List of Publications

My PhD Thesis can be downloaded here. Please find the papers that I authored or co-authored below (pdf-version here).

Corresponding or Lead Author:

• DarkSide-20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi et al., Benchmarking the design of the cryogenics system for the underground argon in DarkSide-20k, submitted to JINST (2024) [arXiv:2408.14071].
• Laura Baudis, Patricia Sanchez-Lucas and Kevin Thieme, A measurement of the mean electronic excitation energy of liquid xenon, Eur. Phys. J. C 81 1060 (2021) [arXiv:2109.07151].
• Kevin Thieme, DARWIN – a next-generation liquid xenon observatory for dark matter and neutrino physics, in Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference PoS(ICRC2021), vol. 395, p. 548, 2021.
• L. Baudis, Y. Biondi, M. Galloway, F. Girard, A. Manfredini, N. McFadden, R. Peres, P. Sanchez-Lucas and K. Thieme, Design and construction of Xenoscope – a full-scale vertical demonstrator for the DARWIN observatory, JINST 16 P08052 (2021) [arXiv:2105.13829].
• Kevin Thieme, Null Lagrangians of non-local field theories, no journal submission, arXiv:2009.13499 (2020).
• L. Baudis, Y. Biondi, M. Galloway, F. Girard, S. Hochrein, S. Reichard, P. Sanchez-Lucas, K. Thieme and J. Wulf, The first dual-phase xenon TPC equipped with silicon photomultipliers and characterisation with ³⁷Ar, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 477 (2020) [arXiv:2003.01731].

Co-Author:

• L. Baudis, Y. Biondi, A. Bismark, A. P. Cimental Chavez, J. J. Cuenca-Garcia, J. Franchi, M. Galloway, F. Girard, R. Peres, D. Ramirez Garcia, P. Sanchez-Lucas, K. Thieme, C. Wittweg, Electron transport measurements in liquid xenon with Xenoscope, a large-scale DARWIN demonstrator,  Eur. Phys. J. C 83 717 (2023) [arXiv:2303.13963].

Collaboration Author:

• DarkSide-20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi et al., DarkSide-20k sensitivity to light dark matter particles, submitted to Nature Communications (2024) [arXiv:2407.05813].
• DarkSide-20k Collaboration, F. Acerbi et al., A new hybrid gadolinium nanoparticles-loaded polymeric material for neutron detection in rare event searches, JINST 19 P09021 (2024) [arXiv:2404.18492].
• DarkSide-20k Collaboration, P. Agnes et al., Constraints on directionality effect of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber, Eur. Phys. J. C 84 24 (2024) [arXiv:2307.15454].
• DarkSide-20k Collaboration, E. Aaron et al., Study of cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k experiment, Astropart. Phys. 152 102878 (2023) [arXiv:2301.12970].
• DarkSide-20k Collaboration, E. Aaron et al., Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches, Eur. Phys. J. C 83 453 (2023) [arXiv:2301.09639].
• Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration, P. Agnes et al., Sensitivity projections for a dual-phase argon TPC optimized for light dark matter searches through the ionization channel, Phys. Rev. D 107 112006 (2023) [arXiv:2209.01177].
• DARWIN Collaboration, L. Althueser et al., GPU-based optical simulation of the DARWIN detector, JINST 17 P07018 (2022) [arXiv:2203.14354].
• J. Aalbers et al., A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 50 013001 (2022) [arXiv:2203.02309].
• DARWIN Collaboration, F. Agostini et al., Sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of ¹³⁶Xe, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 808 (2020) [arXiv:2003.13407].
• DARWIN Collaboration, J. Aalbers et al., Solar Neutrino Detection Sensitivity in DARWIN via Electron Scattering, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 1133 (2020) [arXiv:2006.03114].

I have also registered a levelling mechanism as German utility model: Mehrteilige Lagervorrichtung und Stützsegment, DE 20 2021 101 412 U1. The Swiss patent is pending: CH 718 439 A2.

List of Talks