nEXO: neutrinoless double beta decay search beyond 1028 year half-life sensitivity

G Adhikari, S Al Kharusi, E Angelico… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The nEXO neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay experiment is designed to use a time
projection chamber and 5000 kg of isotopically enriched liquid xenon to search for the decay …

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment

DS Akerib, CW Akerlof, SK Alsum, HM Araújo… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next-generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will
operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in …

Search for Neutrinoless Double- Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset

G Anton, I Badhrees, PS Barbeau, D Beck, V Belov… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
A search for neutrinoless double-β decay (0 ν β β) in Xe 136 is performed with the full EXO-
200 dataset using a deep neural network to discriminate between 0 ν β β and background …

Search for neutrinoless double-beta decay with the upgraded EXO-200 detector

JB Albert, G Anton, I Badhrees, PS Barbeau… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Results from a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay (0 ν β β) of Xe 136 are presented
using the first year of data taken with the upgraded EXO-200 detector. Relative to previous …

Sensitivity and discovery potential of the proposed nEXO experiment to neutrinoless double- decay

JB Albert, G Anton, IJ Arnquist, I Badhrees, P Barbeau… - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
The next-generation Enriched Xenon Observatory (nEXO) is a proposed experiment to
search for neutrinoless double-β (0 ν β β) decay in Xe 136 with a target half-life sensitivity of …

A review of NEST models, and their application to improvement of particle identification in liquid xenon experiments

M Szydagis, J Balajthy, GA Block, JP Brodsky… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper discusses microphysical simulation of interactions in liquid xenon, the active
detector medium in many leading rare-event physics searches, and describes experimental …

Investigation of background electron emission in the LUX detector

DS Akerib, S Alsum, HM Araújo, X Bai, J Balajthy… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Dual-phase xenon detectors, as currently used in direct detection dark matter experiments,
have observed elevated rates of background electron events in the low energy region. While …

Kiloton-scale xenon detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay and other new physics searches

A Avasthi, TW Bowyer, C Bray, T Brunner, N Catarineu… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Large detectors employing xenon are a leading technology in existing and planned
searches for new physics, including searches for neutrinoless double beta decay (0 ν β β) …

Simulations of events for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment

DS Akerib, CW Akerlof, A Alqahtani, SK Alsum… - Astroparticle …, 2021 - Elsevier
The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search aims to achieve a sensitivity to the WIMP-nucleon spin-
independent cross-section down to (1–2)× 10− 12 pb at a WIMP mass of 40 GeV/c 2. This …

Measurement of the scintillation and ionization response of liquid xenon at MeV energies in the EXO-200 experiment

G Anton, I Badhrees, PS Barbeau, D Beck, V Belov… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Liquid xenon (LXe) is employed in a number of current and future detectors for rare event
searches. We use the EXO-200 experimental data to measure the absolute scintillation and …