Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experiment.

E Aprile, J Aalbers, F Agostini, M Alfonsi… - … of Cosmology and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The XENON1T experiment is currently in the commissioning phase at the Laboratori
Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. In this article we study the experiment's expected sensitivity …

Vertical muon intensity measured with MACRO at the Gran Sasso laboratory

M Ambrosio, R Antolini, G Auriemma, R Baker… - Physical Review D, 1995 - APS
The vertical underground muon intensity has been measured in the slant depth range 3200–
7000 hg cm− 2 (standard rock) with the completed lower part of the MACRO detector at the …

Seasonal variations in the underground muon intensity as seen by MACRO

M Ambrosio, R Antolini, G Auriemma, R Baker… - Astroparticle …, 1997 - Elsevier
Using 5.33× 106 single muons collected in 1.46× 104 live hours by MACRO during the
period 1991–1994, we have searched for a correlation between variations in the …

The MACRO detector at Gran Sasso

M Ambrosio, R Antolini, R Assiro, G Auriemma… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2002 - Elsevier
MACRO was an experiment that ran in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso from 1988 to
2000. Its principal goal was to observe magnetic monopoles or set significantly lower …

Monte Carlo evaluation of the external gamma, neutron and muon induced background sources in the CUORE experiment

F Bellini, C Bucci, S Capelli, O Cremonesi, L Gironi… - Astroparticle …, 2010 - Elsevier
CUORE is a 1 ton scale cryogenic experiment aiming at the measurement of the Majorana
mass of the electron neutrino. The detector is an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers used for a …

The performance of the Muon Veto of the G erda experiment

K Freund, R Falkenstein, P Grabmayr, A Hegai… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
Low background experiments need a suppression of cosmogenically induced events. The
Gerda experiment located at Lngs is searching for the 0 ν β β 0 ν β β decay of^ 76 76 Ge. It is …

Flux modulations seen by the muon veto of the GERDA experiment

M Agostini, M Allardt, AM Bakalyarov, M Balata… - Astroparticle …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gerda experiment at Lngs of INFN is equipped with an active muon veto. The
main part of the system is a water Cherenkov veto with 66 PMTs in the water tank …

Monte Carlo evaluation of the muon-induced background in the GERDA double beta decay experiment

L Pandola, M Bauer, K Kröninger, X Liu… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2007 - Elsevier
The new generation of experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay is aiming
at a background level of 10-3counts/(kgkeVy) or better at the respective Q-values. Cosmic …

Extending the search for neutrino point sources with IceCube above the horizon

R Abbasi, Y Abdou, T Abu-Zayyad, J Adams… - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
Point source searches with the IceCube neutrino telescope have been restricted to one
hemisphere, due to the exclusive selection of upward going events as a way of rejecting the …

Muon-induced backgrounds in the CUORICINO experiment

E Andreotti, C Arnaboldi, FT Avignone III, M Balata… - Astroparticle …, 2010 - Elsevier
To better understand the contribution of cosmic ray muons to the CUORICINO background,
10 plastic scintillator detectors were installed at the CUORICINO site and operated during …