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most citedSENSEI: Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a New Skipper-CCD

423 citations · 784 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

hep-ex2025★ 1 cited

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-…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 23 cited

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…

hep-ex2024★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 92 cited

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…

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★ 6 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2023★ 1 cited

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,…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 99 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2022

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…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

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…

hep-ex2021★ 4 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2021★ 53 cited

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…

physics.ins-det2020★ 64 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 423 cited

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…