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Publications (14)

astro-ph.CO2013

Silicon detector results from the first five-tower run of CDMS II

CDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, Z. Ahmed +87

We report results of a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with the Si detectors of the CDMS II experiment. This report describes a blind analysis of the first…

hep-ex2014

Search for Low-Mass WIMPs with SuperCDMS

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, M. Asai +92

We report a first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the background rejection capabilities of SuperCDMS. An exposure of 577 kg-days was analyzed for WIMP…

physics.ins-det2013

Demonstration of Surface Electron Rejection with Interleaved Germanium Detectors for Dark Matter Searches

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, D. Balakishiyeva +88

The SuperCDMS experiment in the Soudan Underground Laboratory searches for dark matter with a 9-kg array of cryogenic germanium detectors. Symmetric sensors on opposite sides measu…

hep-ex2015

Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, M. Asai +86

CDMS II data from the 5-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surf…

hep-ex2015

First direct limits on Lightly Ionizing Particles with electric charge less than

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, D. Balakishiyeva +82

While the Standard Model of particle physics does not include free particles with fractional charge, experimental searches have not ruled out their existence. We report results fro…

hep-ex2013

Silicon Detector Dark Matter Results from the Final Exposure of CDMS II

CDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, Z. Ahmed +88

We report results of a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS) with the silicon detectors of the CDMS II experiment. This blind analysis of 140.2 kg-days of data ta…

physics.ins-det2018

Nuclear-recoil energy scale in CDMS II silicon dark-matter detectors

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aramaki +106

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment aims to detect dark matter particles that elastically scatter from nuclei in semiconductor detectors. The resulting nuclear-re…

astro-ph.CO2018

Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with CDMSlite

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson +105

The SuperCDMS experiment is designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that may constitute the dark matter in our Galaxy. During its operation at the…

physics.ins-det2011

Status of R&D on Micromegas for Rare Event Searches: The T-REX project

I. G. Irastorza, J. Castel, S. Cebrián +24

The T-REX project aims at developing novel readout techniques for Time Projection Chambers in experiments searching for rare events. The enhanced performance of the latest Micromeg…

astro-ph.CO2014

Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Low Energy CDMS II Germanium Data

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson +84

We report on the results of a search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) signal in low-energy data of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS~II) experiment using a max…

astro-ph.CO2016

Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments

K. Schneck, B. Cabrera, D. G. Cerdeno +84

We examine the consequences of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark matter-nucleon scattering for current and proposed direct detection experiments. Exclusion limits on EFT cou…

physics.ins-det2013

CDMSlite: A Search for Low-Mass WIMPs using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, M. Asai +77

SuperCDMS is an experiment designed to directly detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a favored candidate for dark matter ubiquitous in the Universe. In this paper,…

physics.ins-det2016

Projected Sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aramaki +93

SuperCDMS SNOLAB will be a next-generation experiment aimed at directly detecting low-mass (< 10 GeV/c) particles that may constitute dark matter by using cryogenic detectors o…

astro-ph.CO2016

WIMP-Search Results from the Second CDMSlite Run

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson +87

The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for…