Showing papers in "Astroparticle Physics in 2019"
TL;DR: The Dark Matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target as mentioned in this paper, and the projected cross section sensitivity for DEAP-3600 to the spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is 10−46cm2 for a 100 GeV/c2 WIMP mass with a fiducial exposure of 3 tonne-years.
81 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea is proposed to detect high-energy neutrinos of cosmic origin, which is called KM3NeT/ARCA.
74 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were applied to images from the four H.E.S. phase-I telescopes to perform background rejection and signal direction reconstruction.
63 citations
TL;DR: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) as mentioned in this paper is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, which will improve the sensitivity of current groundbased instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending on the energy, greatly improving both their angular and energy resolutions over four decades in energy.
50 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the potentialities of future luminosity distances from gravitational waves (GWs) sources to impose limit on possible departures of CDDR jointly with current SGL observations were evaluated.
49 citations
TL;DR: The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) was launched on December 17, 2015, and began its on-orbit operation on December 24, 2015 as discussed by the authors, and reported the calibration results of the Plastic Scintillator strip detector (PSD), the Silicon-Tungsten tracKer-converter (STK), the BGO imaging calorimeter (BGO), and the Neutron Detector (NUD).
48 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the quenching factor (QF) was measured for both Na and I recoils in a small NaI(Tl) crystal with 2.43-MeV neutrons generated by deuteron-deuteron fusion.
43 citations
University of Utah1, Saitama University2, Tokyo Institute of Technology3, Hanyang University4, Tokyo University of Science5, Kindai University6, Université libre de Bruxelles7, University of Tokyo8, Osaka City University9, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe10, Shinshu University11, Kanagawa University12, University of Yamanashi13, Sungkyunkwan University14, Tokyo City University15, Russian Academy of Sciences16, Waseda University17, Chiba University18, Yonsei University19, Kōchi University20, Ritsumeikan University21, Sternberg Astronomical Institute22, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology23, Rutgers University24, Osaka Electro-Communication University25, Hiroshima City University26, KEK27, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic28, Ewha Womans University29, Ehime University30, Moscow State University31
TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate classifier is built upon 16 reconstructed parameters of the extensive air shower, related to the curvature and the width of the shower front, the steepness of the lateral distribution function, and the timing parameters of waveforms sensitive to the shower muon content.
42 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of a slow liquid scintillator were investigated, along with the light yields and decay time constants for various combinations of linear alkylbenzene (LAB), 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO), and 1,4-bis (2-methylstyryl)-benzenes (bis-MSB).
41 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative sensitivity of an extensive set of existing and projected Dark Matter (DM) direct detection experiments to each of the 14 couplings that parameterize the most general non-relativistic (NR) effective Hamiltonian allowed by Galilean invariance for a contact interaction driving the elastic scattering off nuclei of WIMPs of spin 1/2.
35 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a charge reconstruction procedure was proposed to optimize the Plastic Scintillator Detector (PSD) performance in charge measurement, including track finding, alignment of PSD, light attenuation correction, quenching and equalization correction.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a detailed Monte Carlo study evaluating the expected background in the dark matter search spectral region, based on the best knowledge of the most relevant sources of background.
Ohio State University1, Chiba University2, University of Wisconsin-Madison3, University of Maryland, College Park4, University of Kansas5, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI6, National Taiwan University7, University College London8, University of Chicago9, University of Nebraska–Lincoln10, Weizmann Institute of Science11, University of Delaware12, California Polytechnic State University13
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used long-baseline RF propagation to extract information on the index-of-refraction (n = ϵ r ) in South Polar ice.
TL;DR: In this article, the EUSO-Balloon was used for single photon counting with a gate time of 2.3µs and imaging with a total of 2304 pixels.
TL;DR: In this paper, a new analytic model of the radio signal distribution that depends only on the definition of the air-shower axis and on the parameters energy and distance to the emission region is presented.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to constrain the acceleration of particles in non-relativistic AGN-driven outflows.
TL;DR: TREND50 as mentioned in this paper is a radio detection setup of 50 self-triggered antennas working in the 50-100 MHz frequency range and deployed in a radio-quiet valley of the Tianshan mountains (China).
University of Florida1, California Institute of Technology2, Stanford University3, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory4, Texas A&M University5, National Institute of Science Education and Research6, University of Minnesota7, Fermilab8, University of South Dakota9, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology10, Southern Methodist University11, Durham University12, Autonomous University of Madrid13, University of California, Berkeley14, Queen's University15, Northwestern University16, University of Colorado Denver17, TRIUMF18, University of British Columbia19, University of Evansville20, Université de Montréal21, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory22, University of Toronto23, Santa Clara University24
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the calculation of expected production rates, and analyzed data from the second run of the CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) to estimate the rates for several isotopes.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a general approach for the dissipative dark matter considering a nonextensive bulk viscosity and taking into account the role of generalized Friedmann equations is discussed.
TL;DR: The SPHiNX mission as mentioned in this paper used a segmented array of plastic and Gd3Al2Ga3O12(Ce) scintillators to reconstruct the Compton scattering interactions of high-energy gamma-ray bursts.
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of liquid Argon time projection chamber (TPC) was explored for γ-ray astronomy in the 100-MeV-1-TeV energy range.
TL;DR: In this article, conditions under which bubble chambers could be used as an independent measurement in the event of a supernova similar to SN 1987A, with particular sensitivity to the currently less-constrained heavy-lepton νx channel.
TL;DR: In this paper, a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) was conducted with the single-phase liquid-xenon detector XMASS through inelastic scattering in which 129Xe nuclei were excited, using an exposure 48 times larger than that of the previous study.
TL;DR: In this article, the muon intensity and angular distribution in the shallow underground laboratory Felsenkeller in Dresden, Germany have been studied using a portable muon detector based on the close cathode chamber design.
TL;DR: Sturrock et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the influence of solar and cosmic neutrinos on gamma counter decay and found no evidence that radioactive decay is influenced by the solar neutrino flux.
TL;DR: In this article, the angular distribution of cosmic rays at all energies was investigated and the authors concluded that the information encompassed in the angular distributions in the TeV-PeV energy range appeared as a promising tool to infer some properties of the local magnetic field environments.
TL;DR: In this article, a simple model for the atmosphere and well-known first principles on the development of extensive air-showers is expressed analytically and a good match of the fit functions with the data is obtained.
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of a deep neural network applied to large sets of simulated signals recorded for the water-Cherenkov detectors of the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory was explored.
TL;DR: In this article, an improved calibration of the LOFAR antennas in the range of 30-80 MHz is presented, which provides an absolute energy scale and allows for the study of frequency dependent features in measured signals.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the evolution of massive stars with different values for the fundamental constants and study the effects of variations in the triple alpha resonance energy on the resulting abundances of 12C, 16O, and larger nuclei.