McDonald Institute Publications

The McDonald Institute supports hundreds of astroparticle physics researchers through faculty recruiting, financial support for students and fellows, and an array of competitive funding programs. The publications listed below capture a portion of the research outputs of scientists who are associated with the McDonald Institute, along with their many colleagues around the world.

Below is a list of select publications that the McDonald Institute has supported. This is not a static list and is updated annually.

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“This research was undertaken thanks in part to funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund through the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute.“

 

Sample 2023-24 Publications

Aaron, E., Agnes, P., Ahmad, I., Albergo, S., Albuquerque, I. F. M., Alexander, T., Alton, A. K., Amaudruz, P., Atzori Corona, M., Ave, M., Avetisov, I. Ch., Azzolini, O., Back, H. O., Balmforth, Z., Barrado, A., Barrillon, P., Basco, A., Batignani, G., Bocci, V., … DarkSide-20k Collaboration. (2023). Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches. The European Physical Journal C, 83(5), 453. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11430-0

Adams, E., Ali, B., Arnquist, I. J., Baxter, D., Behnke, E., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Chen, C. J., Clark, K., Collar, J. I., Cooper, P. S., Cripe, C., Crisler, M., Dahl, C. E., Das, M., Fallows, S., Farine, J., Filgas, R., García-Viltres, A., … PICO Collaboration. (2023). Search for inelastic dark matter-nucleus scattering with the PICO-60 CF 3 I and C 3 F 8 bubble chambers. Physical Review D, 108(6), 062003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.062003

Adhikari, P., Ajaj, R., Alpízar-Venegas, M., Amaudruz, P.-A., Anstey, J., Araujo, G. R., Auty, D. J., Baldwin, M., Batygov, M., Beltran, B., Benmansour, H., Bina, C. E., Bonatt, J., Bonivento, W., Boulay, M. G., Broerman, B., Bueno, J. F., Burghardt, P. M., Butcher, A., … DEAP Collaboration. (2023). Precision measurement of the specific activity of $$^{39}$$Ar in atmospheric argon with the DEAP-3600 detector. The European Physical Journal C, 83(7), 642. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11678-6

Albakry, M. F., Alkhatib, I., Alonso, D., Amaral, D. W. P., Aralis, T., Aramaki, T., Arnquist, I. J., Ataee Langroudy, I., Azadbakht, E., Banik, S., Bathurst, C., Bhattacharyya, R., Brink, P. L., Bunker, R., Cabrera, B., Calkins, R., Cameron, R. A., Cartaro, C., Cerdeño, D. G., … SuperCDMS Collaboration. (2023). First Measurement of the Nuclear-Recoil Ionization Yield in Silicon at 100 eV. Physical Review Letters, 131(9), 091801. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.091801

Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Antunes, J., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Baker, J., Barros, N., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Chen, M., … The SNO+Collaboration. (2024). Event-by-event direction reconstruction of solar neutrinos in a high light-yield liquid scintillator. Physical Review D, 109(7), 072002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.072002

Allison, P., Baiocchi, M., Beatty, J. J., Beaufore, L., Calderone, D. H., Chen, Y., Coutu, S., Ellingwood, E., Green, N., Hanna, D., Jeon, H. B., Mbarek, R., McBride, K., Mognet, I., Musser, J., Nutter, S., O’Brien, S., Park, N., Rosin, T., … Yu, M. (2023). Electron-beam calibration of aerogel tiles for the HELIX RICH detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1055, 168549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168549

Balogh, L., Beaufort, C., Chapellier, M., Corcoran, E. C., Coquillat, J.-M., Dastgheibi-Fard, A., Deng, Y., Durnford, D., Garrah, C., Gerbier, G., Giomataris, I., Giroux, G., Gorel, P., Gros, M., Gros, P., Guillaudin, O., Hoppe, E. W., Katsioulas, I., Kelly, F., … NEWS-G Collaboration. (2023). Exploring light dark matter with the DarkSPHERE spherical proportional counter electroformed underground at the Boulby Underground Laboratory. Physical Review D, 108(11), 112006. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.112006

Celi, E., Ješkovský, M., Laubenstein, M., Nagorny, S. S., Nahorna, V. V., Nisi, S., Pagnanini, L., Povinec, P., & Wang, P. (2023). New limit on $$^{94}$$Zr double beta decay to the 1st excited state of $$^{94}$$Mo. The European Physical Journal C, 83(5), 396. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11516-9

Hirschel, M., Vadakkumbatt, V., Baker, N. P., Schweizer, F. M., Sankey, J. C., Singh, S., & Davis, J. P. (2024). Superfluid helium ultralight dark matter detector. Physical Review D, 109(9), 095011. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.095011

Jokiniemi, L., & Menéndez, J. (2023). Correlations between neutrinoless double- β , double Gamow-Teller, and double-magnetic decays in the proton-neutron quasiparticle random-phase approximation framework. Physical Review C, 107(4), 044316. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.044316

Laubenstein, M., Lehnert, B., Nagorny, S. S., & Nisi, S. (2023). First search for resonant enhanced neutrinoless double electron capture in $$^{152}$$Gd and other rare decays in natural Gd isotopes. The European Physical Journal C, 83(12), 1114. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12218-y

Li, X., & Piro, M.-C. (2024). Model for bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in bubble chambers for dark matter detection. Physical Review D, 110(2), 022005. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.022005

Ricochet Collaboration, Augier, C., Baulieu, G., Belov, V., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Bres, G., Bret, J.-. L., Broniatowski, A., Calvo, M., Cazes, A., Chaize, D., Chala, M., Chapellier, M., Chaplinsky, L., Chemin, G., Chen, R., Colas, J., Cudmore, E., … Zinatulina, D. (2024). First demonstration of 30 eVee ionization energy resolution with Ricochet germanium cryogenic bolometers. The European Physical Journal C, 84(2), 186. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12433-1

Xu, J., Barbeau, P. S., & Hong, Z. (2023). Detection and Calibration of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils for Dark Matter and Neutrino Scattering Experiments. https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2311.02257

Yañez, J. P., & Fedynitch, A. (2023). Data-driven muon-calibrated neutrino flux. Physical Review D, 107(12), 123037. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.123037

 
Sample 2022-23 Publications

Albakry, M. F., Alkhatib, I., Alonso-González, D., Amaral, D. W. P., Aralis, T., Aramaki, T., Arnquist, I. J., Ataee Langroudy, I., Azadbakht, E., Banik, S., Bathurst, C., Bhattacharyya, R., Brink, P. L., Bunker, R., Cabrera, B., Calkins, R., Cameron, R. A., Cartaro, C., Cerdeño, D. G., … SuperCDMS Collaboration. (2023). Search for low-mass dark matter via bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal effect in SuperCDMS. Physical Review D, 107(11), 112013. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.112013

Ali, B., Arnquist, I. J., Baxter, D., Behnke, E., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Clark, K., Collar, J. I., Cooper, P. S., Cripe, C., Crisler, M., Dahl, C. E., Das, M., Durnford, D., Fallows, S., Farine, J., Filgas, R., García-Viltres, A., Girard, F., … Zhang, J. (2022). Determining the bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in superheated C$_3$F$_8$ dark matter detectors. Physical Review D, 106(12), 122003. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.122003

Allega, A., Anderson, M. R., Andringa, S., Antunes, J., Askins, M., Auty, D. J., Bacon, A., Barros, N., Barão, F., Bayes, R., Beier, E. W., Bezerra, T. S., Bialek, A., Biller, S. D., Blucher, E., Caden, E., Callaghan, E. J., Cheng, S., Chen, M., … The SNO+ Collaboration. (2023). Evidence of Antineutrinos from Distant Reactors Using Pure Water at SNO +. Physical Review Letters, 130(9), 091801. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.091801

Balogh, L., Beaufort, C., Brossard, A., Caron, J.-F., Chapellier, M., Coquillat, J.-M., Corcoran, E. C., Crawford, S., Dastgheibi-Fard, A., Deng, Y., Dering, K., Durnford, D., Garrah, C., Gerbier, G., Giomataris, I., Giroux, G., Gorel, P., Gros, M., Gros, P., … NEWS-G Collaboration. (2022). Measurements of the ionization efficiency of protons in methane. The European Physical Journal C, 82(12), 1114. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11063-9

Balogh, L., Beaufort, C., Chapellier, M., Corcoran, E. C., Coquillat, J.-M., Dastgheibi-Fard, A., Deng, Y., Durnford, D., Garrah, C., Gerbier, G., Giomataris, I., Giroux, G., Gorel, P., Gros, M., Gros, P., Guillaudin, O., Hoppe, E. W., Katsioulas, I., Kelly, F., … Paling, S. (2023). DarkSPHERE: Exploring light dark matter with a spherical proportional counter electroformed underground at the Boulby Underground Laboratory (No. arXiv:2301.05183). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05183

Broerman, B., Laubenstein, M., Nagorny, S., Nisi, S., Song, N., & Vincent, A. C. (2023). Updated and novel limits on double beta decay and dark matter-induced processes in platinum (No. arXiv:2209.11106). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.11106

Cline, J. M., Gao, S., Guo, F., Lin, Z., Liu, S., Puel, M., Todd, P., & Xiao, T. (2023). Blazar Constraints on Neutrino-Dark Matter Scattering. Physical Review Letters, 130(9), 091402. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.091402

Gallina, G., Guan, Y., Retiere, F., Cao, G., Bolotnikov, A., Kotov, I., Rescia, S., Soma, A. K., Tsang, T., Darroch, L., Brunner, T., Bolster, J., Cohen, J. R., Franco, T. P., Gillis, W. C., Smalley, H. P., Thibado, S., Pocar, A., Bhat, A., … Ziegler, T. (2022). Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO. The European Physical Journal C, 82(12), 1125. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11072-8

Gilman, D., Zhong, Y.-M., & Bovy, J. (2023). Constraining resonant dark matter self-interactions with strong gravitational lenses (No. arXiv:2207.13111). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.13111

Jokiniemi, L., Romeo, B., Soriano, P., & Menéndez, J. (2023). Neutrinoless $ββ$-decay nuclear matrix elements from two-neutrino $ββ$-decay data (No. arXiv:2207.05108). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.05108

Kolb, E. W., Long, A. J., McDonough, E., & Payeur, G. (2023). Completely Dark Matter from Rapid-Turn Multifield Inflation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(2), 181. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2023)181

Nagorny, S. S., Bellini, F., Broerman, B., Cardani, L., Casali, N., Dafinei, I., Di Vacri, M. L., Kosmyna, M. B., Nazarenko, B. P., Nisi, S., Pattavina, L., Pirro, S., & Shekhovtsov, A. N. (2023). Performance of the Li6Eu(BO3)3 crystal as a scintillating bolometer for studies of rare processes. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1045, 167549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167549

Nemevšek, M., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Dark Matter Dilution Mechanism through the Lens of Large-Scale Structure. Physical Review Letters, 130(12), 121002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.121002

Rahimi, E., Vienneau, E., Bozorgnia, N., & Robertson, A. (2023). The local dark matter distribution in self-interacting dark matter halos. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023(02), 040. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/02/040

Zhang, Y. (2023). Axion quality and fifth force. Physical Review D, 107(5), 055025. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.055025