Professor Simon Viel, Department of Physics

Journal Publications and Conference Notes

Listed here are the publications to which I have participated directly.
For the full list including publications as collaboration author, please see my CV or INSPIRE-HEP profile.

DEAP-3600 data analysis

DEAP Collaboration, Direct measurement of the 39Ar half-life from 3.4 years of data with the DEAP-3600 detector
Submitted to European Physical Journal C, arXiv:2501.13196 (2025)

DEAP Collaboration, Relative measurement and extrapolation of the scintillation quenching factor of alpha-particles in liquid argon using DEAP-3600 data
European Physical Journal C, 85, 87 (2025)

DEAP Collaboration, Machine learning approach for event position reconstruction in the DEAP-3600 dark matter search experiment
Physics 2023, 5(2), 483-491 (2023)

DEAP Collaboration, Precision measurement of the specific activity of 39Ar in atmospheric argon with the DEAP-3600 detector
European Physics Journal C, 83, 642 (2023)

DEAP Collaboration, First direct detection constraints on Planck-scale mass dark matter with multiple-scatter signatures using the DEAP-3600 detector
Physical Review Letters 128, 011801 (2022)

DEAP Collaboration, Pulseshape discrimination against low-energy Ar-39 beta decays in liquid argon with 4.5 tonne-years of DEAP-3600 data
European Physics Journal C, 81, 823 (2021)

DEAP Collaboration, Constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct halo substructures using the DEAP-3600 detector
Physical Review D, 102, 082001 (2020)

DEAP Collaboration, The liquid-argon scintillation pulseshape in DEAP-3600
European Physics Journal C, 80, 303 (2020)

DEAP Collaboration, Electromagnetic backgrounds and potassium-42 activity in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector
Physical Review D, 100, 072009 (2019)

DEAP Collaboration, Search for dark matter with a 231-day exposure of liquid argon using DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB
Physical Review D, 100, 022004 (2019)

Technology Design, Research and Development

Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration, Sensitivity projections for a dual-phase argon TPC optimized for light dark matter searches through the ionization channel
Physical Review D, 107, 112006 (2023)

B. Chana, M. Mahtab, F. Retière, S. Viel, Rapid characterization of silicon photomultipliers for noble liquid experiments
Journal of Instrumentation 18, C03004 (2023)

L. Galli et al., Looking for Cherenkov light in liquid xenon with LoLX
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A, 1047, 167876 (2023)

MVM Collaboration, The novel Mechanical Ventilator Milano for the COVID-19 pandemic
Physics of Fluids, 33, 037122 (2021)

ATLAS Upgrade

ATLAS Collaboration, Technical Design Report for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Pixel Detector
CERN-LHCC-2017-021, ATLAS-TDR-030 (2018)

ATLAS Collaboration, Technical Design Report for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Strip Detector
CERN-LHCC-2017-005, ATLAS-TDR-025 (2017)

ATLAS Collaboration, Expected performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker at the High-Luminosity LHC
ATL-PHYS-PUB-2016-025 (2016)

S. Viel et al, Performance of silicon pixel detectors at small track incidence angles for the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A, 831, 254-259 (2016)

A. Abusleme et al, Performance of a full-size small-strip thin gap chamber prototype for the ATLAS New Small Wheel muon upgrade
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A, 817, 85-92 (2016)

ATLAS Collaboration, ATLAS Phase-II Upgrade Scoping Document
CERN-LHCC-2015-020 (2015)

Full 2015 and 2016 ATLAS datasets

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for dark matter produced in association with a Higgs Boson decaying to bb using 36 fb^-1 of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physical Review Letters, 119, 181804 (2017)

Full 2015 ATLAS dataset

ATLAS Collaboration, Boosted Higgs (→ bb) boson identification with the ATLAS detector at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
ATLAS-CONF-2016-039 (2016)

Full 2012 ATLAS dataset

ATLAS Collaboration, Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to WW* with the ATLAS detector
Physical Review D, 92, 012006 (2015)

ATLAS Collaboration, Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to WW* with ATLAS at the LHC
ATLAS-CONF-2014-060 (2014)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton channel using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
European Physical Journal C, 74, 3134 (2014)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physical Review D, 90, 052005 (2014)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in 20/fb of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
ATLAS-CONF-2013-017 (2013)

Partial 2012 ATLAS dataset

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in 6.1/fb of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
ATLAS-CONF-2012-129 (2012)

Full 2011 ATLAS dataset

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physical Review D, 87, 015010 (2013)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high-mass resonances decaying to dilepton final states in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Journal of High Energy Physics, 11, 138 (2012)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high-mass dilepton resonances with 5/fb of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
ATLAS-CONF-2012-007 (2012)

Partial 2011 ATLAS dataset

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for contact interactions in dilepton events from pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physics Letters B, 712, 1-2, 40-58 (2012)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for dilepton resonances in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physical Review Letters, 107, 272002 (2011)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for technihadrons in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS-CONF-2011-125 (2011)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
ATLAS-CONF-2011-083 (2011)

Full 2010 ATLAS dataset

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for contact interactions in dimuon events from pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physical Review D, 84, 011101 (2011)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high-mass states with one lepton plus missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Physics Letters B, 701, 1, 50-69 (2011)

ATLAS Collaboration, Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
Physics Letters B, 700, 3-4, 163-180 (2011)

Astroparticle Physics Reviews and Community Planning

C. Krauss and S. Viel, Direct detection searches for dark matter particles using superheated bubble chambers and cryogenic liquid argon detectors
Canadian Journal of Physics, 2024, 131 (2024)

N. Bozorgnia, J. Bramante, J. M. Cline, D. Curtin, D. McKeen, D. E. Morrissey, A. Ritz, S. Viel, A. C. Vincent, Y. Zhang, Dark matter candidates and searches
Canadian Journal of Physics, 2024, 128 (2024)

C. Adams et al., Neutrinoless double beta decay
United States Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan 2023, arXiv:2212.11099 (2022)

J.-F. Pratte, S. Charlebois, T. Brunner, R. Kruecken, F. Retière, S. Viel, The Particle/Photon to Digital Converters
SnowMass2021 IF2: Photon Detectors (2020)

D. E. Morrissey, S. Viel et al., Astroparticle Physics Community Planning 2020: Dark Matter Green Paper
Astroparticle Physics Community Planning (2020)

M. Boulay, B. Cai, P. Di Stefano, P. Gorel, A. Hallin, C. Jillings, S. Manecki, A. McDonald, M.-C. Piro, F. Retière, P. Skensved, S. Viel, Direct dark matter search with liquid argon: To the neutrino floor (and beyond?)
Astroparticle Physics Community Planning (2020)

Conference Proceedings

S. Viel, Latest results from the DEAP-3600 experiment at SNOLAB
Proceedings of Science TAUP2023, 075 (2023)

S. Viel, Dark matter search results from DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB
Proceedings of Science ICHEP2020, 655 (2020)

S. Viel, Expected performance of the ATLAS Inner Tracker upgrade
Proceedings of Science ICHEP2016, 1179 (2016)

S. Viel, Searches for leptoquarks and excited leptons with the ATLAS detector
Proceedings of Science ICHEP2016, 163 (2016)

S. Viel, Searches for Exotics: Heavy resonances with the ATLAS detector
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 455, 012021 (2013)

S. Viel, Search for high-mass dilepton resonances with the ATLAS experiment at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV
Proceedings of the XXXI International Conference on Physics in Collision, SLAC eConf C1108282 (2011)

S. Viel, Search for high-mass dimuon resonances with the ATLAS experiment at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV
Proceedings of Science EPS-HEP2011, 419 (2011)

Ph.D. Thesis

S. Viel, Search for new neutral high-mass resonances decaying into muon pairs with the ATLAS detector
Ph.D. Thesis, The University of British Columbia (2014)