Study of Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T / Evan Shockley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shockley, Evan, author.

Series:

Springer theses

Springer Theses Ser.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Supervisor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

1 Searching for New Physics with XENON1T

1.1 The XENON1T Detector

1.1.1 The S1 Signal

1.1.2 The S2 Signal

1.1.3 Position Reconstruction

1.1.4 Particle Discrimination: Electronic vs. Nuclear Recoils

1.1.5 Background Reduction

1.2 Physics Reach of XENON1T

1.2.1 Solar Axions

1.2.2 Neutrino Magnetic Moment

1.2.3 Bosonic Dark Matter

2 Event Reconstruction and Selection

2.1 Energy Reconstruction and Resolution

2.1.1 Energy Reconstruction

2.1.2 Energy Resolution

2.2 Detection Efficiency

2.2.1 Single Photoelectron Acceptance

2.2.2 Reconstruction Efficiency

2.2.3 Efficiency as Function of Charge

2.2.4 Efficiency as Function of Reconstructed Energy

2.3 Event Selection

3 Background + Signal Modeling and Statistical Methods

3.1 Background Model

3.2 Signal Modeling

3.3 Statistical Framework

4 Results

4.1 Background-Only Fit

4.2 Investigating the Excess

4.3 Potential Backgrounds

4.3.1 Xenon X-Rays

4.3.2 37Ar

4.3.3 Tritium

4.4 Searches for New Physics in XENON1T ER Data

4.5 Search for Solar Axions

4.5.1 Main Results

4.5.2 Interpretation Under Specific QCD Models

4.5.3 Including Tritium as a Background

4.6 Search for an Enhanced Neutrino Magnetic Moment

4.6.1 Main Result

4.6.2 Including Tritium as a Background

4.7 Bosonic Dark Matter Results

4.8 Science Run 2

4.9 Time Dependence

4.10 Updated Analysis

4.10.1 Summary of Updates

4.10.2 Results of Updated Analysis

5 Conclusions and Outlook

5.1 Summary

5.2 Outlook: XENONnT

5.3 Conclusion

References

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Print version: Shockley, Evan Study of Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T

ISBN:

9783030877521

3030877523

OCLC:

1283849977

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