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most citedConstraints on low-mass, relic dark matter candidates from a surface-operated SuperCDMS single-charge sensitive detector

174 citations · 858 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

physics.ins-det2026

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…

nucl-ex2025

CENS Search with Cryogenic Sapphire Detectors at MINER: Results from the TRIGA reactor data and Future Sensitivity at HFIR

D. Mondal, W. Baker, M. Chaudhuri +20

We report on a search for coherent elastic neutrino--nucleus scattering (CENS) using cryogenic sapphire (AlO) detectors deployed at the Mitchell Institute Neutrino Exper…

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

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…

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-ex2025

The Making of a Community Dark Matter Dataset with the National Science Data Fabric

Amy Roberts, Jack Marquez, Kin Hong NG +9

Dark matter is believed to constitute approximately 85 percent of the universes matter, yet its fundamental nature remains elusive. Direct detection experiments, though globally de…

hep-ex2025

MINER Reactor Based Search for Axion-Like Particles Using Sapphire (Al2O3) Detectors

M. Mirzakhani, W. Baker, M. Chaudhuri +20

The absence of definitive results for WIMP dark matter has sparked growing interest in alternative dark matter candidates, such as axions and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs), which als…

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…

physics.ins-det2024★ 4 cited

Measurement of Low Energy Nuclear Recoil Events with the phonon-mediated Voltage-Assisted Hybrid Detector for Rare Event Searches

Sandro Maludze, Mahdi Mirzakhani, William Baker +7

The phonon-mediated hybrid detector is made out of a monolithic silicon crystal characterized by two interconnected regions linked through a narrow neck. Operating solely on phonon…

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…

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★ 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★ 10 cited

Large-mass, low-threshold sapphire detector for rare event searches

S. Verma, S. Maludze, M. Lee +12

Low mass nuclear recoil dark matter and coherent-elastic-neutrino-nucleus-scattering (CENNS) searches confront similar challenges in choosing ultra-low threshold and large-mass det…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 99 cited

EXCESS workshop: Descriptions of rising low-energy spectra

P. Adari, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei +303

Many low-threshold experiments observe sharply rising event rates of yet unknown origins below a few hundred eV, and larger than expected from known backgrounds. Due to the signifi…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

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…

hep-ex2022★ 3 cited

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

SuperCDMS Collaboration, Musaab Al-Bakry, Imran Alkhatib +128

In this paper, we present a re-analysis of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood approach to search for sub-GeV dark matter particles (DM) through two inelastic scattering chan…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

A novel active veto prototype detector with an inner target for improved rare event searches

M. Chaudhuri, A. Jastram, G. Agnolet +13

We report the fabrication and performance of an annular, cryogenic, phonon-mediated veto detector that can host an inner target detector, allowing substantial reduction in radiogen…

physics.ins-det2022★ 17 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 22 cited

First Leptophobic Dark Matter Search from Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. S. M. Alves, S. Biedron +48

We report the first results of a search for leptophobic dark matter (DM) from the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) liquid argon (LAr) detector. An engineering run with 120 photomultipl…

hep-ex2021★ 56 cited

First Dark Matter Search Results From Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, S. Biedron, J. Boissevain +47

This paper describes the operation of the Coherent CAPTAIN-Mills (CCM) detector located at the Lujan Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). CCM i…

hep-ex2020★ 10 cited

Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite

SuperCDMS Collaboration, I. Alkhatib, D. W. P. Amaral +115

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sen…

physics.ins-det2020★ 9 cited

Large-mass single-electron-resolution detector for dark matter and neutrino elastic interaction searches

V. Iyer, N. Mirabolfathi, G. Agnolet +10

Large mass single-electron-resolution solid state detectors are desirable to search for low mass dark matter candidates and to measure coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering…

hep-ex2020★ 136 cited

Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated Above Ground

I. Alkhatib, D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis +121

We present limits on spin-independent dark matter-nucleon interactions using a Si athermal phonon detector with a baseline energy resolution of $σ_E=3.86 \pm 0.…