Report of the topical group on neutrino properties for snowmass 2021

C Giunti, J Gruszko, B Jones, L Kaufman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Neutrinos are the most elusive among the known elementary particles, because of their
feeble interactions with ordinary matter. They are also the most mysterious, because of their …

Bremsstrahlung on noble gases at low energies

AI Milstein, SG Salnikov, MG Kozlov - … in Physics Research Section B: Beam …, 2022 - Elsevier
A detailed analysis of the bremsstrahlung spectrum at nonrelativistic electron scattering on
argon and xenon is carried out. It is shown that the approximate formulas widely used for the …

First observation of neutral bremsstrahlung electroluminescence in liquid argon

A Bondar, A Buzulutskov, E Frolov, E Borisova… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
A recent discovery of additional mechanism of electroluminescence (EL) in noble gases due
to the neutral bremsstrahlung (NBrS) effect led to a prediction that NBrS EL should be …

Angular distribution of photons emitted in collision of low-energy electrons with noble gases

AI Milstein, SG Salnikov, MG Kozlov - … in Physics Research Section B: Beam …, 2023 - Elsevier
The angular distribution of photons emitted at interaction of low-energy electrons with atoms
of noble gases is investigated. The angular asymmetry of the bremsstrahlung cross section …

Neutral bremsstrahlung in TPCs

P Amedo, D González-Díaz… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Traditionally, it has been assumed that electroluminescence (EL) in time projection
chambers was purely an excimer-based emission. This idea changed when neutral …

[HTML][HTML] Puzzling time properties of proportional electroluminescence in two-phase argon detectors for dark matter searches

A Buzulutskov, E Frolov, E Borisova, V Nosov… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Proportional electroluminescence (EL) in noble gases is a physical process routinely used
in two-phase (liquid–gas) detectors for low-energy astroparticle-physics experiments. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Time and band-resolved scintillation in time projection chambers based on gaseous xenon

S Leardini, ES García, P Amedo… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We present a systematic study of the time and band-resolved scintillation in xenon-based
time projection chambers (TPCs), performed simultaneously for the primary (S1) and …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of strong wavelength-shifting in the argon-tetrafluoromethane system

P Amedo, D González-Díaz, FM Brunbauer… - Frontiers in Detector …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We report the scintillation spectra of Ar/CF4 mixtures in the range 210–800 nm, obtained
under X-ray irradiation for various pressures (1–5 bar) and concentrations (0%–100%) …

Understanding the xenon primary scintillation yield for cutting-edge rare event experiments

CAO Henriques, JMR Teixeira, P Silva… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Xenon scintillation has been widely used in rare event detection experiments, such as in
neutrinoless double beta decay, double electron captures and dark matter searches …

Study of visible-light emission in pure and methane-doped liquid argon

A Bondar, E Borisova, A Buzulutskov… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In liquid argon TPCs for dark matter search and neutrino detection experiments, primary
scintillation light is used as a prompt signal of particle scattering, being intensively produced …