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Photoelectric absorption cross section of silicon near the band gap from room temperature to sub-Kelvin temperature
C. Stanford, M. J. Wilson, B. Cabrera +6
The use of cryogenic silicon as a detector medium for dark matter searches is gaining popularity. Many of these searches are highly dependent on the value of the photoelectric abso…
High-field Spatial Imaging of Charge Transport in Silicon at Low Temperature
C. Stanford, R. A. Moffatt, N. A. Kurinsky +9
We present direct imaging measurements of charge transport across a 1 cm x 1 cm x 4 mm-thick crystal of high purity silicon (15 k-cm) at temperatures of 5 K and 500 mK. We…
Spatial Imaging of Charge Transport in Silicon at Low Temperature
R. A. Moffatt, N. A. Kurinsky, C. Stanford +10
We present direct imaging measurements of charge transport across a 1 cm 1 cm 4 mm crystal of high purity silicon (20 kcm) at temperatures between 500 mK a…
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…
Thermal detection of single e-h pairs in a biased silicon crystal detector
R. K. Romani, P. L. Brink, B. Cabrera +11
We demonstrate that individual electron-hole pairs are resolved in a 1 cm by 4 mm thick silicon crystal (0.93 g) operated at 35 mK. One side of the detector is patterned…
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…
Wireless Power Transfer by Means of Electromagnetic Radiation Within an Enclosed Space
Robert A. Moffatt
In this paper, wireless power transfer by means of electromagnetic radiation is investigated. Formulas are derived for the efficiency of the power transfer in free space, in the pr…
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…
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…
Imaging the Oblique Propagation of Electrons in Germanium Crystals at Low Temperature and Low Electric Field
R. A. Moffatt, B. Cabrera, B. M. Corcoran +11
Excited electrons in the conduction band of germanium collect into four energy minima, or valleys, in momentum space. These local minima have highly anisotropic mass tensors which…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Measurement Of Quasiparticle Transport In Aluminum Films Using Tungsten Transition-Edge Sensors
J. J. Yen, B. Shank, B. A. Young +8
We report new experimental studies to understand the physics of phonon sensors which utilize quasiparticle diffusion in thin aluminum films into tungsten transition-edge-sensors (T…
Nonlinear Optimal Filter Technique For Analyzing Energy Depositions In TES Sensors Driven Into Saturation
B. Shank, J. J. Yen, B. Cabrera +7
We present a detailed thermal and electrical model of superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs) connected to quasiparticle (qp) traps, such as the W TESs connected to Al qp tr…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Oblique propagation of electrons in crystals of germanium and silicon at sub-Kelvin temperature in low electric fields
B. Cabrera, M. Pyle, R. Moffatt +2
We show that oblique propagation of electrons in crystals of Ge and Si, where the electron velocity does not follow the electric field even on average, can be explained using stand…