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Open AccessNonproportionality of NaI(Tl) scintillation detector for dark matter search experiments
We present a comprehensive study of the nonproportionality of NaI(Tl) scintillation detectors within the context of dark matter search experiments. Our investigation, which integrates COSINE-100 data with supp...
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Open AccessExploring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering using reactor electron antineutrinos in the NEON experiment
Neutrino elastic scattering observation with NaI (NEON) is an experiment designed to detect neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering using reactor electron antineutrinos. NEON is based on an array of six NaI(Tl) c...
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Open AccessAlpha backgrounds in the AMoRE-Pilot experiment
The Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment (AMoRE)-Pilot experiment is an initial phase of the AMoRE search for neutrinoless double beta decay of ...
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Open AccessBackground modeling for dark matter search with 1.7 years of COSINE-100 data
We present a background model for dark matter searches using an array of NaI(Tl) crystals in the COSINE-100 experiment that is located in the Yangyang underground laboratory. The model includes background cont...
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Open AccessIdentification of new isomers in \(^{228}\) Ac: impact on dark matter searches
We report the identification of metastable isomeric states of \(^{228}\) ...
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Open AccessDevelopment of ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detectors for the COSINE-200 experiment
The annual modulation signal observed by the DAMA experiment is a long-standing question in the community of dark matter direct detection. This necessitates an independent verification of its existence using t...
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Open AccessFirst results from the AMoRE-Pilot neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
The advanced molybdenum-based rare process experiment (AMoRE) aims to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (\(0\nu \beta \beta \)0νββ) of \(^{100}\)100Mo with \(\sim 100\,\hbox {kg}\)∼100kg of \(^{100}\)100M...
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Open AccessBackground model for the NaI(Tl) crystals in COSINE-100
The COSINE-100 dark matter search experiment is an array of NaI(Tl) crystal detectors located in the Yangyang Underground Laboratory (Y2L). To understand measured backgrounds in the NaI(Tl) crystals we have pe...
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Open AccessInitial performance of the COSINE-100 experiment
COSINE is a dark matter search experiment based on an array of low background NaI(Tl) crystals located at the Yangyang underground laboratory. The assembly of COSINE-100 was completed in the summer of 2016 and...
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Open AccessUnderstanding internal backgrounds in NaI(Tl) crystals toward a 200 kg array for the KIMS-NaI experiment
The Korea Invisible Mass Search (KIMS) collaboration has developed low-background NaI(Tl) crystals that are suitable for the direct detection of WIMP dark matter. Building on experience accumulated during the ...
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Open AccessThe Physics of the B Factories
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Open AccessStudy of charmonia in four-meson final states produced in two-photon collisions
We report measurements of charmonia produced in two-photon collisions and decaying to four-meson final states, where the meson is either a charged pion or a charged kaon. The analysis is based on a 395 fb-1 data ...