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most citedFirst Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons

117 citations · 318 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

hep-ex2026

Constraints on Sub-MeV Dark Matter from Solar Reflection with DAMIC-M

K. Aggarwal, I. Arnquist, N. Avalos +41

The Sun acts as a natural dark matter accelerator. Galactic halo particles scattering in the solar plasma emerge with velocities well beyond the Galactic escape speed, providing a…

hep-ex2025

Daily Modulation Constraints on Light Dark Matter with DAMIC-M

K. Aggarwal, I. Arnquist, N. Avalos +40

The flux of Hidden Sector particles from the Galactic halo reaching an underground detector can be significantly attenuated by interactions within the Earth for sufficiently large…

physics.ins-det2025

First Production of Skipper-CCD Modules for the DAMIC-M Experiment

H. Lin, M. Traina, S. Paul +65

The DAMIC-M experiment will search for sub-GeV dark matter particles with a large array of silicon skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs) at the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM)…

physics.ins-det2025

Removal of spallation-induced tritium from silicon through diffusion

R. Saldanha, D. Reading, P. E. Warwick +5

Tritium, predominantly produced through spallation reactions caused by cosmic ray interactions, is a significant radioactive background for silicon-based rare event detection exper…

hep-ex2025★ 28 cited

Probing Benchmark Models of Hidden-Sector Dark Matter with DAMIC-M

M Collaboration, K. Aggarwal, I. Arnquist +39

We report on a search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles interacting with electrons using the DAMIC-M prototype detector at the Modane Underground Laboratory. The data feature…

physics.ins-det2024★ 7 cited

The DAMIC-M Low Background Chamber

I. Arnquist, N. Avalos, P. Bailly +66

The DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane (DAMIC-M) experiment is designed to search for light dark matter (m<10\,GeV/c) at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM) in France. DA…

physics.ins-det2023★ 1 cited

Nuclear Recoil Identification in a Scientific Charge-Coupled Device

K. J. McGuire, A. E. Chavarria, N. Castello-Mor +19

Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are a leading technology in direct dark matter searches because of their eV-scale energy threshold and high spatial resolution. The sensitivity of fut…

hep-ex2023★ 22 cited

Search for Daily Modulation of MeV Dark Matter Signals with DAMIC-M

I. Arnquist, N. Avalos, D. Baxter +37

Dark Matter (DM) particles with sufficiently large cross sections may scatter as they travel through Earth's bulk. The corresponding changes in the DM flux give rise to a character…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 15 cited

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…

hep-ex2023★ 117 cited

First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons

I. Arnquist, N. Avalos, D. Baxter +42

We report constraints on sub-GeV dark matter particles interacting with electrons from the first underground operation of DAMIC-M detectors. The search is performed with an integra…

hep-ex2022

The DAMIC-M Experiment: Status and First Results

I. Arnquist, N. Avalos, P. Bailly +69

The DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment employs thick, fully depleted silicon charged-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for dark matter particles with a target exposu…

physics.ins-det2022★ 24 cited

Precision measurement of Compton scattering in silicon with a skipper CCD for dark matter detection

D. Norcini, N. Castello-Mor, D. Baxter +41

Experiments aiming to directly detect dark matter through particle recoils can achieve energy thresholds of . In this regime, ionization signals from s…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 103 cited

Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from an 11 kg-day Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, D. Baxter +29

We present constraints on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) from an 11 kg-day target exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laborato…

physics.ins-det2015★ 1 cited

Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

DAMIC Collaboration, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei +31

The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold 50 eV, and excellent energy and spatial r…