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Publications (30)

physics.ins-det2022

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…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

physics.ins-det2025

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…

astro-ph.CO2023

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…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

hep-ex2025

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…

physics.ins-det2025

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…

physics.ins-det2020

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…

nucl-ex2022

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…

physics.ins-det2025

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…

physics.ins-det2023

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

physics.ins-det2024

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…

physics.ins-det2025

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…

physics.ins-det2021

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…

physics.ins-det2022

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.,…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

hep-ex2026

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…

physics.ins-det2020

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…

hep-ph2022

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…

nucl-ex2023

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…

physics.ins-det2026

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…

physics.ins-det2021

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…

astro-ph.IM2022

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2025

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…

physics.ins-det2023

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…

hep-ph2024

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…

physics.ins-det2022

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…