Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: Continuation of the XENON Program at LNGS

合作研究：NSF-BSF：LNGS 氙气项目的延续

• 批准号: 2112801
• 负责人: Christopher Tunnell
• 金额: $ 25.8万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2112801&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NSF; BSF; Continuation

Identifying the nature of dark matter remains one of the most pressing problems in physics today. The direct search for dark matter particles with the XENON family of experiments using liquid xenon time projection chambers (LXeTPCs) of increasing target mass and decreasing background has led to the most stringent constraints on many different dark matter candidates, over a broad range of mass, type of coupling, cross-section, and particle type. Building on the success of the first multi-tonne LXeTPC, XENON1T, this collaboration has expanded the scientific reach of this technology by building a new LXeTPC, XENONnT, of larger target mass and with lower intrinsic background but re-using infrastructure and already tested systems.Liquid xenon detector technologies are unique training grounds for undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral scientists, in that they combine significant hardware involvement with advanced data analysis skills. Technologies span from sophisticated detector design to cyber-infrastructure and innovative data analysis, with applications in other fields such as medical imaging and nuclear nonproliferation. The entire project employs an open data policy to foster benefits in other areas of research and education. the participating groups facilitate and encourage public interest in science through targeted talks and outreach activities with particular focus to support members of underrepresented and underserved groups.The XENONnT experiment, with its multi-tonnes fiducial mass and ultra-low background will reach a sensitivity to various dark matter models more than an order of magnitude beyond current knowledge. XENONnT will be sensitive to a variety of interactions, including spin-independent, spin-dependent, and other couplings; to a variety of particles, including WIMPs, axion-like particles, solar axions and dark photons; and at the same time, XENONnT will cover particle masses ranging from kilo-electronvolts almost up to the Planck mass. It will also be an observatory for other highly interesting physics. Examples in neutrino physics include a measurement of the Solar neutrino luminosity through pp neutrinos and a first measurement of the Solar metallicity through boron-8 neutrinos. The detector might also observe neutrinos from a Galactic supernova and potentially issue early multi-messenger alerts to telescopes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

确定暗物质的性质仍然是当今物理学中最紧迫的问题之一。使用液体氙气时间投影室(LXeTPC)的实验直接搜索暗物质粒子，目标质量增加，背景减少，在广泛的质量、耦合类型、截面和粒子类型范围内，对许多不同的候选暗物质产生了最严格的限制。在第一个多吨LXeTPC XENON1T成功的基础上，这次合作通过建立一个新的LXeTPC XENONnT扩大了这项技术的科学覆盖范围，XENONnT具有更大的目标质量和较低的内在背景，但重复使用基础设施和已经测试的系统。液体氙气探测器技术是本科生和研究生以及博士后科学家独特的培训基地，因为它们结合了重要的硬件参与和高级数据分析技能。技术涵盖了从复杂的探测器设计到网络基础设施和创新的数据分析，以及在其他领域的应用，如医学成像和核不扩散。整个项目采用开放数据政策，以促进其他研究和教育领域的利益。参与小组通过有针对性的演讲和外联活动促进和鼓励公众对科学的兴趣，特别关注支持代表不足和服务不足的小组的成员。XENONnT实验具有多吨基准质量和超低背景，将达到对各种暗物质模型的敏感性，超出目前知识的一个数量级。XENONnT将对各种相互作用敏感，包括自旋无关、自旋相关和其他耦合；对各种粒子，包括WIMP、轴子类粒子、太阳轴子和暗光子；同时，XENONnT将覆盖从千电子伏到普朗克质量的粒子质量。它也将是其他非常有趣的物理的天文台。中微子物理学的例子包括通过pp中微子测量太阳中微子的光度，以及第一次通过硼-8中微子测量太阳金属丰度。该探测器还可能观测到来自银河系超新星的中微子，并可能向望远镜发出早期的多信使警报。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

GPU-based optical simulation of the DARWIN detector

• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/07/p07018
• 发表时间: 2022-03
• 期刊: Journal of Instrumentation
• 影响因子: 1.3
• 作者: L. Althueser;B. Antunović;E. Aprile;D. Bajpai;L. Baudis;D. Baur;A. Baxter;L. Bellagamba;R. Biondi;Y. Biondi;A. Bismark;A. Brown;R. Budnik;A. Chauvin;A. Colijn;J. J. Cuenca-García-J.;V. D’Andrea;P. Di Gangi;J. Dierle;S. Diglio;M. Doerenkamp;K. Eitel;S. Farrell;A. Ferella;C. Ferrari;C. Findley;H. Fischer;M. Galloway;F. Girard;R. Glade-Beucke;L. Grandi;M. Guida;S. Hansmann-Menzemer;F. Jörg;L. Jones;P. Kavrigin;L. Krauss;B. von Krosigk;F. Kuger;H. Landsman;R. Lang;S. Li;S. Liang;M. Lindner;J. Loizeau;F. Lombardi;T. Marrodán Undagoitia;J. Masbou;E. Masson;J. Matias-Lopes;S. Milutinović;C. Monteiro;M. Murra;K. Ni;U. Oberlack;I. Ostrovskiy;M. Pandurović;R. Peres;J. Qin;M. Rajado Silva;D. Ramírez García;P. Sanchez-Lucas;J. D. dos Santos;M. Schumann;M. Selvi;F. Semeria;H. Simgen;M. Steidl;P. Tan;A. Terliuk;K. Thieme;R. Trotta;C. Tunnell;F. Tönnies;K. Valerius;S. Vetter;G. Volta;W. Wang;C. Wittweg;Y. Xing

Application and modeling of an online distillation method to reduce krypton and argon in XENON1T

在线蒸馏方法减少 XENON1T 中氪和氩的应用和建模

• DOI: 10.1093/ptep/ptac074
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: 坂栗佳奈;他;E. Aprile et al. XENON collaboration
• 通讯作者: E. Aprile et al. XENON collaboration

First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.041003
• 发表时间: 2023-07-28
• 期刊: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
• 影响因子: 8.6
• 作者: Aprile, E.;Abe, K.;Zhu, T.
• 通讯作者: Zhu, T.

Detector signal characterization with a Bayesian network in XENONnT

• DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.108.012016
• 发表时间: 2023-04
• 期刊: Physical Review D
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: X. C. E. Aprile;K. Abe;S. A. Maouloud;L. Althueser;B. Andrieu;E. Angelino;J. Angevaare;V. C. Antochi;D. A. Martin;F. Arneodo;L. Baudis;A. Baxter;M. Bazyk;L. Bellagamba;R. Biondi;A. Bismark;E. J. Brookes;A. Brown;S. Bruenner;G. Bruno;R. Budnik;T. Bui;C. Cai;J. Cardoso;D. Cichon;A. P. C. Chavez;A. Colijn;J. Conrad;J. Cuenca-Garc'ia;J. Cussonneau;V. D’Andrea;M. P. Decowski;P. Gangi;S. D. Pede;S. Diglio;K. Eitel;A. Elykov;S. Farrell;A. Ferella;C. Ferrari;H. Fischer;M. Flierman;W. Fulgione;C. Fuselli;P. Gaemers;R. Gaior;A. G. Rosso;M. Galloway;F. Gao;R. Glade-Beucke;L. Grandi;J. Grigat;H. Guan;M. Guida;R. Hammann;A. Higuera;C. Hils;L. Hoetzsch;N. Hood;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. Lang;L. Levinson;I. Li;S. Li;S. Liang;S. Lindemann;M. Lindner;K. Liu;J. Loizeau;F. Lombardi;J. Long;J. Lopes;Y. Ma;C. Macolino;J. Mahlstedt;A. Mancuso;L. Manenti;F. Marignetti;T. Undagoitia;K. Martens;J. Masbou;D. Masson;E. Masson;S. Mastroianni;M. Messina;K. Miuchi;K. Mizukoshi;A. Molinario;S. Moriyama;K. Morra;Y. Mosbacher;M. Murra;J. Muller;K. Ni;U. Oberlack;B. Paetsch;J. Palacio;Q. Pellegrini;R. Peres;C. Peters;J. Pienaar;M. Pierre;V. Pizzella;G. Plante;T. Pollmann;J. Qi;J. Qin;D. R. Garc'ia;R. Singh;L. Sanchez;J. Santos;I. Sarnoff;G. Sartorelli;J. Schreiner;D. Schulte;P. Schulte;H. Eissing;M. Schumann;L. Lavina;M. Selvi;F. Semeria;P. Shagin;S. Shi;E. Shockley;M. Silva;H. Simgen;A. Takeda;P. Tan;A. Terliuk;D. Thers;F. Toschi;G. Trinchero;C. Tunnell;F. Tonnies;K. Valerius;G. Volta;C. Weinheimer;M. Weiss;D. Wenz;C. Wittweg;Thomas Wolf;V. Wu;Y. Xing;D. Xu;Z. Xu;M. Yamashita;L. Yang;J. Ye;L. Yuan;G. Zavattini;M. Zhong;T. Zhu

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

使用内部 $$^{{ extbf {37}}}$$Ar 源对 XENON1T 进行低能校准

• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11512-z
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The European Physical Journal C
• 作者: Aprile, E.;Abe, K.;Agostini, F.;Ahmed Maouloud, S.;Alfonsi, M.;Althueser, L.;Andrieu, B.;Angelino, E.;Angevaare, J. R.;Antochi, V. C.
• 通讯作者: Antochi, V. C.