ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR DARK MATTER PARTICLE PHYSICS (ARC CASH)

Lepton-flavor-violating tau decays from triality

Innes Bigaran, Xiao-Gang He, Michael A Schmidt, German Valencia, Raymond Volkas

2023-03-01

Precise predictions and new insights for atomic ionization from the Migdal effect

P Cox, MJ Dolan, C McCabe, HM Quiney

2023-02-01

The scattering of neutral particles by an atomic nucleus can lead to electronic ionization and excitation through a process known ..

Pulse Shape Discrimination of low-energy nuclear and electron recoils for improved particle identification in NaI:Tl

NJ Spinks, LJ Bignell, GJ Lane, A Akber, E Barberio, T Baroncelli, BJ Coombes, JTH Dowie, TK Eriksen, MSM Gerathy, TJ Gray, I Mahmood, BP McCormick, WJD Melbourne, AJ Mitchell, F Nuti, MS Rahman, F Scutti, AE Stuchbery, H Timmers

2023-02-01

The scintillation mechanism in NaI:Tl crystals produces different pulse shapes that are dependent on the incoming particle type. T..

A next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics

J Aalbers, SS AbdusSalam, K Abe, V Aerne, F Agostini, S Ahmed Maouloud, DS Akerib, DY Akimov, J Akshat, AK Al Musalhi, F Alder, SK Alsum, L Althueser, CS Amarasinghe, FD Amaro, A Ames, TJ Anderson, B Andrieu, N Angelides, E Angelino

2023-01-01

The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dua..

Exploring the cosmological dark matter coincidence using infrared fixed points

AC Ritter, RR Volkas

2023-01-01

The asymmetric dark matter (ADM) paradigm is motivated by the apparent coincidence between the cosmological mass densities of visi..

Inelastic nuclear scattering from neutrinos and dark matter

Bhaskar Dutta, Wei-Chih Huang, Jayden L Newstead, Vishvas Pandey

2022-12-21

Neutrinos with energy of order 10 MeV, such as from pion decay-at-rest sources, are an invaluable tool for studying low-energy neu..

Nucleon Structure and Strong Interactions in Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars (vol 127, 111803, 2021)

Nicole F Bell, Giorgio Busoni, Theo F Motta, Sandra Robles, Anthony W Thomas, Michael Virgato

2022-12-02

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.111803.

Indirect detection of low mass dark matter in direct detection experiments with inelastic scattering

Nicole F Bell, James B Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Jason Kumar, Jayden L Newstead

2022-11-15

We revisit the detection of luminous dark matter in direct detection experiments. In this scenario, dark matter scatters endotherm..

A deep learning approach to halo merger tree construction

Sandra Robles, Jonathan S Gomez, Adin Ramirez Rivera, Nelson D Padilla, Diego Dujovne

2022-06-25

A key ingredient for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation is the mass assembly history of haloes, encoded in a tree structure...

Observing the Migdal effect from nuclear recoils of neutral particles with liquid xenon and argon detectors

Nicole F Bell, James B Dent, Rafael F Lang, Jayden L Newstead, Alexander C Ritter

2022-05-17

In recent years, dark matter direct detection experiments have spurred interest in the Migdal effect, where it is employed to exte..

Simple and statistically sound recommendations for analysing physical theories

Shehu S AbdusSalam, Fruzsina J Agocs, Benjamin C Allanach, Peter Athron, Csaba Balazs, Emanuele Bagnaschi, Philip Bechtle, Oliver Buchmueller, Ankit Beniwal, Jihyun Bhom, Sanjay Bloor, Torsten Bringmann, Andy Buckley, Anja Butter, Jose Eliel Camargo-Molina, Marcin Chrzaszcz, Jan Conrad, Jonathan M Cornell, Matthias Danninger, Jorge de Blas

2022-05-01

Physical theories that depend on many parameters or are tested against data from many different experiments pose unique challenges..

Gaia EDR3 bright star parallax zero-point using stellar clusters

C Flynn, R Sekhri, T Venville, M Dixon, A Duffy, J Mould, EN Taylor

2022-01-01

We examine the zero-point of parallaxes in the Gaia EDR3 (Early Data Release 3, Gaia Collaboration (2021a)), using stars in open a..

Searching for dark matter in the Sun using Hyper-Kamiokande

Nicole F Bell, Matthew J Dolan, Sandra Robles

2021-11-01

We study the ability of the Hyper-Kamiokande (HyperK) experiment, currently under construction, to constrain a neutrino signal pro..

Cosmic-ray upscattered inelastic dark matter

Nicole F Bell, James B Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Sumit Ghosh, Jason Kumar, Jayden L Newstead, Ian M Shoemaker

2021-10-21

Light nonrelativistic components of the galactic dark matter halo elude direct detection constraints because they lack the kinetic..

Improved treatment of dark matter capture in white dwarfs

Nicole F Bell, Giorgio Busoni, Maura E Ramirez-Quezada, Sandra Robles, Michael Virgato

2021-10-01

White dwarfs, the most abundant stellar remnants, provide a promising means of probing dark matter interactions, complimentary to ..

Characterization of SABRE crystal NaI-33 with direct underground counting

M Antonello, IJ Arnquist, E Barberio, T Baroncelli, J Benziger, LJ Bignell, I Bolognino, F Calaprice, S Copello, I Dafinei, D D'Angelo, G D'Imperio, M D'Incecco, G Di Carlo, M Diemoz, A Di Giacinto, A Di Ludovico, W Dix, AR Duffy, E Hoppe

2021-04-01

Ultra-pure NaI(Tl) crystals are the key element for a model-independent verification of the long standing DAMA result and a powerf..