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most citedQuenching of deduced from the -spectrum shape of Cd measured with the COBRA experiment

37 citations · 315 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Radiopurity material assays and radiation exposure projections for superconducting qubit measurements at SNOLAB

Y. Ahmed, B. Binoy, R. Bunker +21

Interactions of cosmic rays and other forms of ionizing radiation pose a significant challenge to the reliable operation of state-of-the-art quantum devices and error correction in…

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…

physics.ins-det2026

Performance of a SuperCDMS HVeV Detector with Sub-eV Energy Resolution and Single Charge-sensitivity

Kyle Kennard, Aditi Pradeep, Mason Buchanan +41

We present a detailed characterization of a new generation of athermal-phonon single-charge sensitive Si HVeV detectors, the best of which achieved 589~meV~~5~meV baseline res…

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-ex2025

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…

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-det2024★ 6 cited

Improved Modelling of Detector Response Effects in Phonon-based Crystal Detectors used for Dark Matter Searches

M. J. Wilson, A. Zaytsev, B. von Krosigk +20

Various dark matter search experiments employ phonon-based crystal detectors operated at cryogenic temperatures. Some of these detectors, including certain silicon detectors used b…

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…

hep-ex2023★ 22 cited

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…

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★ 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…

nucl-ex2020★ 25 cited

Confirmation of quenching using the revised spectrum-shape method for the analysis of the Cd -decay as measured with the COBRA demonstrator

Joel Kostensalo, Jouni Suhonen, Juliane Volkmer +2

In this article we present an updated spectrum-shape analysis of the Cd fourfold forbidden non-unique -decay transition in order to address the quenching of the weak axi…

nucl-ex2018★ 37 cited

Quenching of deduced from the -spectrum shape of Cd measured with the COBRA experiment

Lucas Bodenstein-Dresler, Yingjie Chu, Daniel Gehre +17

A dedicated study of the quenching of the weak axial-vector coupling strength in nuclear processes has been performed by the COBRA collaboration. This investigation is…

physics.ins-det2017★ 2 cited

Suppression of alpha-induced lateral surface events in the COBRA experiment using CdZnTe detectors with an instrumented guard-ring electrode

J. -H. Arling, M. Gerhardt, C. Gößling +11

The COBRA collaboration searches for neutrinoless double beta-decay (-decay) using CdZnTe semiconductor detectors with a coplanar-grid readout and a surrounding guard-ring st…

nucl-ex2015★ 37 cited

Results of a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay using the COBRA demonstrator

Joachim Ebert, Matthew Fritts, Daniel Gehre +18

Neutrinoless double- decay ( decay) is a hypothetical process that can occur if the neutrino is its own antiparticle. The COBRA collaboration operates a demonstrator to se…

physics.ins-det2015★ 9 cited

Characterization of a large CdZnTe coplanar quad-grid semiconductor detector

J. Ebert, D. Gehre, C. Gößling +17

The COBRA collaboration aims to search for neutrinoless double beta-decay of Cd. A demonstrator setup with 64 CdZnTe semiconductor detectors, each with a volume of 1cm,…

physics.ins-det2015★ 11 cited

Long-Term Stability of Underground Operated CZT Detectors Based on the Analysis of Intrinsic Cd β-Decay

J. Ebert, C. Goessling, D. Gehre +17

The COBRA collaboration operates a demonstrator setup at the underground facility LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, located in Italy) to prove the technological capabiliti…

physics.ins-det2015★ 31 cited

The COBRA demonstrator at the LNGS underground laboratory

The COBRA collaboration, J. Ebert, M. Fritts +28

The COBRA demonstrator, a prototype for a large-scale experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta-decay, was built at the underground laboratory Laboratori Nazionali del Gran…