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ERRATUM: Two-neutrino double electron capture of 124Xe in the first LUX-ZEPLIN exposure (2024 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 52 015103)

Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics 53:5 (2026)

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J Aalbers, DS Akerib, AK Al Musalhi, F Alder, CS Amarasinghe, A Ames, TJ Anderson, N Angelides, HM Araújo, JE Armstrong, M Arthurs, A Baker, S Balashov, J Bang, JW Bargemann, EE Barillier, K Beattie, A Bhatti, A Biekert, TP Biesiadzinski, HJ Birch, E Bishop, GM Blockinger, B Boxer, CAJ Brew, P Brás, S Burdin, M Buuck, MC Carmona-Benitez, M Carter, A Chawla, H Chen, YT Chin, NI Chott, MV Converse, R Coronel, A Cottle, G Cox, D Curran, CE Dahl, A David, J Delgaudio, S Dey, L de Viveiros, L Di Felice, C Ding, JEY Dobson, E Druszkiewicz, S Dubey, SR Eriksen, A Fan, NM Fearon, N Fieldhouse, S Fiorucci, H Flaecher, ED Fraser, TMA Fruth, RJ Gaitskell, A Geffre, J Genovesi, C Ghag, R Gibbons, S Gokhale, J Green, MGD van der Grinten, JJ Haiston, CR Hall, S Han, E Hartigan-OConnor, SJ Haselschwardt, MA Hernandez, SA Hertel, G Heuermann, GJ Homenides, M Horn, DQ Huang, D Hunt, E Jacquet, RS James, J Johnson, AC Kaboth, AC Kamaha, M Kannichankandy, D Khaitan, A Khazov, I Khurana, J Kim, YD Kim, J Kingston, R Kirk, D Kodroff, L Korley, EV Korolkova, H Kraus, S Kravitz, L Kreczko, VA Kudryavtsev, DS Leonard, KT Lesko, C Levy, J Lin, A Lindote, WH Lippincott, MI Lopes, W Lorenzon, C Lu, S Luitz, PA Majewski, A Manalaysay, RL Mannino, C Maupin, ME McCarthy, G McDowell, DN McKinsey, J McLaughlin, JB McLaughlin, R McMonigle, E Mizrachi, A Monte, ME Monzani, E Morrison, BJ Mount, M Murdy, ASJ Murphy, A Naylor, HN Nelson, F Neves, A Nguyen, CL O’Brien, I Olcina, KC Oliver-Mallory, J Orpwood, KY Oyulmaz, KJ Palladino, J Palmer, NJ Pannifer, N Parveen, SJ Patton, B Penning, G Pereira, E Perry, T Pershing, A Piepke, Y Qie, J Reichenbacher, CA Rhyne, Q Riffard, GRC Rischbieter, E Ritchey, HS Riyat, R Rosero, T Rushton, D Rynders, D Santone, ABMR Sazzad, RW Schnee, G Sehr, B Shafer, S Shaw, T Shutt, JJ Silk, C Silva, G Sinev, J Siniscalco, R Smith, VN Solovov, P Sorensen, J Soria, A Stevens, K Stifter, B Suerfu, TJ Sumner, M Szydagis, DR Tiedt, M Timalsina, Z Tong, DR Tovey, J Tranter, M Trask, M Tripathi, A Vacheret, AC Vaitkus, O Valentino, V Velan, A Wang, JJ Wang, Y Wang, JR Watson, L Weeldreyer, TJ Whitis, K Wild, M Williams, WJ Wisniewski, L Wolf, FLH Wolfs, S Woodford, D Woodward, CJ Wright, Q Xia, J Xu, Y Xu, M Yeh, D Yeum, W Zha, EA Zweig
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The Darkside-20k Data Acquisition System

ArXiv 2604.03059 (2026)

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Fabio Acerbi, Pushparaj Adhikari, Paolo Agnes, Iftikhar Ahmad, Sebastiano Albergo, Ivone FM Albuquerque, Thomas Olling Alexander, Andrew Knight Alton, Pierre-Andre Amaudruz, Gioacchino Alex Anastasi, Michele Angiolilli, Elena Aprile, David J Auty, Maximo Ave Pernas, Oscar Azzolini, Henning Olling Back, Zoe Balmforth, Ana Isabel Barrado Olmedo, Pierre Barrillon, Giovanni Batignani, Swadheen Bharat, Pritindra Bhowmick, Sofia Blua, Valerio Bocci, Walter Bonivento, Bianca Bottino, Mark G Boulay, Titanilla Braun, Andrzej Buchowicz, Severino Bussino, Jose Busto, Matteo Cadeddu, Mariano Cadoni, Roberta Calabrese, Vincenzo Camillo, Alessio Caminata, Nicola Canci, Andrea Capra, Mauro Caravati, Miguel Cardenas-Montes, Nicola Cargioli, Marco Carlini, Paolo Castello, Paolo Cavalcante, Susana Cebrian, Alexander Chepurnov, Sarthak Choudhary, Luisa Cifarelli, Yann Coadou, Ivan Coarasa, Valentina Cocco, Estefania Conde Vilda, Lucia Consiglio, Harrison Coombes, Andre Filipe Ventura Cortez, Barbara S Costa, Milena Czubak, Saverio D'Auria, Manuel Dionisio Da Rocha Rolo, Alexander Dainty, Giovanni Darbo, Stefano Davini, Riccardo de Asmundis, Sandro De Cecco, Marzio De Napoli, Giulio Dellacasa, Alexander Derbin, Lea Di Noto, Philippe Di Stefano, Daniel Diaz Mairena, Carlo Dionisi, Grigory Dolganov, Francesca Dordei, Aaron Elersich, Emma Ellingwood, Tyler Erjavec, Niamh Fearon, Marta Fernandez Diaz, Luca Ferro, Andrea Ficorella, Giuliana Fiorillo, Dylon Fleming, Paolo Franchini, Davide Franco, Heriques Frandini Gatti, Federico Gabriele, Devidutta Gahan, Cristiano Galbiati, Grzegorz Galinski, Giacomo Gallina, Marco Garbini, Pablo Garcia Abia, Andrzej Gawdzik, Graham Kurt Giovanetti, Alberto Gola, Luca Grandi, Gianfrancesco Grauso, Giovanni Grilli di Cortona, Alexey Grobov, Maxim Gromov, Julian Guerrero Canovas, Marisa Gulino, Samuel Belayneh Habtemariam, Brianne Rae Hackett, Aksel Hallin, Malgorzata Haranczyk, Timothee Hessel, Celin Hidalgo, James Hollingham, Sosuke Horikawa, Jie Hu, Fabrice Hubaut, Daniel Huff, Theo Hugues, Andrea Ianni, Valerio Ippolito, Ako Jamil, Chris Jillings, Rijeesh Keloth, Nikolas Kemmerich, Ashlea Kemp, Kaori Kondo, George Korga, Lucy Kotsiopoulou, Seraphim Koulosousas, Pablo Kunze, Michael Kuss, Marcin Kuzniak, Maciej Kuzwa, Marco La Commara, Michela Lai, Emmanuel Le Guirriec, Elizabeth Leason, Alfiero Leoni, Lance Lidey, John D Lipp, Marcello Lissia, Ludovico Luzzi, Olga Lychagina, Oliver Macfadyen, Janna Machts, Igor Machulin, Szymon Manecki, Ioannis Manthos, Andrea Marasciulli, Stefano Maria Mari, Camillo Mariani, Jelena Maricic, Maria Martinez, Giuseppe Matteucci, Konstantinos Mavrokoridis, Arthur B McDonald, Luo Meng, Stefano Merzi, Andrea Messina, Radovan Milincic, Graham Miller, Saverio Minutoli, Ankush Mitra, Jocelyn Monroe, Matteo Morrocchi, Abdulrahman Morsy, Valentina Muratova, Michael Murra, Carlo Muscas, Paolo Musico, Rosario Nania, Marzio Nessi, Grzegorz Nieradka, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Evangelia Nikoloudaki, Jaroslaw Nowak, Konstantin Olchanski, Andrey Oleinik, Paolo Organtini, Alfonso Ortiz de Solorzano, Anantha Padmanabhan, Marco Pallavicini, Luciano Pandola, Emilija Pantic, Eugenio Paoloni, Danial Papi, Byungju Park, Grzegorz Pastuszak, Giovanni Paternoster, Riccardo Pavarani, Alec Peck, Paolo Attilio Pegoraro, Krzysztof Pelczar, Ramon Perez, Vicente Pesudo, Stefano Piacentini, Noemi Pino, Guillaume Plante, Andrea Pietro Pocar, Stephen Pordes, Pascal Pralavorio, Elettra Preosti, Darren Price, George Prior, Manuel Pronesti, Sebastiana Puglia, Maria Cecilia Queiroga Bazetto, Fabrizio Raffaelli, Francesco Ragusa, Yorck Ramachers, Alejandro Ramirez, Sudikshan Ravinthiran, Marco Razeti, Andrew Lee Renshaw, Aras Repond, Marco Rescigno, Silvia Resconi, Fabrice Retiere, Ash Ritchie-Yates, Angelo Rivetti, Adam Roberts, Conner Roberts, Diego Rodriguez Rodas, Giovanni Rogers, Luciano Romero, Matteo Rossi, Dmitry Rudik, James Runge, Maria Adriana Sabia, Camilla Salerno, Paolo Salomone, Simone Sanfilippo, Daria Santone, Roberto Santorelli, Edivaldo M Santos, Isobel Sargeant, Maria Luisa Sarsa, Claudio Savarese, Eugenio Scapparone, Fred Schuckman, Dmitriy Semenov, Carmen Seoane, Michela Sestu, Veronika Shalamova, Sanjay Sharma Poudel, Marino Simeone, Peter Skensved, Mikhail Skorokhvatov, Taisiia Smirnova, Ben Smith, Robert Smith, Franco Spadoni, Martin Spangenberg, Arianna Steri, Vincenzo Stornelli, Simone Stracka, Allan Sung, Clea Sunny, Yury Suvorov, Andrzej M Szelc, Oscar Taborda, Benjamin Tam, Roberto Tartaglia, Alan Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, Gemma Testera, Kevin Thieme, Angus Thompson, Sebastian Torres-Lara, Alessia Tricomi, Sara Tullio, Evgeniy Unzhakov, Marie Van Uffelen, Pedro Ventura, Guillermo Vera Diaz, Simon Viel, Alina Vishneva, Bruce Vogelaar, Joost Vossebeld, Bansari Vyas, Masayuki Wada, Marek Bohdan Walczak, Yi Wang, Shawn Westerdale, Laurie Williams, Marcin Marian Wojcik, Mariusz Wojcik, Changgen Yang, Jilong Yin, Azam Zabihi, Paul Zakhary, Andrea Zani, Haoxiang Zhan, Yongpeng Zhang, Antonino Zichichi, Grzegorz Zuzel
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Construction and characterisation of the DarkSide-20k veto silicon photo-multiplier tiles

ArXiv 2604.02551 (2026)
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Optimisation of TES design for the CRESST experiment

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) PP:99 (2026) 1-7

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G Angloher, S Banik, A Bento, A Bertolini, R Breier, C Bucci, J Burkhart, L Burmeister, L Canonica, E Cipelli, S Di Lorenzo, J Dohm, F Dominsky, A Erb, E Fascione, FV Feilitzsch, S Fichtinger, D Fuchs, VM Ghete, P Gorla, PV Guillaumon, S Gupta, D Hauff, M Ješkovský, J Jochum, M Kaznacheeva, H Kluck, H Kraus, B von Krosigk, A Langenkämper, M Mancuso, B Mauri, V Mokina, C Moore, P Murali, M Olmi, T Ortmann, C Pagliarone, L Pattavina, F Petricca, W Potzel, P Povinec, F Pröbst, F Pucci, F Reindl, J Rothe, K Schäffner, J Schieck, S Schönert, C Schwertner, M Stahlberg, L Stodolsky, C Strandhagen, R Strauss, I Usherov, M Zanirato, V Zema

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The CRESST experiment aims at the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter particles via elastic scattering off nuclei in different target crystals at cryogenic temperatures. The advancement in W-TES sensors allowed the CRESST detectors to reach energy thresholds of 10$\,$eV and lower, opening the way to the exploration of dark matter masses as low as $\sim 70\,$MeV/c². This work presents optimisation studies of W-TESs aimed at further improving the signal-to-noise ratio and overall detector performance. In particular, we investigate the thickness, dimensions and material composition of phonon collectors and assess their impact on detector response. The results demonstrate a significant performance enhancement and establish new benchmarks for the sensors used within CRESST.
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Direct in-chamber radon-220 (thoron) emanation measurements for rare-event physics experiments

Journal of Instrumentation 21:3 (2026)

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RR Marcelo Gregorio, F Dastgiri, A Basharina-Freshville, VU Bashu, A Cottle, LJ Bignell, C Ghag, GJ Lane, AG McLean, NJC Spooner

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Measuring radon emanation from detector materials is a key method for controlling radon, a significant background in rare-event physics experiments. Methods for measuring radon emanation are well-established but have predominantly focused on the222Rn isotope, the dominant radon isotope for these backgrounds. However, measurements of220Rn (thoron), the second most abundant radon isotope, remain relatively unexplored.220Rn emanation measurements are challenging because the220Rn must be transferred from the emanation chamber to the active detector within its short 55 s half-life. In this study, a direct in-chamber approach for measuring220Rn emanation is presented in which the sample is placed directly within the active detector chamber, thereby minimising losses during transfer. The method was demonstrated with a DURRIDGE RAD8 electrostatic radon detector, which measured220Rn emanation from low-activity thoriated rods with an activity of 76 ± 20 mBq. Compared with a conventional flowthrough220Rn emanation setup, the in-chamber method increased sensitivity by a factor of 3. Using helium as the carrier gas provided a further sensitivity increase, giving an overall sensitivity gain of ∼ 5. These results indicate that in-chamber220Rn emanation measurements provide an effective tool for low-background experiments and have the potential to accelerate radon studies by exploiting the shorter half-life of220Rn.
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