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XENONnT is the current stage of the XENON direct-detection program at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS), Italy: a multi-ton liquid-xenon time-projection chamber designed to measure vanishingly small light and charge signals from rare interactions. The scientific target is dark matter; the toolbox is precision instrumentation, low-background engineering, and careful statistical inference.
How we got here.
XENON10 and XENON100 established the method and set early leading limits. XENON1T demonstrated ton-scale performance with record-low backgrounds. XENONnT enlarges the target, lowers the background further, and broadens the rare-event program.
Link to the XENON web page.
The Weizmann Group
Our work within XENONnT spans detector development, operations, and data analysis — combining hands-on experimental design with creative problem-solving.
Main activities:
- Detector development: R&D on optical and charge readout technologies for next-generation XENON detectors
- Detector design for rare events: concepts bridging dark-matter searches and double-beta-decay sensitivity
- Slow Control and monitoring: design, implementation, and operation of reliable control systems ensuring stable detector performance
- Calibration: source deployment, in-situ monitoring, and precision reconstruction methods
- Data analysis and statistical methods: from signal extraction to robust limit and discovery frameworks
- Simulation and modeling: Monte Carlo studies, detector response, and background characterization
- Hardware and integration: development, testing, and operation of subsystems within the international setup
