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View article: Publisher Erratum: Characterization of external cross-talk from silicon photomultipliers in a liquid xenon detector
Publisher Erratum: Characterization of external cross-talk from silicon photomultipliers in a liquid xenon detector Open
View article: Characterization of external cross-talk from silicon photomultipliers in a liquid xenon detector
Characterization of external cross-talk from silicon photomultipliers in a liquid xenon detector Open
The Light-only Liquid Xenon experiment (LoLX) employs a small-scale detector equipped with 96 Hamamatsu VUV4 silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) submerged in 5 kg of liquid xenon (LXe) to perform characterization measurements of light product…
View article: IL-SOAR : Imitation Learning with Soft Optimistic Actor cRitic
IL-SOAR : Imitation Learning with Soft Optimistic Actor cRitic Open
This paper introduces the SOAR framework for imitation learning. SOAR is an algorithmic template that learns a policy from expert demonstrations with a primal dual style algorithm that alternates cost and policy updates. Within the policy …
View article: Dark matter search in DEAP-3600: status and prospects
Dark matter search in DEAP-3600: status and prospects Open
DEAP-3600, with its 3.3 tonnes liquid argon target, is a dark matter direct detection experiment set at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. Since 2019, the experiment has held the most stringent exclusion limit in argon for Weakly Interacting Massi…
View article: Direct detection searches for dark matter particles using superheated bubble chambers and cryogenic liquid argon detectors
Direct detection searches for dark matter particles using superheated bubble chambers and cryogenic liquid argon detectors Open
This review spotlights Canadian participation to experiments aimed at the direct detection of dark matter particles, with sensitivity over a mass range from the GeV scale to the Planck scale. Two technologies are discussed: superheated bub…
View article: Dark Matter Candidates and Searches
Dark Matter Candidates and Searches Open
Astrophysical observations suggest that most of the matter in the cosmos consists of a new form that has not been observed on Earth. The nature and origin of this mysterious dark matter are among the most pressing questions in fundamental …
View article: Dark matter candidates and searches
Dark matter candidates and searches Open
Astrophysical observations suggest that most of the matter in the cosmos consists of a new form that has not been observed on Earth. The nature and origin of this mysterious dark matter are among the most pressing questions in fundamental …
View article: Simulation Study of Photon-to-Digital Converter (PDC) Timing Specifications for LoLX Experiment
Simulation Study of Photon-to-Digital Converter (PDC) Timing Specifications for LoLX Experiment Open
The Light only Liquid Xenon (LoLX) experiment is a prototype detector aimed to study liquid xenon (LXe) light properties and various photodetection technologies. LoLX is also aimed to quantify LXe's time resolution as a potential scintilla…
View article: Rapid characterization of silicon photomultipliers for noble liquid experiments
Rapid characterization of silicon photomultipliers for noble liquid experiments Open
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are emerging as the photodetector technology to be used in upcoming noble liquid experiments. Newly developed SiPMs sensitive to vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light will be directly used for the readout of scint…
View article: Erratum: Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector [Phys. Rev. D <b>102</b>, 082001 (2020)]
Erratum: Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector [Phys. Rev. D <b>102</b>, 082001 (2020)] Open
Received 24 December 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.029901© 2022 American Physical SocietyPhysics Subject Headings (PhySH)Research AreasCosmologyDark matterParticle astrophysicsParticle dark matterPhysical SystemsGalactic hal…
View article: First Direct Detection Constraints on Planck-Scale Mass Dark Matter with Multiple-Scatter Signatures Using the DEAP-3600 Detector
First Direct Detection Constraints on Planck-Scale Mass Dark Matter with Multiple-Scatter Signatures Using the DEAP-3600 Detector Open
Dark matter with Planck-scale mass (≃10^{19} GeV/c^{2}) arises in well-motivated theories and could be produced by several cosmological mechanisms. A search for multiscatter signals from supermassive dark matter was performed with a blind …
View article: Dark matter search results from DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB
Dark matter search results from DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB Open
The latest physics results from DEAP-3600 are summarized. DEAP-3600 is searching for dark matter interactions with a liquid argon target, shielded from cosmic rays by over 2 km of rock at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The spherical detector c…
View article: Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector
Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector Open
DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon detector aiming to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), located at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). After analyzing data taken during the first year of operation, a null result was…
View article: The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600
The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600 Open
DEAP-3600 is a liquid-argon scintillation detector looking for dark matter. Scintillation events in the liquid argon (LAr) are registered by 255 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), and pulseshape discrimination (PSD) is used to suppress electrom…
View article: Electromagnetic backgrounds and potassium-42 activity in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector
Electromagnetic backgrounds and potassium-42 activity in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector Open
The DEAP-3600 experiment is searching for WIMP dark matter with a 3.3 tonne\nsingle phase liquid argon (LAr) target, located 2.1 km underground at SNOLAB.\nThe experimental signature of dark matter interactions is keV-scale $^{40}$Ar\nnucl…
View article: Search for dark matter with a 231-day exposure of liquid argon using DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB
Search for dark matter with a 231-day exposure of liquid argon using DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB Open
DEAP-3600 is a single-phase liquid argon (LAr) direct-detection dark matter\nexperiment, operating 2 km underground at SNOLAB (Sudbury, Canada). The\ndetector consists of 3279 kg of LAr contained in a spherical acrylic vessel.\nThis paper …
View article: ATLAS jet energy scale and resolution in early Run 2
ATLAS jet energy scale and resolution in early Run 2 Open
Jet energy scale measurements and their systematic uncertainties are reported for jets measured with the ATLAS detector using proton-proton collision data with a center-of-mass energy of ffiffi s p ¼ 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated …
View article: Expected performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade
Expected performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade Open
The design of the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade is underway. This tracking detector, consisting of silicon pixel and strip modules, will replace the current ATLAS Inner Detector to reconstruct tracks from charged particles produced at the ve…
View article: Searches for leptoquarks and excited leptons with the ATLAS detector
Searches for leptoquarks and excited leptons with the ATLAS detector Open
Searches for pair-produced first-generation and second-generation leptoquarks and for excited muons are presented, for final states consisting of two charged leptons and at least two jets. The studies reported use data recorded by the ATLA…
View article: Performance of Silicon Pixel Detectors at Small Track Incidence Angles for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade
Performance of Silicon Pixel Detectors at Small Track Incidence Angles for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade Open
View article: Performance of silicon pixel detectors at small track incidence angles for the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade
Performance of silicon pixel detectors at small track incidence angles for the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade Open
View article: Performance of a full-size small-strip thin gap chamber prototype for the ATLAS new small wheel muon upgrade
Performance of a full-size small-strip thin gap chamber prototype for the ATLAS new small wheel muon upgrade Open
The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be increased up to a factor of five with respect to the present design value by undergoing an extensive upgrade program over the coming decade. The most important upgra…
View article: Performance of silicon pixel detectors at small track incidence angles
Performance of silicon pixel detectors at small track incidence angles Open
In order to enable the ATLAS experiment to successfully track charged particles produced in high-energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, the current ATLAS Inner Detector will be replaced by the Inner Tracker (ITk), …