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Particle Physics Driven by Quantum Technology - Quantum Simulations and Quantum Sensing
Itay M. Bloch, Marcela Carena, Yifan Chen +3
We review recent advances in particle physics enabled and motivated by the rapid progress of quantum technologies. The continued development of quantum computing toward large-scale…
Halbach Magnetic Weber Bars
Valerie Domcke, Itay M. Bloch
Magnetic Weber Bars have been proposed to search for gravitational waves in the kHz to GHz regime by exploiting the mechanical deformation of a large magnet induced by a gravitatio…
Dark Matter Detection Using Phonon Sensing in Amorphous Materials
Itay M. Bloch, Simon Knapen, Xinran Li +2
We present a concept for a tabletop-scale detector with an amorphous target designed to search for dark matter absorption into phonon excitations. In crystalline materials, absorpt…
The COSMIC WISPers White Paper: The physics case for Weakly Interacting Slim Particles
Ariel Arza, Deniz Aybas, Shyam Balaji +124
Axions and other very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs), with masses below 1 GeV, arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In particula…
NASDUCK': Laboratory Limits on Ultralight Dark-Photon Dark Matter with Null-Axis Magnetometry
Joel Barir, Itay M. Bloch, Yair Goldszeft +4
The dark photon is a well-motivated ultralight dark-matter candidate that may couple to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing. We search for dark-photon dark matter in the mass…
Earth Matter Enhanced Axion Dark Matter Search
Xiaofei Huang, Xiaolin Ma, Zitong Xu +2
Laboratory searches for ultralight axion dark matter (DM) have traditionally assumed the terrestrial density of axions is equal to the average density of DM in the solar system. Ho…
SENSEI: A Search for Diurnal Modulation in sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering
Itay M. Bloch, Ana M. Botti, Mariano Cababie +28
Dark matter particles with sufficiently large interactions with ordinary matter can scatter in the Earth's atmosphere and crust before reaching an underground detector. This Earth-…
Momentum and Matter Matter for Axion Dark Matter Matters on Earth
Abhishek Banerjee, Itay M. Bloch, Quentin Bonnefoy +5
We investigate the implications of matter effects to searches for axion Dark Matter on Earth. The finite momentum of axion Dark Matter is crucial to elucidating the effects of Eart…
Broadband phonon production from axion absorption
Itay M. Bloch, Simon Knapen, Amalia Madden +1
We show that axion dark matter in the range meV 100 meV can incoherently excite phonons in crystal targets with unpolarised nuclear spins. This can occur thr…
SENSEI at SNOLAB: Single-Electron Event Rate and Implications for Dark Matter
Itay M. Bloch, Ana M. Botti, Mariano Cababie +27
We present results from data acquired by the SENSEI experiment at SNOLAB after a major upgrade in May 2023, which includes deploying 16 new sensors and replacing the copper trays t…
A Rotating-Wave Comagnetometer Detector for Particle Physics
Itay M. Bloch, Or Katz
Many extensions of the Standard Model propose the existence of new particles or forces, aiming to answer mysteries such as the identity of the elusive dark matter. Atomic-based det…
Looking for WIMPs through the neutrino fogs
Itay M. Bloch, Salvatore Bottaro, Diego Redigolo +1
We revisit the expected sensitivity of large-scale xenon detectors to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Assuming current primary noise sources can be mitigated, we find…
SENSEI: First Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from SENSEI at SNOLAB
SENSEI Collaboration, Prakruth Adari, Itay M. Bloch +34
We present the first results from a dark matter search using six Skipper-CCDs in the SENSEI detector operating at SNOLAB. We employ a bias-mitigation technique of hiding approximat…
Curl up with a good : Detecting ultralight dark matter with differential magnetometry
Itay M. Bloch, Saarik Kalia
Ultralight dark matter (such as kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter or axionlike dark matter) can source an oscillating magnetic-field signal at the Earth's surface, which ca…
A Hunt for Magnetic Signatures of Hidden-Photon and Axion Dark Matter in the Wilderness
Ibrahim A. Sulai, Saarik Kalia, Ariel Arza +17
Earth can act as a transducer to convert ultralight bosonic dark matter (axions and hidden photons) into an oscillating magnetic field with a characteristic pattern across its surf…
Confirmation of the spectral excess in DAMIC at SNOLAB with skipper CCDs
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, I. Arnquist, N. Avalos +69
We present results from a 3.25 kg-day target exposure of two silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs), each with 24 megapixels and skipper readout, deployed in the DAMIC setup at SNOL…
SENSEI: Search for Millicharged Particles produced in the NuMI Beam
Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Ana M. Botti +28
Millicharged particles appear in several extensions of the Standard Model, but have not yet been detected. These hypothetical particles could be produced by an intense proton beam…
Scalar dark matter induced oscillation of permanent-magnet field
I. M. Bloch, D. Budker, V. V. Flambaum +3
Scalar-field dark matter models imply small oscillations of fundamental constants. These oscillations could result in observable variations of the magnetic field in a permanent mag…
Noise Injection Node Regularization for Robust Learning
Noam Levi, Itay M. Bloch, Marat Freytsis +1
We introduce Noise Injection Node Regularization (NINR), a method of injecting structured noise into Deep Neural Networks (DNN) during the training stage, resulting in an emergent…
Noise Injection as a Probe of Deep Learning Dynamics
Noam Levi, Itay Bloch, Marat Freytsis +1
We propose a new method to probe the learning mechanism of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) by perturbing the system using Noise Injection Nodes (NINs). These nodes inject uncorrelated n…
Constraints on axion-like dark matter from a SERF comagnetometer
Itay M. Bloch, Roy Shaham, Yonit Hochberg +3
Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated relics that might compose the cosmological dark matter and source anomalous time-dependent magnetic fields. We report on terrestr…
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…
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of low-threshold dark matter direct detection in the next decade
Rouven Essig, Graham K. Giovanetti, Noah Kurinsky +90
The search for particle-like dark matter with meV-to-GeV masses has developed rapidly in the past few years. We summarize the science case for these searches, the recent progress,…
Publishing statistical models: Getting the most out of particle physics experiments
Kyle Cranmer, Sabine Kraml, Harrison B. Prosper +30
The statistical models used to derive the results of experimental analyses are of incredible scientific value and are essential information for analysis preservation and reuse. In…