Publications (9)
Opportunities for DOE National Laboratory-led QuantISED Experiments
Pete Barry, Karl Berggren, A. Baha Balantekin +24
A subset of QuantISED Sensor PIs met virtually on May 26, 2020 to discuss a response to a charge by the DOE Office of High Energy Physics. In this document, we summarize the QuantI…
Antineutrino Detectors Remain Impractical for Nuclear Explosion Monitoring
Michael Foxe, Theodore Bowyer, Rachel Carr +2
Fission explosions produce large numbers of antineutrinos. It is occasionally asked whether this distinctive, unshieldable emission could help reveal clandestine nuclear weapon exp…
Status Update of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment
Julieta Gruszko, Nicolas Abgrall, Isaac Arnquist +67
Neutrinoless double beta decay searches play a major role in determining neutrino properties, in particular the Majorana or Dirac nature of the neutrino and the absolute scale of t…
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Calibrations and backgrounds for dark matter direct detection
Daniel Baxter, Raymond Bunker, Sally Shaw +48
Future dark matter direct detection experiments will reach unprecedented levels of sensitivity. Achieving this sensitivity will require more precise models of signal and background…
Energy Loss Due to Defect Formation from Pb Recoils in SuperCDMS Germanium Detectors
Robert Agnese, Taylor Aralis, Tsuguo Aramaki +94
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (SuperCDMS) at the Soudan Underground Laboratory studied energy loss associated with Frenkel defect formation in germanium crystal…
Evaluation and mitigation of trace Pb contamination on copper surfaces
Raymond Bunker, Tsuguo Aramaki, Isaac Arnquist +5
Clean materials are required to construct and operate many low-background physics experiments. High-purity copper has found broad use because of its physical properties and availab…