Jansen, J. Kellerer, N. Kernert, L. Kippenbrock, M. Kleesiek, M. Klein, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalík, B. Krasch, M. Kraus, L. Kuckert, T. Lasserre, O. Lebeda, J. Letnev, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, S. Mertens, S. Mirz, B. Monreal, H. Neumann, S. Niemes, A. Off, A. Osipowicz, E. Otten, D. S. Parno, A. Pollithy, A. W. P. Poon, F. Priester, P. C.-O. Ranitzsch, O. Rest, R. G. H. Robertson, F. Roccati, C. Rodenbeck, M. Röllig, C. Röttele, M. Ryšavý, R. Sack, A. Saenz, L. Schimpf, K. Schlösser, M. Schlösser, K. Schönung, M. Schrank, H. Seitz-Moskaliuk, J. Sentkerestiová, V. Sibille, M. Slezák, M. Steidl, N. Steinbrink, M. Sturm, M. Suchopar, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thümmler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, N. Trost, K. Valerius, D. Vénos, R. Vianden, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, N. Wandkowsky, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, C. Weiss, S. Welte, J. Wendel, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wüstling, and S. Zadoroghny

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The KATRIN experiment aims to determine the effective electron neutrino mass with a sensitivity of $${0.2}{\hbox { eV/c}^{2}}$$ 0.2eV/c2 (%90 CL) by precision measurement of the shape of the tritium $$\upbeta $$ β -spectrum in the endpoint region. The energy analysis of the decay electrons is achieved by a MAC-E filter spectrometer. A common background source in this setup is the decay of short-lived isotopes, such as $${}^{\text {219}}\text {Rn}$$ 219Rn and $${}^{\text {220}}\text {Rn}$$ 220Rn , in the spectrometer volume. Active and passive countermeasures have been implemented and tested at the KATRIN main spectrometer. One of these is the magnetic pulse method, which employs the existing air coil system to reduce the magnetic guiding field in the spectrometer on a short timescale in order to remove low- and high-energy stored electrons. Here we describe the working principle of this method and present results from commissioning measurements at the main spectrometer. Simulations with the particle-tracking software Kassiopeia were carried out to gain a detailed understanding of the electron storage conditions and removal processes.

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2018
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21. Magnetically-coupled piston pump for high-purity gas applications

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E. Brown, A. Buss, A. Fieguth, C. Huhmann, M. Murra, H.-W. Ortjohann, S. Rosendahl, A. Schubert, D. Schulte, D. Tosi, G. Gratta, and C. Weinheimer

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract Experiments based on noble elements such as gaseous or liquid argon or xenon utilize the ionization and scintillation properties of the target materials to detect radiation-induced recoils. A requirement for high light and charge yields is to reduce electronegative impurities well below the ppb (parts per billion, 1 ppb $$=1\times 10^{-9}$$ =1×10-9 mol/mol) level. To achieve this, the target material is continuously circulated in the gas phase through a purifier and returned to the detector. Additionally, the low backgrounds necessary dictate low-Rn-emanation rates from all components that contact the gas. Since commercial pumps often introduce electronegative impurities from lubricants on internal components or through small air leaks, and are not designed to meet the radiopurity requirements, custom-built pumps are an advantageous alternative. A new pump has been developed in Muenster in cooperation with the nEXO group at Stanford University and the nEXO/XENON group at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute based on a magnetically-coupled piston in a hermetically sealed low-Rn-emanating vessel. This pump delivers high performance for noble gases, reaching more than 210 standard liters per minute (slpm) with argon and more than 170 slpm with xenon while maintaining a compression of up to 1.9 bar, demonstrating its capability for noble gas detectors and other applications requiring high standards of gas purity.

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2018
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22. Calibration of high voltages at the ppm level by the difference of $$^{83{\mathrm{m}}}$$ 83m Kr conversion electron lines at the KATRIN experiment

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M. Arenz, W.-J. Baek, M. Beck, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, T. Bergmann, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, K. Blaum, T. Bode, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, T. Brunst, N. Buzinsky, S. Chilingaryan, W. Q. Choi, M. Deffert, P. J. Doe, O. Dragoun, G. Drexlin, S. Dyba, F. Edzards, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, M. Erhard, D. Eversheim, M. Fedkevych, S. Fischer, J. A. Formaggio, F. M. Fränkle, G. B. Franklin, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, W. Gil, F. Glück, A. Gonzalez Ureña, S. Grohmann, R. Grössle, R. Gumbsheimer, M. Hackenjos, V. Hannen, F. Harms, N. Haußmann, F. Heizmann, K. Helbing, W. Herz, S. Hickford, D. Hilk, D. Hillesheimer, M. A. Howe, A. Huber, A. Jansen, J. Kellerer, N. Kernert, L. Kippenbrock, M. Kleesiek, M. Klein, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalík, B. Krasch, M. Kraus, L. Kuckert, T. Lasserre, O. Lebeda, J. Letnev, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, S. Mertens, S. Mirz, B. Monreal, H. Neumann, S. Niemes, A. Off, A. Osipowicz, E. Otten, D. S. Parno, A. Pollithy, A. W. P. Poon, F. Priester, P. C.-O. Ranitzsch, O. Rest, R. G. H. Robertson, F. Roccati, C. Rodenbeck, M. Röllig, C. Röttele, M. Ryšavý, R. Sack, A. Saenz, L. Schimpf, K. Schlösser, M. Schlösser, K. Schönung, M. Schrank, H. Seitz-Moskaliuk, J. Sentkerestiová, V. Sibille, M. Slezák, M. Steidl, N. Steinbrink, M. Sturm, M. Suchopar, M. Suesser, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thümmler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, N. Trost, K. Valerius, D. Vénos, R. Vianden, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, C. Weiss, S. Welte, J. Wendel, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wüstling, and S. Zadoroghny

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The neutrino mass experiment KATRIN requires a stability of 3 ppm for the retarding potential at − 18.6 kV of the main spectrometer. To monitor the stability, two custom-made ultra-precise high-voltage dividers were developed and built in cooperation with the German national metrology institute Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB). Until now, regular absolute calibration of the voltage dividers required bringing the equipment to the specialised metrology laboratory. Here we present a new method based on measuring the energy difference of two $$^{83{\mathrm{m}}}$$ 83m Kr conversion electron lines with the KATRIN setup, which was demonstrated during KATRIN’s commissioning measurements in July 2017. The measured scale factor $$M=1972.449(10)$$ M=1972.449(10) of the high-voltage divider K35 is in agreement with the last PTB calibration 4 years ago. This result demonstrates the utility of the calibration method, as well as the long-term stability of the voltage divider.

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2018
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23. Intrinsic backgrounds from Rn and Kr in the XENON100 experiment

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E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, F. D. Amaro, M. Anthony, F. Arneodo, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, J. Calvén, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, 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, G. Eurin, J. Fei, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, W. Fulgione, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, L. W. Goetzke, Z. Greene, C. Grignon, C. Hasterok, E. Hogenbirk, R. Itay, B. Kaminsky, S. Kazama, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, F. Lombardi, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Manfredini, I. Maris, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Masson, D. Mayani, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, A. Molinario, K. Morå, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, P. Pakarha, B. Pelssers, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, M.-C. Piro, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, N. Priel, D. Ramírez García, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, N. Rupp, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, M. Scheibelhut, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. Von Sivers, A. Stein, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, M. Vargas, H. Wang, Z. Wang, M. Weber, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, C. Wittweg, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, and XENON Collaboration

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we describe the XENON100 data analyses used to assess the target-intrinsic background sources radon ( ), thoron ( ) and krypton ( ). We detail the event selections of high-energy alpha particles and decay-specific delayed coincidences. We derive distributions of the individual radionuclides inside the detector and quantify their abundances during the main three science runs of the experiment over a period of $$\sim 4\,\hbox {years}$$ ∼4years , from January 2010 to January 2014. We compare our results to external measurements of radon emanation and krypton concentrations where we find good agreement. We report an observed reduction in concentrations of radon daughters that we attribute to the plating-out of charged ions on the negatively biased cathode.

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2018
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24. Material radioassay and selection for the XENON1T dark matter experiment

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E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, F. D. Amaro, M. Anthony, F. Arneodo, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, J. Calvén, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, 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, G. Eurin, J. Fei, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, D. Franco, W. Fulgione, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, L. W. Goetzke, L. Grandi, Z. Greene, C. Grignon, C. Hasterok, E. Hogenbirk, R. Itay, B. Kaminsky, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, M. Le Calloch, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Manfredini, I. Maris, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Masson, D. Mayani, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, B. Miguez, A. Molinario, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, P. Pakarha, B. Pelssers, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, M.-C. Piro, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, N. Priel, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, N. Rupp, R. Saldanha, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, M. Scheibelhut, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. v. Sivers, A. Stein, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, N. Upole, H. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, M. Laubenstein, S. Nisi, and XENON Collaboration

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The XENON1T dark matter experiment aims to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) through low-energy interactions with xenon atoms. To detect such a rare event necessitates the use of radiopure materials to minimize the number of background events within the expected WIMP signal region. In this paper we report the results of an extensive material radioassay campaign for the XENON1T experiment. Using gamma-ray spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques, systematic measurements of trace radioactive impurities in over one hundred samples within a wide range of materials were performed. The measured activities allowed for stringent selection and placement of materials during the detector construction phase and provided the input for XENON1T detection sensitivity estimates through Monte Carlo simulations.

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2017
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25. The XENON1T dark matter experiment

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E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, F. D. Amaro, M. Anthony, B. Antunes, F. Arneodo, M. Balata, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, A. Breskin, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, J. Calvén, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, A. Chiarini, D. Cichon, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, J. Conrad, R. Corrieri, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, P. de Perio, P. Di Gangi, A. Di Giovanni, S. Diglio, J.-M. Disdier, M. Doets, E. Duchovni, G. Eurin, J. Fei, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, D. Franco, D. Front, W. Fulgione, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, K.-L. Giboni, L. W. Goetzke, L. Grandi, Z. Greene, C. Grignon, C. Hasterok, E. Hogenbirk, C. Huhmann, R. Itay, A. James, B. Kaminsky, S. Kazama, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, F. Lombardi, J. A. M. Lopes, R. Maier, A. Manfredini, I. Maris, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Masson, D. Mayani, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, A. Molinario, K. Morå, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, D. Orlandi, R. Othegraven, P. Pakarha, S. Parlati, B. Pelssers, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, V. Pizzella, M.-C. Piro, G. Plante, N. Priel, D. Ramírez García, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, N. Rupp, J. M. F. dos Santos, R. Saldanha, G. Sartorelli, M. Scheibelhut, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. v. Sivers, M. Stern, A. Stein, D. Tatananni, L. Tatananni, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, N. Upole, M. Vargas, O. Wack, R. Walet, H. Wang, Z. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, C. Wittweg, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, and XENON Collaboration

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

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

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2017
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26. A pulsed, mono-energetic and angular-selective UV photo-electron source for the commissioning of the KATRIN experiment

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J. Behrens, P. C.-O. Ranitzsch, M. Beck, A. Beglarian, M. Erhard, S. Groh, V. Hannen, M. Kraus, H.-W. Ortjohann, O. Rest, K. Schlösser, T. Thümmler, K. Valerius, K. Wierman, J. F. Wilkerson, D. Winzen, M. Zacher, and C. Weinheimer

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The KATRIN experiment aims to determine the neutrino mass scale with a sensitivity of 200 $${\mathrm{meV}/\mathrm{c}^2}$$ meV / c 2 (90% C. L.) by a precision measurement of the shape of the tritium $$\beta $$ β -spectrum in the endpoint region. The energy analysis of the decay electrons is achieved by a MAC-E filter spectrometer. To determine the transmission properties of the KATRIN main spectrometer, a mono-energetic and angular-selective electron source has been developed. In preparation for the second commissioning phase of the main spectrometer, a measurement phase was carried out at the KATRIN monitor spectrometer where the device was operated in a MAC-E filter setup for testing. The results of these measurements are compared with simulations using the particle-tracking software “Kassiopeia”, which was developed in the KATRIN collaboration over recent years.

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2017
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27. Online $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn removal by cryogenic distillation in the XENON100 experiment

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E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, F. D. Amaro, M. Anthony, F. Arneodo, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, J. Calvén, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, 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, E. Duchovni, G. Eurin, J. Fei, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, D. Franco, W. Fulgione, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, L. W. Goetzke, L. Grandi, Z. Greene, C. Grignon, C. Hasterok, E. Hogenbirk, R. Itay, B. Kaminsky, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, M. Le Calloch, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Manfredini, I. Maris, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Masson, D. Mayani, Y. Meng, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, B. Miguez, A. Molinario, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, P. Pakarha, B. Pelssers, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, M.-C. Piro, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, N. Priel, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, N. Rupp, R. Saldanha, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, M. Scheibelhut, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. v. Sivers, A. Stein, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, N. Upole, H. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, XENON Collaboration, and I. Cristescu

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract We describe the purification of xenon from traces of the radioactive noble gas radon using a cryogenic distillation column. The distillation column was integrated into the gas purification loop of the XENON100 detector for online radon removal. This enabled us to significantly reduce the constant $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn background originating from radon emanation. After inserting an auxiliary $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn emanation source in the gas loop, we determined a radon reduction factor of $$R\,>\,27$$ R > 27 (95% C.L.) for the distillation column by monitoring the $$^{222}$$ 222 Rn activity concentration inside the XENON100 detector.

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2017
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28. Removing krypton from xenon by cryogenic distillation to the ppq level

Author

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, F. D. Amaro, M. Anthony, F. Arneodo, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, M. L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, J. Calvén, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, 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, E. Duchovni, G. Eurin, J. Fei, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, D. Franco, W. Fulgione, A. Gallo Rosso, M. Galloway, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, L. W. Goetzke, L. Grandi, Z. Greene, C. Grignon, C. Hasterok, E. Hogenbirk, C. Huhmann, R. Itay, B. Kaminsky, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, M. Le Calloch, Q. Lin, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Manfredini, I. Maris, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Masson, D. Mayani, Y. Meng, M. Messina, K. Micheneau, B. Miguez, A. Molinario, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, P. Pakarha, B. Pelssers, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, M.-C. Piro, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, N. Priel, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, N. Rupp, R. Saldanha, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, M. Scheibelhut, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, E. Shockley, M. Silva, H. Simgen, M. v. Sivers, A. Stein, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, N. Upole, H. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, I. Cristescu, and XENON Collaboration

Subjects
Xenon, Krypton, Distillation Column, Weakly Interact Massive Particle, Liquid Xenon, Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
Abstract

Abstract The XENON1T experiment aims for the direct detection of dark matter in a detector filled with 3.3 tons of liquid xenon. In order to achieve the desired sensitivity, the background induced by radioactive decays inside the detector has to be sufficiently low. One major contributor is the $$\beta $$ β -emitter $$^{85}$$ 85 Kr which is present in the xenon. For XENON1T a concentration of natural krypton in xenon $$\mathrm {^{nat}\mathrm{Kr/Xe}\,

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2017
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29. High resolution MCP-PMT Readout Using Transmission Lines

Author

M. Follin, R. Chyzh, C.-H. Sung, D. Breton, J. Maalmi, T. Chaminade, E. Delagnes, K. Schäfers, C. Weinheimer, D. Yvon, V. Sharyy, 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 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), Université Paris-Saclay, and ANR-18-CE92-0012,BOLD-PET,Détecteur Bismuth-Organique Mixte, Optique Tcherenkov et Chambre Ionisation, pour la Tomographie par Emission de Positrons(2018)

Subjects
Transmission lines, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Planacon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, SAMPIC, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, MCP-PMT, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation
Abstract

We study the potential of the MCP-PMT read-out to detect single photo-electron using transmission lines. Such a solution limits the number of read-out channels, has a uniform time resolution across the PMT surface and provides quasi-continuous measurement of the spatial coordinates. The proposed solution is designed to be used in the BOLD-PET project aiming to develop an innovative detection module for the positron emission tomography using the liquid detection media, the tri-methyl bismuth. In this study we use the commercial MCP-PMT Planacon from Photonis, with 32x32 anode structure. The PCB gathers signals from anode pads in 32 transmission lines which are read-out from both ends. Amplifier boards and SAMPIC modules, developed in our labs, allow us to realize the cost-effective, multi-channel digitization of signals with excellent precision. For a single photo-electron, we measured a time resolution of 70~ps (FWHM) simultaneously with a spatial accuracy of 1.6~mm and 0.9~mm (FWHM) along and across transmission lines correspondingly., Comment: Accepted by Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A

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2021
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30. First direct neutrino-mass measurement with sub-eV sensitivity

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M. Aker, M. Bottcher, A. Beglarian, J. Behrens, A. Berlev, U. Besserer, B. Bieringer, F. Block, B. Bornschein, L. Bornschein, T. Brunst, T. S. Caldwell, R. M. D. Carney, L. La Cascio, S. Chilingaryan, W. Choi, K. Debowski, M. Deffert, M. Descher, D. D´ıaz Barrero, P. J. Doe, O. Dragouns, G. Drexlin, K. Eitel, E. Ellinger, R. Engel, S. Enomoto, A. Felden, J. A. Formaggio, F. M. Frankle, G. B. Franklin, F. Friedel, A. Fulst, K. Gauda, W. Gil, F. Gluck, R. Grossle, R. Gumbsheimer, V. Gupta, T. Hohn, V. Hannen, N. Haußmann, K. Helbing, S. Hickford, R. Hiller, D. Hillsheimer, D. Hinz, T. Houdy, A. Huber, A. Jansen, C. Karl, F. Kellerer, J. Kellerer, M. Klein, C. Kohler, L. Kollenberger, A. Kopmann, M. Korzeczek, A. Kovalik, B. Krasch, H. Krause, N. Kunka, T. Lasserre, T. L. Le, O. Lebeda, B. Lehnert, A. Lokhov, M. Machatschek, E. Malcherek, M. Mark, A. Marsteller, E. L. Martin, C. Melzer, A. Menshikov, Susanne Mertens, S. Mertens, J. Mostafa, K. Muller, S. Niemes, P. Oelpmann, D. S. Parno, A. W. P. Poon, J. M. L. Poyato, F. Priester, M. Rollig, C. Rottele, R. G. H. Robertson, W. Rodejohann, C. Rodenbeck, M. Rysavy, R. Sack, A. Saenz, P. Schafer, A. Schaller (nee Pollithy), L. Schimpf, K. Scholosser, Magnus Schlösser, L. Schluter, S. Schneidewind, M. Schrank, B. Schulz, A. Schwemmer, M. Sefcık, V. Sibille, D. Siegmann, M. Slezak, M. Steidl, M. Sturm, M. Sun, D. Tcherniakhovski, H. H. Telle, L. A. Thorne, T. Thummler, N. Titov, I. Tkachev, K. Urban, K. Valerius, D. Venos, A. P. Vizcaya Hernandez, C. Weinheimer, S. Welte, J. Wendel, J. F. Wilkerson, J. Wolf, S. Wustling, W. Xu, Y.-R. Yen, S. Zadoroghny, and G. Zeller

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Electron, Sensitivity (control systems), Mass campaign, Neutrino, Spectral data, Mass measurement, KATRIN
Abstract

We report the results of the second measurement campaign of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment. KATRIN probes the effective electron anti-neutrino mass, mν, via a high-precision measurement of the tritium β-decay spectrum close to its endpoint at 18.6 keV. In the second physics run presented here, the source activity was increased by a factor of 3.8 and the background was reduced by 25% with respect to the first campaign. A sensitivity on mν of 0.7 eV/c2 at 90% confidence level (CL) was reached. This is the first sub-eV sensitivity from a direct neutrino-mass experiment. The best fit to the spectral data yields mν2=(0.26±0.34) eV2/c4, resulting in an upper limit of mν2 (90% CL). By combining this result with the first neutrino mass campaign, we find an upper limit of mν2 (90% CL).

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2021
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31. Reflectivity of VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers in Liquid Xenon

Author

M. Heffner, Thilo Michel, M. Hughes, F. Vachon, Jean-Francois Pratte, Aleksey E. Bolotnikov, A. Craycraft, R. DeVoe, C. Gingras, C.R. Natzke, A. De St. Croix, T. I. Totev, K. Murray, Gisela Anton, J. C. Nzobadila Ondze, S. Al Kharusi, R. Saldanha, O. Nusair, J. Ringuette, R. Krücken, W. M. Fairbank, M. Worcester, A. Der Mesrobian-Kabakian, N. Massacret, Lorenzo Fabris, David Moore, Wen-Qi Yan, K. Harouaka, R. Gornea, E. Hansen, C. T. Overman, Samuele Sangiorgio, I. Ostrovskiy, H. Rasiwala, M. Tarka, K. S. Kumar, M. Elbeltagi, R. Tsang, A. Larson, John L. Orrell, T. Daniels, E. Caden, F. Retière, Z. Li, Mike Richman, N. Roy, S. Feyzbakhsh, G. Giacomini, M. Murra, G. Li, E. Raguzin, A. Pocar, A. Iverson, Ethan Brown, B. Mong, C. Licciardi, F. Nolet, J. P. Brodsky, A. Tidball, T. McElroy, Shu Li, T. Rossignol, V. A. Belov, R. MacLellan, O. Zeldovich, M. Medina Peregrina, A. Karelin, B. T. Cleveland, K. Odgers, I. Badhrees, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, D. Fairbank, A. Kuchenkov, M. Wagenpfeil, M. Walent, Giorgio Gratta, Qing Xia, Sergio Ferrara, C. Vivo-Vilches, D. Schulte, Govinda Adhikari, G. S. Ortega, J. Todd, Arun Kumar Soma, C. Weinheimer, T. Brunner, D. S. Leonard, Serge A. Charlebois, A. Odian, L. Darroch, S. Rescia, C. Huhmann, M. J. Dolinski, M. J. Jewell, R. Lindsay, D. Chernyak, L. Althueser, V.N. Stekhanov, M. L. Di Vacri, T. Ziegler, Y. Lan, S. Parent, L. J. Kaufman, A. Gorham, S. X. Wu, P. A. Breur, J. Bane, A. E. Robinson, Eric W. Hoppe, J. Echevers, D. Goeldi, G.J. Ramonnye, Liang Yang, A. Jamil, S. Thibado, C. Richard, M. Chiu, J. Farine, P. Martel-Dion, Guofu Cao, T. Bhatta, J. Nattress, E. Angelico, B. Chana, Douglas H Beck, T. Stiegler, J. Schneider, K. Deslandes, P. C. Rowson, A. House, A. Fieguth, C.A. Hardy, U. Wichoski, S. Viel, G. Gallina, A. Piepke, I. J. Arnquist, P. Gautam, K. G. Leach, R.J. Newby, S. Triambak, F. Spadoni, and C. Chambers

Subjects
Materials science, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, APDS, chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, law.invention, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Xenon, law, 0103 physical sciences, Wafer, Angular resolution, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Avalanche photodiode, chemistry, Angle of incidence (optics), business
Abstract

Silicon photomultipliers are regarded as a very promising technology for next-generation, cutting-edge detectors for low-background experiments in particle physics. This work presents systematic reflectivity studies of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) and other samples in liquid xenon at vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) wavelengths. A dedicated setup at the University of M\"unster has been used that allows to acquire angle-resolved reflection measurements of various samples immersed in liquid xenon with 0.45{\deg} angular resolution. Four samples are investigated in this work: one Hamamatsu VUV4 SiPM, one FBK VUV-HD SiPM, one FBK wafer sample and one Large-Area Avalanche Photodiode (LA-APD) from EXO-200. The reflectivity is determined to be 25-36% at an angle of incidence of 20{\deg} for the four samples and increases to up to 65% at 70{\deg} for the LA-APD and the FBK samples. The Hamamatsu VUV4 SiPM shows a decline with increasing angle of incidence. The reflectivity results will be incorporated in upcoming light response simulations of the nEXO detector., Comment: 18 pages, 11 figures

Published
2021

32. Search for inelastic scattering of WIMP dark matter in XENON1T

Author

A. Manfredini, L. Scotto Lavina, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, R. Budnik, Yuehuan Wei, L. Grandi, G. Koltman, C. Weinheimer, K. Martens, F. Arneodo, M. Messina, Lorne Levinson, F. Joerg, Kaixuan Ni, D. Cichon, N. Kato, C. Macolino, L. Hoetzsch, A. Elykov, T. Wolf, Elena Aprile, João Cardoso, M. Pierre, D. Ramírez García, F. Gao, Keita Mizukoshi, P. Shagin, J. A. M. Lopes, Y. Mosbacher, Y. Ma, Masaki Yamashita, P. Di Gangi, S. Moriyama, T. Zhu, F. D. Amaro, Guillaume Plante, Fabrizio Marignetti, M. Vargas, H. Landsman, M. P. Decowski, April S. Brown, Boris Bauermeister, Jochen Schreiner, D. Masson, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, L. Bellagamba, A. Rocchetti, S. Liang, Manfred Lindner, L. Althueser, K. Odgers, J. Howlett, Katsuki Hiraide, F. Lombardi, M. Alfonsi, S. Andaloro, J.M.F. dos Santos, F. Agostini, R. Di Stefano, V. Pizzella, Giacomo Bruno, J. Naganoma, N. Šarčević, J. Qin, Sebastian Lindemann, G. Sartorelli, J. Pienaar, C. Capelli, N. Rupp, Gian Carlo Trinchero, K. Morå, Michelle Galloway, H. Schulze Eißing, E. Angelino, S. Bruenner, A. Molinario, S. Mastroianni, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, M. Iacovacci, A. Di Giovanni, Bart Pelssers, C. Tunnell, C. Wittweg, J. P. Zopounidis, D. Coderre, Manuel Gameiro da Silva, M. Scheibelhut, Jelle Aalbers, A. Depoian, M. Selvi, D. Schulte, Kathrin Valerius, A. Kopec, S. Reichard, Qing Lin, J. Qi, J. Palacio, J. Ye, B. Cimmino, M. Clark, Atsushi Takeda, Shingo Kazama, G. Volta, Uwe Oberlack, V. C. Antochi, Ethan Brown, Kentaro Miuchi, C. Therreau, J. Cuenca, Y. Zhang, Julien Masbou, Z. Xu, M. Murra, W. Fulgione, Laura Manenti, C. Hils, Sara Diglio, J. Mahlstedt, G. Zavattini, Laura Baudis, P. Gaemers, F. Toschi, M. L. Benabderrahmane, J. Long, J. R. Angevaare, E. Shockley, Jan Conrad, Masanori Kobayashi, R. Gaior, Yoshitaka Itow, M. Weiss, D. Thers, Marc Schumann, F. Semeria, R. F. Lang, A. P. Colijn, D. Wenz, R. Peres, A. Mancuso, Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Amaro, F. D., Andaloro, S., Angelino, E., Angevaare, J. R., Antochi, V. C., Arneodo, F., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Bellagamba, L., Benabderrahmane, M. L., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M. R., Cichon, D., Cimmino, B., Clark, M., Coderre, D., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cuenca, J., Cussonneau, J. P., Decowski, M. P., Depoian, A., Di Gangi, P., Di Giovanni, A., Di Stefano, R., Diglio, S., Elykov, A., Ferella, A. D., Fulgione, W., Gaemers, P., Gaior, R., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Grandi, L., Hils, C., Hiraide, K., Hoetzsch, L., Howlett, J., Iacovacci, M., Itow, Y., Joerg, F., Kato, N., Kazama, S., Kobayashi, M., Koltman, G., Kopec, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Liang, S., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lombardi, F., Long, J., Lopes, J. A. M., Ma, Y., Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Mancuso, A., Manenti, L., Manfredini, A., Marignetti, F., Marrodan Undagoitia, T., Martens, K., Masbou, J., Masson, D., Mastroianni, S., Messina, M., Miuchi, K., Mizukoshi, K., Molinario, A., Mora, K., Moriyama, S., Mosbacher, Y., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Odgers, K., Palacio, J., Pelssers, B., Peres, R., Pienaar, J., Pierre, M., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Qi, J., Qin, J., Ramirez Garcia, D., Reichard, S., Rocchetti, A., Rupp, N., Dos Santos, J. M. F., Sartorelli, G., Sarcevic, N., Scheibelhut, M., Schreiner, J., Schulte, D., Schulze Eissing, H., Schumann, M., Scotto Lavina, L., Selvi, M., Semeria, F., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Takeda, A., Therreau, C., Thers, D., Toschi, F., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C., Valerius, K., Vargas, M., Volta, G., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Weiss, M., Wenz, D., Wittweg, C., Wolf, T., Xu, Z., Yamashita, M., Ye, J., Zavattini, G., Zhang, Y., Zhu, T., Zopounidis, J. P., XENON Collaboration, Columbia University [New York], Oskar Klein Centre [Stockholm], Stockholm University, University of Bologna, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), University of Coimbra [Portugal] (UC), Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), 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), XENON, IoP (FNWI), and XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI)

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xenon: target, Photon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, WIMP: dark matter, High Energy Physics - Experiment, astro-ph.CO, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), XENON, Recoil, WIMP, WIMP nucleus: cross section, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Dark Matter, parameter space, Nuclear Experiment, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, nucleus: recoil, Physics, Dark Matter, Inelastic scattering, XENON, Direct Dark Matter, photon, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Direct Dark Matter, Weakly interacting massive particles, signature, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Particle physics, Inelastic scattering, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, WIMP: mass, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, NO, PE2_2, PE2_1, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, WIMP nucleus: interaction, Dark, matter, WIMP: interaction, High Energy Physics::Experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics and astroparticle physics, experimental results
Abstract

We report the results of a search for the inelastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Scattering off $^{129}$Xe is the most sensitive probe of inelastic WIMP interactions, with a signature of a 39.6 keV de-excitation photon detected simultaneously with the nuclear recoil. Using an exposure of 0.89 tonne-years, we find no evidence of inelastic WIMP scattering with a significance of more than 2$\sigma$. A profile-likelihood ratio analysis is used to set upper limits on the cross-section of WIMP-nucleus interactions. We exclude new parameter space for WIMPs heavier than 100 GeV/c${}^2$, with the strongest upper limit of $3.3 \times 10^{-39}$ cm${}^2$ for 130 GeV/c${}^2$ WIMPs at 90\% confidence level., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures

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33. Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar B8 Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

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Y. Mosbacher, Y. Ma, D. Ramírez García, J. Pienaar, Jelle Aalbers, Kentaro Miuchi, C. Therreau, M. Messina, F. Joerg, C. Macolino, L. Hoetzsch, J. P. Zopounidis, R. Budnik, D. Wenz, Masahiro Yamashita, Yuehuan Wei, R. Peres, J. Howlett, C. Capelli, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Ethan Brown, K. Morå, P. Shagin, Laura Baudis, Atsushi Takeda, L. Grandi, G. Koltman, J. A. M. Lopes, C. Hils, N. Kato, A. Mancuso, E. Shockley, C. Wittweg, P. Gaemers, A. Manfredini, M. Alfonsi, D. Coderre, Katsuki Hiraide, J. Mahlstedt, G. Zavattini, F. Lombardi, S. Andaloro, F. Toschi, V. Pizzella, D. Cichon, Marc Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, P. Di Gangi, M. Vargas, Hardy Simgen, R. Di Stefano, A. D. Ferella, Z. Xu, D. Schulte, J. Qin, W. Fulgione, R. Gaior, J. Naganoma, M. Murra, Kathrin Valerius, S. Bruenner, C. Weinheimer, Kaixuan Ni, João Cardoso, M. Pierre, N. Rupp, Shigetaka Moriyama, Yoshitaka Itow, Giacomo Bruno, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, F. Gao, J. Long, Laura Manenti, Michelle Galloway, Uwe Oberlack, Sara Diglio, M. Clark, Elena Aprile, B. Cimmino, T. Zhu, A. Elykov, T. Wolf, H. Landsman, Keita Mizukoshi, M. Weiss, D. Thers, Manuel Gameiro da Silva, F. D. Amaro, E. Angelino, S. Liang, F. Semeria, Guillaume Plante, R. F. Lang, Julien Masbou, A. Di Giovanni, Boris Bauermeister, G. Volta, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, A. P. Colijn, Bart Pelssers, V. C. Antochi, M. P. Decowski, C. Tunnell, J.M.F. dos Santos, F. Arneodo, F. Agostini, K. Martens, Lorne Levinson, J. R. Angevaare, Fabrizio Marignetti, Manfred Lindner, J. Ye, L. Althueser, Sebastian Lindemann, L. Bellagamba, April S. Brown, G. Sartorelli, Gian Carlo Trinchero, S. Mastroianni, Jochen Schreiner, S. Ahmed Maouloud, J. Qi, J. Palacio, Shingo Kazama, A. Rocchetti, Jan Conrad, Masanori Kobayashi, D. Masson, S. Reichard, J. Cuenca, Y. Zhang, H. Schulze Eißing, A. Molinario, M. Iacovacci, A. Depoian, M. Selvi, A. Kopec, and K. Odgers

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Elastic scattering, Physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Scattering, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar neutrino, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Nuclear physics, Xenon, Recoil, chemistry, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Order of magnitude
Abstract

We report on a search for nuclear recoil signals from solar $^8$B neutrinos elastically scattering off xenon nuclei in XENON1T data, lowering the energy threshold from 2.6 keV to 1.6 keV. We develop a variety of novel techniques to limit the resulting increase in backgrounds near the threshold. No significant $^8$B neutrino-like excess is found in an exposure of 0.6 t $\times$ y. For the first time, we use the non-detection of solar neutrinos to constrain the light yield from 1-2 keV nuclear recoils in liquid xenon, as well as non-standard neutrino-quark interactions. Finally, we improve upon world-leading constraints on dark matter-nucleus interactions for dark matter masses between 3 GeV/c$^2$ and 11 GeV/c$^2$ by as much as an order of magnitude.

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34. $^{222}$Rn emanation measurements for the XENON1T experiment

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Atsushi Takeda, Lorenzo Bellagamba, G. Eurin, J. Howlett, Shingo Kazama, M. Garbini, M. Messina, F. Joerg, H. Qiu, Jan Conrad, F. Semeria, Gabriella Sartorelli, Michelle Galloway, E. Shockley, A. Kopec, Qing Lin, L. Levinson, J.M.F. dos Santos, D. Masson, João Cardoso, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Ethan Brown, F. Agostini, Miguel Silva, W. Fulgione, J. Ye, F. Gao, L. Grandi, Yuehuan Wei, J. P. Zopounidis, D. Cichon, E. López Fune, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, G. Koltman, S. Mastroianni, K. Morå, N. Rupp, Abbe Brown, F. Arneodo, M. Murra, R. Di Stefano, H. Landsman, K. Martens, Kaixuan Ni, Bart Pelssers, D. Wenz, M. Vargas, A. Gallo Rosso, Yanxi Zhang, C. Hasterok, N. Šarčević, R. Peres, C. Macolino, P. A. Breur, Sara Diglio, A. Depoian, C. Capelli, M. Selvi, L. Hoetzsch, Kentaro Miuchi, C. Therreau, F. Lombardi, Thomas Berger, C. Tunnell, A. Elykov, Ran Budnik, Elena Aprile, K. Odgers, Uwe Oberlack, Laura Baudis, Gian Carlo Trinchero, D. Ramírez García, Julien Masbou, H. Simgen, A. Rocchetti, Stefan Lindemann, P. Gaemers, Giacomo Bruno, Marc Schumann, P. Shagin, M. Clark, Joern Mahlstedt, S. Bruenner, J. Wulf, J. A. M. Lopes, Z. Xu, J. Palacio, G. Plante, E. Angelino, J. Pienaar, M. Alfonsi, M. Kobayashi, R. Gaior, N. Kato, C. Wittweg, Jelle Aalbers, F. D. Amaro, Masaki Yamashita, Katsuki Hiraide, Yoshitaka Itow, A. Di Giovanni, Y. Mosbacher, Fabrizio Marignetti, Laura Manenti, M. Weiss, D. Coderre, R. F. Lang, Boris Bauermeister, P. Di Gangi, Guido Zavattini, A. Molinario, J. Qin, M. Scheibelhut, M. Iacovacci, C. Hils, O. Wack, T. Zhu, V. Pizzella, L. Althueser, J. Naganoma, Shigetaka Moriyama, C. Weinheimer, A. Manfredini, L. Scotto Lavina, A. D. Ferella, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, Han Wang, G. Volta, E. Hogenbirk, V. C. Antochi, S. Schindler, D. Schulte, Dominique Thers, J. Westermann, S. Reichard, D. Barge, B. Cimmino, J. Schreiner, M. P. Decowski, Manfred Lindner, Auke-Pieter Colijn, F. Toschi, J. R. Angevaare, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), 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), XENON, XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), Aprile, E, Aalbers, J, Agostini, F, Alfonsi, M, Althueser, L, Amaro, F D, Antochi, V C, Angelino, E, Angevaare, J R, Arneodo, F, Barge, D, Baudis, L, Bauermeister, B, Bellagamba, L, 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, Cimmino, B, Clark, M, Coderre, D, Colijn, A P, Conrad, J, Cussonneau, J P, Decowski, M P, Depoian, A, Di Gangi, P, Di Giovanni, A, Di Stefano, R, Diglio, S, Elykov, A, Eurin, G, Ferella, A D, Fulgione, W, Gaemers, P, Gaior, R, Rosso, A Gallo, Galloway, M, Gao, F, Grandi, L, Garbini, M, Hasterok, C, Hils, C, Hiraide, K, Hoetzsch, L, Hogenbirk, E, Howlett, J, Iacovacci, M, Itow, Y, Joerg, F, Kato, N, Kazama, S, Kobayashi, M, 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, Manenti, L, Manfredini, A, Marignetti, F, Undagoitia, T Marrodán, Martens, K, Masbou, J, Masson, D, Mastroianni, S, Messina, M, Miuchi, K, Molinario, A, Morå, K, Moriyama, S, Mosbacher, Y, Murra, M, Naganoma, J, Ni, K, Oberlack, U, Odgers, K, Palacio, J, Pelssers, B, Peres, R, Pienaar, J, Pizzella, V, Plante, G, Qin, J, Qiu, H, García, D Ramírez, Reichard, S, Rocchetti, A, Rupp, N, Santos, J M F Do, Sartorelli, G, Šarčević, N, Scheibelhut, M, Schindler, S, Schreiner, J, Schulte, D, Schumann, M, Lavina, L Scotto, Selvi, M, Semeria, F, Shagin, P, Shockley, E, Silva, M, Simgen, H, Takeda, A, Therreau, C, Thers, D, Toschi, F, Trinchero, G, Tunnell, C, Vargas, M, Volta, G, Wack, O, Wang, H, Wei, Y, Weinheimer, C, Weiss, M, Wenz, D, Westermann, J, Wittweg, C, Wulf, J, Xu, Z, Yamashita, M, Ye, J, Zavattini, G, Zhang, Y, Zhu, T, Zopounidis, J P, Columbia University [New York], Oskar Klein Centre [Stockholm], Stockholm University, University of Bologna, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz (JGU), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Università degli studi di Torino (UNITO), New York University [Abu Dhabi], and NYU System (NYU)

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Radon emanation, FOS: Physical sciences, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, NO, High Energy Physics - Experiment, radon: nuclide, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), XENON, Xenon, 222 Rn, PE2_2, PE2_1, 0103 physical sciences, Activity concentration, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Dark Matter, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), background: radioactivity, Physics, radon: admixture, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, detector: surface, screening, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), chemistry, Xenon, Dark matter, 222 Rn, radioactivity, Dark Matter, Radon emanation, XENON, Direct Dark Matter, Direct Dark Matter, radioactivity, Atomic physics
Abstract

The selection of low-radioactive construction materials is of utmost importance for the success of low-energy rare event search experiments. Besides radioactive contaminants in the bulk, the emanation of radioactive radon atoms from material surfaces attains increasing relevance in the effort to further reduce the background of such experiments. In this work, we present the $^{222}$Rn emanation measurements performed for the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Together with the bulk impurity screening campaign, the results enabled us to select the radio-purest construction materials, targeting a $^{222}$Rn activity concentration of 10 $\mu$Bq/kg in 3.2 t of xenon. The knowledge of the distribution of the $^{222}$Rn sources allowed us to selectively eliminate critical components in the course of the experiment. The predictions from the emanation measurements were compared to data of the $^{222}$Rn activity concentration in XENON1T. The final $^{222}$Rn activity concentration of (4.5 $\pm$ 0.1) $\mu$Bq/kg in the target of XENON1T is the lowest ever achieved in a xenon dark matter experiment., Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures

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35. The design, construction, and commissioning of the KATRIN experiment

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Stefan Welte, N. Titov, N. Trost, Suren Chilingaryan, S. Zadoroghny, J. Mostafa, B. Bieringer, L.I. Minter, B. L. Wall, M. Šefčík, M. Zacher, S. Bauer, C. Rodenbeck, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, M. Fedkevych, M. Held, H. Bouquet, B. Krasch, P. C.-O. Ranitzsch, F. Block, T. Höhn, K. Vogt, A. Beglarian, C. Weinheimer, Thierry Lasserre, F. Eichelhardt, H. Bolz, Igor Tkachev, M. A. Howe, P. Plischke, C. Bettin, D.A. Peterson, P. Renschler, F. M. Fränkle, J. Grimm, Guido Drexlin, F. Edzards, A. Verbeek, B. Ostrick, K. Mehret, C. Köhler, B.A. VanDevender, M. Erhard, A. Felden, U. Naumann, R. Grössle, J. Kleinfeller, M. Hackenjos, M. Böttcher, Holger Neumann, Volker Hannen, L. La Cascio, B. Bender, K. Helbing, M. Meloni, H. Weingardt, P. Oelpmann, A. Osipowicz, R. Rinderspacher, Klaus Blaum, N.M. Boyd, A. Off, Joseph A. Formaggio, Michael Sturm, M. Deffert, A. Kumb, H. Frenzel, S. Horn, S. Dyba, V. Sibille, Andreas Kopmann, P. J. Doe, H. Bechtler, T. Houdy, D. Hinz, F. Heizmann, Lutz Bornschein, M. Prall, M. Klein, W. Gil, K. Gauda, G.A. Cox, A. Kovalík, K. Schlösser, A. I. Berlev, K.J. Wierman, M. Kaiser, S. Schneidewind, U. Besserer, R. Berendes, S. Fischer, A. Schaller, A. Jansen, S. Bobien, K. Altenmüller, Y.-R. Yen, O. Rest, E. L. Martin, K. Urban, A. Menshikov, R. G. H. Robertson, Reiner Vianden, A. Kosmider, M. Ryšavý, S. Groh, Ferenc Glück, Alan Poon, H.-W. Ortjohann, D. Hillesheimer, Alexey Lokhov, J. Reich, W. Seller, T. Brunst, G. P. Zeller, M. Slezák, J. A. Dunmore, S. Niemes, J. Bast, P. Rohr, S. Lichter, M. Korzeczek, M. Aker, M. Babutzka, Florian Priester, Marc Weber, K. Debowski, T. D. Van Wechel, Susanne Mertens, S. Görhardt, M. Descher, B. Hillen, D. Vénos, A. Marsteller, F. Friedel, A. Huber, S. Hickford, M. Machatschek, F. Harms, B. Lehnert, Felix Spanier, M. Mark, P. Schäfer, J. Hartmann, R. Sack, R. Gehring, H. Seitz-Moskaliuk, J.F. Amsbaugh, L. A. Thorne, J. Letnev, Marco Röllig, C. Röttele, E. Ellinger, B. Leiber, Alejandro Saenz, T. James, Beate Bornschein, Sascha Wüstling, M. Zboril, M. Kleesiek, W. Xu, T. S. Caldwell, Werner Rodejohann, Matthias Arenz, Ondřej Lebeda, L. Schlüter, M. Kraus, Joachim Wolf, N. Haußmann, Daniel Siegmann, J. Kellerer, A. Fulst, H. Krause, M. Sun, M. Steidl, O. Kazachenko, Benjamin Monreal, D. Díaz Barrero, E. Malcherek, J. Bohn, M. Leber, O. Dragoun, Denis Tcherniakhovski, T.J. Corona, J. Behrens, G. C. Harper, N. Kunka, M. Sagawe, Magnus Schlösser, Diana Parno, J. Wendel, Steffen Grohmann, S. Holzmann, L. Köllenberger, T.H. Burritt, D. Eversheim, Marcus Beck, Thomas Thümmler, L. Kuckert, R. Hiller, N. Wandkowsky, Z. Chaoui, K. Eitel, D. Hilk, M. Hötzel, Kathrin Valerius, C. Weiss, S. Rupp, M. Kleifges, C. Karl, M. Schrank, L. Schimpf, R. J. Lewis, J. F. Wilkerson, H. Schön, L. Kippenbrock, K. Schönung, R. Gumbsheimer, G. B. Franklin, C. Melzer, Helmut H. Telle, J. Schwarz, W. Q. Choi, J. M. Lopez Poyato, D. Häßler, B. Schulz, Ralph Engel, K. Müller, Sanshiro Enomoto, T. L. Le, K. Bokeloh, A. W. Myers, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, KATRIN, The KATRIN collaboration, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

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Speichertechnik - Abteilung Blaum, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Project commissioning, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, beam transport, KATRIN, 01 natural sciences, Technical design, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, mass: scale, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Mass scale, ddc:530, neutrino: mass, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, detector: design, activity report, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), stability, sensitivity, Mass measurement, Beamline, Neutrino
Abstract

The KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment, which aims to make a direct and model-independent determination of the absolute neutrino mass scale, is a complex experiment with many components. More than 15 years ago, we published a technical design report (TDR) [https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/270060419] to describe the hardware design and requirements to achieve our sensitivity goal of 0.2 eV at 90% C.L. on the neutrino mass. Since then there has been considerable progress, culminating in the publication of first neutrino mass results with the entire beamline operating [arXiv:1909.06048]. In this paper, we document the current state of all completed beamline components (as of the first neutrino mass measurement campaign), demonstrate our ability to reliably and stably control them over long times, and present details on their respective commissioning campaigns., Comment: Added missing acknowledgement, corrected performance statement in chapter 4.2.5, updated author list and references

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36. Bound on 3+1 Active-Sterile Neutrino Mixing from the First Four-Week Science Run of KATRIN

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K. Gauda, U. Besserer, R. Hiller, K. Eitel, Alejandro Saenz, Beate Bornschein, Sascha Wüstling, Sanshiro Enomoto, T. L. Le, C. Karl, W. Xu, S. Dyba, W. Q. Choi, T. Brunst, M. Schrank, L. La Cascio, L. Köllenberger, M. Slezák, Volker Hannen, S. Hickford, J. M. Lopez Poyato, Magnus Schlösser, L. Schimpf, T. Houdy, D. Hinz, N. Titov, A. Kovalík, A. Schaller, C. Weinheimer, Diana Parno, B. Schulz, L. Schlüter, T. Höhn, Y.-R. Yen, O. Rest, E. Ellinger, F. M. Fränkle, Ralph Engel, J. Wendel, J. F. Wilkerson, R. G. H. Robertson, K. Müller, P. Oelpmann, M. Steidl, B. Krasch, Alexey Lokhov, Thierry Lasserre, A. I. Berlev, L. Kippenbrock, R. Gumbsheimer, Thomas Thümmler, G. B. Franklin, D. Díaz Barrero, Guido Drexlin, P. J. Doe, M. Korzeczek, Susanne Mertens, Igor Tkachev, M. Aker, R. Grössle, K. Helbing, Kathrin Valerius, A. P. Vizcaya Hernández, A. Jansen, M. Ryšavý, Ferenc Glück, D. Hillesheimer, C. Weiss, C. Melzer, Lutz Bornschein, N. Haußmann, Daniel Siegmann, G. P. Zeller, M. Šefčík, R. Sack, E. Malcherek, E. L. Martin, Felix Spanier, K. Debowski, M. Mark, P. Schäfer, M. Descher, D. Vénos, B. Lehnert, N. Le Guennic, S. Zadoroghny, L. A. Thorne, K. Altenmüller, S. Niemes, Joachim Wolf, A. Marsteller, F. Friedel, K. Schlösser, M. Machatschek, C. Rodenbeck, M. Böttcher, O. Dragoun, J. Behrens, Florian Priester, Marc Weber, V. Sibille, Andreas Kopmann, J. Kellerer, A. Fulst, H. Krause, M. Sun, H. Seitz-Moskaliuk, Marco Röllig, C. Röttele, Stefan Welte, Suren Chilingaryan, Joseph A. Formaggio, Michael Sturm, A. Huber, H. H. Telle, B. Bieringer, A. Beglarian, A. Felden, N. Trost, Ondřej Lebeda, F. Edzards, Klaus Blaum, M. Deffert, M. Klein, W. Gil, M. Fedkevych, F. Block, A. Osipowicz, T. S. Caldwell, Alan Poon, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, KATRIN, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)

Subjects
Semileptonic decay, Sterile neutrino, neutrino: mass difference, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, anomaly, Spectral distortion, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], KATRIN, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Combinatorics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], ddc:530, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Nuclear Experiment, Mixing (physics), Physics, nucleus: semileptonic decay, gallium, electron: particle identification, tritium, neutrino: sterile: mass, State (functional analysis), ddc, Elementary Particles and Fields, spectral, neutrino: oscillation, nuclear reactor, Neutrino, Präzisionsexperimente - Abteilung Blaum, neutrino: mixing, experimental results
Abstract

We report on the light sterile neutrino search from the first four-week science run of the KATRIN experiment in~2019. Beta-decay electrons from a high-purity gaseous molecular tritium source are analyzed by a high-resolution MAC-E filter down to 40 eV below the endpoint at 18.57 keV. We consider the framework with three active neutrinos and one sterile neutrino of mass $m_{4}$. The analysis is sensitive to a fourth mass state $m^2_{4} \lesssim$ 1000 eV$^2$ and to active-to-sterile neutrino mixing down to $|U_{e4}|^2 \gtrsim 2\cdot10^{-2}$. No significant spectral distortion is observed and exclusion bounds on the sterile mass and mixing are reported. These new limits supersede the Mainz results and improve the Troitsk bound for $m^2_{4}, Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures

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2021
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37. Current Direct Neutrino Mass Experiments

Author

G. Drexlin, V. Hannen, S. Mertens, and C. Weinheimer

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

In this contribution, we review the status and perspectives of direct neutrino mass experiments, which investigate the kinematics of β-decays of specific isotopes (3H, 187Re, 163Ho) to derive model-independent information on the averaged electron (anti)neutrino mass. After discussing the kinematics of β-decay and the determination of the neutrino mass, we give a brief overview of past neutrino mass measurements (SN1987a-ToF studies, Mainz and Troitsk experiments for 3H, cryobolometers for 187Re). We then describe the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment currently under construction at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which will use the MAC-E-Filter principle to push the sensitivity down to a value of 200 meV (90% C.L.). To do so, many technological challenges have to be solved related to source intensity and stability, as well as precision energy analysis and low background rate close to the kinematic endpoint of tritium β-decay at 18.6 keV. We then review new approaches such as the MARE, ECHO, and Project8 experiments, which offer the promise to perform an independent measurement of the neutrino mass in the sub-eV region. Altogether, the novel methods developed in direct neutrino mass experiments will provide vital information on the absolute mass scale of neutrinos.

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2013
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38. The XENON1T Data Acquisition System

Author

E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, L. Althueser, F.D. Amaro, V.C. Antochi, F. Arneodo, D. Barge, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, L. Bellagamba, M.L. Benabderrahmane, T. Berger, P. A. Breur, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, 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, P. Gaemers, 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, S. Kazama, A. Kish, M. Kobayashi, 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, Y. Mosbacher, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, K. Odgers, B. Pelssers, R. Peres, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, V. Pizzella, G. Plante, R. Podviianiuk, H. Qiu, D. Ramírez García, S. Reichard, B. Riedel, 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.D. Tunnell, N. Upole, M. Vargas, G. Volta, O. Wack, H. Wang, Y. Wei, C. Weinheimer, D. Wenz, C. Wittweg, J. Wulf, J. Ye, Y. Zhang, T. Zhu, J.P. Zopounidis, for the XENON collaboration, M. Pieracci, C. Tintori, Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées (SUBATECH), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), XENON, Aprile E., Aalbers J., Agostini F., Alfonsi M., Althueser L., Amaro F.D., Antochi V.C., Arneodo F., Barge D., Baudis L., Bauermeister B., Bellagamba L., Benabderrahmane M.L., Berger T., Breur P.A., Brown A., Brown E., Bruenner S., Bruno G., Budnik R., Butikofer L., Capelli C., Cardoso J.M.R., Cichon D., Coderre D., Colijn A.P., Conrad J., Cussonneau J.P., Decowski M.P., De Perio P., Gangi P.D., Giovanni A.D., Diglio S., Elykov A., Eurin G., Fei J., Ferella A.D., Fieguth A., Fulgione W., Gaemers P., Rosso A.G., Galloway M., Gao F., Garbini M., Grandi L., Greene Z., Hasterok C., Hogenbirk E., Howlett J., Iacovacci M., Itay R., Joerg F., Kazama S., Kish A., Kobayashi M., Koltman G., Kopec A., Landsman H., Lang R.F., Levinson L., Lin Q., Lindemann S., Lindner M., Lombardi F., Lopes J.A.M., Fune E.L., MacOlino C., Mahlstedt J., Manfredini A., Marignetti F., Undagoitia T.M., Masbou J., Masson D., Mastroianni S., Messina M., Micheneau K., Miller K., Molinario A., Mora K., Mosbacher Y., Murra M., Naganoma J., Ni K., Oberlack U., Odgers K., Pelssers B., Peres R., Piastra F., Pienaar J., Pizzella V., Plante G., Podviianiuk R., Qiu H., Garcia D.R., Reichard S., Riedel B., Rocchetti A., Rupp N., Santos J.M.F.D., Sartorelli G., Sarcevic N., Scheibelhut M., Schindler S., Schreiner J., Schulte D., Schumann M., Lavina L.S., Selvi M., Shagin P., Shockley E., Silva M., Simgen H., Therreau C., Thers D., Toschi F., Trinchero G., Tunnell C.D., Upole N., Vargas M., Volta G., Wack O., Wang H., Wei Y., Weinheimer C., Wenz D., Wittweg C., Wulf J., Ye J., Zhang Y., Zhu T., Zopounidis J.P., Collaboration F.T.X., Pieracci M., Tintori C., XENON (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), IoP (FNWI), Université de Nantes - Faculté des Sciences et des Techniques, 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 Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (IMT Atlantique), Aprile, E., Aalbers, J., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Althueser, L., Amaro, F. D., Antochi, V. C., Arneodo, F., Barge, D., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Bellagamba, L., Benabderrahmane, M. L., Berger, T., Breur, P. A., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Butikofer, L., Capelli, C., Cardoso, J. M. R., Cichon, D., Coderre, D., Colijn, A. P., Conrad, J., Cussonneau, J. P., Decowski, M. P., De Perio, P., Gangi, P. D., Giovanni, A. D., Diglio, S., Elykov, A., Eurin, G., Fei, J., Ferella, A. D., Fieguth, A., Fulgione, W., Gaemers, P., Rosso, A. G., Galloway, M., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Grandi, L., Greene, Z., Hasterok, C., Hogenbirk, E., Howlett, J., Iacovacci, M., Itay, R., Joerg, F., Kazama, S., Kish, A., Kobayashi, M., Koltman, G., Kopec, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. F., Levinson, L., Lin, Q., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lombardi, F., Lopes, J. A. M., Fune, E. L., Macolino, C., Mahlstedt, J., Manfredini, A., Marignetti, F., Undagoitia, T. M., Masbou, J., Masson, D., Mastroianni, S., Messina, M., Micheneau, K., Miller, K., Molinario, A., Mora, K., Mosbacher, Y., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Odgers, K., Pelssers, B., Peres, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Pizzella, V., Plante, G., Podviianiuk, R., Qiu, H., Garcia, D. R., Reichard, S., Riedel, B., Rocchetti, A., Rupp, N., Santos, J. M. F. D., Sartorelli, G., Sarcevic, N., Scheibelhut, M., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schulte, D., Schumann, M., Lavina, L. S., Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Shockley, E., Silva, M., Simgen, H., Therreau, C., Thers, D., Toschi, F., Trinchero, G., Tunnell, C. D., Upole, N., Vargas, M., Volta, G., Wack, O., Wang, H., Wei, Y., Weinheimer, C., Wenz, D., Wittweg, C., Wulf, J., Ye, J., Zhang, Y., Zhu, T., Zopounidis, J. P., Collaboration, F. T. X., Pieracci, M., and Tintori, C.

Subjects
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, Signal, Data acquisition, Software, Front-end electronics for detector readout, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Data acquisition concept, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Time projection chamber, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Control and monitor systems online, Detector, Bandwidth (signal processing), Data acquisition concepts, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Trigger concepts and systems (hardware and software), business, Energy (signal processing), Computer hardware
Abstract

The XENON1T liquid xenon time projection chamber is the most sensitive detector built to date for the measurement of direct interactions of weakly interacting massive particles with normal matter. The data acquisition system (DAQ) is constructed from commercial, open source, and custom components to digitize signals from the detector and store them for later analysis. The system achieves an extremely low signal threshold below a tenth of a photoelectron using a parallelized readout with the global trigger deferred to a later, software stage. The event identification is based on MongoDB database queries and has over 97% efficiency at recognizing interactions at the analysis energy threshold. A readout bandwidth over 300 MB/s is reached in calibration modes and is further expandable via parallelization. This DAQ system was successfully used during three years of operation of XENON1T., 14 pages, 6 figures, submitted to JINST; Version 2 with minor updates to text

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2019
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39. $\beta$-Decay Spectrum, Response Function and Statistical Model for Neutrino Mass Measurements with the KATRIN Experiment

Author

M. Kleesiek, M. Erhard, Guido Drexlin, S. Groh, M. Hötzel, Kathrin Valerius, J. Behrens, Susanne Mertens, Joseph A. Formaggio, Alan Poon, C. Weinheimer, Ferenc Glück, and K. Eitel

Subjects
Particle physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, lcsh:Astrophysics, Context (language use), Interval (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Particle and Plasma Physics, lcsh:QB460-466, 0103 physical sciences, lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, ddc:530, Nuclear, Sensitivity (control systems), 010306 general physics, Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics, Quantum Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular, Function (mathematics), Nuclear & Particles Physics, ddc, Distribution (mathematics), Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, lcsh:QC770-798, Neutrino, Electron neutrino, KATRIN
Abstract

The objective of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment is to determine the effective electron neutrino mass $m(\nu_\text{e})$ with an unprecedented sensitivity of $0.2\,\text{eV}$ (90\% C.L.) by precision electron spectroscopy close to the endpoint of the $\beta$ decay of tritium. We present a consistent theoretical description of the $\beta$ electron energy spectrum in the endpoint region, an accurate model of the apparatus response function, and the statistical approaches suited to interpret and analyze tritium $\beta$ decay data observed with KATRIN with the envisaged precision. In addition to providing detailed analytical expressions for all formulae used in the presented model framework with the necessary detail of derivation, we discuss and quantify the impact of theoretical and experimental corrections on the measured $m(\nu_\text{e})$. Finally, we outline the statistical methods for parameter inference and the construction of confidence intervals that are appropriate for a neutrino mass measurement with KATRIN. In this context, we briefly discuss the choice of the $\beta$ energy analysis interval and the distribution of measuring time within that range., Comment: 27 pages, 22 figures, 2 tables

Published
2018

40. Erratum: Low-mass dark matter search using ionization signals in XENON100 [Phys. Rev. D 94 , 092001 (2016)]

Author

Y. Meng, P. de Perio, D. Cichon, U. Oberlack, T. Berger, S. Rosendahl, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Pienaar, K. Micheneau, Jelle Aalbers, D. Franco, P. A. Breur, B. Kaminsky, Elena Aprile, G. Sartorelli, Michelle Galloway, C. Grignon, April S. Brown, M. P. Decowski, A. Manfredini, R. Itay, B. Miguez, Manfred Lindner, Jochen Schreiner, P. Shagin, Hulin Wang, Laura Baudis, Matthew Anthony, M. Cervantes, D. Thers, M. L. Benabderrahmane, Ethan Brown, A. Tiseni, C. Hasterok, A. Kish, M. Weber, Yuehuan Wei, D. Mayani, F. D. Amaro, A. Buss, E. Hogenbirk, L. Scotto Lavina, F. Arneodo, M. Le Calloch, Hardy Simgen, Lorne Levinson, R. Persiani, Guillaume Plante, A. D. Ferella, G. Kessler, P. Barrow, C. Weinheimer, C. Reuter, Z. Greene, Giacomo Bruno, M. Selvi, A. Fieguth, D. Coderre, S. Schindler, Boris Bauermeister, R. Wall, Luke Goetzke, S. E. A. Orrigo, E. K. U. Gross, C. Geis, A. Rizzo, P. Di Gangi, L. Rauch, N. Rupp, M. Scheibelhut, João Cardoso, S. Bruenner, J. Wulf, H. Landsman, C. Tunnell, R. Budnik, J. Naganoma, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, D. Masson, Lukas Bütikofer, Ehud Duchovni, Marc Schumann, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, A. Lyashenko, Julien Masbou, M. Alfonsi, A. Stein, Bart Pelssers, R. F. Lang, A. P. Colijn, G. C. Trinchero, J.M.F. dos Santos, F. Agostini, M. von Sivers, A. Di Giovanni, M. Garbini, Sebastian Lindemann, F. V. Massoli, M. Murra, Payam Pakarha, N. Priel, S. Reichard, A. Molinario, Y. Zhang, F. L. Linde, C. Levy, F. Piastra, M. Messina, J.A.M. Lopes, W. Fulgione, and Jan Conrad

Subjects
Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Yield (chemistry), Ionization, 0103 physical sciences, Dark matter, Charge (physics), Atomic physics, 010306 general physics, Low Mass, 01 natural sciences
Abstract

In Fig. 5 of our original article, we compared measurements and predictions of the charge yield Qy. In that figure, the LUX points were misrepresented, and therefore we present here in Fig. 1 the corrected points from Ref. [1].

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2017
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41. Erratum: First axion results from the XENON100 experiment [Phys. Rev. D 90 , 062009 (2014)]

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H. Landsman, Daniel Lellouch, F. Piastra, S. Schindler, B. Miguez, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, M. Auger, Hardy Simgen, A. D. Ferella, Hulin Wang, C. Levy, Kaixuan Ni, D. Mayani Paras, M. Messina, K. Arisaka, G. Kessler, P. Shagin, N. Priel, A. Kish, J. Naganoma, F. Arneodo, H. Contreras, J.A.M. Lopes, C. Balan, Marc Schumann, Y. Meng, Ethan Brown, S. Reichard, W. Fulgione, M. P. Decowski, U. Oberlack, Manfred Lindner, O. Vitells, C. Geis, A. Rizzo, C. Grignon, A. Tiseni, A. Molinario, Giacomo Bruno, S. Macmullin, Florian Kaether, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, S. Bruenner, Gabriella Sartorelli, R. F. Lang, C. Weinheimer, A. P. Colijn, D. Thers, M. Weber, Guillaume Plante, Boris Bauermeister, W. Hampel, M. Garbini, April S. Brown, R. Itay, Jochen Schreiner, F. V. Massoli, M. Le Calloch, C. Reuter, S. E. A. Orrigo, Elena Aprile, João Cardoso, F. Gao, S. Rosendahl, J.M.F. dos Santos, F. Agostini, Sebastian Lindemann, E. Pantic, R. Budnik, Luke Goetzke, S. Fattori, G. C. Trinchero, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, M. Murra, Jean-Pierre Cussonneau, M. Alfonsi, K. Lung, Laura Baudis, J. Pienaar, P. Beltrame, Ehud Duchovni, A. Behrens, A. Lyashenko, A. Teymourian, P. Barrow, K. Bokeloh, E. K. U. Gross, R. Persiani, Julien Masbou, Aprile, E., Agostini, F., Alfonsi, M., Arisaka, K., Arneodo, F., Auger, M., Balan, C., Barrow, P., Baudis, L., Bauermeister, B., Behrens, A., Beltrame, P., Bokeloh, K., Brown, A., Brown, E., Bruenner, S., Bruno, G., Budnik, R., Cardoso, J. m. r., Colijn, A. p., Contreras, H., Cussonneau, J. p., Decowski, M. p., Duchovni, E., Fattori, S., Ferella, A. d., Fulgione, W., Gao, F., Garbini, M., Geis, C., Goetzke, L. w., Grignon, C., Gross, E., Hampel, W., Itay, R., Kaether, F., Kessler, G., Kish, A., Landsman, H., Lang, R. f., Le Calloch, M., Lellouch, D., Levy, C., Lindemann, S., Lindner, M., Lopes, J. a. m., Lung, K., Lyashenko, A., Macmullin, S., Marrodán Undagoitia, T., Masbou, J., Massoli, F. v., Mayani Paras, D., Melgarejo Fernandez, A. j., Meng, Y., Messina, M., Miguez, B., Molinario, A., Murra, M., Naganoma, J., Ni, K., Oberlack, U., Orrigo, S. e. a., Pantic, E., Persiani, R., Piastra, F., Pienaar, J., Plante, G., Priel, N., Reichard, S., Reuter, C., Rizzo, A., Rosendahl, S., dos Santos, J. m. f., Sartorelli, G., Schindler, S., Schreiner, J., Schumann, M., Scotto Lavina, L., Selvi, M., Shagin, P., Simgen, H., Teymourian, A., Thers, D., Tiseni, A., Trinchero, G., Vitells, O., Wang, H., Weber, M., and Weinheimer, C.

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, XENON DARK MATTER AXION, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 0103 physical sciences, Limit (mathematics), 010306 general physics, Coupling (probability), 01 natural sciences, Axion
Abstract

n our paper, we presented searches for solar axions and galactic axionlike particles (ALPs) in the data collected by the XENON100 experiment (with an exposure of 224.6 days). We recently found a bug in the code to calculate the exclusion limit for galactic ALPs. This resulted in an underestimation of the ALP expected rate, which in turn led to an overly conservative limit, compared to what it should really be. We corrected the code, and the result of the XENON100 90% C.L. exclusion limit on galactic ALPs (shown in Fig. 1) was reevaluated. The corrected limit is stronger than the one previously published by approximately a factor of 5 across all masses and sets the best published limit on the axion-electron coupling, $g_{Ae}$, in the (1–40) keV/$c^2$ mass range.

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2017
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42. Effect of a sweeping conductive wire on electrons stored in a Penning-like trap between the KATRIN spectrometers

Author

J. Bonn, K. Valerius, M. Zbořil, C. Weinheimer, B. Ostrick, Th. Thümmler, Ferenc Glück, Marcus Beck, Ernst W. Otten, H.-W. Ortjohann, and K. Essig

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Spectrometer, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Electron, Penning trap, Magnetic field, Trap (computing), Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), Atomic physics, Nuclear Experiment, Electron neutrino, Electrical conductor, KATRIN
Abstract

The KATRIN experiment is going to search for the mass of the electron antineutrino down to 0.2 eV/c^2. In order to reach this sensitivity the background rate has to be understood and minimised to 0.01 counts per second. One of the background sources is the unavoidable Penning trap for electrons due to the combination of the electric and magnetic fields between the pre- and the main spectrometer at KATRIN. In this article we will show that by sweeping a conducting wire periodically through such a particle trap stored particles can be removed, an ongoing discharge in the trap can be stopped, and the count rate measured with a detector looking at the trap is reduced., Final version published in EPJ A, 14 pages, 19 figures (21 files)

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2010
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43. Results from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array

Author

J. Ahrens, X. Bai, S.W. Barwick, T. Becka, K.-H. Becker, E. Bernaxdini, D. Bertrand, F. Binon, A. Birone, S. Böser, O. Botnerg, O. Bouhali, T. Burgess, S. Carius, T. Castermans, A. Chen, D. Chirkin, J. Conrad, J. Cooley, D.F. Cowen, A. Davour, C. De Clercq, T. DeYoung, P. Desiati, J.-P. Dewulf, P. Doksus, P. Ekström, T. Feser, T.K. Gaisser, M. Gaug, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, R. Hardtke, T. Hauschildt, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G.C. Hill, P.O. Hulth, S. Hundertmark, J. Jacobsen, A. Karle, B. Koci, L. Köpke, K. Kuehn, M. Kowalski, J.I. Lamoureux, H. Leich, M. Leuthold, P. Lindahl, I. Liubarsky, J. Madsen, P. Marciniewski, H.S. Matis, C.P. McParland, Y. Minaeva, P. Miočinović, R. Morse, R. Nahnhauer, T. Neunhöffer, P. Niessen, D.R. Nygren, H. Ogelman, Ph. Olbrechts, C. Pérez de los Heros, A.C. Pohl, P.B. Price, G.T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, S. Richter, J. Rodríguez Martino, D. Ross, H.-G. Sander, T. Schmidt, D. Schneider, R. Schwarz, A. Silvestri, M. Solarz, G.M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, D. Steele, P. Steffen, R.G. Stokstad, P. Sudhoff, K.-H. Sulanke, I. Taboada, L. Thollander, S. Tilav, C. Walck, C. Weinheimer, C.H. Wiebusch, C. Wiedemann, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, G. Yodh, and S. Young

Subjects
Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Muon, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, Detector, Flux, Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Muon neutrino, Ultrahigh energy, Neutrino
Abstract

We show new results from both the older and newer incarnations of AMANDA (AMANDA-B10 and AMANDA-II, respectively). These results demonstrate that AMANDA is a functioning, multipurpose detector with significant physics and astrophysics reach. They include a new higher-statistics measurement of the atmospheric muon neutrino flux and preliminary results from searches for a variety of sources of ultrahigh energy neutrinos: generic point sources, gamma-ray bursters and diffuse sources producing muons in the detector, and diffuse sources producing electromagnetic or hadronic showers in or near the detector.

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2003
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44. A novel $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr tracer method for characterizing xenon gas and cryogenic distillation systems

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S. Rosendahl, Ethan Brown, I. Cristescu, C. Weinheimer, K. Bokeloh, S. Schneider, D. V'enos, M. Murra, A. Fieguth, O. Lebeda, C. Levy, and C. Huhmann

Subjects
Air separation, Radioactive tracer, Materials science, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Nuclear engineering, Krypton, chemistry.chemical_element, Isotopes of krypton, FOS: Physical sciences, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Scintillator, law.invention, Xenon, chemistry, law, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Distillation, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Mathematical Physics, Radioactive decay
Abstract

The radioactive isomer $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr has many properties that make it very useful for various applications. Its low energy decay products, like conversion, shake-off and Auger electrons as well as X- and $\gamma$-rays are used for calibration purposes in neutrino mass experiments and direct dark matter detection experiments. Thanks to the short half-life of 1.83 h and the decay to the ground state $^{83}$Kr, one does not risk contamination of any low-background experiment with long- lived radionuclides. In this paper, we present two new applications of $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr. It can be used as a radioactive tracer in noble gases to characterize the particle flow inside of gas routing systems. A method of doping $^{83\mathrm{m}}$Kr into xenon gas and its detection, using special custom-made detectors, based on a photomultiplier tube, is described. This technique has been used to determine the circulation speed of gas particles inside of a gas purification system for xenon. Furthermore, 83m Kr can be used to rapidly estimate separation performance of a distillation system.

Published
2014

45. Calibration and survey of AMANDA with the SPASE detectors

Author

J. Ahrens, X. Bai, S. W. Barwick, R. C. Bay, T. Becka, K. H. Becker, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, F. Binon, A. Biron, S. Boser, O. Botner, A. Bouchta, O. Bouhali, T. Burgess, S. Carius, T. Castermans, D. C.h.i.r.k.i.n.J. Conrad, J. Cooley, D. F. Cowen, A. Davour, C. De Clercq, T. DeYoung, P. Desiati, J. P. Dewulf, E. Dickinson, P. Doksus, P. Ekstrom, R. Engel, P. Evenson, T. Feser, T. K. Gaisser, R. Ganugapati, M. Gaug, H. Geenen, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, R. Hardtke, T. Hauschildt, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G. C. Hill, J. A. Hinton, B. Hughey, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, S. Hundertmark, J. Jacobsen, A. Karle, J. Kim, L. Kopke, M. Kowalski, K. Kuehn, J. I. Lamoureux, H. Leich, M. Leuthold, P. Lindahl, I. Liubarsky, J. Lloyd Evans, J. Madsen, K. Mandli, P. Marciniewski, H. S. Matis, C. P. McParland, T. Messarius, T. C. Miller, Y. Minaeva, P. MioWinovic, P. C. Mock, R. Morse, T. Neunhoffer, P. Niessen, D. R. Nygren, H. O. gelman, P.h. Olbrechts, C. Perez de los Heros, A. C. Pohl, R. Porrata, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, S. Richter, K. Rochester, J. Rodrıguez Martino, P. Romenesko, D. Ross, H. G. Sander, T. Schmidt, K. Schinarakis, S. Schlenstedt, D. Schneider, R. Schwarz, A. Silvestri, M. Solarz, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, M. Stamatikos, T. Stanev, D. Steele, P. Steffen, R. G. Stokstad, K. H. Sulanke, I. Taboada, S. Tilav, C. Walck, W. Wagner, Y. R. Wang, A. A. Watson, C. Weinheimer, C. H. Wiebusch, C. Wiedemann, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, W. Wu, G. Yodh, S. Young, MARTELLO, Daniele, J., Ahren, X., Bai, S. W., Barwick, R. C., Bay, T., Becka, K. H., Becker, E., Bernardini, D., Bertrand, F., Binon, A., Biron, S., Boser, O., Botner, A., Bouchta, O., Bouhali, T., Burge, S., Cariu, T., Casterman, Conrad, D. C. h. i. r. k. i. n. J., J., Cooley, D. F., Cowen, A., Davour, C., De Clercq, T., Deyoung, P., Desiati, J. P., Dewulf, E., Dickinson, P., Doksu, P., Ekstrom, R., Engel, P., Evenson, T., Feser, T. K., Gaisser, R., Ganugapati, M., Gaug, H., Geenen, L., Gerhardt, A., Goldschmidt, A., Hallgren, F., Halzen, K., Hanson, R., Hardtke, T., Hauschildt, M., Hellwig, P., Herquet, G. C., Hill, J. A., Hinton, B., Hughey, P. O., Hulth, K., Hultqvist, S., Hundertmark, J., Jacobsen, A., Karle, J., Kim, L., Kopke, M., Kowalski, K., Kuehn, J. I., Lamoureux, H., Leich, M., Leuthold, P., Lindahl, I., Liubarsky, J., Lloyd Evan, J., Madsen, K., Mandli, P., Marciniewski, Martello, Daniele, H. S., Mati, C. P., Mcparland, T., Messariu, T. C., Miller, Y., Minaeva, P., Miowinovic, P. C., Mock, R., Morse, T., Neunhoffer, P., Niessen, D. R., Nygren, H. O., Gelman, Olbrechts, P. h., C., Perez de los Hero, A. C., Pohl, R., Porrata, P. B., Price, G. T., Przybylski, K., Rawlin, E., Resconi, W., Rhode, M., Ribordy, S., Richter, K., Rochester, J., Rodrıguez Martino, P., Romenesko, D., Ro, H. G., Sander, T., Schmidt, K., Schinaraki, S., Schlenstedt, D., Schneider, R., Schwarz, A., Silvestri, M., Solarz, G. M., Spiczak, C., Spiering, M., Stamatiko, T., Stanev, D., Steele, P., Steffen, R. G., Stokstad, K. H., Sulanke, I., Taboada, S., Tilav, C., Walck, W., Wagner, Y. R., Wang, A. A., Watson, C., Weinheimer, C. H., Wiebusch, C., Wiedemann, R., Wischnewski, H., Wissing, K., Woschnagg, W., Wu, G., Yodh, and S., Young

Subjects
Neutrino telescopes, Cosmic ray
Abstract

We report on the analysis of air showers observed in coincidence by the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino detector array (AMANDA-B10) and the South Pole Air Shower Experiment (SPASE-1 and SPASE-2). We discuss the use of coincident events for calibration and survey of the deep AMANDA detector as well as the response of AMANDA to muon bundles. This analysis uses data taken during 1997 when both SPASE-1 and SPASE-2 were in operation to provide a stereo view of AMANDA.

Published
2004

46. Non-oscillation probes of neutrino masses

Author

C. Weinheimer, Daniel Kaplan, Maury Goodman, and Zack Sullivan

Subjects
Physics, Particle physics, Structure formation, Oscillation, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Standard Model, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Double beta decay, Mass scale, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Absolute scale
Abstract

The absolute scale of neutrino masses is very important for understanding the evolution and the structure formation of the universe as well as for nuclear and particle physics beyond the present Standard Model. Complementary to deducing statements on the neutrino mass from cosmological observations two different methods to determine the neutrino mass scale in the laboratory are pursued: the search for neutrinoless double beta decay and the direct neutrino mass search. For both methods currently experiments with a sensitivity of order 100 meV are being set up or commissioned., Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Beta Beams NUFACT09, editor: Dan Kaplan, AIP

Published
2009
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47. Sensitivity of next-generation tritium beta-decay experiments for keV-scale sterile neutrinos

Author

S. Mertens, T. Lasserre, S. Groh, G. Drexlin, F. Glück, A. Huber, A.W.P. Poon, M. Steidl, N. Steinbrink, and C. Weinheimer

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Sterile neutrino, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), High Energy Physics - Experiment, 3. Good health, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Content (measure theory), Warm dark matter, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Tritium, Sensitivity (control systems), Neutrino, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, KATRIN
Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of tritium $\beta$-decay experiments for keV-scale sterile neutrinos. Relic sterile neutrinos in the keV mass range can contribute both to the cold and warm dark matter content of the universe. This work shows that a large-scale tritium beta-decay experiment, similar to the KATRIN experiment that is under construction, can reach a statistical sensitivity of the active-sterile neutrino mixing of $\sin^2\theta \sim 10^{-8}$. The effect of uncertainties in the known theoretical corrections to the tritium $\beta$-decay spectrum were investigated, and found not to affect the sensitivity significantly. It is demonstrated that controlling uncorrelated systematic effects will be one of the main challenges in such an experiment., Comment: 24 pages, 16 figures

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2015
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48. Exclusion of Leptophilic Dark Matter Models using XENON100 Electronic Recoil Data

Author

The XENON Collaboration, E. Aprile, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, L. Arazi, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, M. Auger, C. Balan, P. Barrow, L. Baudis, B. Bauermeister, A. Behrens, A. Brown, E. Brown, S. Bruenner, G. Bruno, R. Budnik, L. Bütikofer, J. M. R. Cardoso, M. Cervantes, D. Coderre, A. P. Colijn, H. Contreras, J. P. Cussonneau, M. P. Decowski, A. Di Giovanni, E. Duchovni, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, A. Fieguth, W. Fulgione, F. Gao, M. Garbini, C. Geis, L. W. Goetzke, C. Grignon, E. Gross, W. Hampel, R. Itay, F. Kaether, B. Kaminsky, G. Kessler, A. Kish, H. Landsman, R. F. Lang, M. Le Calloch, D. Lellouch, L. Levinson, C. Levy, S. Lindemann, M. Lindner, J. A. M. Lopes, A. Lyashenko, S. Macmullin, T. Marrodán Undagoitia, J. Masbou, F. V. Massoli, D. Mayani, A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez, Y. Meng, M. Messina, B. Miguez, A. Molinario, G. Morana, M. Murra, J. Naganoma, K. Ni, U. Oberlack, S. E. A. Orrigo, P. Pakarha, E. Pantic, R. Persiani, F. Piastra, J. Pienaar, G. Plante, N. Priel, L. Rauch, S. Reichard, C. Reuter, A. Rizzo, S. Rosendahl, J. M. F. dos Santos, G. Sartorelli, S. Schindler, J. Schreiner, M. Schumann, L. Scotto Lavina, M. Selvi, P. Shagin, H. Simgen, A. Teymourian, D. Thers, A. Tiseni, G. Trinchero, C. Tunnell, O. Vitells, R. Wall, H. Wang, M. Weber, C. Weinheimer, Laboratoire SUBATECH Nantes (SUBATECH), Mines Nantes (Mines Nantes)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), XENON100, Astroparticle Physics (IHEF, IoP, FNWI), XENON Collaboration: […, Aprile E, Agostini F, Alfonsi M, Arazi L, Arisaka K, Arneodo F, Auger M, Balan C, Barrow P, Baudis L, Bauermeister B, Behrens A, Brown A, Brown E, Bruenner S, Bruno G, Budnik R, Bütikofer L, Cardoso JM, Cervantes M, Coderre D, Colijn AP, Contreras H, Cussonneau JP, Decowski MP, Di Giovanni A, Duchovni E, Fattori S, Ferella AD, Fieguth A, Fulgione W, Gao F, Garbini M, Geis C, Goetzke LW, Grignon C, Gross E, Hampel W, Itay R, Kaether F, Kaminsky B, Kessler G, Kish A, Landsman H, Lang RF, Le Calloch M, Lellouch D, Levinson L, Levy C, Lindemann S, Lindner M, Lopes JA, Lyashenko A, Macmullin S, Marrodán Undagoitia T, Masbou J, Massoli F V, Mayani D, Melgarejo Fernandez AJ, Meng Y, Messina M, Miguez B, Molinario A, Morana G, Murra M, Naganoma J, Ni K, Oberlack U, Orrigo SE, Pakarha P, Pantic E, Persiani R, Piastra F, Pienaar J, Plante G, Priel N, Rauch L, Reichard S, Reuter C, Rizzo A, Rosendahl S, dos Santos JM, Sartorelli G, Schindler S, Schreiner J, Schumann M, Scotto Lavina L, Selvi M, Shagin P, Simgen H, Teymourian A, Thers D, Tiseni A, Trinchero G, Tunnell C, Vitells O, Wall R, Wang H, Weber M, Weinheimer C, and …]

Subjects
Physics, Multidisciplinary, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 530 Physics, Scattering, Dark matter, Sigma, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Dark matter halo, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Recoil, Dark Matter, Wimps, leptophilic dark matter models, Particle, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Laboratory experiments searching for galactic dark matter particles scattering off nuclei have so far not been able to establish a discovery. We use data from the XENON100 experiment to search for dark matter interacting with electrons. With no evidence for a signal above the low background of our experiment, we exclude a variety of representative dark matter models that would induce electronic recoils. For axial-vector couplings to electrons, we exclude cross-sections above 6x10^(-35) cm^2 for particle masses of m_chi = 2 GeV/c^2. Independent of the dark matter halo, we exclude leptophilic models as explanation for the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA signal, such as couplings to electrons through axial-vector interactions at a 4.4 sigma confidence level, mirror dark matter at 3.6 sigma, and luminous dark matter at 4.6 sigma., 4 pages, 4 figures, with supporting online material

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2015
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49. Physics and Operation of the AMANDA-II High Energy Neutrino Telescope

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S. W. Barwick, J. Ahrens, X. Bai, T. Becka, K.-H. Becker, D. Bertrand, F. Binon, A. Biron, S. Boser, O. Botner, O. Bouhali, T. Burgess, S. Carius, T. Castermans, D. Chirkin, J. Conrad, J. A. Cooley, D. F. Cowen, A. Davour, C. De Clercq, T. DeYoung, P. Desiati, J.-P. Dewulf, P. Doksus, P. Ekstrom, T. Feser, T. K. Gaisser, M. Gaug, L. Gerhardt, A. Goldschmidt, A. Hallgren, Francis Halzen, K. Hanson, R. Hardtke, T. Hauschildt, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G. C. Hill, P. O. Hulth, K. Hultqvist, J. Hundertmark, Janet Jacobsen, A. Karle, L. Kopke, M. Kowalski, Kyler W. Kuehn, J. Lamoureux, H. Leich, M. Leuthold, P. Lindahl, J. Madsen, P. Marciniewski, Howard S. Matis, C. P. McParland, Y. Minaeva, P. Miocinovic, R. Morse, R. Nahnhauer, T. Neunh÷ffer, P. Niessen, David R. Nygren, Hakki Ogelman, Ph. Olbrechts, C. P‰rez de los Heros, A. C. Pohl, P. B. Price, G. T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, S. Richter, J. Rodrguez Martino, D. Ross, H. G. Sander, T. Schmidt, D. Schneider, R. Schwarz, A. Silvestri, M. Solarz, G. M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, D. Steele, P. Steffen, R. G. Stokstad, P. Sudhoff, K. H. Sulanke, I. Taboada, L. Thollander, S. Tilav, C. Walck, C. Weinheimer, C. H. Wiebusch, C. Wiedemann, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, Gaurang B. Yodh, and S. Young

Subjects
Physics, Muon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, Generic point, law.invention, Telescope, Data acquisition, law, Angular resolution, Neutrino, Gamma-ray burst
Abstract

This paper briefly describes the principle of operation and science goals of the AMANDA high energy neutrino telescope located at the South Pole, Antarctica. Results from an earlier phase of the telescope, called AMANDA-B10, demonstrate both reliable operation and the broad astrophysical reach of this device, which includes searches for a variety of sources of ultrahigh energy neutrinos: generic point sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts and diffuse sources. The predicted sensitivity and angular resolution of the telescope were confirmed by studies of atmospheric muon and neutrino backgrounds. We also report on the status of the analysis from AMANDA-II, a larger version with far greater capabilities. At this stage of analysis, details of the ice properties and other systematic uncertainties of the AMANDA-II telescope are under study, but we have made progress toward critical science objectives. In particular, we present the first preliminary flux limits from AMANDA-II on the search for continuous emission from astrophysical point sources, and report on the search for correlated neutrino emission from Gamma Ray Bursts detected by BATSE before decommissioning in May 2000. During the next two years, we expect to exploit the full potential of AMANDA-II with the installation of a new data acquisition system that records full waveforms from the in-ice optical sensors., 14 pages, 14 figures, Slightly updated from manuscript submitted to SPIE Conference (Hawaii, 2002). Sky plot and preliminary limits given for point sources using AMANDA-II. First report on GRB search using AMANDA-II. Updated acknowledgements, references and table entries

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2003
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50. IceCube - the next generation neutrino telescope at the South Pole

Author

A. Karle, J. Ahrens, J.N. Bahcall, X. Bai, T. Becka, K.-H. Becker, D.Z. Besson, D. Berley, E. Bernardini, D. Bertrand, F. Binon, A. Biron, S. Böser, C. Bohm, O. Botner, O. Bouhali, Th. Burgess, T. Castermans, D. Chirkin, J. Conrad, J. Cooley, D.F. Cowen, A. Davour, C. De Clercq, T. DeYoung, P. Desiati, J.-P. Dewulf, B. Dingus, R. Ellsworth, P.A. Evenson, A.R. Fazely, T. Feser, T.K. Gaisser, J. Gallagher, R. Ganugapati, A. Goldschmidt, J. Goodman, A. Hallgren, F. Halzen, K. Hanson, R. Hardtke, T. Hauschildt, M. Hellwig, P. Herquet, G.C. Hill, P.O. Hulth, K. Hultgvist, S. Hundertmark, J. Jacobsen, G.S. Japaridze, L. Köpke, M. Kowalski, J.I. Lamoureux, H. Leich, M. Leuthold, P. Lindahl, I. Liubarsky, J. Madson, P. Marciniewski, H.S. Matis, C.P. McParland, Y. Minaeva, P. Miočinović, R. Morse, R. Nahnhauer, T. Neunhöffer, P. Niessen, D.R. Nygren, H. Ogelman, Ph. Olbrechts, C. Pérez de los Heros, A.C. Pohl, P.B. Price, G.T. Przybylski, K. Rawlins, E. Resconi, W. Rhode, M. Ribordy, S. Richter, H.-G. Sander, T. Schmidt, D. Schneider, D. Seckel, M. Solarz, L. Sparke, G.M. Spiczak, C. Spiering, T. Stanev, D. Steele, P. Steffen, R.G. Stokstad, P. Sudhoff, K.-H. Sulanke, G.W. Sullivan, T. Sumners, I. Taboada, L. Thollander, S. Tilav, C. Walck, C. Weinheimer, C.H. Wiebusch, Ch. Wiedemann, R. Wischnewski, H. Wissing, K. Woschnagg, and Sh. Yoshida

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Active galactic nucleus, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Detector, Neutrino telescope, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Antarctic ice sheet, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Conceptual design, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Sensitivity (control systems), Neutrino, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Abstract

IceCube is a large neutrino telescope of the next generation to be constructed in the Antarctic Ice Sheet near the South Pole. We present the conceptual design and the sensitivity of the IceCube detector to predicted fluxes of neutrinos, both atmospheric and extra-terrestrial. A complete simulation of the detector design has been used to study the detector's capability to search for neutrinos from sources such as active galaxies, and gamma-ray bursts., 8 pages, to be published with the proceedings of the XXth International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, Munich 2002

Published
2002

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