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

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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★ 8 cited

Particle discrimination in a NaI crystal using the COSINUS remote TES design

COSINUS Collaboration, G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj +38

The COSINUS direct dark matter experiment situated at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy is set to investigate the nature of the annually modulating signal detected by th…

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★ 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…

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…

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…