XENONnT Modeling and Inference Paper Published in Physical Review D
We are pleased to announce the publication of the paper XENONnT WIMP search: signal and background modeling and statistical inference in Physical Review D (link to publication).
While a first analysis paper described how raw data are processed into valid events for our WIMP dark matter search, this publication presents the following stage of the analysis, focusing on three core components: the detector response model based on calibration data, the development and validation of background and signal models, and the statistical framework used for inference, including likelihood construction and hypothesis testing.
Two postdoctoral researchers from our group, Diego and Luisa, are among the corresponding authors of this work and played key roles in the analysis. Congratulations to them for their contribution to the XENON experiment!