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Calibration and Performance of Germanium High Voltage Detectors for SuperCDMS SNOLAB
M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso-González +141
As SuperCDMS SNOLAB is getting ready to search for low mass dark matter particles, using cryogenic Ge and Si detectors, a set of six of the new SuperCDMS High Voltage (HV) detector…
Multi-channel, multi-template event reconstruction for SuperCDMS data using machine learning
M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso-Gonzalez +139
SuperCDMS SNOLAB uses kilogram-scale germanium and silicon detectors to search for dark matter. Each detector has Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) patterned on the top and bottom fac…
Low-Energy Calibration of SuperCDMS HVeV Cryogenic Silicon Calorimeters Using Compton Steps
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +148
Cryogenic calorimeters for low-mass dark matter searches have achieved sub-eV energy resolutions, driving advances in both low-energy calibration techniques and our understanding o…
First measurement of the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon at 100 eV
M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso +137
We measured the nuclear--recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a mono-energetic beam scatter off of the silicon nu…
The level-1 trigger for the SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB
Jonathan S. Wilson, Hanno Meyer zu Theenhausen, Belina von Krosigk +15
The SuperCDMS SNOLAB dark matter search experiment aims to be sensitive to energy depositions down to O(1 eV). This imposes requirements on the resolution, signal efficiency, and n…
A Strategy for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors in the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Facility
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +125
The SuperCDMS Collaboration is currently building SuperCDMS SNOLAB, a dark matter search focused on nucleon-coupled dark matter in the 1-5 GeV/c mass range. Looking to the futu…
Ionization yield measurement in a germanium CDMSlite detector using photo-neutron sources
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +126
Two photo-neutron sources, YBe and SbBe, have been used to investigate the ionization yield of nuclear recoils in the CDMSlite germanium detectors by the…
Performance of a Large Area Photon Detector For Rare Event Search Applications
CPD Collaboration, C. W. Fink, S. L. Watkins +15
We present the design and characterization of a large-area Cryogenic PhotoDetector (CPD) designed for active particle identification in rare event searches, such as neutrinoless do…
Characterizing TES Power Noise for Future Single Optical-Phonon and Infrared-Photon Detectors
C. W. Fink, S. L. Watkins, T. Aramaki +14
In this letter, we present the performance of a tungsten (W) Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) with a critical temperature…
Modeling of Impact Ionization and Charge Trapping in SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors
F. Ponce, W. Page, P. L. Brink +12
A model for charge trapping and impact ionization, and an experiment to measure these parameters is presented for the SuperCDMS HVeV detector. A procedure to isolate and quantify t…
Measuring the Impact Ionization and Charge Trapping Probabilities in SuperCDMS HVeV Phonon Sensing Detectors
F. Ponce, W. Page, P. L. Brink +12
A 0.93 gram cm SuperCDMS silicon HVeV detector operated at 30 mK was illuminated by 1.91 eV photons using a room temperature pulsed laser coupled to the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Semiconductor phonon and charge transport Monte Carlo simulation using Geant4
D. Brandt, R. Agnese, P. Redl +9
A phonon and charge transport simulation based on the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit is presented. The transport code is capable of propagating acoustic phonons, electrons and holes in…
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…