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Search for low-mass electron-recoil dark matter using a single-charge sensitive SuperCDMS-HVeV Detector
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +146
We present constraints on low-mass dark matter electron scattering and absorption interactions using a SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution (HVeV) detector. Data were taken undergr…
Multi-channel, multi-template event reconstruction for SuperCDMS data using machine learning
M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso-Gonzalez +139
SuperCDMS SNOLAB uses kilogram-scale germanium and silicon detectors to search for dark matter. Each detector has Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) patterned on the top and bottom fac…
Community Report from the 2025 SNOLAB Future Projects Workshop
M. D. Diamond, P. Abbamonte, A. Arvanitaki +54
SNOLAB hosts a biannual Future Projects Workshop (FPW) with the goal of encouraging future project stakeholders to present ideas, concepts, and needs for experiments or programs th…
Low-Energy Calibration of SuperCDMS HVeV Cryogenic Silicon Calorimeters Using Compton Steps
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +148
Cryogenic calorimeters for low-mass dark matter searches have achieved sub-eV energy resolutions, driving advances in both low-energy calibration techniques and our understanding o…
Applying Geant4's Importance Biasing to improve the efficiency of SuperCDMS background simulations
B. Zatschler, A. J. Biffl, R. Calkins +6
Experiments searching for extremely rare events surround their sensitive detectors with several layers of different shielding materials to protect them from external radiation and…
Light Dark Matter Constraints from SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors Operated Underground with an Anticoincidence Event Selection
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +139
This article presents constraints on dark-matter-electron interactions obtained from the first underground data-taking campaign with multiple SuperCDMS HVeV detectors operated in t…
Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops
Joe Bramante, Melissa Diamond, Christopher V. Cappiello +1
Dark matter is typically assumed not to couple to the photon at tree level. While annihilation to photons through quark loops is often considered in indirect detection searches, su…
Multimessenger Constraints on Radiatively Decaying Axions from GW170817
Melissa Diamond, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Gustavo Marques-Tavares +2
The metastable hypermassive neutron star produced in the coalescence of two neutron stars can copiously produce axions that radiatively decay into ~MeV photons. T…
First measurement of the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon at 100 eV
M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso +137
We measured the nuclear--recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a mono-energetic beam scatter off of the silicon nu…
Axion-sourced fireballs from supernovae
Melissa Diamond, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Gustavo Marques-Tavares +1
New feebly interacting particles would emerge from a supernova core with 100-MeV-range energies and produce -rays by subsequent decays. These would contribute to the diffuse cos…
A Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Bremsstrahlung Radiation and the Migdal Effect in SuperCDMS
M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso +130
We present a new analysis of previously published of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood framework to search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles through two inelastic scat…
G4CMP: Condensed Matter Physics Simulation Using the Geant4 Toolkit
M. H. Kelsey, R. Agnese, Y. F. Alam +44
G4CMP simulates phonon and charge transport in cryogenic semiconductor crystals using the Geant4 toolkit. The transport code is capable of simulating the propagation of acoustic ph…
Effective Field Theory Analysis of CDMSlite Run 2 Data
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +127
CDMSlite Run 2 was a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with a cryogenic 600 g Ge detector operated in a high-voltage mode to optimize sensitivity to WIMPs of…
Investigating the sources of low-energy events in a SuperCDMS-HVeV detector
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +126
Recent experiments searching for sub-GeV/ dark matter have observed event excesses close to their respective energy thresholds. Although specific to the individual technologie…
A Strategy for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors in the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Facility
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +125
The SuperCDMS Collaboration is currently building SuperCDMS SNOLAB, a dark matter search focused on nucleon-coupled dark matter in the 1-5 GeV/c mass range. Looking to the futu…
A Search for Low-mass Dark Matter via Bremsstrahlung Radiation and the Migdal Effect in SuperCDMS
SuperCDMS Collaboration, Musaab Al-Bakry, Imran Alkhatib +128
In this paper, we present a re-analysis of SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood approach to search for sub-GeV dark matter particles (DM) through two inelastic scattering chan…
Ionization yield measurement in a germanium CDMSlite detector using photo-neutron sources
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +126
Two photo-neutron sources, YBe and SbBe, have been used to investigate the ionization yield of nuclear recoils in the CDMSlite germanium detectors by the…
Binary Collisions of Dark Matter Blobs
Melissa D. Diamond, David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran
We describe the model-independent mechanism by which dark matter and dark matter structures heavier than GeV form binary pairs in the early Universe that spi…
Gamma-Ray Flashes from Dark Photons in Neutron Star Mergers
Melissa D. Diamond, Gustavo Marques-Tavares
In this letter we begin the study of visible dark sector signals coming from binary neutron star mergers. We focus on dark photons emitted in the 10 ms - 1 s after the merger, and…
Constraints on Relic Magnetic Black Holes
Melissa D. Diamond, David E. Kaplan
We present current direct and astrophysical limits on the cosmological abundance of black holes with extremal magnetic charge. Because they don't Hawking radiate, much lighter prim…
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…
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…
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.…
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…