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most citedConstraints on Light Dark Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons from DAMIC at SNOLAB

248 citations · 732 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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hep-ex2023★ 117 cited

First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons

I. Arnquist, N. Avalos, D. Baxter +42

We report constraints on sub-GeV dark matter particles interacting with electrons from the first underground operation of DAMIC-M detectors. The search is performed with an integra…

physics.ins-det2022★ 24 cited

Precision measurement of Compton scattering in silicon with a skipper CCD for dark matter detection

D. Norcini, N. Castello-Mor, D. Baxter +41

Experiments aiming to directly detect dark matter through particle recoils can achieve energy thresholds of . In this regime, ionization signals from s…

hep-ex2021★ 2 cited

Characterization of the background spectrum in DAMIC at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, I. Arnquist +31

We construct the first comprehensive radioactive background model for a dark matter search with charge-coupled devices (CCDs). We leverage the well-characterized depth and energy r…

astro-ph.CO2021

Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from a 11 kg d Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB (ICRC2021 Proceedings)

Michelangelo Traina

Experimental efforts of the last decades have been unsuccessful in detecting WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) in the 10-to-10 GeV/ range, thus motivating the s…

physics.ins-det2020★ 19 cited

Measurement of the bulk radioactive contamination of detector-grade silicon with DAMIC at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, D. Baxter +28

We present measurements of bulk radiocontaminants in the high-resistivity silicon CCDs from the DAMIC at SNOLAB experiment. We utilize the exquisite spatial resolution of CCDs to d…

physics.ins-det2020★ 26 cited

Cosmogenic activation of silicon

R. Saldanha, R. Thomas, R. H. M. Tsang +10

The production of H, Be, and Na by interactions of cosmic-ray particles with silicon can produce radioactive backgrounds in detectors used to search for rare eve…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 248 cited

Constraints on Light Dark Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons from DAMIC at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, D. Baxter +31

We report direct-detection constraints on light dark matter particles interacting with electrons. The results are based on a method that exploits the extremely low levels of leakag…

physics.ins-det2017★ 26 cited

Measurement of low energy ionization signals from Compton scattering in a CCD dark matter detector

K. Ramanathan, A. Kavner, A. E. Chavarria +8

An important source of background in direct searches for low-mass dark matter particles are the energy deposits by small-angle scattering of environmental rays. We report detai…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 100 cited

First Direct-Detection Constraints on eV-Scale Hidden-Photon Dark Matter with DAMIC at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, X. Bertou +35

We present direct detection constraints on the absorption of hidden-photon dark matter with particle masses in the range 1.2-30 eV with the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB. Unde…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 170 cited

Search for low-mass WIMPs in a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, X. Bertou +35

We present results of a dark matter search performed with a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. We measure the energy spectrum of ioni…