Center for Underground Physics

Publication Date 2026-09

Light Detection Improvement from Scintillating Crystals for Rare Event Searches

Ho-Sung Lim,Jong-Seok Chung,Dong-Hyun Hwang,Jin-A Jeon,Hyon-Suk Jo,Chan-Seok Kang,Ho-Jong Kim,Hong-Joo Kim,Hyelim Kim,Hyeok-Jun Kim,Min-Bin Kim,Seung-Cheon Kim,Woo-Tae Kim,Yong-Hamb Kim,Yun-Min Kim,Yeong-Duk Kim,Do-Hyung Kwon,Dong-Yeop Lee,Moo-Hyun Lee,Hye-Jin Lee,Seung-Hoon Lee,Sung-Won Lee,Yong-Chang Lee,Binod Bhandari,Bijaya Sharma,Kyung-Rae Woo,Jeong-Yeol Yang,Han-Beom Kim,Jungho So

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, v.36, no.6

Publication Date 2026-07

Ultra-pure nickel for structural components of low-radioactivity instruments

Roosendaal, T. J.,Overman, C. T.,Ortega, G. S.,Schlieder, T. D.,Rocco, N. D.,Horkley, L. K. S.,Hobbs, K. P.,Harouaka, K.,Orrell, J. L.,Acharya, P.,Amy, A.,Angelico, E.,Anker, A.,Arnquist, I. J.,Atencio, A.,Bane, J.,Belov, V.,Bernard, E. P.,Bhatta, T.,Bolotnikov, A.,Breslin, J.,Breur, P. A.,Brodsky, J. P.,Brown, E.,Brunner, T.,Burnell, B.,Caden, E.,Cao, L. Q.,Cesmecioglu, D.,Charlebois, S. A.,Chernyak, D.,Chiu, M.,Daniels, T.,Darroch, L.,Devoe, R.,di Vacri, M. L.,Dolinski, M. J.,Eckert, B.,Elbeltagi, M.,Emara, A.,Fairbank, W.,Foust, B. T.,Gallacher, D.,Gallice, N.,Gillis, W.,Gorham, A.,Gratta, G.,Hardy, C. A.,Hedges, S. C.,Heffner, M.,Hein, E.,Holt, J. D.,Hoppe, E. W.,Iverson, A.,Karelin, A.,Kotov, I. V.,Kuchenkov, A.,Larson, A.,Latif, M. B.,Lavoie, S.,Leach, K. G.,Lenardo, B. G.,Douglas, Leonard,Leung, K. K. H.,Lewis, H.,Li, X.,Li, Z.,Licciardi, C.,Lindsay, R.,MacLellan, R.,Majidi, S.,Malbrunot, C.,Marquis, M.,Masbou, J.,Medina-Peregrina, M.,Mngonyama, S.,Mong, B.,Moore, D. C.,Ngwadla, X. E.,Ni, K.,Nolan, A.,Nowicki, S. C.,Ondze, J. C. Nzobadila,Odian, A.,Pagani, L.,Smalley, H. Peltz,Pena-Perez, A.,Piepke, A.,Pocar, A.,Prentice, S.,Radeka, V.,Rai, R.,Rasiwala, H.,Ray, D.,Rescia, S.,Richardson, G.,Riot, V.,Ross, R.,Rowson, P. C.,Saldanha, R.,Sangiorgio, S.,Sekula, S.,Shetty, T.,Si, L.,Soderstrom, J.,Spadoni, F.,Stekhanov, V.,Sun, X. L.,Thibado, S.,Totev, T.,Triambak, S.,Tsang, R. H. M.,Tyuka, O. A.,van Bruggen, E.,Vidal, M.,Walent, M.,Wang, Y. G.,Wang, Q. D.,Watts, M. P.,Wehrfritz, M.,Wen, L. J.,Wilde, S.,Worcester, M.,Wu, X. M.,Xu, H.,Yang, H. B.,Yang, L.,Zeldovich, O.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, v.1087

Publication Date 2026-05

Neutron spectrum measurement in the Yemi underground laboratory

Kim, Joong-hyun,Kang, Sinchul,Park, Hyeoungwoo,Kim, Jungho,Park, Hyeonseo,Yoon, Young Soo,Kim, Hongjoo,Yeongduk Kim,Jungho So,Sunghyun Kim

Astroparticle Physics, v.177

Publication Date 2026-05

Characterization of bidirectional reflectance of a black material with a goniometer submerged in water

Koun Choi,Kim, Yunwon,Se-Eun Kim

Applied Optics, v.65, no.14, pp.4878 - 4884

Publication Date 2026-05

Development and Evaluation of a Quadrant Silicon Pad Sensor for the TexAT Active Target Detector

Gyoung Mo Gu,Kyung Yuk Chae,Jong Won Hwang,Kevin Insik Hahn,Jin-A Jeon,Min-Bin Kim,Sunghoon Ahn,Hye Young Lee

Sensors, v.26, no.10

Publication Date 2026-04

Study of few-electron backgrounds in the LUX-ZEPLIN detector

Akerib, D. S.,Al Musalhi, A. K.,Alder, F.,Almquist, B. J.,Amarasinghe, C. S.,Ames, A.,Anderson, T. J.,Angelides, N.,Araujo, H. M.,Armstrong, J. E.,Arthurs, M.,Baker, A.,Balashov, S.,Bang, J.,Bargemann, J. W.,Barillier, E. E.,Beattie, K.,Benson, T.,Bhatti, A.,Biesiadzinski, T. P.,Birch, H. J.,Bishop, E.,Blockinger, G. M.,Boxer, B.,Brew, C. A. J.,Bras, P.,Burdin, S.,Carmona-Benitez, M. C.,Carter, M.,Chawla, A.,Chen, H.,Chin, Y. T.,Chott, N. I.,Contreras, S.,Converse, M. V.,Coronel, R.,Cottle, A.,Cox, G.,Curran, D.,Dahl, C. E.,Darlington, I.,Dave, S.,David, A.,Delgaudio, J.,Dey, S.,de Viveiros, L.,Di Felice, L.,Ding, C.,Dobson, J. E. Y.,Druszkiewicz, E.,Dubey, S.,Dunbar, C. L.,Eriksen, S. R.,Fan, A.,Fearon, N. M.,Fieldhouse, N.,Fiorucci, S.,Flaecher, H.,Fraser, E. D.,Fruth, T. M. A.,Gaitskell, R. J.,Geffre, A.,Genovesi, J.,Ghag, C.,Ghosh, A.,Ghosh, S.,Gibbons, R.,Gokhale, S.,Green, J.,van der Grinten, M. G. D.,Haiston, J. J.,Hall, C. R.,Hall, T.,Haselschwardt, S. J.,Hernandez, M. A.,Hertel, S. A.,Homenides, G. J.,Horn, M.,Huang, D. Q.,Hunt, D.,Jacquet, E.,James, R. S.,Jenkins, K.,Kaboth, A. C.,Kamaha, A. C.,Kannichankandy, M. K.,Khaitan, D.,Khazov, A.,Kim, J.,Y. D. Kim,Kingston, J.,Kodroff, D.,Korolkova, E. V.,Kraus, H.,Kravitz, S.,Kreczko, L.,Kudryavtsev, V. A.,Lawes, C.,D. S. Leonard,Lesko, K. T.,Levy, C.,Lin, J.,Lindote, A.,Lippincott, W. H.,Long, J.,Lopes, M. I.,Lorenzon, W.,Lu, C.,Luitz, S.,Majewski, P. A.,Manalaysay, A.,Mannino, R. L.,Maupin, C.,McCarthy, M. E.,McKinsey, D. N.,McLaughlin, J.,McLaughlin, J. B.,McMonigle, R.,Mitra, B.,Mizrachi, E.,Monzani, M. E.,Morrison, E.,Mount, B. J.,Murdy, M.,Murphy, A. St. J.,Nelson, H. N.,Neves, F.,Nguyen, A.,O'Brien, C. L.,O'Shea, F. H.,Olcina, I.,Oliver-Mallory, K. C.,Orpwood, J.,Oyulmaz, K. Y.,Palladino, K. J.,Pannifer, N. J.,Parveen, N.,Patton, S. J.,Penning, B.,Pereira, G.,Perry, E.,Pershing, T.,Piepke, A.,Poudel, S. S.,Qie, Y.,Reichenbacher, J.,Rhyne, C. A.,Rischbieter, G. R. C.,Ritchey, E.,Riyat, H. S.,Rosero, R.,Rushton, T.,Rynders, D.,Saltao, S.,Santone, D.,Sazzad, A. B. M. R.,Schnee, R. W.,Sehr, G.,Shafer, B.,Shaw, S.,Shi, K.,Shutt, T.,Silva, C.,Sinev, G.,Siniscalco, J.,Slivar, A. M.,Smith, R.,Solovov, V. N.,Sorensen, P.,Soria, J.,Stevens, A.,Sumner, T. J.,Swain, A.,Szydagis, M.,Tiedt, D. R.,Timalsina, M.,Tong, Z.,Tovey, D. R.,Tranter, J.,Trask, M.,Trengove, K.,Tripathi, M.,Uson, A.,Vaitkus, A. C.,Valentino, O.,Velan, V.,Wang, A.,Wang, J. J.,Wang, Y.,Weeldreyer, L.,Whitis, T. J.,Wild, K.,Williams, M.,Winnicki, J.,Wolf, L.,Wolfs, F. L. H.,Woodford, S.,Woodward, D.,Wright, C. J.,Xia, Q.,Xu, J.,Xu, Y.,Yeh, M.,Yeum, D.,Zha, W.,Zhang, H.,Zhang, T.

Physical Review D, v.113, no.7

Publication Date 2026-03

Neutron-Multiplicity Measurement in Muon Capture on Oxygen Nuclei in the Gadolinium-Loaded Super-Kamiokande Detector

Miki, S.,Abe, K.,Abe, S.,Asaoka, Y.,Bronner, C.,Harada, M.,Hayato, Y.,Hiraide, K.,Hosokawa, K.,Ieki, K.,Ikeda, M.,Kameda, J.,Kanemura, Y.,Kaneshima, R.,Kashiwagi, Y.,Kataoka, Y.,Mine, S.,Miura, M.,Moriyama, S.,Nakahata, M.,Nakayama, S.,Noguchi, Y.,Okamoto, K.,Pronost, G.,Sato, K.,Sekiya, H.,Shiba, H.,Shimizu, K.,Shiozawa, M.,Sonoda, Y.,Suzuki, Y.,Takeda, A.,Takemoto, Y.,Takenaka, A.,Tanaka, H.,Watanabe, S.,Yano, T.,Kajita, T.,Okumura, K.,Tashiro, T.,Tomiya, T.,Wang, X.,Yoshida, S.,Megias, G.D.,Fernandez, P.,Labarga, L.,Ospina, N.,Zaldivar, B.,Pointon, B.W.,Yanagisawa, C.,Kearns, E.,Raaf, J.L.,Wan, L.,Wester, T.,Bian, J.,Cortez, B.,Griskevich, N.J.,Locke, S.,Smy, M.B.,Sobel, H.W.,Takhistov, V.,Yankelevich, A.,Hill, J.,Jang, M.C.,Lee, S.H.,Moon, D.H.,Park, R.G.,Yang, B.S.,Bodur, B.,Scholberg, K.,Walter, C.W.,Beauchêne, A.,Drapier, O.,Ershova, A.,Giampaolo, A.,Mueller, Th. A.,Santos, A.D.,Paganini, P.,Quach, C.,Quilain, B.,Rogly, R.,Nakamura, T.,Jang, J.S.,Litchfield, R.P.,Machado, L.N.,Soler, F.J.P.,Learned, J.G.,K Choi.,Nadege IOVINE,Cao, S.,Anthony, L.H.V.,Martin, D.,Prouse, N.W.,Scott, M.,Sztuc, A.A.,Uchida, Y.,Berardi, V.,Calabria, N.F.,Catanesi, M.G.,Radicioni, E.,Calabria, N.F.,Langella, A.,De Rosa, G.,Collazuol, G.,Feltre, M.,Iacob, F.,Lamoureux, M.,Mattiazzi, M.,Ludovici, L.,Gonin, M.,Périssé, L.,Quilain, B.,Fujisawa, C.,Horiuchi, S.,Kobayashi, M.,Liu, Y.M.,Maekawa, Y.,Nishimura, Y.,Okazaki, R.,Akutsu, R.,Friend, M.,Hasegawa, T.,Ishida, T.,Kobayashi, T.,Jakkapu, M.,Matsubara, T.,Nakadaira, T.,Nakamura, K.,Oyama, Y.,Portocarrero Yrey, A.,Sakashita, K.,Sekiguchi, T.,Tsukamoto, T.,Bhuiyan, N.,Burton, G.T.,Di Lodovico, F.,Gao, J.,Goldsack, A.,Katori, T.,Migenda, J.,Ramsden, R.M.,Xie, Z.,Zsoldos, S.,Kotsar, Y.,Ozaki, H.,Suzuki, A.T.,Takagi, Y.,Takeuchi, Y.,Zhong, H.,Feng, J.,Feng, L.,Han, S.,Hu, J.R.,Hu, Z.,Kawaue, M.,Kikawa, T.,Mori, M.,Nakaya, T.,Ngoc, T.V.,Wendell, R.A.,Yasutome, K.,Jenkins, S.J.,McCauley, N.,Mehta, P.,Tarrant, A.,Wilking, M.J.,Fukuda, Y.,Itow, Y.,Menjo, H.,Ninomiya, K.,Yoshioka, Y.,Lagoda, J.,Mandal, M.,Mijakowski, P.,Prabhu, Y.S.,Zalipska, J.,Jia, M.,Jiang, J.,Jung, C.K.,Shi, W.,Wilking, M.J.,Hino, Y.,Ishino, H.,Kitagawa, H.,Koshio, Y.,Nakanishi, F.,Sakai, S.,Tada, T.,Tano, T.,Ishizuka, T.,Barr, G.,Barrow, D.,Cook, L.,Samani, S.,Wark, D.,Holin, A.,Nova, F.,Jung, S.,Yang, B.S.,Yang, J.Y.,Yoo, J.,Fannon, J.E.P.,Kneale, L.,Malek, M.,McElwee, J.M.,Peacock, T.,Stowell, P.,Thiesse, M.D.,Thompson, L.F.,Wilson, S.T.,Okazawa, H.,Lakshmi, S.M.,Kim, S.B.,Kwon, E.,Lee, M.W.,Seo, J.W.,Yu, I.,Ichikawa, A.K.,Nakamura, K.D.,Tairafune, S.,Nishijima, K.,Eguchi, A.,Goto, S.,Mizuno, Y.,Muro, T.,Nakagiri, K.,Nakajima, Y.,Shima, S.,Taniuchi, N.,Watanabe, E.,Yokoyama, M.,De Perio, P.,Fujita, S.,Jesús-Valls, C.,Martens, K.,Marti, Ll.,Tsui, K.M.,Vagins, M.R.,Xia, J.,Kuze, M.,Izumiyama, S.,Matsumoto, R.,Terada, K.,Asaka, R.,Ishitsuka, M.,Ito, H.,Kinoshita, T.,Ommura, Y.,Shigeta, N.,Shinoki, M.,Suganuma, T.,Yamauchi, K.,Yoshida, T.,Martin, J.F.,Tanaka, H.A.,Towstego, T.,Nakano, Y.,Cormier, F.,Gaur, R.,Gousy-Leblanc, V.,Hartz, M.,Konaka, A.,Li, X.,Smithers, B.R.,Chen, S.,Wu, Y.,Xu, B.D.,Zhang, A.Q.,Zhang, B.,Girgus, M.,Govindaraj, P.,Posiadala-Zezula, M.,Boyd, S.B.,Edwards, R.,Hadley, D.,Nicholson, M.,O'Flaherty, M.,Richards, B.,Ali, A.,Jamieson, B.,Amanai, S.,Minamino, A.,Pintaudi, G.,Sano, S.,Shibayama, R.,Shimamura, R.,Suzuki, S.,Wada, K.

Physical Review Letters, v.136, no.13

Publication Date 2026-03

Validation of the COSINE-100U NaI(Tl) encapsulation for low-temperature operation in liquid scintillator

K. Park,S.J. Cho,França, L.E.,Ha, C.,J. Kim,K.W. Kim,S.H. Kim,W.K. Kim,Ko, Y.J.,D.H. Lee,H.S. Lee,I.S. Lee,S.H. Lee,S.D. Park,G.H. Yu

Journal of Instrumentation, v.21, no.3

Publication Date 2026-02

Performance study of 4-MU-loaded water for Cherenkov light detection

Pendo B. Nyanda,Gowoon Kim,Youngduk Kim,Kyungmin Seo,Jaison Lee,Olga Gileva,Yi, Eungseok

Journal of Instrumentation, v.21, no.2

Publication Date 2026-01

First Associated Neutrino Search for a Failed Supernova Candidate with Super-Kamiokande

Nakanishi, F.,Abe, K.,Abe, S.,Asaoka, Y.,Harada, M.,Hayato, Y.,Hiraide, K.,Hosokawa, K.,Hung, T. H.,Ieki, K.,Ikeda, M.,Kameda, J.,Kanemura, Y.,Kataoka, Y.,Miki, S.,Mine, S.,Miura, M.,Moriyama, S.,Nakahata, M.,Nakayama, S.,Noguchi, Y.,Pronost, G.,Sato, K.,Sekiya, H.,Shiozawa, M.,Suzuki, Y.,Takeda, A.,Takemoto, Y.,Tanaka, H.,Yano, T.,Itow, Y.,Kajita, T.,Nishijima, R.,Okumura, K.,Tashiro, T.,Tomiya, T.,Wang, X.,Fernandez, P.,Labarga, L.,Zaldivar, B.,Pointon, B. W.,Yanagisawa, C.,Kearns, E.,Wan, L.,Wester, T.,Bian, J.,Cortez, B.,Griskevich, N. J.,Jiang, Y.,Smy, M. B.,Sobel, H. W.,Takhistov, V.,Yankelevich, A.,Hill, J.,Jang, M. C.,Lee, S. H.,Moon, D. H.,Park, R. G.,Yang, B. S.,Bodur, B.,Scholberg, K.,Walter, C. W.,Beauchene, A.,Blevec, Le,Drapier, O.,Ershova, A.,Ferey, M.,Mueller, Th. A.,Santos, A. D.,Paganini, P.,Quach, C.,Rogly, R.,Nakamura, T.,Jang, J. S.,Litchfield, R. P.,Machado, L. N.,Soler, F. J. . P.,Learned, J. G.,K. Choi,Cao, S.,Anthony, L. H. V.,Prouse, N. W.,Scott, M.,Uchida, Y.,Berardi, V.,Calabria, N. F.,Catanesi, M. G.,Ospina, N.,Radicioni, E.,Langella, A.,De Rosa, G.,Collazuol, G.,Feltre, M.,Mattiazzi, M.,Ludovici, L.,Gonin, M.,Perisse, L.,Quilain, B.,Horiuchi, S.,Kawabata, A.,Kobayashi, M.,Liu, Y. M.,Maekawa, Y.,Nishimura, Y.,Akutsu, R.,Friend, M.,Hasegawa, T.,Hino, Y.,Ishida, T.,Kobayashi, T.,Jakkapu, M.,Matsubara, T.,Nakadaira, T.,Oyama, Y.,Yrey, A. Portocarrero,Sakashita, K.,Sekiguchi, T.,Tsukamoto, T.,Bhuiyan, N.,Burton, G. T.,Di Lodovico, F.,Gao, J.,Katori, T.,Kralik, R.,Latham, N.,Ramsden, R. M.,Ito, H.,Sone, T.,Suzuki, A. T.,Takeuchi, Y.,Wada, S.,Zhong, H.,Feng, J.,Feng, L.,Han, S.,Hikida, J.,Hu, J. R.,Hu, Z.,Kawaue, M.,Kikawa, T.,Ngoc, T. V.,Nakaya, T.,Wendell, R. A.,Jenkins, S. J.,Mccauley, N.,Tarrant, A.,Fani, M.,Wilking, M. J.,Xie, Z.,Fukuda, Y.,Menjo, H.,Yoshioka, Y.,Lagoda, J.,Mandal, M.,Zalipska, J.,Mori, M.,Jiang, J.,Hamaguchi, K.,Ishino, H.,Koshio, Y.,Tada, T.,Ishizuka, T.,Barr, G.,Barrow, D.,Cook, L.,Samani, S.,Wark, D.,Holin, A.,Nova, F.,Jung, S.,Yoo, J.,Fannon, J. E. P.,Kneale, L.,Malek, M.,Mcelwee, J. M.,Peacock, T.,Stowell, P.,Thiesse, M. D.,Thompson, L. F.,Okazawa, H.,Lakshmi, S. M.,Kwon, E.,Lee, M. W.,Seo, J. W.,Yu, I.,Ashida, Y.,Ichikawa, A. K.,Nakamura, K. D.,Goto, S.,Hayasaki, H.,Kodama, S.,Kong, Y.,Masaki, Y.,Mizuno, Y.,Muro, T.,Nakagiri, K.,Nakajima, Y.,Taniuchi, N.,Yokoyama, M.,De Perio, P.,Fujita, S.,Jesus-Valls, C.,Martens, K.,Marti, Ll.,Tsui, K. M.,Vagins, M. R.,Xia, J.,Kuze, M.,Izumiyama, S.,Matsumoto, R.,Asaka, R.,Ishitsuka, M.,Sugo, M.,Wako, M.,Yamauchi, K.,Nakano, Y.,Cormier, F.,Gaur, R.,Hartz, M.,Konaka, A.,Li, X.,Smithers, B. R.,Chen, S.,Wu, Y.,Xu, B. D.,Zhang, A. Q.,Zhang, B.,Adhikary, H.,Girgus, M.,Govindaraj, P.,Posiadala-Zezula, M.,Prabhu, Y. S.,Boyd, S. B.,Edwards, R.,Hadley, D.,Nicholson, M.,O'flaherty, M.,Richards, B.,Ali, A.,Jamieson, B.,Bronner, C.,Horiguchi, D.,Minamino, A.,Sasaki, Y.,Shibayama, R.,Shimamura, R.

Astrophysical Journal Letters, v.997, no.1