Publications (30)
Exploring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor neutrinos with the NUCLEUS experiment
The NUCLEUS collaboration, C. Goupy, H. Abele +59
The NUCLEUS experiment aims to perform a high-precision measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) at the EdF Chooz B nuclear power plant in France. CEvNS…
Sensitivity enhancement techniques for cryogenic calorimeters in the NUCLEUS experiment
M. Cappelli, A. Wallach, H. Abele +62
Phonon-mediated cryogenic calorimeters find application in rare event searches due to their intrinsically low energy threshold. Achieving the best sensitivity for this kind of dete…
Observation of a low energy nuclear recoil peak in the neutron calibration data of an AlO crystal in CRESST-III
CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +59
The current generation of cryogenic solid state detectors used in direct dark matter and CE\textnu NS searches typically reach energy thresholds of (10)eV for nucl…
Light Dark Matter Search Using a Diamond Cryogenic Detector
CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +56
Diamond operated as a cryogenic calorimeter is an excellent target for direct detection of low-mass dark matter candidates. Following the realization of the first low-threshold cry…
The SWEET project: probing sugar crystals for direct dark matter searches
A. Bento, F. Casadei, E. Cipelli +11
Several experiments searching for direct dark matter interactions aim to achieve unprecedented sensitivity to sub-GeV/c dark matter masses through elastic scattering with nucle…
ImpCresst -- A versatile simulation tool focusing on solid-state detectors at keV energies
G. Angloher, S. Banik, A. Bento +57
We present ImpCresst, a Geant4-based Monte Carlo tool to simulate backgrounds from natural and cosmogenic radionuclides, and calibration signals in solid-state detectors and their…
Commissioning of the NUCLEUS Experiment at the Technical University of Munich
H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +57
The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos on CaWO targets in the fully coherent regime, using gram-scale cryog…
Particle background characterization and prediction for the NUCLEUS reactor CENS experiment
H. Abele, G. Anglogher, B. Arnold +57
NUCLEUS is a cryogenic detection experiment which aims to measure Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENS) and to search for new physics at the Chooz nuclear power p…
A CUPID LiMoO scintillating bolometer tested in the CROSS underground facility
The CUPID Interest Group, A. Armatol, E. Armengaud +178
A scintillating bolometer based on a large cubic LiMoO crystal (45 mm side) and a Ge wafer (scintillation detector) has been operated in the CROSS cryogenic facil…
Toward CUPID-1T
A. Armatol, C. Augier, F. T. Avignone +172
Current experiments to search for broken lepton-number symmetry through the observation of neutrinoless double-beta decay () provide the most stringent limits on…
Decoupling Pulse Tube Vibrations from a Dry Dilution Refrigerator at milli-Kelvin Temperatures
The NUCLEUS collaboration, A. Wex, J. Rothe +64
With the rising adoption of dry dilution refrigerators across scientific and industrial domains, there has been a pressing demand for highly efficient vibration decoupling systems…
Detector development for the CRESST experiment
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +55
Recently low-mass dark matter direct searches have been hindered by a low energy background, drastically reducing the physics reach of the experiments. In the CRESST-III experiment…
First observation of single photons in a CRESST detector and new dark matter exclusion limits
CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +56
The main goal of the CRESST-III experiment is the direct detection of dark matter particles via their scattering off target nuclei in cryogenic detectors. In this work we present t…
DoubleTES detectors to investigate the CRESST low energy background: results from above-ground prototypes
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +55
In recent times, the sensitivity of low-mass direct dark matter searches has been limited by unknown low energy backgrounds close to the energy threshold of the experiments known a…
Sub-keV Electron Recoil Calibration for Macroscopic Cryogenic Calorimeters using a Novel X-ray Fluorescence Source
H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +61
Percent-level calibration of cryogenic macro-calorimeters with energy thresholds below 100~eV are crucial for light Dark Matter (DM) searches and reactor neutrino studies based on…
Calibration of nuclear recoils at the 100 eV scale using neutron capture
L. Thulliez, D. Lhuillier, F. Cappella +34
The development of low-threshold detectors for the study of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and for the search for light dark matter necessitates methods of low-energy…
Development of a compact muon veto for the NUCLEUS experiment
V. Wagner, R. Rogly, A. Erhart +52
The NUCLEUS experiment aims to measure coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering of reactor anti-neutrinos using cryogenic calorimeters. Operating at an overburden of 3 m.w.e.,…
Characterization of the Low Energy Excess using a NUCLEUS detector
H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +62
The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos using low-threshold, gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters. Similar to other…
Prospect of the NUCLEUS Experiment at Chooz for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and New Physics Searches
H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +67
The NUCLEUS experiment aims to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) at unprecedentedly low nuclear recoil energies using gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters…
Characterization of cubic LiMoO crystals for the CUPID experiment
A. Armatol, E. Armengaud, W. Armstrong +169
The CUPID Collaboration is designing a tonne-scale, background-free detector to search for double beta decay with sufficient sensitivity to fully explore the parameter space corres…
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications
M. Abdullah, H. Abele, D. Akimov +272
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is larg…
Observation of a nuclear recoil peak at the 100 eV scale induced by neutron capture
CRAB Collaboration, NUCLEUS Collaboration, H. Abele +75
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and low-mass Dark Matter detectors rely crucially on the understanding of their response to nuclear recoils. We report the first observ…
Optimisation of TES design for the CRESST experiment
G. Angloher, S. Banik, A. Bento +54
The CRESST experiment aims at the direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter particles via elastic scattering off nuclei in different target crystals at cryogenic temperatures. The ad…
Novel technique for the study of pile-up events in cryogenic bolometers
A. Armatol, E. Armengaud, W. Armstrong +166
Precise characterization of detector time resolution is of crucial importance for next-generation cryogenic-bolometer experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay, such…
EXCESS workshop: Descriptions of rising low-energy spectra
P. Adari, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei +303
Many low-threshold experiments observe sharply rising event rates of yet unknown origins below a few hundred eV, and larger than expected from known backgrounds. Due to the signifi…
A likelihood framework for cryogenic scintillating calorimeters used in the CRESST dark matter search
CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +57
Cryogenic scintillating calorimeters are ultrasensitive particle detectors for rare event searches, particularly for the search for dark matter and the measurement of neutrino prop…
The CRESST experiment: towards the next-generation of sub-GeV direct dark matter detection
G. Angloher, S. Banik, A. Bento +54
Direct detection experiments have established the most stringent constraints on potential interactions between particle candidates for relic, thermal dark matter and Standard Model…
Optimal operation of cryogenic calorimeters through deep reinforcement learning
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +59
Cryogenic phonon detectors with transition-edge sensors achieve the best sensitivity to light dark matter-nucleus scattering in current direct detection dark matter searches. In su…
Solar Neutrinos in Cryogenic Detectors
A. Bento, A. Bertolini, L. Canonica +13
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) poses an irreducible background in the search for dark matter-nucleus elastic scatterings, which is commonly known as the ne…
Optimization of the first CUPID detector module
CUPID collaboration, A. Armatol, C. Augier +175
CUPID will be a next generation experiment searching for the neutrinoless double decay, whose discovery would establish the Majorana nature of the neutrino. Based on the exper…