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20192025
most citedFirst results from the CRESST-III low-mass dark matter program

511 citations · 992 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

hep-ex2025

Description of CRESST-III lithium aluminate data

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58

Two detector modules with lithium aluminate targets were operated in the CRESST underground setup between February and June 2021. The data collected in this period was used to set…

physics.ins-det2025

Description of CRESST-II and CRESST-III pulse shape data

G. Angloher, S. Banik, D. Bartolot +62

A set of data from 68 cryogenic detectors operated in the CRESST dark matter search experiment between 2013 and 2019 was collected and labeled to train binary classifiers for data…

physics.ins-det2025★ 4 cited

Sub-keV Electron Recoil Calibration for Macroscopic Cryogenic Calorimeters using a Novel X-ray Fluorescence Source

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +61

Percent-level calibration of cryogenic macro-calorimeters with energy thresholds below 100~eV are crucial for light Dark Matter (DM) searches and reactor neutrino studies based on…

physics.ins-det2025★ 1 cited

Decoupling Pulse Tube Vibrations from a Dry Dilution Refrigerator at milli-Kelvin Temperatures

The NUCLEUS collaboration, A. Wex, J. Rothe +64

With the rising adoption of dry dilution refrigerators across scientific and industrial domains, there has been a pressing demand for highly efficient vibration decoupling systems…

astro-ph.CO2024

Constraints on self-interaction cross-sections of dark matter in universal bound states from direct detection

The CRESST Collaboration

Lambda- Cold Dark Matter (LambdaCDM) has been successful at explaining the large-scale structures in the universe but faces severe issues on smaller scales when compared to observa…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

First observation of single photons in a CRESST detector and new dark matter exclusion limits

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +56

The main goal of the CRESST-III experiment is the direct detection of dark matter particles via their scattering off target nuclei in cryogenic detectors. In this work we present t…

physics.ins-det2024★ 12 cited

DoubleTES detectors to investigate the CRESST low energy background: results from above-ground prototypes

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +55

In recent times, the sensitivity of low-mass direct dark matter searches has been limited by unknown low energy backgrounds close to the energy threshold of the experiments known a…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

A likelihood framework for cryogenic scintillating calorimeters used in the CRESST dark matter search

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +57

Cryogenic scintillating calorimeters are ultrasensitive particle detectors for rare event searches, particularly for the search for dark matter and the measurement of neutrino prop…

physics.ins-det2023

Optimal operation of cryogenic calorimeters through deep reinforcement learning

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +59

Cryogenic phonon detectors with transition-edge sensors achieve the best sensitivity to light dark matter-nucleus scattering in current direct detection dark matter searches. In su…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

Detector development for the CRESST experiment

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +55

Recently low-mass dark matter direct searches have been hindered by a low energy background, drastically reducing the physics reach of the experiments. In the CRESST-III experiment…

astro-ph.IM2023

17O enrichment of CaWO4 crystals for spin-dependent DM search

Angelina Kinast, Andreas Erb, Stefan Schönert +2

For many years, various experiments have attempted to shed light on the nature of dark matter (DM). This work investigates the possibility of using CaWO4 crystals for the direct se…

physics.ins-det2023

A Plastic Scintillation Muon Veto for Sub-Kelvin Temperatures

A. Erhart, V. Wagner, A. Wex +59

Rare-event search experiments located on-surface, such as short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments, are often limited by muon-induced background events. Highly efficient muon ve…

physics.ins-det2023

High-Dimensional Bayesian Likelihood Normalisation for CRESST's Background Model

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +59

Using CaWO crystals as cryogenic calorimeters, the CRESST experiment searches for nuclear recoils caused by the scattering of potential Dark Matter particles. A reliable identi…

physics.ins-det2023

Study of collision and -cascade times following neutron-capture processes in cryogenic detectors

CRAB collaboration, G. Soum-Sidikov, H. Abele +47

The emission of -rays after a neutron capture in a cryogenic detector can generate mono-energetic nuclear recoils in the sub-keV regime, of direct interest for the calibration o…

physics.ins-det2023★ 9 cited

Observation of a low energy nuclear recoil peak in the neutron calibration data of the CRESST-III Experiment

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +58

New-generation direct searches for low mass dark matter feature detection thresholds at energies well below 100 eV, much lower than the energies of commonly used X-ray calibration…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 43 cited

Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a 10 eV Threshold CRESST-III Silicon Detector

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +59

We present limits on the spin-independent interaction cross section of dark matter particles with silicon nuclei, derived from data taken with a cryogenic calorimeter with 0.35 g t…

physics.ins-det2022

Exploring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor neutrinos with the NUCLEUS experiment

The NUCLEUS collaboration, C. Goupy, H. Abele +59

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to perform a high-precision measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) at the EdF Chooz B nuclear power plant in France. CEvNS…

nucl-ex2022★ 20 cited

Observation of a nuclear recoil peak at the 100 eV scale induced by neutron capture

CRAB Collaboration, NUCLEUS Collaboration, H. Abele +75

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and low-mass Dark Matter detectors rely crucially on the understanding of their response to nuclear recoils. We report the first observ…

physics.ins-det2022★ 13 cited

Towards an automated data cleaning with deep learning in CRESST

G. Angloher, S. Banik, D. Bartolot +62

The CRESST experiment employs cryogenic calorimeters for the sensitive measurement of nuclear recoils induced by dark matter particles. The recorded signals need to undergo a caref…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

Secular Equilibrium Assessment in a Target Crystal from the Dark Matter Experiment CRESST using Bayesian Likelihood Normalisation

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58

CRESST is a leading direct detection sub- dark matter experiment. During its second phase, cryogenic bolometers were used to detect nuclear recoils off the $\ma…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 39 cited

Testing spin-dependent dark matter interactions with lithium aluminate targets in CRESST-III

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58

In the past decades, numerous experiments have emerged to unveil the nature of dark matter, one of the most discussed open questions in modern particle physics. Among them, the CRE…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 24 cited

Latest observations on the low energy excess in CRESST-III

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +57

The CRESST experiment observes an unexplained excess of events at low energies. In the current CRESST-III data-taking campaign we are operating detector modules with different desi…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering: Terrestrial and astrophysical applications

M. Abdullah, H. Abele, D. Akimov +272

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) is a process in which neutrinos scatter on a nucleus which acts as a single particle. Though the total cross section is large…

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…