Publications (15)
Report of the Topical Group on Quantum Sensors for Snowmass 2021
Thomas Cecil, Kent Irwin, Reina Maruyama +2
Quantum Sensors offer great potential for providing enhanced sensitivity in high energy physics experiments. In this report we provide a summary of key quantum sensors technologies…
A Stress Induced Source of Phonon Bursts and Quasiparticle Poisoning
Robin Anthony-Petersen, Andreas Biekert, Raymond Bunker +43
The performance of superconducting qubits is degraded by a poorly characterized set of energy sources breaking the Cooper pairs responsible for superconductivity, creating a condit…
Detecting Superlight Dark Matter with Fermi-Degenerate Materials
Yonit Hochberg, Matt Pyle, Yue Zhao +1
We examine in greater detail the recent proposal of using superconductors for detecting dark matter as light as the warm dark matter limit of O(keV). Detection of such light dark m…
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…
A Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Bremsstrahlung Radiation and the Migdal Effect in SuperCDMS
SuperCDMS Collaboration, Musaab Al-Bakry, Imran Alkhatib +128
In this paper, we present a re-analysis of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood approach to search for sub-GeV dark matter particles (DM) through two inelastic scattering chan…
A Transition Edge Sensor Operated in Coincidence with a High Sensitivity Athermal Phonon Sensor for Photon Coupled Rare Event Searches
Roger K. Romani, Yen-Yung Chang, Rupak Mahapatra +6
Experimental searches for axions or dark photons that couple to the standard model photon require photosensors with low noise, broadband sensitivity, and near zero backgrounds. Her…
Quantum Sensors for High Energy Physics
Aaron Chou, Kent Irwin, Reina H. Maruyama +39
Strong motivation for investing in quantum sensing arises from the need to investigate phenomena that are very weakly coupled to the matter and fields well described by the Standar…
Report of the Instrumentation Frontier Working Group for Snowmass 2021
Phillip S. Barbeau, Petra Merkel, Jinlong Zhang +42
Detector instrumentation is at the heart of scientific discoveries. Cutting edge technologies enable US particle physics to play a leading role worldwide. This report summarizes th…
Calorimetric Detection of Dark Matter
Julien Billard, Matt Pyle, Surjeet Rajendran +1
Dark matter direct detection experiments are designed to look for the scattering of dark matter particles that are assumed to move with virial velocities . At these v…
Low Energy Backgrounds and Excess Noise in a Two-Channel Low-Threshold Calorimeter
Robin Anthony-Petersen, Clarence L. Chang, Yen-Yung Chang +29
We describe observations of low energy excess (LEE) events, background events observed in all light dark matter direct detection calorimeters, and noise in a Transition Edge Sensor…
Modeling the Differential Rate for Signal Interactions in Coincidence with Noise Fluctuations or Large Rate Backgrounds
Xinran Li, Matt Pyle, Bernard Sadoulet
The characteristic energy of a relic dark matter interaction with a detector scales strongly with the putative dark matter mass. Consequently, experimental search sensitivity at th…
Dark Sectors 2016 Workshop: Community Report
Jim Alexander, Marco Battaglieri, Bertrand Echenard +201
This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016, summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter and forces at masses beneath the…
Optimized Designs for Very Low Temperature Massive Calorimeters
Matt Pyle, Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, Bernard Sadoulet
The baseline energy-resolution performance for the current generation of large-mass, low-temperature calorimeters (utilizing TES and NTD sensor technologies) is orders of magn…
SuperCDMS SNOLAB Low-Mass Detectors: Ultra-Sensitive Phonon Calorimeters for a Sub-GeV Dark Matter Search
Noah Kurinsky, Paul Brink, Richard Partridge +2
We present the technical design for the SuperCDMS high-voltage, low-mass dark matter detectors, designed to be sensitive to dark matter down to 300 MeV/ in mass and resolve in…
Detection of Light Dark Matter With Optical Phonons in Polar Materials
Simon Knapen, Tongyan Lin, Matt Pyle +1
We show that polar materials are excellent targets for direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter due to the presence of gapped optical phonons as well as acoustic phonons with high s…