Direct Detection of Dark Matter, Neutrino Physics and High-Energy Collider Experiments
This community investigates fundamental particles and forces beyond the Standard Model, primarily through direct searches for dark matter, precision measurements of neutrino properties, and high-energy particle collisions.
The research is dominated by the development of large-scale detectors using liquid argon, liquid xenon, and liquid scintillator to identify rare interactions. Key activities include direct detection of dark matter candidates, such as WIMPs and light dark matter, through nuclear recoil signals. A significant portion of the work focuses on neutrino physics, specifically neutrinoless double beta decay, neutrino mass ordering, and neutrino-nucleus scattering. The community also conducts high-energy studies of heavy-ion and proton-proton collisions, examining heavy quark production and the properties of quark-gluon plasma. These efforts rely on precise cross-section measurements and the construction of complex detector systems like time projection chambers and projection chambers to distinguish signal from background noise.
The largest share of the community's output is found in xenon research, accounting for 6.2% of all xenon research, and 2,429 papers here. Argon research also represents a significant portion, with 3.4% of all argon research and 2,617 papers in this group.
The community comprises 38,925 papers, published primarily in Physics Letters B, Physical Review D, and the Journal of High Energy Physics.
Recent work continues to focus on refining dark matter search limits using liquid xenon detectors like XENONnT and LZ, as well as advancing neutrino experiments such as KamLAND-Zen and JUNO. New studies also examine cosmological constraints from CMB data and precision measurements of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment.