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20192026
most citedFirst results from the CRESST-III low-mass dark matter program

511 citations · 1.1k across the 52 of their papers we have counts for

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54 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Development and Commissioning of the Cryogenic Target Detectors for the Technical Run of the NUCLEUS Experiment

N. Schermer, H. Abele, G. Angloher +57

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to study coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) of reactor electron antineutrinos at the Chooz nuclear power plant in France. In this wo…

physics.ins-det2026

Optimization studies of silicon remoTES cryogenic calorimeters

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Boehmer +42

The remoTES design, developed within the COSINUS experiment, enables a broader range of materials to be operated as cryogenic calorimeters read out with Transition Edge Sensors (TE…

physics.ins-det2026

Sensitivity enhancement techniques for cryogenic calorimeters in the NUCLEUS experiment

M. Cappelli, A. Wallach, H. Abele +62

Phonon-mediated cryogenic calorimeters find application in rare event searches due to their intrinsically low energy threshold. Achieving optimal sensitivity for these kinds of det…

hep-ph2026

Cosmic Ray Boosted Dark Matter in COSINUS: Modeling and Constraints

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +41

Direct detection of nuclear recoils due to sub-GeV dark matter is challenging because of the small kinetic energy of the light dark matter particles. Although limits down to a few…

physics.ins-det2026

ImpCresst -- A versatile simulation tool focusing on solid-state detectors at keV energies

G. Angloher, S. Banik, A. Bento +57

We present ImpCresst, a Geant4-based Monte Carlo tool to simulate backgrounds from natural and cosmogenic radionuclides, and calibration signals in solid-state detectors and their…

hep-ex2026

Prospect of the NUCLEUS Experiment at Chooz for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and New Physics Searches

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +62

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to measure coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) at unprecedentedly low nuclear recoil energies using gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters…

physics.ins-det2026

Characterization of the Low Energy Excess using a NUCLEUS AlO detector

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +62

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos using low-threshold, gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters. Similar to other…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Defect Formation in NaI Crystals: A Novel Pathway to Dark Matter Detection

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +44

Sodium iodide (NaI) is a widely used scintillator in direct dark matter searches. In particular, NaI-based cryogenic scintillating calorimeters have emerged as promising candidates…

physics.ins-det2025

Observation of two nuclear recoil peaks induced by neutron capture on Al2O3

H. Abele, P. Ajello, B. Arnold +43

We report the observation of two nuclear recoil peaks induced by neutron capture on aluminum in a cryogenic AlO detector developed by the NUCLEUS collaboration for the dete…

physics.ins-det2025

Quenching factors for Na recoils as a function of Tl dopant concentrations in NaI(Tl) crystals

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +51

Thallium-doped sodium iodide (NaI(Tl)) scintillation detectors play an important role in the field of direct dark matter (DM) searches. The DAMA/LIBRA experiment stands out for its…

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★ 2 cited

Particle background characterization and prediction for the NUCLEUS reactor CENS experiment

H. Abele, G. Anglogher, B. Arnold +57

NUCLEUS is a cryogenic detection experiment which aims to measure Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENS) and to search for new physics at the Chooz nuclear power pl…

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…

hep-ex2025★ 5 cited

Commissioning of the NUCLEUS Experiment at the Technical University of Munich

H. Abele, G. Angloher, B. Arnold +57

The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering of reactor antineutrinos on CaWO targets in the fully coherent regime, using gram-scale cryog…

physics.ins-det2025

COSINUS -- a model-independent challenge of the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter claim with cryogenic NaI detectors operated in a new low-background facility

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +40

Low-temperature detectors are a powerful technology for dark matter search, offering excellent energy resolution and low energy thresholds. COSINUS is the only experiment that comb…

physics.ins-det2025

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

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

The current generation of cryogenic solid state detectors used in direct dark matter and CE\textnu NS searches typically reach energy thresholds of (10)eV for nucl…

physics.ins-det2025

The CRAB facility at the TU Wien TRIGA reactor: status and related physics program

H. Abele, P. Ajello, A. Armatol +51

The CRAB (Calibrated nuclear Recoils for Accurate Bolometry) project aims to precisely characterize the response of cryogenic detectors to sub-keV nuclear recoils of direct interes…

astro-ph.CO2025

The CRESST experiment: towards the next-generation of sub-GeV direct dark matter detection

G. Angloher, S. Banik, A. Bento +54

Direct detection experiments have established the most stringent constraints on potential interactions between particle candidates for relic, thermal dark matter and Standard Model…

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…

hep-ph2025

COSINUS model-independent sensitivity to the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter signal

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +40

COSINUS is a dark matter direct detection experiment using NaI crystals as cryogenic scintillating calorimeters. If no signal is observed, this will constrain the dark matter scatt…

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.HE2024★ 2 cited

Neutrino flux sensitivity to the next galactic core-collapse supernova in COSINUS

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, M. Cababie +39

While neutrinos are often treated as a background for many dark matter experiments, these particles offer a new avenue for physics: the detection of core-collapse supernovae. Super…

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…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Water Cherenkov muon veto for the COSINUS experiment: design and simulation optimization

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, M. Cababie +36

COSINUS is a dark matter (DM) direct search experiment that uses sodium iodide (NaI) crystals as cryogenic calorimeters. Thanks to the low nuclear recoil energy threshold and event…