Publications (88)
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…
The COSINUS project - a NaI-based cryogenic calorimeter for direct dark matter detection
G. Angloher, P. Carniti, L. Cassina +15
At present the results in the field of direct dark matter search are in tension: the positive claim of DAMA/LIBRA versus null results from other experiments. However, the compariso…
Discrimination of Recoil Backgrounds in Scintillating Calorimeters
R. F. Lang, G. Angloher, M. Bauer +38
The alpha decay of $\n{{}^{210}Po}$ is a dangerous background to rare event searches. Here, we describe observations related to this alpha decay in the Cryogenic Rare Event Search…
Geant4-based electromagnetic background model for the CRESST dark matter experiment
CRESST Collaboration, A. H. Abdelhameed, G. Angloher +51
The CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) dark matter search experiment aims for the detection of dark matter particles via elastic scattering off…
The CRESST Dark Matter Search - Status and Perspectives
The CRESST Collaboration, F. Reindl, G. Angloher +38
In the past years the spotlight of the search for dark matter particles widened to the low mass region, both from theoretical and experimental side. We discuss results from data ob…
Performance of a CRESST-II Detector Module with True -veto
G. Angloher, P. Bauer, A. Bento +42
Scintillating, cryogenic bolometers are widely used in the field of rare event searches. Their main advantages are an excellent energy resolution and particle identification on an…
Description of CRESST-II and CRESST-III pulse shape data
G. Angloher, S. Banik, D. Bartolot +62
A set of data from 68 cryogenic detectors operated in the CRESST dark matter search experiment between 2013 and 2019 was collected and labeled to train binary classifiers for data…
A CsI low temperature detector for dark matter search
G. Angloher, I. Dafinei, A. Gektin +18
Cryogenic detectors have a long history of success in the field of rare event searches. In particular scintillating calorimeters are very suitable detectors for this task since the…
Limits on momentum-dependent asymmetric dark matter with CRESST-II
G. Angloher, A. Bento, C. Bucci +37
The usual assumption in direct dark matter searches is to only consider the spin-dependent or spin-independent scattering of dark matter particles. However, especially in models wi…
Latest observations on the low energy excess in CRESST-III
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +57
The CRESST experiment observes an unexplained excess of events at low energies. In the current CRESST-III data-taking campaign we are operating detector modules with different desi…
New limits on the resonant absorption of solar axions obtained with a Tm-containing cryogenic detector
A. H. Abdelhameed, S. V. Bakhlanov, P. Bauer +25
A search for resonant absorption of solar axions by Tm nuclei was carried out. A newly developed approach involving low-background cryogenic bolometer based on TmAl…
Description of CRESST-II data
G. Angloher, P. Bauer, A. Bento +47
In Phase 2 of CRESST-II 18 detector modules were operated for about two years (July 2013 - August 2015). Together with this document we are publishing data from two detector module…
Results and plans of the CRESST dark matter search
M. Altmann, G. Angloher, M. Bruckmayer +20
Data taken by CRESST in 2000 with a cryogenic detector system based on 262 g sapphire crystals is used to place limits on WIMP dark matter in the Galactic Halo. The detector is esp…
Energy-Dependent Light Quenching in CaWO Crystals at mK Temperatures
R. Strauss, G. Angloher, A. Bento +39
Scintillating CaWO single crystals are a promising multi-element target for rare-event searches and are currently used in the direct Dark Matter experiment CRESST (Cryogenic Ra…
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…
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.,…
Exploring CEvNS with NUCLEUS at the Chooz Nuclear Power Plant
G. Angloher, F. Ardellier-Desages, A. Bento +34
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) offers a unique way to study neutrino properties and to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Nuclear reactors a…
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…
Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a 10 eV Threshold CRESST-III Silicon Detector
CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +59
We present limits on the spin-independent interaction cross section of dark matter particles with silicon nuclei, derived from data taken with a cryogenic calorimeter with 0.35 g t…
Gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters for rare-event searches
R. Strauss, J. Rothe, G. Angloher +12
The energy threshold of a cryogenic calorimeter can be lowered by reducing its size. This is of importance since the resulting increase in signal rate enables new approaches in rar…
The CRAB facility at the TU Wien TRIGA reactor: status and related physics program
H. Abele, P. Ajello, A. Armatol +51
The CRAB (Calibrated nuclear Recoils for Accurate Bolometry) project aims to precisely characterize the response of cryogenic detectors to sub-keV nuclear recoils of direct interes…
Dark-Photon Search using Data from CRESST-II Phase 2
G. Angloher, P. Bauer, A. Bento +40
Identifying the nature and origin of dark matter is one of the major challenges for modern astro and particle physics. Direct dark-matter searches aim at an observation of dark-mat…
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…
Description of CRESST-III Data
CRESST Collaboration, A. H. Abdelhameed, G. Angloher +47
In CRESST-III, 10 cryogenic detector modules optimized for low energy thresholds were operated for almost two years (May 2016 - February 2018). Together with this document we are p…
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 Textured Silicon Calorimetric Light Detector
P. C. F. Di Stefano, T. Frank, G. Angloher +8
We apply the standard photovoltaic technique of texturing to reduce the reflectivity of silicon cryogenic calorimetric light detectors. In the case of photons with random incidence…
Description of CRESST-III lithium aluminate data
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58
Two detector modules with lithium aluminate targets were operated in the CRESST underground setup between February and June 2021. The data collected in this period was used to set…
Limits on WIMP dark matter using scintillating CaWO4 cryogenic detectors with active background suppression
G. Angloher, C. Bucci, P. Christ +21
We present first significant limits on WIMP dark matter by the phonon-light technique, where combined phonon and light signals from a scintillating cryogenic detector are used. Dat…
Status of the CRESST Dark Matter Search
J. Schmaler, G. Angloher, M. Bauer +38
The CRESST experiment aims for a detection of dark matter in the form of WIMPs. These particles are expected to scatter elastically off the nuclei of a target material, thereby dep…
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…
Impact of Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Scattering on Direct Dark Matter Searches based on CaWO Crystals
A. Gütlein, G. Angloher, A. Bento +37
Atmospheric and solar neutrinos scattering coherently off target nuclei will be an important background source for the next generation of direct dark matter searches. In this work…
Development of cryogenic phonon detectors based on CaMoO4 and ZnWO4 scintillating crystals for direct dark matter search experiments
I. Bavykina, G. Angloher, D. Hauff +3
This work reports on the development of the first phonon detectors based on CaMoO4 and ZnWO4 scintillating crystals for the CRESST-II experiment. In particular, a novel technique f…
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…
A detector module with highly efficient surface-alpha event rejection operated in CRESST-II Phase 2
R. Strauss, G. Angloher, A. Bento +39
The cryogenic dark matter experiment CRESST-II aims at the direct detection of WIMPs via elastic scattering off nuclei in scintillating CaWO crystals. We present a new, highly…
Beta/gamma and alpha backgrounds in CRESST-II Phase 2
R. Strauss, G. Angloher, A. Bento +38
The experiment CRESST-II aims at the detection of dark matter with scintillating CaWO crystals operated as cryogenic detectors. Recent results on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon…
High-Dimensional Bayesian Likelihood Normalisation for CRESST's Background Model
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +59
Using CaWO crystals as cryogenic calorimeters, the CRESST experiment searches for nuclear recoils caused by the scattering of potential Dark Matter particles. A reliable identi…
Cryogenic characterization of a LiAlO crystal and new results on spin-dependent dark matter interactions with ordinary matter
A. H. Abdelhameed, G. Angloher, P. Bauer +56
In this work, a first cryogenic characterization of a scintillating LiAlO single crystal is presented. The results achieved show that this material holds great potential as a…
In-situ study of light production and transport in phonon/light detector modules for dark matter search
M. Kiefer, G. Angloher, A. Bento +38
The CRESST experiment (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) searches for dark matter via the phonon and light signals of elastic scattering processes in s…
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…
Detection of the Natural Alpha Decay of Tungsten
C. Cozzini, G. Angloher, C. Bucci +21
The natural alpha decay of 180W has been unambiguously detected for the first time. The alpha peak is found in a (gamma,beta and neutron)-free background spectrum. This has been ac…
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…
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…
Secular Equilibrium Assessment in a Target Crystal from the Dark Matter Experiment CRESST using Bayesian Likelihood Normalisation
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58
CRESST is a leading direct detection sub- dark matter experiment. During its second phase, cryogenic bolometers were used to detect nuclear recoils off the $\ma…
Testing spin-dependent dark matter interactions with lithium aluminate targets in CRESST-III
G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58
In the past decades, numerous experiments have emerged to unveil the nature of dark matter, one of the most discussed open questions in modern particle physics. Among them, the CRE…
Results on light dark matter particles with a low-threshold CRESST-II detector
The CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, A. Bento +38
The CRESST-II experiment uses cryogenic detectors to search for nuclear recoil events induced by the elastic scattering of dark matter particles in CaWO crystals. Given the low…
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…
Observation of two nuclear recoil peaks induced by neutron capture on Al2O3
H. Abele, P. Ajello, B. Arnold +43
We report the observation of two nuclear recoil peaks induced by neutron capture on aluminum in a cryogenic AlO detector developed by the NUCLEUS collaboration for the dete…
Commissioning Run of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search
G. Angloher, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina +40
The CRESST cryogenic direct dark matter search at Gran Sasso, searching for WIMPs via nuclear recoil, has been upgraded to CRESST-II by several changes and improvements.We present…
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…
Limits on Dark Matter Effective Field Theory Parameters with CRESST-II
G. Angloher, P. Bauer, A. Bento +42
CRESST is a direct dark matter search experiment, aiming for an observation of nuclear recoils induced by the interaction of dark matter particles with cryogenic scintillating calc…
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…
First results on sub-GeV spin-dependent dark matter interactions with Li
A. H. Abdelhameed, G. Angloher, P. Bauer +53
In this work, we want to highlight the potential of lithium as a target for spin-dependent dark matter search in cryogenic experiments, with a special focus on the low-mass region…
The CRESST Experiment: Recent Results and Prospects
P. Di Stefano, M. Bruckmayer, C. Bucci +20
The CRESST experiment seeks hypothetical WIMP particles that could account for the bulk of dark matter in the Universe. The detectors are cryogenic calorimeters in which WIMPs woul…
Results on low mass WIMPs using an upgraded CRESST-II detector
CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, A. Bento +42
The CRESST-II cryogenic dark matter search aims for the detection of WIMPs via elastic scattering off nuclei in CaWO crystals. We present results from a low-threshold analysis…
A Plastic Scintillation Muon Veto for Sub-Kelvin Temperatures
A. Erhart, V. Wagner, A. Wex +59
Rare-event search experiments located on-surface, such as short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments, are often limited by muon-induced background events. Highly efficient muon ve…
A low-threshold diamond cryogenic detector for sub-GeV Dark Matter searches
A. H. Abdelhameed, G. Angloher, A. Bento +13
In this work we report the realization of the first low-threshold cryogenic detector that uses diamond as absorber for astroparticle physics applications. We tested two 0.175g…
First results from the CRESST-III low-mass dark matter program
CRESST Collaboration, A. H. Abdelhameed, G. Angloher +47
The CRESST experiment is a direct dark matter search which aims to measure interactions of potential dark matter particles in an earth-bound detector. With the current stage, CRESS…
Observation of a low energy nuclear recoil peak in the neutron calibration data of the CRESST-III Experiment
CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +58
New-generation direct searches for low mass dark matter feature detection thresholds at energies well below 100 eV, much lower than the energies of commonly used X-ray calibration…
The CRESST II Dark Matter Search
Leo Stodolsky, G. Angloher, M. Bauer +33
Direct Dark Matter detection with cryodetectors is briefly discussed, with particular mention of the possibility of the identification of the recoil nucleus. Preliminary results fr…
Probing low WIMP masses with the next generation of CRESST detector
The CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, A. Bento +35
The purpose of this document is to describe the upgrade of the CRESST dark matter search at LNGS. The proposed strategy will allow to explore a region of the parameter space for sp…
Towards an automated data cleaning with deep learning in CRESST
G. Angloher, S. Banik, D. Bartolot +62
The CRESST experiment employs cryogenic calorimeters for the sensitive measurement of nuclear recoils induced by dark matter particles. The recorded signals need to undergo a caref…
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…
Search for low-mass Dark Matter with the CRESST Experiment
H. Kluck, G. Angloher, P. Bauer +42
CRESST is a multi-stage experiment directly searching for dark matter (DM) using cryogenic crystals. Previous stages established leading limits for the spin-indep…
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…
The -cleus experiment: A gram-scale fiducial-volume cryogenic detector for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering
R. Strauss, J. Rothe, G. Angloher +12
We discuss a small-scale experiment, called -cleus, for the first detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering by probing nuclear-recoil energies down to the 10 eV-regime.…
Composite CaWO4 Detectors for the CRESST-II Experiment
M. Kiefer, G. Angloher, M. Bauer +38
CRESST-II, standing for Cryogenic Rare Events Search with Superconducting Thermometers phase II, is an experiment searching for Dark Matter. In the LNGS facility in Gran Sasso, Ita…
Radiopurity of CaWO Crystals for Direct Dark Matter Search with CRESST and EURECA
A. Münster, M. v. Sivers, G. Angloher +38
The direct dark matter search experiment CRESST uses scintillating CaWO single crystals as targets for possible WIMP scatterings. An intrinsic radioactive contamination of the…
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop "Radiopure Scintillators for EURECA" (RPScint'2008)
E. Armengau, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina +56
Workshop RPSCINT'2008 was organized in Kyiv (Ukraine) on 9th and 10th September 2008. The idea was to bring together physicists, chemists, crystal scintillator experts and manufact…
New Limits on Double Electron Capture of Ca and W
G. Angloher, M. Bauer, P. Bauer +53
We analyzed low-background data from the CRESST-II experiment with a total net exposure of 730 kg days to extract limits on double electron capture processes. We established new li…
Particle Discrimination in TeO Bolometers using Light Detectors read out by Transition Edge Sensors
K. Schäffner, G. Angloher, F. Bellini +11
An active discrimination of the dominant -background is the prerequisite for future neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments based on TeO bolometers. We investigate suc…
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…
Probing spin-dependent dark matter interactions with Li
G. Angloher, G. Benato, A. Bento +55
CRESST is one of the most prominent direct detection experiments for dark matter particles with sub-GeV/c mass. One of the advantages of the CRESST experiment is the possibilit…
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…
The COSINUS project - perspectives of a NaI scintillating calorimeter for dark matter search
G. Angloher, D. Hauff, L. Gironi +13
The R&D project COSINUS (Cryogenic Observatory for SIgnatures seen in Next-generation Underground Searches) aims to develop a cryogenic scintillating calorimeter using NaI as targe…
First results on low-mass dark matter from the CRESST-III experiment
CRESST collaboration, F. Petricca, G. Angloher +43
The CRESST experiment, located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, searches for dark matter particles via their elastic scattering off nuclei in a target material. The…
Results on MeV-scale dark matter from a gram-scale cryogenic calorimeter operated above ground
G. Angloher, P. Bauer, A. Bento +44
Models for light dark matter particles with masses below 1 GeV/c are a natural and well-motivated alternative to so-far unobserved weakly interacting massive particles. Gram-sc…
The CRESST Dark Matter Search
B. Majorovits, G. Angloher, C. Bucci +23
We present first competitive results on WIMP dark matter using the phonon-light-detection technique. A particularly strong limit for WIMPs with coherent scattering results from sel…
A prototype detector for the CRESST-III low-mass dark matter search
R. Strauss, G. Angloher, P. Bauer +28
The CRESST-III experiment which is dedicated to low-mass dark matter search uses scintillating CaWO crystals operated as cryogenic particle detectors. Background discrimination…
A method to define the energy threshold depending on noise level for rare event searches
M. Mancuso, A. Bento, N. Ferreiro Iachellini +5
Solid state detectors and cryogenic detectors are widely employed in rare event searches, such as direct Dark Matter detection or Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Scattering experiments.…
Scintillator Non-Proportionality and Gamma Quenching in CaWO4
R. F. Lang, G. Angloher, M. Bauer +38
We measure and explain scintillator non-proportionality and gamma quenching of CaWO4 at low energies and low temperatures. Phonons that are created following an interaction in the…
Electron and Gamma Background in CRESST Detectors
R. F. Lang, G. Angloher, M. Bauer +39
The CRESST experiment monitors 300g CaWO_4 crystals as targets for particle interactions in an ultra low background environment. In this paper, we analyze the background spectra th…
Results from 730 kg days of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search
G. Angloher, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina +33
The CRESST-II cryogenic Dark Matter search, aiming at detection of WIMPs via elastic scattering off nuclei in CaWO crystals, completed 730 kg days of data taking in 2011. We pr…