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Projected sensitivities of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to new physics via low-energy electron recoils

Physical Review D American Physical Society 104:9 (2021) 92009

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Ds Akerib, Ak Al Musalhi, Sk Alsum, A Cottle, NM Fearon, E Gibson, Hans Kraus, KJ Palladino, A Stevens

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LUX-ZEPLIN is a dark matter detector expected to obtain world-leading sensitivity to weakly-interacting massive particles interacting via nuclear recoils with a ∼7-tonne xenon target mass. This paper presents sensitivity projections to several low-energy signals of the complementary electron recoil signal type: 1) an effective neutrino magnetic moment, and 2) an effective neutrino millicharge, both for pp-chain solar neutrinos, 3) an axion flux generated by the Sun, 4) axionlike particles forming the Galactic dark matter, 5) hidden photons, 6) mirror dark matter, and 7) leptophilic dark matter. World-leading sensitivities are expected in each case, a result of the large 5.6 t 1000 d exposure and low expected rate of electron-recoil backgrounds in the <100 keV energy regime. A consistent signal generation, background model and profile-likelihood analysis framework is used throughout.
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Projected sensitivities of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment to new physics via low-energy electron recoils

Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 9, 092009

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D.S. Akerib, A.K. Al Musalhi, S.K. Alsum, C.S. Amarasinghe, A. Ames, T.J. Anderson, N. Angelides, H.M. Araújo, J.E. Armstrong, M. Arthurs, X. Bai, J. Balajthy, S. Balashov, J. Bang, J.W. Bargemann, D. Bauer, A. Baxter, P. Beltrame, E.P. Bernard, A. Bernstein, A. Bhatti, A. Biekert, T.P. Biesiadzinski, H.J. Birch, G.M. Blockinger, E. Bodnia, B. Boxer, C.A.J. Brew, P. Brás, S. Burdin, J.K. Busenitz, M. Buuck, R. Cabrita, M.C. Carmona-Benitez, M. Cascella, C. Chan, N.I. Chott, A. Cole, M.V. Converse, A. Cottle, G. Cox, O. Creaner, J.E. Cutter, C.E. Dahl, L. de Viveiros, J.E.Y. Dobson, E. Druszkiewicz, S.R. Eriksen, A. Fan, S. Fayer, N.M. Fearon, S. Fiorucci, H. Flaecher, E.D. Fraser, T. Fruth, R.J. Gaitskell, J. Genovesi, C. Ghag, E. Gibson, S. Gokhale, M.G.D. van der Grinten, C.B. Gwilliam, C.R. Hall, C.A. Hardy, S.J. Haselschwardt, S.A. Hertel, M. Horn, D.Q. Huang, C.M. Ignarra, O. Jahangir, R.S. James, W. Ji, J. Johnson, A.C. Kaboth, A.C. Kamaha, K. Kamdin, K. Kazkaz, D. Khaitan, A. Khazov, I. Khurana, D. Kodroff, L. Korley, E.V. Korolkova, H. Kraus, S. Kravitz, L. Kreczko, B. Krikler, V.A. Kudryavtsev, E.A. Leason, J. Lee, D.S. Leonard, K.T. Lesko, C. Levy, J. Li, J. Liao, A. Lindote, R. Linehan, W.H. Lippincott, X. Liu , M.I. Lopes, E. Lopez Asamar, B. López Paredes, W. Lorenzon, S. Luitz, P.A. Majewski, A. Manalaysay, L. Manenti, R.L. Mannino, N. Marangou, M.E. McCarthy, D.N. McKinsey, J. McLaughlin, E.H. Miller, E. Mizrachi, A. Monte, M.E. Monzani, J.A. Morad, J.D. Morales Mendoza, E. Morrison, B.J. Mount, A.St.J. Murphy, D. Naim, A. Naylor, C. Nedlik, H.N. Nelson, F. Neves, J.A. Nikoleyczik, A. Nilima, A. Nguyen, I. Olcina, K.C. Oliver-Mallory, S. Pal, K.J. Palladino, J. Palmer, S. Patton, N. Parveen, E.K. Pease, B. Penning, G. Pereira, A. Piepke, Y. Qie, J. Reichenbacher, C.A. Rhyne, A. Richards, Q. Riffard, G.R.C. Rischbieter, R. Rosero, P. Rossiter, D. Santone, A.B.M.R. Sazzad, R.W. Schnee, P.R. Scovell, S. Shaw, T.A. Shutt, J.J. Silk, C. Silva, R. Smith, M. Solmaz, V.N. Solovov, P. Sorensen, J. Soria, I. Stancu, A. Stevens, K. Stifter, B. Suerfu, T.J. Sumner, N. Swanson, M. Szydagis, W.C. Taylor, R. Taylor, D.J. Temples, P.A. Terman, D.R. Tiedt, M. Timalsina, W.H. To, D.R. Tovey, M. Tripathi, D.R. Tronstad, W. Turner, U. Utku, A. Vaitkus, B. Wang, J.J. Wang, W. Wang, J.R. Watson, R.C. Webb, R.G. White, T.J. Whitis, M. Williams, F.L.H. Wolfs, D. Woodward, C.J. Wright, X. Xiang, J. Xu, M. Yeh, P. Zarzhitsky

Abstract:

LUX-ZEPLIN is a dark matter detector expected to obtain world-leading sensitivity to weakly-interacting massive particles interacting via nuclear recoils with a ∼7-tonne xenon target mass. This paper presents sensitivity projections to several low-energy signals of the complementary electron recoil signal type: 1) an effective neutrino magnetic moment, and 2) an effective neutrino millicharge, both for pp-chain solar neutrinos, 3) an axion flux generated by the Sun, 4) axionlike particles forming the Galactic dark matter, 5) hidden photons, 6) mirror dark matter, and 7) leptophilic dark matter. World-leading sensitivities are expected in each case, a result of the large 5.6 t 1000 d exposure and low expected rate of electron-recoil backgrounds in the <100  keV energy regime. A consistent signal generation, background model and profile-likelihood analysis framework is used throughout.
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Al2O3 co-doped with Cr3+ and Mn4+, a dual-emitter probe for multimodal non-contact luminescence thermometry

Dalton Transactions Royal Society of Chemistry 50:41 (2021) 14820-14831

Authors:

Vb Mykhaylyk, Hans Kraus, L-I Bulyk, I Lutsyuk, V Hreb, L Vasylechko, Y Zhydachevskyy, A Wagner, A Suchocki

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Luminescence probes that facilitate multimodal non-contact measurements of temperature are of particular interest due to the possibility of cross-referencing results across different readout techniques. This intrinsic referencing is an essential addition that enhances accuracy and reliability of the technique. A further enhancement of sensor performance can be achieved by using two luminescent ions acting as independent emitters, thereby adding in-built redundancy to non-contact temperature sensing, using a single readout technique. In this study we combine both approaches by engineering a material with two luminescent ions that can be independently probed through different readout modes of non-contact temperature sensing. The approach was tested using Al2O3 co-doped with Cr3+ and Mn4+, exhibiting sharp emission lines due to 2E → 4A2 transitions. The temperature sensing performance was examined by measuring three characteristics: temperature-induced changes of the intensity ratio of the emission lines, their spectral position, and the luminescence decay time constant. The processes responsible for the changes with temperature of the measured luminescence characteristics are discussed in terms of relevant models. By comparing temperature resolutions achievable by different modes of temperature sensing it is established that in Al2O3-Cr,Mn spectroscopic methods provide the best measurement accuracy over a broad temperature range. A temperature resolution better than ±2.8 K can be achieved by monitoring the luminescence intensity ratio (40–145 K) and the spectral shift of the R-line of Mn4+ (145–300 K range).
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Measurement of Charge and Light Yields for $^{127}$Xe L-Shell Electron Captures in Liquid Xenon

ArXiv 2109.11487 (2021)

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Dylan J Temples, Jacob McLaughlin, Jack Bargemann, Daniel Baxter, Amy Cottle, C Eric Dahl, W Hugh Lippincott, Alissa Monte, Jason Phelan
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Ultrafast photo-induced phonon hardening due to Pauli blocking in MAPbI3 single-crystal and polycrystalline perovskites

Journal of Physics: Materials IOP Publishing 4:4 (2021) 044017

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Chelsea Xia, Samuel Ponce, Jiali Peng, Jay Patel, Adam Wright, Hans Kraus, Laura Herz, Feliciano Giustino, Michael Johnston, Aleksander Ulatowski

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Metal-halide perovskite semiconductors have attracted intensive interest in the last decade, particularly for applications in photovoltaics. Low-energy optical phonons combined with significant crystal anharmonicity play an important role in charge-carrier cooling and scattering in these materials, strongly affecting their optoelectronic properties. We have observed optical phonons associated with Pb—I stretching in both MAPbI3 single crystals and polycrystalline thin films as a function of temperature by measuring their terahertz (THz) conductivity spectra with and without photoexcitation. An anomalous bond hardening was observed under above-bandgap illumination for both single-crystal and polycrystalline MAPbI3. First-principles calculations reproduced this photo-induced bond hardening and identified a related lattice contraction (photostriction), with the mechanism revealed as Pauli blocking. For single-crystal MAPbI3, phonon lifetimes were significantly longer and phonon frequencies shifted less with temperature, compared with polycrystalline MAPbI3. We attribute these differences to increased crystalline disorder, associated with grain boundaries and strain in the polycrystalline MAPbI3. Thus we provide fundamental insight into the photoexcitation and electron–phonon coupling in MAPbI3.
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