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most citedExclusion Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

244 citations · 869 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Calibration and Performance of Germanium High Voltage Detectors for SuperCDMS SNOLAB

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso-González +141

As SuperCDMS SNOLAB is getting ready to search for low mass dark matter particles, using cryogenic Ge and Si detectors, a set of six of the new SuperCDMS High Voltage (HV) detector…

hep-ex2025★ 3 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2025

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…

physics.ins-det2025★ 5 cited

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…

hep-ex2024★ 24 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2023★ 21 cited

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…

hep-ex2023★ 34 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 4 cited

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…

hep-ex2022★ 22 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022

Cryogenic User Facilities for R&D on Noble Liquid Detectors and Low Temperature Devices

Y. Li, C. Zhang, M. Diwan +13

Cryogenic test facilities are critical infrastructure for physics experiments in a variety of fields, perhaps most notably for particle detection with noble liquid detectors, low-t…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

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…

hep-ex2022★ 3 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2022★ 17 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 4 cited

Performance of a phonon-mediated detector using KIDs optimized for sub-GeV dark matter

Osmond Wen, Taylor Aralis, Ritoban Basu Thakur +4

Detection of sub-GeV dark matter candidates requires sub-keV detector thresholds on deposited energy. We provide an update on a gram-scale phonon-mediated KID-based device that was…

hep-ex2020★ 10 cited

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…

hep-ex2020★ 136 cited

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.…

hep-ex2020★ 174 cited

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…

hep-ex2014★ 12 cited

Planning the Future of U.S. Particle Physics (Snowmass 2013): Chapter 8: Instrumentation Frontier

M. Demarteau, R. Lipton, H. Nicholson +211

These reports present the results of the 2013 Community Summer Study of the APS Division of Particles and Fields ("Snowmass 2013") on the future program of particle physics in the…

astro-ph2002★ 142 cited

Exclusion limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross-section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

CDMS Collaboration

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their elastic-scattering interact…

astro-ph2000★ 244 cited

Exclusion Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

CDMS Collaboration

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs Ge and Si detectors to search for WIMPs via their elastic-scattering interactions with nuclei while discriminating against interacti…

astro-ph1997★ 12 cited

Preliminary Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS)

DS Akerib, PD Barnes, DA Bauer +28

We are conducting an experiment to search for WIMPs, or weakly-interacting massive particles, in the galactic halo using terrestrial detectors. This generic class of hypothetical p…