Radon Removal in XENONnT down to the Solar Neutrino Level

The XENONnT experiment has achieved an exceptionally low ²²²Rn activity concentration within its inner 5.9 tonne liquid xenon etector of (0.90±0.02 stat±0.07 syst)  μ⁢Bq kg⁻¹, equivalent to about 430²²² Rn atoms per tonne of xenon. This was achieved by ctive online radon removal via cryogenic distillation after stringent material selection. The achieved ²²²Rn activity concentration is 5 imes lower than that in other currently operational multitonne liquid xenon detectors engaged in dark matter searches. This breakthrough nables the pursuit of various rare event searches that lie beyond the confines of the standard model of particle physics, with world-leading sensitivity. The ultralow ²²²Rn levels have diminished the radon-induced background rate in the detector to a point where it is for the first time comparable to the solar neutrino-induced background, which is poised to become the primary irreducible background in liquid xenon-based detectors.