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PNNL Publications

2024

• Sharma Poudel S., B.M. Loer, R.N. Saldanha, B.R. Hackett, and H.O. Back. 2024. "Subsurface cosmogenic and radiogenic production of 42Ar." Physical Review D 10, no. 8:Art. No. 082010. PNNL-SA-189139. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.110.082010

2023

• Arnquist I.J., M. di Vacri, N.D. Rocco, R.N. Saldanha, T.D. Schlieder, R. Patel, and J. Patil, et al. 2023. "Ultra-low radioactivity flexible printed cables." EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation 10. PNNL-SA-183102. doi:10.1140/epjti/s40485-023-00104-6
• Bezerra T.S., A. Borkum, E.D. Church, Z. Djurcic, J. Genovesi, J. Haiston, and C.M. Jackson, et al. 2023. "Large Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers." Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 50, no. 6:Art. No. 060502. PNNL-SA-181472. doi:10.1088/1361-6471/acc394
• Saldanha R.N., W.G. Thompson, Y. Zhong, L.J. Bignell, R. Tsang, S.J. Hollick, and S.R. Elliott, et al. 2023. "Cosmogenic activation of sodium iodide." Physical Review D 107, no. 2:Art. No. 022006. PNNL-33431. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.022006
• Sharma Poudel S., B.M. Loer, R.N. Saldanha, H.O. Back, and B.R. Hackett. 2023. "Low-Radioactivity Argon for Rare-Event Searches." In Low Radioactivity Technique (LRT 2022) Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques, June 14-17, 2022, Rapid City, IA., AIP Proceedings, edited by J. Heise and R.W. Schnee, 2908, Paper No. 100004. Melville, New York:AIP Publishing. PNNL-SA-176852. doi:10.1063/5.0161208
• Tsang R., A. Piepke, S. Al Kharusi, E. Angelico, I.J. Arnquist, A.M. Atencio, and I. Badhrees, et al. 2023. "An integrated online radioassay data storage and analytics tool for nEXO." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1055. PNNL-SA-195900. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2023.168477

2022

• Gallina G., Y. Guan, F. Retiere, G. Cao, A. Bolotnikov, I. Kotov, and S. Rescia, et al. 2022. "Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO." European Physical Journal C 82, no. 12:Art. No. 1125. PNNL-SA-179827. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11072-8
• Lenardo B.G., C. Hardy, R. Tsang, J. Nzobadila Ondze, A. Piepke, S. Triambak, and A. Jamil, et al. 2022. "Development of a 127Xe calibration source for nEXO." Journal of Instrumentation 17, no. 7:Art. No. 07028. PNNL-SA-178273. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/17/07/P07028

2021

• Breur S., G. Ortega, P.C. Rowson, R.N. Saldanha, B. Mong, M. Oriunno, and C. Mo. 2021. "Measurement of the onset of nucleate boiling in liquid xenon." Journal of Instrumentation 16, no. 2:T02004. PNNL-SA-154969. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/16/02/T02004
• Hagen A.R., B.M. Loer, J.L. Orrell, and R.N. Saldanha. 2021. "Decision Trees for Optimizing the Minimum Detectable Concentration of Radioxenon Detectors." Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 229. PNNL-SA-154711. doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2021.106542

2020

• Arnquist I.J., C.L. Beck, M. di Vacri, K. Harouaka, and R.N. Saldanha. 2020. "Ultra-low radioactivity Kapton and copper-Kapton laminates." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 959. PNNL-SA-148130. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.163573
• Church E.D., C.M. Jackson, and R.N. Saldanha. 2020. "Dark Matter Detection Capabilities of a Large Multipurpose Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber." Journal of Instrumentation 15, no. 9:Article No. P09026. PNNL-SA-153108. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/09/P09026
• Lv P., G.F. Cao, L.J. Wen, S. Al Kharusi, G. Anton, I.J. Arnquist, and I. Badhrees, et al. 2020. "Reflectance of Silicon Photomultipliers at Vacuum Ultraviolet Wavelengths." IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 67, no. 12:2501 - 2510. PNNL-SA-161071. doi:10.1109/TNS.2020.3035172
• Njoya O., T. Tsang, M. Tarka, W. Fairbank, K.S. Kumar, T. Rao, and T. Wager, et al. 2020. "Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 972. PNNL-SA-161070. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.163965
• Saldanha R.N., R. Thomas, H. Tsang, A. Chavarria, R.A. Bunker, J.L. Burnett, and S.R. Elliott, et al. 2020. "Cosmogenic activation of silicon." Physical Review D 102, no. 10:102006. PNNL-SA-154968. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.102006

2019

• Chambers C., T. Walton, D. Fairbank, A. Craycraft, D. Yahne, J. Todd, and A. Iverson, et al. 2019. "Imaging Individual Barium Atoms in Solid Xenon for Barium Tagging in nEXO." Nature 569, no. 7755:203-207. PNNL-SA-143139. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1169-4
• Gallina G., P. Giampa, F. Retiere, J. Kroeger, G. Zhang, M. Ward, and P. Margetak, et al. 2019. "Characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 MPPCs for nEXO." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 940. PNNL-SA-163397. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2019.05.096
• Saldanha R.N., H.O. Back, H. Tsang, T.R. Alexander, S.R. Elliott, S.A. Ferrara, and E.K. Mace, et al. 2019. "Cosmogenic production of 39Ar and 37Ar in argon." Physical Review C 100, no. 2:Article No. 024608. PNNL-SA-141556. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.100.024608

2018

• Jewell M.J., A. Schubert, W.R. Cen, J. Dalmasson, R. Devoe, L. Fabris, and G. Gratta, et al. 2018. "Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO." Journal of Instrumentation 13, no. 1:Article Number: P01006. PNNL-SA-130966. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/P01006

2017

• Agnes P., I. Albuquerque, T.R. Alexander, A. Alton, K. Arisaka, D.M. Asner, and M. Ave, et al. 2017. "The Electronics, Trigger and Data Acquisition System for the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber of the DarkSide-50 Search for Dark Matter." Journal of Instrumentation 12, no. 12:P1201. PNNL-SA-131302. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12011