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Aluminum-Based Superconducting Tunnel Junction Sensors for Nuclear Recoil Spectroscopy
Spencer L. Fretwell, Connor Bray, Inwook Kim +31
The BeEST experiment is searching for sub-MeV sterile neutrinos by measuring nuclear recoil energies from the decay of Be implanted into superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) s…
Backscattering Study of Electrons from 0.1 to 3.4 MeV
M. Kanafani, X. Fléchard, O. Naviliat-Cuncic +10
Benchmarking simulation codes for electron transport and scattering in matter is a crucial step for estimating uncertainties in many applications. However, experimental data for el…
Magneto-: Heavy neutral lepton search using Pu decays
C. Lee, X. Zhang, A. Kavner +12
The MAGNETO- experiment searches for keV-scale heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) through precise measurements of the -decay spectrum of Pu. We present spectra comprising…
High-Precision Excited-State Nuclear Recoil Spectroscopy with Superconducting Sensors
C. Bray, S. Fretwell, L. A. Zepeda-Ruiz +30
Superconducting sensors doped with rare isotopes have recently demonstrated powerful sensing performance for sub-keV radiation from nuclear decay. Here, we report the first high-re…
The Data Acquisition System for Phase-III of the BeEST Experiment
C. Bray, S. Fretwell, I. Kim +27
The BeEST experiment is a precision laboratory search for physics beyond the standard model that measures the electron capture decay of Be implanted into superconducting tunnel…
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…
Precise determination of Pb Decay Spectrum at 0 keV and its Implication to Theoretical Calculations
Shuo Zhang, Xavier Mougeot, Hao-Ran Liu +12
The atomic exchange effect will lead to a significant increase in the probability density of decays below a few keV. This effect is very important for scientific experiments th…
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…
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…
Proposal for Measurement of the Two-body Neutron Decay using Microcalorimeter
Zhang Shuo, Xavier Mougeot, Wang Song-Lin +5
The bound beta-decay (BoB) of neutron is also known as the two-body neutron decay, which is a rare decay mode into a hydrogen atom and an anti-neutrino. The state of neutrino can b…
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-…
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…
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…
Influence of atomic modeling on electron capture and shaking processes
A. Andoche, L. Mouawad, P. -A. Hervieux +3
Ongoing experimental efforts to measure with unprecedented precision electron-capture probabilities challenges the current theoretical models. The short range of the weak interacti…
Calibration of the liquid argon ionization response to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils with DarkSide-50
The DarkSide collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. M. Albuquerque +136
DarkSide-50 has demonstrated the high potential of dual-phase liquid argon time projection chambers in exploring interactions of WIMPs in the GeV/c mass range. The technique, b…
Improved calculations of beta decay backgrounds to new physics in liquid xenon detectors
Scott Haselschwardt, Joel Kostensalo, Xavier Mougeot +1
We present high-precision theoretical predictions for the electron energy spectra for the ground-state to ground-state decays of Pb, Pb, and Kr most rele…
Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T
E. Aprile, J. Aalbers, F. Agostini +136
We report results from searches for new physics with low-energy electronic recoil data recorded with the XENON1T detector. With an exposure of 0.65 t-y and an unprecedentedly low b…
Direct measurement of the Be capture ratio in Ta-based superconducting tunnel junctions
S. Fretwell, K. G. Leach, C. Bray +8
We report a high-statistics measurement of the orbital electron capture (EC) ratio in Be embedded in cryogenic Ta. The thin Ta film formed part of a high-resolution super…