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20162026
most citedLow-Mass Dark Matter Search with the DarkSide-50 Experiment

443 citations · 3.1k across the 58 of their papers we have counts for

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52 papers

hep-ex2026

Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, B. J. Almquist +214

We report on a search for dark matter particles interacting with xenon nuclei in an exposure of 2.84 tonne-years with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment. An extended nuclear recoil ene…

quant-ph2026

Accelerating Surface Radiation Content to Investigate the Impact of Radon Progeny on Superconducting Qubits

Sagar S. Poudel, Dylan J. Temples, Ryan Linehan +8

Ionizing radiation in the form of , , , and additional high-energy particles can induce decoherence via phonon and quasiparticle poisoning in superconducting qubits. Recen…

physics.ins-det2026

Cosmogenic activation in detector materials at shallow depths

Sagar S. Poudel, Lekhraj Pandey, Robert Calkins +6

The radioactive decay from long-lived radioactive isotopes produced by cosmogenic activation can be an important background in direct-detection dark matter and neutrino experiments…

hep-ex2026

Measurement of the Muon Flux at the Sanford Underground Research Facility with the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector

D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi, F. Alder +209

High-energy cosmic-ray muons reaching deep underground laboratories can cause events in detectors that mimic signals expected from dark matter particles, neutrinos, or rare decays.…

hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

Search for low-mass electron-recoil dark matter using a single-charge sensitive SuperCDMS-HVeV Detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +146

We present constraints on low-mass dark matter electron scattering and absorption interactions using a SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution (HVeV) detector. Data were taken undergr…

physics.ins-det2025★ 5 cited

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…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Fermionic sub-GeV Dark Matter from evaporating Primordial Black Holes at DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. Albuquerque +125

We present a search for boosted dark matter from Primordial Black Holes (PBH) evaporation using the DarkSide-50 ionization-signal-only dataset corresponding to the experiment's ($1…

hep-ex2024★ 24 cited

Light Dark Matter Constraints from SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors Operated Underground with an Anticoincidence Event Selection

SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +139

This article presents constraints on dark-matter-electron interactions obtained from the first underground data-taking campaign with multiple SuperCDMS HVeV detectors operated in t…

hep-ex2023★ 3 cited

Long-term temporal stability of the DarkSide-50 dark matter detector

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +142

The stability of a dark matter detector on the timescale of a few years is a key requirement due to the large exposure needed to achieve a competitive sensitivity. It is especially…

physics.ins-det2023★ 2 cited

Subsurface cosmogenic and radiogenic production of ^{42}Ar

Sagar S. Poudel, Ben Loer, Richard Saldanha +2

Radioactive decays from ^{42}Ar and its progeny ^{42}K are potential background sources in large-scale liquid-argon-based neutrino and dark matter experiments. In the atmosphere, ^…

hep-ex2023★ 56 cited

A search for new physics in low-energy electron recoils from the first LZ exposure

The LZ Collaboration, J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib +200

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. We report searches for new physics appearing through few-keV-scale…

hep-ex2023★ 4 cited

Search for dark matter annual modulation with DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +142

Dark matter induced event rate in an Earth-based detector is predicted to show an annual modulation as a result of the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun. We searched for this m…

physics.ins-det2023★ 21 cited

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…

hep-ex2023★ 34 cited

A Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Bremsstrahlung Radiation and the Migdal Effect in SuperCDMS

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso +130

We present a new analysis of previously published of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood framework to search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles through two inelastic scat…

hep-ex2023

Search for low mass dark matter in DarkSide-50: the bayesian network approach

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +140

We present a novel approach for the search of dark matter in the DarkSide-50 experiment, relying on Bayesian Networks. This method incorporates the detector response model into the…

hep-ex2023★ 15 cited

Large Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

T. Bezerra, A. Borkum, E. Church +19

We find that it is possible to increase sensitivity to low energy physics in a third or fourth DUNE-like module with careful controls over radiopurity and targeted modifications to…

hep-ex2022★ 38 cited

Background Determination for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment

J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib, A. K. Al Musalhi +200

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recently reported limits on WIMP-nucleus interactions from its initial science run, down to cm for the spin-independent interactio…

hep-ex2022★ 92 cited

Search for dark matter particle interactions with electron final states with DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +140

We present a search for dark matter particles with sub-GeV/ masses whose interactions have final state electrons using the DarkSide-50 experiment's (12306 184) kg d low-…

hep-ex2022

Search for dark matter-nucleon interactions via Migdal effect with DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +141

Dark matter elastic scattering off nuclei can result in the excitation and ionization of the recoiling atom through the so-called Migdal effect. The energy deposition from the ioni…

hep-ex2022★ 4 cited

Search for low-mass dark matter WIMPs with 12 ton-day exposure of DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +139

We report on the search for dark matter WIMPs in the mass range below 10 GeV/c, from the analysis of the entire dataset acquired with a low-radioactivity argon target by the Da…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 4 cited

Effective Field Theory Analysis of CDMSlite Run 2 Data

SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +127

CDMSlite Run 2 was a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with a cryogenic 600 g Ge detector operated in a high-voltage mode to optimize sensitivity to WIMPs of…

hep-ex2022★ 2 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Calibrations and backgrounds for dark matter direct detection

Daniel Baxter, Raymond Bunker, Sally Shaw +48

Future dark matter direct detection experiments will reach unprecedented levels of sensitivity. Achieving this sensitivity will require more precise models of signal and background…

hep-ex2022★ 22 cited

Investigating the sources of low-energy events in a SuperCDMS-HVeV detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +126

Recent experiments searching for sub-GeV/ dark matter have observed event excesses close to their respective energy thresholds. Although specific to the individual technologie…

physics.ins-det2022★ 6 cited

Low Background kTon-Scale Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers

A. Avasthi, T. Bezerra, A. Borkum +28

We find that it is possible to increase sensitivity to low energy physics in a third or fourth DUNE-like module with careful controls over radiopurity and some modifications to a d…