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Searching for millicharged particles with 1 kg of Skipper-CCDs using the NuMI beam at Fermilab
Santiago Perez, Dario Rodrigues, Juan Estrada +57
Oscura is a planned light-dark matter search experiment using Skipper-CCDs with a total active mass of 10 kg. As part of the detector development, the collaboration plans to build…
Skipper-CCD Sensors for the Oscura Experiment: Requirements and Preliminary Tests
Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara, Santiago Perez, Juan Estrada +52
Oscura is a proposed multi-kg skipper-CCD experiment designed for a dark matter (DM) direct detection search that will reach unprecedented sensitivity to sub-GeV DM-electron intera…
The Oscura Experiment
Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Fabricio Alcalde Bessia, Nicolas Avalos +41
The Oscura experiment will lead the search for low-mass dark matter particles using a very large array of novel silicon Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) with a threshold of two electr…
Search for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at a nuclear reactor with CONNIE 2019 data
CONNIE collaboration, Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Javier Bernal +33
The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) is taking data at the Angra 2 nuclear reactor with the aim of detecting the coherent elastic scattering of reactor ant…
Latin American HECAP Physics Briefing Book
H. Aihara, A. Aranda, R. Camacho Toro +20
For the first time the scientific community in Latin America working at the forefront of research in high energy, cosmology and astroparticle physics (HECAP) have come together to…
Construction of precision wire readout planes for the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND)
R. Acciarri, C. Adams, C. Andreopoulos +192
The Short-Baseline Near Detector time projection chamber is unique in the design of its charge readout planes. These anode plane assemblies (APAs) have been fabricated and assemble…
Search for light mediators in the low-energy data of the CONNIE reactor neutrino experiment
Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Xavier Bertou, Carla Bonifazi +23
The CONNIE experiment is located at a distance of 30 m from the core of a commercial nuclear reactor, and has collected a 3.7 kg-day exposure using a CCD detector array sensitive t…
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…
Exploring low-energy neutrino physics with the Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE)
Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Xavier Bertou, Carla Bonifazi +30
The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) uses low-noise fully depleted charge-coupled devices (CCDs) with the goal of measuring low-energy recoils from coheren…
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…
A measurement of the ionization efficiency of nuclear recoils in silicon
F. Izraelevitch, D. Amidei, A. Aprahamian +26
We have measured the ionization efficiency of silicon nuclear recoils with kinetic energy between 1.8 and 20 keV. We bombarded a silicon-drift diode with a neutron beam to perform…
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…
The CONNIE experiment
CONNIE Collaboration, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, X. Bertou +28
The CONNIE experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs as particle detectors in an attempt to measure for the first time the Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering…
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…
Results of the engineering run of the Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE)
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, X. Bertou, C. Bonifazi +25
The CONNIE detector prototype is operating at a distance of 30 m from the core of a 3.8 GW nuclear reactor with the goal of establishing Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD) as…
The DAMIC dark matter experiment
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, X. Bertou +30
The DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment uses high resistivity, scientific grade CCDs to search for dark matter. The CCD's low electronic noise allows an unprecedently low energy…
Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment
DAMIC Collaboration, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei +31
The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold 50 eV, and excellent energy and spatial r…
Measurement of radioactive contamination in the high-resistivity silicon CCDs of the DAMIC experiment
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, X. Bertou +30
We present measurements of radioactive contamination in the high-resistivity silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs) used by the DAMIC experiment to search for dark matter particles.…
DAMIC at SNOLAB
Alvaro Chavarria, Javier Tiffenberg, Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo +19
We introduce the fully-depleted charge-coupled device (CCD) as a particle detector. We demonstrate its low energy threshold operation, capable of detecting ionizing energy depositi…
Charge Coupled Devices for detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering
Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Juan Estrada, Gustavo Cancelo +3
This article details the potential for using Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) to detect low-energy neutrinos through their coherent scattering with nuclei. The detection of neutrinos t…
DAMIC: a novel dark matter experiment
The DAMIC Collaboration, Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Xavier Bertou +17
DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) is a novel dark matter experiment that has unique sensitivity to dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV. Due to its low electronic readout noise…
Plasma effect in Silicon Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs)
Juan Estrada, Jorge Molina, J. Blostein +1
Plasma effect is observed in CCDs exposed to heavy ionizing alpha-particles with energies in the range 0.5 - 5.5 MeV. The results obtained for the size of the charge clusters recon…
Direct Search for Low Mass Dark Matter Particles with CCDs
J. Barreto, H. Cease, H. T. Diehl +9
A direct dark matter search is performed using fully-depleted high-resistivity CCD detectors . Due to their low electronic readout noise (RMS ~ 7 eV) these devices operate with a v…