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A. Tomás
Researcher at Imperial College London
Publications - 46
Citations - 1689
A. Tomás is an academic researcher from Imperial College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: MicroMegas detector & CERN Axion Solar Telescope. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 46 publications receiving 1387 citations. Previous affiliations of A. Tomás include University of Zaragoza & Estácio S.A..
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Conceptual design of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)
Eric Armengaud,F. T. Avignone,M. Betz,Ph. Brax,Pierre Brun,Giovanni Cantatore,J. M. Carmona,Gianpaolo Carosi,Fritz Caspers,S. Caspi,Serkant Ali Cetin,Doron Chelouche,Finn Erland Christensen,A. Dael,T. Dafni,M. Davenport,A. V. Derbin,Klaus Kurt Desch,A. Diago,B. Döbrich,I. Dratchnev,A. Dudarev,C. Eleftheriadis,G. Fanourakis,E. Ferrer-Ribas,J. Galán,J. A. García,J. G. Garza,Theodoros Geralis,B. Gimeno,Ioannis Giomataris,S. Gninenko,Haley Louise Gomez,Diego González-Díaz,Eduardo Guendelman,Charles J. Hailey,Takashi Hiramatsu,Dieter H. H. Hoffmann,Dieter Horns,F.J. Iguaz,I. G. Irastorza,Jordi Isern,Kenichi Imai,Anders Clemen Jakobsen,Joerg Jaeckel,Krešimir Jakovčić,J. Kaminski,Masahiro Kawasaki,Marin Karuza,Milica Krčmar,K. Kousouris,C. Krieger,Biljana Lakić,Olivier Limousin,A. Lindner,A. Liolios,G. Luzón,S. Matsuki,V. N. Muratova,C. Nones,I. Ortega,T. Papaevangelou,Michael J. Pivovaroff,Georg G. Raffelt,Javier Redondo,Andreas Ringwald,S. Russenschuck,J. Ruz,Ken'ichi Saikawa,I. Savvidis,T. Sekiguchi,Yannis K. Semertzidis,I. Shilon,Pierre Sikivie,H. Silva,H. H. J. ten Kate,A. Tomás,Sergey Troitsky,T. Vafeiadis,K. van Bibber,P. Vedrine,J.A. Villar,Julia Vogel,L. Walckiers,Amanda Weltman,William Wester,S. C. Yildiz,Konstantin Zioutas +87 more
TL;DR: The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) as mentioned in this paper is the most powerful axion helioscope, reaching sensitivity to axion-photon couplings down to a few × 10−12 GeV−1 and thus probing a large fraction of the currently unexplored axion and ALP parameter space.
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Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment
D. S. Akerib,Carl W. Akerlof,S. Alsum,Henrique Araujo,M. Arthurs,X. Bai,A. J. Bailey,J. Balajthy,S. Balashov,D. A. Bauer,J. Belle,P. Beltrame,T. Benson,Ethan Bernard,T. P. Biesiadzinski,K. E. Boast,B. Boxer,P. Brás,J. H. Buckley,Vv. Bugaev,Sergey Burdin,J. Busenitz,C. Carels,Duncan Carlsmith,Ben Carlson,M. C. Carmona-Benitez,C. Chan,J. J. Cherwinka,A. Cole,A. Cottle,W. Craddock,A. Currie,J. E. Cutter,C. E. Dahl,L.D. Viveiros,A. Dobi,J. E. Y. Dobson,E. Druszkiewicz,T. K. Edberg,W. R. Edwards,A. Fan,Simon Fayer,S. Fiorucci,T. Fruth,R. J. Gaitskell,J. Genovesi,C. Ghag,M. G. D. Gilchriese,Mgd van der Grinten,C. R. Hall,S. Hans,K. Hanzel,S. J. Haselschwardt,S. A. Hertel,Seth Hillbrand,C. Hjemfelt,Hoff,J. Y.K. Hor,D. Q. Huang,C. M. Ignarra,W. Ji,Asher Kaboth,K. Kamdin,J. Keefner,D. Khaitan,A. Khazov,Yeongduk Kim,C. D. Kocher,Elena Korolkova,H. Kraus,H.J. Krebs,L. Kreczko,Benjamin Krikler,V. A. Kudryavtsev,S. Kyre,Juhyeong Lee,B. G. Lenardo,David Leonard,K. T. Lesko,C. Levy,J. Li,J. Liao,F.-T. Liao,J. Lin,A. Lindote,R. Linehan,W. H. Lippincott,X. Liu,M.I. Lopes,B.L. Paredes,Wolfgang Lorenzon,S. Luitz,J. M. Lyle,Peter Majewski,A. Manalaysay,R. L. Mannino,C. Maupin,Daniel McKinsey,Yue Meng,E. H. Miller,J. Mock,M. E. Monzani,J. A. Morad,E. Morrison,B. J. Mount,A. Murphy,H. N. Nelson,F. Neves,J. A. Nikoleyczik,K. O'Sullivan,I. Olcina,Olevitch,K. C. Oliver-Mallory,K. J. Palladino,S. J. Patton,E. K. Pease,Bjoern Penning,A. Piepke,S. Powell,R. M. Preece,K. Pushkin,B. N. Ratcliff,J. Reichenbacher,C. Rhyne,A. Richards,J.P. Rodrigues,Richard Rosero,P. Rossiter,J.S. Saba,M. Sarychev,R. W. Schnee,Michael Schubnell,P.R. Scovell,S. Shaw,T. A. Shutt,J.J. Silk,C. Silva,K. Skarpaas,W. Skulski,M. Solmaz,V. N. Solovov,P. Sorensen,I. Stancu,M.R. Stark,T.M. Stiegler,K. Stifter,Matthew Szydagis,W. C. Taylor,R. Taylor,D. J. Taylor,D. Temples,P. A. Terman,K.J. Thomas,M. Timalsina,W. H. To,A. Tomás,T. Tope,Mani Tripathi,C. E. Tull,L. Tvrznikova,U. Utku,J. Va’vra,Antonin Vacheret,J.R. Verbus,E. Voirin,W.L. Waldron,J. R. Watson,R. C. Webb,D. White,T. J. Whitis,W. J. Wisniewski,Witherell,F.L.H. Wolfs,D. Woodward,S. D. Worm,Minfang Yeh,J. Yin,Ian S. Young +177 more
TL;DR: Lux-ZEPLIN (LZ) as mentioned in this paper is a next-generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA using a two-phase xenon detector with an active mass of 7 tonnes.
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The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts
S. P. Ahlen,Niayesh Afshordi,Niayesh Afshordi,James Battat,J. Billard,Nassim Bozorgnia,S. Burgos,T. Caldwell,T. Caldwell,J. M. Carmona,S. Cebrián,P. Colas,T. Dafni,E. J. Daw,D. Dujmic,A. Dushkin,William Fedus,Efrain J. Ferrer,D. Finkbeiner,Peter H. Fisher,J. Forbes,T. Fusayasu,J. Galán,T. Gamble,C. Ghag,Ioannis Giomataris,Michael Gold,Haley Louise Gomez,M. E. Gomez,Paolo Gondolo,Anne M. Green,C. Grignon,O. Guillaudin,C. Hagemann,Kaori Hattori,Shawn Wesley Henderson,N. Higashi,C. Ida,F.J. Iguaz,Andrew Inglis,I. G. Irastorza,Satoru Iwaki,A. C. Kaboth,Shigeto Kabuki,J. Kadyk,Nitya Kallivayalil,H. Kubo,Shunsuke Kurosawa,V. A. Kudryavtsev,T. Lamy,Richard C. Lanza,T. B. Lawson,A. Lee,E. R. Lee,T. Lin,D. Loomba,Jeremy Lopez,G. Luzón,T. Manobu,J. Martoff,F. Mayet,B. Mccluskey,E. H. Miller,Kentaro Miuchi,Jocelyn Monroe,B. Morgan,D. Muna,A. St. J. Murphy,Tatsuhiro Naka,K. Nakamura,M. Nakamura,T. Nakano,G.G. Nicklin,H. Nishimura,K. Niwa,Sean Paling,Joseph D. Parker,A. Petkov,M. Pipe,K. Pushkin,Matthew R. Robinson,Arturo Rodriguez Rodriguez,Jose Rodríguez-Quintero,T. Sahin,Robyn E. Sanderson,N. Sanghi,D. Santos,O. Sato,Tatsuya Sawano,G. Sciolla,Hiroyuki Sekiya,Tracy R. Slatyer,D. P. Snowden-Ifft,N. J. C. Spooner,A. Sugiyama,A. Takada,M. Takahashi,A. Takeda,Toru Tanimori,Kojiro Taniue,A. Tomás,H. Tomita,K. Tsuchiya,J. Turk,E. Tziaferi,K. Ueno,S. E. Vahsen,R. Vanderspek,J D Vergados,J.A. Villar,H. Wellenstein,I. Wolfe,R. K. Yamamoto,H. Yegoryan +113 more
TL;DR: The case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity was presented at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and contributions from theorists and experimental groups in the field as mentioned in this paper.
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The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment
D. S. Akerib,Carl W. Akerlof,D. Yu. Akimov,A. Alquahtani,S. Alsum,T. J. Anderson,N. Angelides,Henrique Araujo,A. Arbuckle,J. E. Armstrong,M. Arthurs,H. Auyeung,X. Bai,A. J. Bailey,J. Balajthy,S. Balashov,J. Bang,M.J. Barry,J. Barthel,D. Bauer,Peter Bauer,A. Baxter,J. Belle,P. Beltrame,J. R. Bensinger,T. Benson,Ethan Bernard,Ethan Bernard,Adam Bernstein,A. Bhatti,A. Biekert,A. Biekert,T. P. Biesiadzinski,B. Birrittella,K. E. Boast,Alexander Bolozdynya,E. M. Boulton,E. M. Boulton,B. Boxer,R. Bramante,S. Branson,P. Brás,Martin Breidenbach,J. H. Buckley,V. Bugaev,R. Bunker,Sergey Burdin,J. Busenitz,J. S. Campbell,C. Carels,Duncan Carlsmith,Ben Carlson,M. C. Carmona-Benitez,Michele Cascella,C. Chan,J. J. Cherwinka,A. A. Chiller,C. Chiller,N. I. Chott,A. Cole,J. P. Coleman,David Colling,R. Conley,A. Cottle,R. Coughlen,W. Craddock,D. Curran,A. Currie,J. E. Cutter,J.P. da Cunha,C. E. Dahl,C. E. Dahl,S. Dardin,Sridhara Dasu,J. C. Davis,T. J. R. Davison,L. de Viveiros,N. Decheine,A. Dobi,J. E. Y. Dobson,E. Druszkiewicz,A. Dushkin,T. K. Edberg,W. R. Edwards,B. N. Edwards,J. Edwards,M. Elnimr,W. T. Emmet,S. R. Eriksen,C. H. Faham,A. Fan,Simon Fayer,S. Fiorucci,Henning Flaecher,I. M. Fogarty Florang,P. Ford,V. B. Francis,F. Froborg,T. Fruth,R. J. Gaitskell,N.J. Gantos,D. Garcia,A. Geffre,V. M. Gehman,R. Gelfand,J. Genovesi,R.M. Gerhard,C. Ghag,Eli Gibson,M. G. D. Gilchriese,S. Gokhale,Bhawna Gomber,T. G. Gonda,A. Greenall,S. Greenwood,G. Gregerson,M. G. D. van der Grinten,Carl Gwilliam,C. R. Hall,D.S. Hamilton,S. Hans,K. Hanzel,T. Harrington,A. Harrison,C. Hasselkus,S. J. Haselschwardt,D. Hemer,S. A. Hertel,John Heise,Seth Hillbrand,O. Hitchcock,C. Hjemfelt,M. Hoff,B. Holbrook,E. Holtom,J. Y.K. Hor,M. Horn,D. Q. Huang,T.W. Hurteau,C. M. Ignarra,M. N. Irving,R. G. Jacobsen,R. G. Jacobsen,O. Jahangir,S. N. Jeffery,W. Ji,Mikkel B. Johnson,J. Johnson,P. Johnson,W. G. Jones,A. C. Kaboth,A. C. Kaboth,A. Kamaha,K. Kamdin,K. Kamdin,V. Kasey,Kareem Kazkaz,J. Keefner,D. Khaitan,M. Khaleeq,A. Khazov,A.V. Khromov,I. Khurana,Yeongduk Kim,W. T. Kim,C. D. Kocher,A. Konovalov,L. Korley,Elena Korolkova,M. Koyuncu,J. Kras,H. Kraus,S. Kravitz,H.J. Krebs,L. Kreczko,Benjamin Krikler,V. A. Kudryavtsev,A. V. Kumpan,S. Kyre,A. Lambert,B. Landerud,N. A. Larsen,A. Laundrie,E. Leason,H. S. Lee,Juhyeong Lee,C. Lee,B. G. Lenardo,David Leonard,R. Leonard,K. T. Lesko,C. Levy,J. Li,Yunpeng Liu,J. Liao,F.-T. Liao,J. Lin,J. Lin,A. Lindote,R. Linehan,W. H. Lippincott,R. Liu,X. Liu,C. Loniewski,M.I. Lopes,B. Lopez Paredes,Wolfgang Lorenzon,D. Lucero,S. Luitz,J. M. Lyle,Candace Lynch,P. Majewski,J. Makkinje,D.C. Malling,A. Manalaysay,Laura Manenti,R. L. Mannino,N. Marangou,D. Markley,P. MarrLaundrie,T.J. Martin,M. F. Marzioni,C. Maupin,C. T. McConnell,Daniel McKinsey,Daniel McKinsey,J. McLaughlin,Dongming Mei,Yue Meng,E. H. Miller,Z. J. Minaker,E. Mizrachi,J. Mock,J. Mock,D. Molash,A. Monte,M. E. Monzani,J. A. Morad,E. Morrison,B. J. Mount,A. St. J. Murphy,D. Naim,A. Naylor,C. Nedlik,C. Nehrkorn,H. N. Nelson,J. Nesbit,F. Neves,J. A. Nikkel,J. A. Nikoleyczik,A. Nilima,J. O'Dell,H. Oh,F. G. O'Neill,K. O’Sullivan,K. O’Sullivan,I. Olcina,M. A. Olevitch,K. C. Oliver-Mallory,K. C. Oliver-Mallory,L. Oxborough,A. Pagac,D. Pagenkopf,S. Pal,K. J. Palladino,V. M. Palmaccio,J. Palmer,M. Pangilinan,S. J. Patton,E. K. Pease,Bjoern Penning,G. Pereira,C. Pereira,I. B. Peterson,A. Piepke,S. Pierson,S. Powell,R. M. Preece,K. Pushkin,Y. Qie,M. Racine,B. N. Ratcliff,J. Reichenbacher,L. Reichhart,C. Rhyne,A. Richards,Q. Riffard,Q. Riffard,G. R. C. Rischbieter,J.P. Rodrigues,H. J. Rose,Richard Rosero,P. Rossiter,R. Rucinski,G. Rutherford,D. Rynders,J.S. Saba,L. Sabarots,D. Santone,M. Sarychev,A. B.M.R. Sazzad,R. W. Schnee,Michael Schubnell,P. R. Scovell,Mary Severson,D. Seymour,S. Shaw,G. W. Shutt,T. A. Shutt,J. J. Silk,C. Silva,K. Skarpaas,W. Skulski,A. R. Smith,Richard J. Smith,Richard J. Smith,R. E. Smith,J. So,M. Solmaz,V. N. Solovov,P. Sorensen,V.V. Sosnovtsev,I. Stancu,M.R. Stark,S. Stephenson,N. Stern,A. Stevens,T.M. Stiegler,K. Stifter,R. Studley,T. J. Sumner,K. Sundarnath,P. Sutcliffe,N. Swanson,Matthew Szydagis,M. Tan,W. C. Taylor,Robert A. Taylor,D. J. Taylor,D. Temples,B. P. Tennyson,P. A. Terman,K.J. Thomas,J. Thomson,D. R. Tiedt,M. Timalsina,W. H. To,A. Tomás,T. Tope,Mani Tripathi,D. R. Tronstad,C. E. Tull,W. Turner,L. Tvrznikova,L. Tvrznikova,M. Utes,U. Utku,S. Uvarov,J. Va’vra,Antonin Vacheret,A. Vaitkus,J.R. Verbus,T. Vietanen,E. Voirin,C. O. Vuosalo,S. Walcott,W.L. Waldron,Kathrin C. Walker,J. J. Wang,Ren-Jie Wang,L. Wang,Yufeng Wang,J. R. Watson,J. R. Watson,J. Migneault,S. Weatherly,R. C. Webb,Wenzhao Wei,M. R. While,Ross G. White,J. T. White,D. White,T. J. Whitis,T. J. Whitis,W. J. Wisniewski,K. Wilson,M. S. Witherell,M. S. Witherell,F.L.H. Wolfs,J. D. Wolfs,D. Woodward,S. D. Worm,X. Xiang,Q. Xiao,Jilei Xu,Minfang Yeh,J. Yin,Ian S. Young,Chao Zhang +398 more
TL;DR: The design and assembly of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, a direct detection search for cosmic WIMP dark matter particles, is described and its key design features and requirements are described.
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New solar axion search using the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with He-4 filling
Metin Arik,S. Aune,K. Barth,A. Belov,Heinrich Bräuninger,J. Bremer,V. Burwitz,Giovanni Cantatore,J. M. Carmona,Serkant Ali Cetin,J. I. Collar,E. Da Riva,T. Dafni,M. Davenport,A. V. Dermenev,C. Eleftheriadis,N. Elias,Georgios Fanourakis,E. Ferrer-Ribas,Javier Galan,J. A. Garcia,A. Gardikiotis,J. G. Garza,Evangelos Gazis,T. Geralis,E. Georgiopoulou,I. Giomataris,Sergei Gninenko,M. Gomez Marzoa,M. D. Hasinoff,Dieter Hoffmann,F.J. Iguaz,I. G. Irastorza,Joachim Jacoby,Krešimir Jakovčić,Marin Karuza,M. Kavuk,Milica Krčmar,Markus Kuster,Biljana Lakić,J. M. Laurent,A. Liolios,Ante Ljubičić,G. Luzón,S. Neff,T. O. Niinikoski,A. Nordt,I. Ortega,T. Papaevangelou,M. J. Pivovaroff,Georg G. Raffelt,Adriane De Assis Lawisch Rodriguez,M. Rosu,J. Ruz,I. Savvidis,I. Shilon,Sami K. Solanki,L. Stewart,A. Tomás,Theodoros Vafeiadis,José Villar,Julia Vogel,S. C. Yildiz,Konstantin Zioutas +63 more
TL;DR: The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) searches for a gamma conversion in the 9 T magnetic field of a refurbished LHC test magnet that can be directed toward the Sun.