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astro-ph.CO2018★ 126 cited

Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with CDMSlite Using a Profile Likelihood Fit

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aralis +100

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) searches for interactions between dark matter particles and germanium nuclei in cryogenic detectors.…

physics.ins-det2018★ 17 cited

Production Rate Measurement of Tritium and Other Cosmogenic Isotopes in Germanium with CDMSlite

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aralis +95

Future direct searches for low-mass dark matter particles with germanium detectors, such as SuperCDMS SNOLAB, are expected to be limited by backgrounds from radioactive isotopes ac…

physics.ins-det2018★ 6 cited

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…

hep-ex2018★ 304 cited

First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aralis +99

We present the first limits on inelastic electron-scattering dark matter and dark photon absorption using a prototype SuperCDMS detector having a charge resolution of 0.1 electron-…

physics.ins-det2018★ 20 cited

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…

hep-ex2017★ 153 cited

Results from the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment at Soudan

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aramaki +101

We report the result of a blinded search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) using the majority of the SuperCDMS Soudan dataset. With an exposure of 1690 kg days, a si…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 229 cited

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-det2016★ 288 cited

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.CO2015★ 371 cited

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…

hep-ex2015★ 75 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 60 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 11 cited

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…

hep-ex2014★ 24 cited

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-ex2014★ 529 cited

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★ 288 cited

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-det2013★ 16 cited

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-ex2013★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 60 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2011★ 1 cited

Modeling phase-separated transition-edge sensors in SuperCDMS detectors

A. J. Anderson, S. W. Leman, T. Doughty +4

The SuperCDMS experiment implements transition-edge sensors to measure athermal phonons produced by nuclear recoils in Ge crystals. We discuss a numerical simulation of these TES d…

physics.ins-det2011★ 2 cited

Simulations of Noise in Phase-Separated Transition-Edge Sensors for SuperCDMS

A. J. Anderson, S. W. Leman, M. Pyle +5

We briefly review a simple model of superconducting-normal phase-separation in transition-edge sensors in the SuperCDMS experiment. After discussing some design considerations rele…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 4 cited

Validation of Phonon Physics in the CDMS Detector Monte Carlo

K. A. McCarthy, S. W. Leman, A. J. Anderson +19

The SuperCDMS collaboration is a dark matter search effort aimed at detecting the scattering of WIMP dark matter from nuclei in cryogenic germanium targets. The CDMS Detector Monte…

physics.ins-det2011★ 1 cited

Time Evolution of Electric Fields in CDMS Detectors

S. W. Leman, D. Brandt, P. L. Brink +19

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) utilizes large mass, 3" diameter x 1" thick target masses as particle detectors. The target is instrumented with both phonon and ionization…