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Studying single-electron traps in newly fabricated Skipper-CCDs for the Oscura experiment using the pocket-pumping technique
S. E. Perez, B. A. Cervantes-Vergara, J. Estrada +3
Understanding and characterizing very low-energy (eV) background sources is a must in rare-event searches. Oscura, an experiment aiming to probe electron recoils from sub-GeV…
Search for reactor-produced millicharged particles with Skipper-CCDs at the CONNIE and Atucha-II experiments
Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Nicolas Avalos, Pablo Bellino +37
Millicharged particles, proposed by various extensions of the standard model, can be created in pairs by high-energy photons within nuclear reactors and can interact electromagneti…
Searches for CEνNS and Physics beyond the Standard Model using Skipper-CCDs at CONNIE
Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Nicolas Avalos, Xavier Bertou +31
The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) aims to detect the coherent scattering (CENS) of reactor antineutrinos off silicon nuclei using thick fully-deplete…
Interferometry with few photons
Q. Pears Stefano, A. G. Magnoni, D. Rodrigues +2
Optical phase determination is an important and established tool in diverse fields such as astronomy, biology, or quantum optics. There is increasing interest in using a lower numb…
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…
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…
Unraveling Fano noise and partial charge collection effect in X-ray spectra below 1 keV
Dario Rodrigues, Mariano Cababie, Ignacio Gomez Florenciano +6
Fano noise, readout noise, and the partial charge collection (PCC) effect collectively contribute to the degradation of energy spectra in Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) measurements,…
Searching for millicharged particles with 1 kg of Skipper-CCDs using the NuMI beam at Fermilab
Santiago Perez, Dario Rodrigues, Juan Estrada +57
Oscura is a planned light-dark matter search experiment using Skipper-CCDs with a total active mass of 10 kg. As part of the detector development, the collaboration plans to build…
Skipper-CCD Sensors for the Oscura Experiment: Requirements and Preliminary Tests
Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara, Santiago Perez, Juan Estrada +52
Oscura is a proposed multi-kg skipper-CCD experiment designed for a dark matter (DM) direct detection search that will reach unprecedented sensitivity to sub-GeV DM-electron intera…
Infrared photon-number-resolving imager using a Skipper-CCD
Q. Pears Stefano, A. G. Magnoni, J. Estrada +3
Imaging in a broad light-intensity regime with a high signal-to-noise ratio is a key capability in fields as diverse as Quantum Metrology and Astronomy. Achieving high signal-to-no…
Photon counting from the vacuum ultraviolet to the short wavelength infrared using semiconductor and superconducting technologies
Jonathan Asaadi, Dan Baxter, Karl K. Berggren +27
In the last decade, several photon counting technologies have been developed opening a new window for experiments in the low photon number regime. Several ongoing and future projec…
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…
The Oscura Experiment
Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Fabricio Alcalde Bessia, Nicolas Avalos +41
The Oscura experiment will lead the search for low-mass dark matter particles using a very large array of novel silicon Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) with a threshold of two electr…
Constraints on the electron-hole pair creation energy and Fano factor below 150 eV from Compton scattering in a Skipper-CCD
A. M. Botti, S. Uemura, G. Fernandez Moroni +9
Fully-depleted thick silicon Skipper-charge-coupled devices (Skipper-CCDs) are an important technology to probe neutrino and light-dark-matter interactions due to their sub-electro…
Search for coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at a nuclear reactor with CONNIE 2019 data
CONNIE collaboration, Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo, Javier Bernal +33
The Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Experiment (CONNIE) is taking data at the Angra 2 nuclear reactor with the aim of detecting the coherent elastic scattering of reactor ant…
The Skipper CCD for low-energy threshold particle experiments above ground
Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Fernando Chierchie, Javier Tiffenberg +11
We present experimental results using a single-electron resolution Skipper-CCD running above ground level to demonstrate the potential of this technology for its use in reactor neu…
The physics potential of a reactor neutrino experiment with Skipper-CCDs: Searching for new physics with light mediators
G. Fernandez-Moroni, R. Harnik, P. A. N. Machado +4
We explore the sensitivity to new physics of the recently proposed vIOLETA experiment: a 10 kg Skipper Charged Coupled Device detector deployed 12 meters away from a commercial nuc…
SENSEI: Characterization of Single-Electron Events Using a Skipper-CCD
Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Ana Botti +22
We use a science-grade Skipper Charge Coupled Device (Skipper-CCD) operating in a low-radiation background environment to develop a semi-empirical model that characterizes the orig…
The physics potential of a reactor neutrino experiment with Skipper CCDs: Measuring the weak mixing angle
Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni, Pedro A. N. Machado, Ivan Martinez-Soler +3
We analyze in detail the physics potential of an experiment like the one recently proposed by the vIOLETA collaboration: a kilogram-scale Skipper CCD detector deployed 12 meters aw…
Charge collection efficiency in back-illuminated Charge-Coupled Devices
Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni, Kevin Andersson, Ana Botti +3
Low noise CCDs fully-depleted up to 675 micrometers have been identified as a unique tool for Dark Matter searches and low energy neutrino physics. The charge collection efficiency…
Absolute measurement of the Fano factor using a Skipper-CCD
Dario Rodrigues, Kevin Andersson, Mariano Cababie +11
Skipper-CCD can achieve deep sub-electron readout noise making possible the absolute determination of the exact number of ionized electrons in a large range, from 0 to above 1900 e…
SENSEI: Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a New Skipper-CCD
Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Mariano Cababie +20
We present the first direct-detection search for eV-to-GeV dark matter using a new ~2-gram high-resistivity Skipper-CCD from a dedicated fabrication batch that was optimized for da…