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Monte Carlo calculations of cryogenic photodetector readout of scintillating GaAs for dark matter detection
Stephen E. Derenzo
The recent discovery that GaAs(Si,B) is a bright cryogenic scintillator with no apparent afterglow offers new opportunities for detecting rare, low-energy, electronic excitations f…
Feynman photon path integral calculations of optical reflection, diffraction, and scattering from conduction electrons
Stephen E. Derenzo
This paper describes the use of Feynman photon path integrals to compute the probability of detecting reflected, diffracted, and scattered photons at different points in space afte…
Large active-area superconducting microwire detector array with single-photon sensitivity in the near-infrared
Jamie S. Luskin, Ekkehart Schmidt, Boris Korzh +16
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the highest-performing technology for time-resolved single-photon counting from the UV to the near-infrared. The recen…
Monte Carlo Calculations of the Extraction of Scintillation Light from Cryogenic N-type GaAs
Stephen Derenzo
The high scintillation luminosity of n-type GaAs at 10K is surprising because (1) with a refractive index of about 3.5, escape is inhibited by total internal reflection and (2) nar…
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of low-threshold dark matter direct detection in the next decade
Rouven Essig, Graham K. Giovanetti, Noah Kurinsky +90
The search for particle-like dark matter with meV-to-GeV masses has developed rapidly in the past few years. We summarize the science case for these searches, the recent progress,…
GaAs as a bright cryogenic scintillator for the direct dark matter detection
S. Vasiukov, F. Chiossi, C. Braggio +4
The optical and scintillation properties of undoped, Si-doped, and Si, B co-doped GaAs samples were studied. The light yield specification and X-ray luminescence of GaAs over a wid…
US Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter 2017: Community Report
Marco Battaglieri, Alberto Belloni, Aaron Chou +248
This white paper summarizes the workshop "U.S. Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter" held at University of Maryland on March 23-25, 2017.
Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter with Scintillating Targets
Stephen Derenzo, Rouven Essig, Andrea Massari +2
We describe a novel search for MeV-to-GeV-mass dark matter, in which the dark matter scatters off electrons in a scintillating target. The excitation and subsequent de-excitation o…
First-principles studies of Ce-doped RE2M2O7 (RE=Y,La;M=Ti,Zr,Hf): A class of non-scintillators
A. Chaudhry, A. Canning, R. Boutchko +3
Lanthanum and yttrium compounds with composition RE2M2O7 (RE=Y, La; M = Ti, Zr, Hf) have high density and high Z and can be doped with Ce onto the La and Y sites. This makes these…