no code implementations • 11 Feb 2021 • Nathan Saffold, Field Rogers, Mengjiao Xiao, Radhika Bhatt, Tyler Erjavec, Hideyuki Fuke, Charles J. Hailey, Masayoshi Kozai, Derik Kraych, Evan Martinez, Cianci Melo-Carrillo, Kerstin Perez, Chelsea Rodriguez, Yuki Shimizu, Brian Smallshaw
This work evaluates the viability of polyimide and parylene-C for passivation of lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) detectors.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Instrumentation and Detectors
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2020 • Mengjiao Xiao, Kerstin M. Perez, Maurizio Giannotti, Oscar Straniero, Alessandro Mirizzi, Brian W. Grefenstette, Brandon M. Roach, Melania Nynka
We use the first observation of Betelgeuse in hard $X$-rays to perform a novel search for axion-like particles (ALPs).
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2017 • Changbo Fu, Xiaopeng Zhou, Xun Chen, Yunhua Chen, Xiangyi Cui, Deqing Fang, Karl Giboni, Franco Giuliani, Ke Han, Xingtao Huang, Xiangdong Ji, Yonglin Ju, Siao Lei, Shaoli Li, Huaxuan Liu, Jianglai Liu, Yugang Ma, Yajun Mao, Xiangxiang Ren, Andi Tan, Hongwei Wang, Jimin Wang, Meng Wang, Qiuhong Wang, Siguang Wang, Xuming Wang, Zhou Wang, Shiyong Wu, Mengjiao Xiao, Pengwei Xie, Binbin Yan, Yong Yang, Jianfeng Yue, Hongguang Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Zhao, Ning Zhou
We report new searches for the solar axions and galactic axion-like dark matter particles, using the first low-background data from PandaX-II experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory, corresponding to a total exposure of about $2. 7\times 10^4$ kg$\cdot$day.
High Energy Physics - Experiment Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
