Measuring Very Low Radiation Doses in PTFE for Nuclear Forensic Enrichment ReconstructionEvery country that has made nuclear weapons has used uranium enrichment. Despite the centrality of this technology to international security, there is still no reliable physical marker of past…Rachel C. Connick, Charles A. Hirst, Kevin B. Woller et al.·Jul 17, 2021SaveLearn
Calibration of the liquid argon ionization response to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils with DarkSide-50DarkSide-50 has demonstrated the high potential of dual-phase liquid argon time projection chambers in exploring interactions of WIMPs in the GeV/c2 mass range. The technique, based on the…The DarkSide collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque et al.·Jul 16, 2021SaveLearn
A study of events with photoelectric emission in the DarkSide-50 liquid argon Time Projection ChamberFinding unequivocal evidence of dark matter interactions in a particle detector is a major objective of physics research. Liquid argon time projection chambers offer a path to probe Weakly…50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque et al.·Jul 16, 2021SaveLearn
Optical Inspection of the Silicon Micro-strip Sensors for the CBM Experiment employing Artificial IntelligenceOptical inspection of 1191 silicon micro-strip sensors was performed using a custom made optical inspection setup, employing a machine-learning based approach for the defect analysis and subsequent…E. Lavrik, M. Shiroya, H. R. Schmidt et al.·Jul 16, 2021SaveLearn
Alpha backgrounds in the AMoRE-Pilot experimentThe Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE)-Pilot experiment is an initial phase of the AMoRE search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo, with the purpose of investigating the…V. Alenkov, H. W. Bae, J. Beyer et al.·Jul 16, 2021SaveLearn
The environmental monitoring system at the COSINE-100 experimentThe COSINE-100 experiment is designed to test the DAMA experiment which claimed an observation of a dark matter signal from an annual modulation in their residual event rate. To measure the 1 %-level…H. Kim, G. Adhikari, E. Barbosa de Souza et al.·Jul 16, 2021SaveLearn
On the Electrode Configurations in a Large Single Phase Liquid Xenon Detector for Dark Matter SearchesIn the near future there will be the request for very large liquid Xenon (LXe) detectors for Dark Matter (DM) searches in the 50-ton range. To avoid an impractically long, single drift space of a…P. Juyal, K. L. Giboni, X. Ji et al.·Jul 16, 2021SaveLearn
Dielectric Strength of Noble and Quenched Gases for High Pressure Time Projection ChambersDielectric breakdown strength is one of the critical performance metrics for gases and mixtures used in large, high pressure gas time projection chambers. In this paper we experimentally study…L. Norman, K. Silva, B. J. P. Jones et al.·Jul 15, 2021SaveLearn
Next generation design and prospects for CANNEXThe Casimir And Non-Newtonian force EXperiment (CANNEX) implements the unique geometry of macroscopic plane parallel plates that guarantees an optimum sensitivity with respect to interfacial forces…René I. P. Sedmik, Mario Pitschmann·Jul 15, 2021SaveLearn
Electromagnetic Induction Imaging: Signal Detection Based on Tuned-Dressed Optical MagnetometryA recently introduced tuning-dressed scheme makes a Bell and Bloom magnetometer suited to detect weak variations of a radio-frequency (RF) magnetic field. We envisage the application of such…Giuseppe Bevilacqua, Valerio Biancalana, Yordanka Dancheva et al.·Jul 14, 2021SaveLearn
Position reconstruction for segmented detectorsThe topic of the paper is the position reconstruction from signals of segmented detectors. With the help of a simple simulation, it is shown that the position reconstruction using the…A. Ebrahimi, F. Feind, E. Fretwurst et al.·Jul 14, 2021SaveLearn
Neutral bremsstrahlung and excimer electroluminescence in noble gases and its relevance to two-phase dark matter detectorsProportional electroluminescence (EL) is the physical effect used in two-phase detectors for dark matter searches, to optically record (in the gas phase) the ionization signal produced by particle…E. Borisova, A. Buzulutskov·Jul 14, 2021SaveLearn
The EXO-200 detector, part II: Auxiliary SystemsThe EXO-200 experiment searched for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 136Xe with a single-phase liquid xenon detector. It used an active mass of 110 kg of 80.6%-enriched liquid xenon in an…N. Ackerman, J. Albert, M. Auger et al.·Jul 13, 2021SaveLearn
Screener3D: a Gaseous Time Projection Chamber for Ultra-low Radioactive Material ScreeningIn experiments searching for rare signals, background events from the detector itself are some of the major factors limiting search sensitivity.Screening for ultra-low radioactive detector materials…Haiyan Du, Chengbo Du, Karl Giboni et al.·Jul 13, 2021SaveLearn
Mid-infrared Single-photon Detection Using Superconducting NbTiN Nanowires with Sub-15 ps Time Resolution in a Gifford-McMahon CryocoolerShortly after their inception, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) became the leading quantum light detection technology. With the capability of detecting single-photons with…Jin Chang, Johannes W. N. Los, Ronan Gourgues et al.·Jul 13, 2021SaveLearn
BambooMC -- A Geant4-based simulation program for the PandaX experimentsThe purpose of the PandaX experiments is to search for the possible events resulted from dark matter particles, neutrinoless double beta decay or other rare processes with xenon detectors.…Xun Chen, Chen Cheng, Mengting Fu et al.·Jul 13, 2021SaveLearn
Towards GaAs Thin-Film Tracking DetectorsSilicon-based tracking detectors have been used in several important applications, such as in cancer therapy using particle beams, and for the discovery of new elementary particles at the Large…Victor Rangel-Kuoppa, Sheng Ye, Yasir J Noori et al.·Jul 12, 2021SaveLearn
Response of atomic spin-based sensors to magnetic and nonmagnetic perturbationsSearches for pseudo-magnetic spin couplings require implementation of techniques capable of sensitive detection of such interactions. While Spin-Exchange Relaxation Free (SERF) magnetometry is one of…Mikhail Padniuk, Marek Kopciuch, Riccardo Cipolletti et al.·Jul 12, 2021SaveLearn
Can strangelets be detected in a large LAr neutrino detector?Predicted as possible bound states of up, down and strange quarks, strangelets could be more energetically favourable and more stable than nuclear matter. In this paper we explore the possibility of…Mihaela Parvu, Ionel Lazanu·Jul 12, 2021SaveLearn
MuSIC@Indiana: an effective tool for accurate measurement of fusion with low-intensity radioactive beamsThe design, construction, and characterization of the Multi-Sampling Ionization Chamber, MuSIC@Indiana, are described. This detector provides efficient and accurate measurement of the fusion…J. E. Johnstone, Rohit Kumar, S. Hudan et al.·Jul 12, 2021SaveLearn
Simultaneous measurement of organic scintillator response to carbon and proton recoilsBackground: Organic scintillators are widely used for neutron detection in both basic nuclear physics and applications. While the proton light yield of organic scintillators has been extensively…T. A. Laplace, B. L. Goldblum, J. J. Manfredi et al.·Jul 12, 2021SaveLearn
Proton light yield of fast plastic scintillators for neutron imagingPlastic organic scintillators have been tailored in composition to achieve ultra-fast temporal response, thereby enabling the design and development of fast neutron detection systems with high timing…J. J. Manfredi, B. L. Goldblum, T. A. Laplace et al.·Jul 12, 2021SaveLearn
Measurement of the relative Quantum Efficiency of Hamamatsu model R5912-20MOD photomultiplier tubes at liquid argon temperatureThe model R5912-20MOD photomultiplier tube(PMT) is made for cryogenic application by Hamamatsu. In this paper, we report on the measurement of relative quantum efficiency (QE) of this model PMT at…Qin Zhao, Mengyun Guan, Peng Zhang et al.·Jul 12, 2021SaveLearn
Study of radial motion phase advance during motion excitations in a Penning trap and accuracy of JYFLTRAP mass spectrometerPhase-imaging ion-cyclotron-resonance technique has been implemented at the Penning-trap mass spectrometer JYFLTRAP and is routinely employed for mass measurements of stable and short-lived nuclides…D. A. Nesterenko, T. Eronen, Z. Ge et al.·Jul 11, 2021SaveLearn
On the possibility of creating a UCN source on a periodic pulsed reactorThe possibility of creating a UCN source on a periodic pulsed reactor is considered. It is shown that the implementation of the time focusing principle based on non-stationary neutron diffraction and…A. I. Frank, G. V. Kulin, N. V. Rebrova et al.·Jul 10, 2021SaveLearn