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The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory Open

I. Bolognino · 2025

Electromagnetic energy calibration of the SoLid detector with horizontal muons Open

Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, L. Arnold, G. Barber, W. Beaumont , et al. · 2025

SoLid is a neutrino experiment at very-short baseline searching for active-to-sterile oscillations of reactor antineutrinos. The detection principle is based on the pairing of two types of solid scintillators: polyvinyl toluene and 6 Li:Zn…

Characterisation of Hamamatsu R11065-20 PMTs for use in the SABRE South NaI(Tl) Crystal Detectors Open

Matthew Stanley, W. J. D. Melbourne, P. Urquijo, E. L. Barberio, V. U. Bashu , et al. · 2025

The SABRE Experiment is a direct detection dark matter experiment using a target composed of multiple NaI(Tl) crystals. The experiment aims to be an independent check of the DAMA/LIBRA results with a detector in the Northern (Laboratori Na…

Photomultiplier requirements and pre-calibration for the SABRE South Liquid Scintillator Veto Open

L. J. Milligan, P. Urquijo, E. L. Barberio, V. U. Bashu, L.J. Bignell , et al. · 2025

We present a study of the oil-proof base Hamamatsu R5912 photomultiplier tubes that will be used in the SABRE South linear-alkylbenzene liquid scintillator veto. SABRE South is a dark matter direct detection experiment at the Stawell Under…

Search for very-short-baseline oscillations of reactor antineutrinos with the SoLid detector Open

Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, L. Arnold, W. Worby Beaumont, I. Bolognino , et al. · 2025

In this paper we report the first scientific result based on antineutrinos emitted from the BR2 reactor at SCK CEN. The SoLid experiment uses a novel type of highly granular detector whose basic detection unit combines two scintillators, p…

The SABRE South technical design report executive summary Open

E. L. Barberio, To. Baroncelli, V. U. Bashu, L.J. Bignell, I. Bolognino , et al. · 2025

In this technical design report (TDR) executive summary we describe the SABRE South detector to be built at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL). The SABRE South detector is designed to test the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA signal…

The SABRE South Technical Design Report Executive Summary Open

E. Barberio, To. Baroncelli, V. U. Bashu, L. J. Bignell, I. Bolognino , et al. · 2024

In this technical design report (TDR) executive summary we describe the SABRE South detector to be built at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL). The SABRE South detector is designed to test the long-standing DAMA/LIBRA signal…

The DAMA/LIBRA signal: an induced modulation effect? Open

R. S. James, K.J. Rule, E. Barberio, V. U. Bashu, L. J. Bignell , et al. · 2024

The persistence of the DAMA/LIBRA (DAMA) modulation over the past two decades has been a source of great contention within the dark matter community. The DAMA collaboration reports a persistent, modulating event rate within their setup of …

The CCube reconstruction algorithm for the SoLid experiment Open

Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, L. Arnold, G. Barber, W. Beaumont , et al. · 2024

PANTHEON: Towards High-precision Tests of the Pauli Exclusion Principle in Nuclear Reaction as a Testbed of Theories Beyond the Standard Model Open

C. Curceanu, F. Napolitano, M. Bazzi, I. Bolognino, Nicola Bortolotti , et al. · 2024

The PANTHEON project aims to test the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) in nuclear reactions by searching for nuclear transitions prohibited by PEP in processes respecting the Messiah–Greenberg super-selection rule. The project aims at using…

Simulation and background characterisation of the SABRE South experiment Open

E. L. Barberio, Ti. Baroncelli, L.J. Bignell, I. Bolognino, Geoffrey Brooks , et al. · 2023

The SABRE South experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory Open

Michael Mews, E. L. Barberio, T. Baroncelli, L. J. Bignell, I. Bolognino , et al. · 2022

The SABRE (Sodium iodide with Active Background REjection) experiment aims to provide a model independent test of the signal observed by DAMA/LIBRA by detecting an annual modulation from dark matter interactions in ultra-high purity NaI(Tl…

Simulation and background characterisation of the SABRE South experiment Open

E. L. Barberio, T. Baroncelli, L. J. Bignell, I. Bolognino, G. Brooks , et al. · 2022

SABRE (Sodium iodide with Active Background REjection) is a direct detection dark matter experiment based on arrays of radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystals. The experiment aims at achieving an ultra-low background rate and its primary goal is to co…

Recoil imaging for directional detection of dark matter, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model Open

Ciaran A. J. O’Hare, D. Loomba, K. Altenmüller, H. Álvarez-Pol, F. D. Amaro , et al. · 2022

Recoil imaging entails the detection of spatially resolved ionization tracks generated by particle interactions. This is a highly sought-after capability in many classes of detector, with broad applications across particle and astroparticl…

Recoil imaging for dark matter, neutrinos, and physics beyond the Standard Model Open

Ciaran A. J. O’Hare, D. Loomba, K. Altenmüller, H. Álvarez-Pol, F. D. Amaro , et al. · 2022

Recoil imaging entails the detection of spatially resolved ionization tracks generated by particle interactions. This is a highly sought-after capability in many classes of detector, with broad applications across particle and astroparticl…

Characterization of SABRE crystal NaI-33 with direct underground counting Open

M. Antonello, I. J. Arnquist, E. L. Barberio, Ti. Baroncelli, Jay B. Benziger , et al. · 2021

SoLid: a short baseline reactor neutrino experiment Open

Y. Abreu, Y. Amhis, L. Arnold, G. Barber, W. Beaumont , et al. · 2021

The SoLid experiment, short for Search for Oscillations with a Lithium-6 detector, is a new generation neutrino experiment which tries to address the key challenges for high precision reactor neutrino measurements at very short distances f…

Direct search of dark matter with the SABRE experiment Open

I. Bolognino · 2020

The interaction rate of hypothesised dark matter particles in an Earth-bound detector is expected to undergo an annual modulation due to the planet's orbital motion. The DAMA experiment has observed such a modulation with high significance…

Study of the Influence of High Electric Field Variations on Cosmic Ray Flux detected by the ARGO-YBJ Experiment Open

I. Bolognino · 2020

This paper is an overview of the author's PhD thesis results. ARGO-YBJ is an extensive air shower detector located at Yangbajing (Tibet, China) at 4300 m a.s.l. It is made by a full coverage carpet plus a guard ring (total surface about 67…

The SABRE Proof of Principle Open

S. Copello, M. Antonello, E. L. Barberio, Ti. Baroncelli, J. Benziger , et al. · 2020

SABRE is a dark matter direct detection experiment based on NaI(Tl) scintillating crystals. The primary goal of the experiment is to test the dark matter interpretation of the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation signal. To reach its purpose, SABR…

First measurements with a NaI(Tl) crystal for the SABRE experiment Open

A. Mariani, M. Antonello, E. L. Barberio, Ti. Baroncelli, J. Benziger , et al. · 2020

SABRE is a dark matter direct detection experiment aiming to measure the annual modulation of the dark matter interaction rate in NaI(Tl) crystals. SABRE focuses on the achievement of an ultra-low background rate operating high-purity NaI(…

The SABRE experiment for dark matter search Open

G. D’imperio, M. Antonello, E. L. Barberio, Ti. Baroncelli, J. Benziger , et al. · 2019

The SABRE (Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection) experiment is a new detector based on NaI(Tl) scintillating crystals for the dark matter detection through the annual modula- tion. With ultra-pure crystals and an active veto syst…

Modulations of the cosmic muon signal in ten years of Borexino data Open

M. Agostini, K. Altenmüller, S. Appel, V. Atroshchenko, Z. Bagdasarian , et al. · 2019

We have measured the flux of cosmic muons in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso at 3800 m w.e. To be (3.432 ± 0.003)ċ 10 -4 m -2 s -1 based on ten years of Borexino data acquired between May 2007 and May 2017. A seasonal modulation wi…

Solar Neutrinos Spectroscopy with Borexino Phase-II Open

L. Miramonti, M. Agostini, Konrad Altenmueller, Simon Appel, V. Atroshchenko , et al. · 2018

Solar neutrinos have played a central role in the discovery of the neutrino oscillation mechanism. They still are proving to be a unique tool to help investigate the fusion reactions that power stars and further probe basic neutrino proper…

Monte Carlo simulation of the SABRE PoP background Open

M. Antonello, E. L. Barberio, Ti. Baroncelli, Jay B. Benziger, L.J. Bignell , et al. · 2018

Solar Neutrinos Spectroscopy with Borexino Phase-II Open

L. Miramonti, M. Agostini, Konrad Altenmueller, S. Appel, V. Atroshchenko , et al. · 2018

Solar neutrinos have played a central role in the discovery of the neutrino oscillation mechanism. They still are proving to be a unique tool to help investigate the fusion reactions that power stars and further probe basic neutrino proper…

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