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most citedFirst Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector

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physics.ins-det2020★ 44 cited

Design and Characterization of a Phonon-Mediated Cryogenic Particle Detector with an eV-Scale Threshold and 100 keV-Scale Dynamic Range

R. Ren, C. Bathurst, Y. Y. Chang +27

We present the design and characterization of a cryogenic phonon-sensitive 1-gram Si detector exploiting the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect to detect single-charge excitations. This…

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 5 cited

Photoelectric absorption cross section of silicon near the band gap from room temperature to sub-Kelvin temperature

C. Stanford, M. J. Wilson, B. Cabrera +6

The use of cryogenic silicon as a detector medium for dark matter searches is gaining popularity. Many of these searches are highly dependent on the value of the photoelectric abso…

nucl-ex2020★ 59 cited

Limits on the Existence of sub-MeV Sterile Neutrinos from the Decay of Be in Superconducting Quantum Sensors

S. Friedrich, G. B. Kim, C. Bray +14

Sterile neutrinos are natural extensions to the standard model of particle physics and provide a possible portal to the dark sector. We report a new search for the existence of sub…

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.…

hep-ex2020★ 174 cited

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

SuperCDMS Collaboration, D. W. Amaral, T. Aralis +116

This article presents an analysis and the resulting limits on light dark matter inelastically scattering off of electrons, and on dark photon and axion-like particle absorption, us…

nucl-ex2020

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…

physics.ins-det2019★ 14 cited

Measuring the Impact Ionization and Charge Trapping Probabilities in SuperCDMS HVeV Phonon Sensing Detectors

F. Ponce, W. Page, P. L. Brink +12

A 0.93 gram cm SuperCDMS silicon HVeV detector operated at 30 mK was illuminated by 1.91 eV photons using a room temperature pulsed laser coupled to the…

hep-ex2019★ 74 cited

Constraints on dark photons and axion-like particles from SuperCDMS Soudan

SuperCDMS Collaboration, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki +104

We present an analysis of electron recoils in cryogenic germanium detectors operated during the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment. The data are used to set new constraints on the axioele…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 4 cited

High-field Spatial Imaging of Charge Transport in Silicon at Low Temperature

C. Stanford, R. A. Moffatt, N. A. Kurinsky +9

We present direct imaging measurements of charge transport across a 1 cm x 1 cm x 4 mm-thick crystal of high purity silicon (15 k-cm) at temperatures of 5 K and 500 mK. We…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 126 cited

Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with CDMSlite Using a Profile Likelihood Fit

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aralis +100

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) searches for interactions between dark matter particles and germanium nuclei in cryogenic detectors.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 18 cited

Spatial Imaging of Charge Transport in Silicon at Low Temperature

R. A. Moffatt, N. A. Kurinsky, C. Stanford +10

We present direct imaging measurements of charge transport across a 1 cm 1 cm 4 mm crystal of high purity silicon (20 kcm) at temperatures between 500 mK a…

physics.app-ph2018★ 18 cited

Demonstration of nonpolar m-plane vertical GaN-on-GaN p-n power diodes grown on free-standing GaN substrates

H. Fu, X. Zhang, K. Fu +10

This work demonstrates the first nonpolar vertical GaN on GaN pn power diodes grown on m-plane free standing substrates by MOCVD. The SEM and HRXRD results showed the good crystal…

hep-ex2018★ 304 cited

First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector

SuperCDMS Collaboration, R. Agnese, T. Aralis +99

We present the first limits on inelastic electron-scattering dark matter and dark photon absorption using a prototype SuperCDMS detector having a charge resolution of 0.1 electron-…

physics.ins-det2017★ 67 cited

Thermal detection of single e-h pairs in a biased silicon crystal detector

R. K. Romani, P. L. Brink, B. Cabrera +11

We demonstrate that individual electron-hole pairs are resolved in a 1 cm by 4 mm thick silicon crystal (0.93 g) operated at 35 mK. One side of the detector is patterned…