Publications

The UTA Rare Events Searches and Techniques group plays a leading role in publications on many aspects of experimental particle physics: new technology development, searches for beyond-standard-model physics, new data analysis techniques, and phenomenology.

Here are a few of our recent highlights:

2024

2023

2022

  • Strong constraints on neutrino nonstandard interactions from TeV-scale νμ disappearance at IceCube, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011804 (2022) [Editors Suggestion].
  • The Dynamics of Ions on Phased Radio-frequency Carpets in High Pressure Gases and Application for Barium Tagging in Xenon Gas Time Projection Chambers, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A. 1039, 167000 (2022) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.05902
  • Scalable qubit representations of neutrino mixing matrices, Phys. Rev. D 105, 056024. (2022).
  • Cascade Appearance Signatures of Sterile Neutrinos at 1-100 TeV, Phys. Rev. D 105, 052001. (2022).
  • Dielectric Strength of Noble and Quenched Gases for High Pressure Time Projection Chambers, Eur. Phys. J. C (2022) 82:52, https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07521
  • The Ion Fluorescence Chamber (IFC): A new concept for directional dark matter and topologically imaging neutrinoless double beta decay searches, Proceedings of the Snowmass Community Summer Study (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10198
  • Comment on “Damping of neutrino oscillations, decoherence and the lengths of neutrino wave packets”, B.J.P. Jones https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00561
  • Report of the Topical Group on Neutrino Properties for Snowmass 2021, Snowmass Community Planning Process Report [BJPJ co-lead for Neutrino Properties] https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03340

2021

  • Demonstration of Selective Single-Barium Ion Detection with Dry Diazacrown Ether Naphthalimide Turn-on Chemosensors, ACS Sensors 2021, 6, 1, 192–202 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09494
  • Sensitivity of a Tonne-scale NEXT Detector for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Searches, J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 164 (2021), https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06467
  • LeptonInjector and LeptonWeighter: A neutrino event generator and weighter for neutrino observatories, Comput. Phys. Commun. 266 (2021) 108018, https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10449
  • Demonstration of background rejection using deep convolutional neural networks in the NEXT experiment, Journal of High Energy Physics, JHEP 01 (2021) 189 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10783

2020

  • An eV-scale sterile neutrino search using eight years of atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Physical Review Letters 125 141801  https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12942
  • Searching for eV-scale sterile neutrinos with eight years of atmospheric neutrinos at the IceCube neutrino telescope, Physical Review D 102 052009 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12943
  • Electron Transport in Gaseous Detectors with a Python-based Monte Carlo Simulation Code, Computer Physics Communications, Volume 254, September 2020, 107357 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06983
  • Mitigation of Backgrounds from Cosmogenic 137Xe in Xenon Gas Experiments using 3He Neutron Capture, Journal of Physics G (Nuclear and Particle Physics) 47, no. 7 (2020): 075001 https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.11147
  • The Physics of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay – A Primer,  (2020). PoS (TASI2020) 007 https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09364

2019

  • Barium Chemosensors with Dry-Phase Fluorescence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Nature Sci. Rep. 9, 15097 (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05901
  • Efficient propagation of systematic uncertainties from calibration to analysis with the SnowStorm method in IceCube, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 10 (2019) 048 https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01530
  • Electron Drift and Longitudinal Diffusion in High Pressure Xenon-Helium Gas Mixtures, Journal of Instrumentation 14 (2019) no.08, P08009 https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05544
  • Neutrino Oscillations in a Quantum Processor, Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033176 (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10559
  • Emanation and bulk fluorescence in liquid argon from tetraphenyl butadiene wavelength shifting coatings, Journal of Instrumentation 14 (2019) no.02, P02021 https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00011

2018

2016-2017

  • Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos and the Sensitivity Floor for Solar Dark Matter Annihilation Searches, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1707 (2017) no.07, 024 https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07798
  • Searches for Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (2016) no.7, 071801 [Editors selection] https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01990v2
  • Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging for Barium Tagging in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, Journal of Instrumentation 11 (2016) no.12, P12011 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04019