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physics.ins-det2025

Quenching factors for Na recoils as a function of Tl dopant concentrations in NaI(Tl) crystals

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +51

Thallium-doped sodium iodide (NaI(Tl)) scintillation detectors play an important role in the field of direct dark matter (DM) searches. The DAMA/LIBRA experiment stands out for its…

hep-ph2025

COSINUS model-independent sensitivity to the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter signal

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +40

COSINUS is a dark matter direct detection experiment using NaI crystals as cryogenic scintillating calorimeters. If no signal is observed, this will constrain the dark matter scatt…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Neutrino flux sensitivity to the next galactic core-collapse supernova in COSINUS

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, M. Cababie +39

While neutrinos are often treated as a background for many dark matter experiments, these particles offer a new avenue for physics: the detection of core-collapse supernovae. Super…

physics.ins-det2024★ 3 cited

Water Cherenkov muon veto for the COSINUS experiment: design and simulation optimization

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, M. Cababie +36

COSINUS is a dark matter (DM) direct search experiment that uses sodium iodide (NaI) crystals as cryogenic calorimeters. Thanks to the low nuclear recoil energy threshold and event…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

First observation of single photons in a CRESST detector and new dark matter exclusion limits

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +56

The main goal of the CRESST-III experiment is the direct detection of dark matter particles via their scattering off target nuclei in cryogenic detectors. In this work we present t…

physics.ins-det2024★ 12 cited

DoubleTES detectors to investigate the CRESST low energy background: results from above-ground prototypes

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +55

In recent times, the sensitivity of low-mass direct dark matter searches has been limited by unknown low energy backgrounds close to the energy threshold of the experiments known a…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

A likelihood framework for cryogenic scintillating calorimeters used in the CRESST dark matter search

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +57

Cryogenic scintillating calorimeters are ultrasensitive particle detectors for rare event searches, particularly for the search for dark matter and the measurement of neutrino prop…

physics.ins-det2023

Optimal operation of cryogenic calorimeters through deep reinforcement learning

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +59

Cryogenic phonon detectors with transition-edge sensors achieve the best sensitivity to light dark matter-nucleus scattering in current direct detection dark matter searches. In su…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

Detector development for the CRESST experiment

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +55

Recently low-mass dark matter direct searches have been hindered by a low energy background, drastically reducing the physics reach of the experiments. In the CRESST-III experiment…

astro-ph.CO2023

Light Dark Matter Search Using a Diamond Cryogenic Detector

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +56

Diamond operated as a cryogenic calorimeter is an excellent target for direct detection of low-mass dark matter candidates. Following the realization of the first low-threshold cry…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

Deep-underground dark matter search with a COSINUS detector prototype

The COSINUS Collaboration, G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj +36

Sodium iodide (NaI) based cryogenic scintillating calorimeters using quantum sensors for signal read out have shown promising first results towards a model-independent test of the…

physics.ins-det2023★ 8 cited

Particle discrimination in a NaI crystal using the COSINUS remote TES design

COSINUS Collaboration, G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj +38

The COSINUS direct dark matter experiment situated at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy is set to investigate the nature of the annually modulating signal detected by th…

physics.ins-det2023

High-Dimensional Bayesian Likelihood Normalisation for CRESST's Background Model

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +59

Using CaWO crystals as cryogenic calorimeters, the CRESST experiment searches for nuclear recoils caused by the scattering of potential Dark Matter particles. A reliable identi…

physics.ins-det2023★ 9 cited

Observation of a low energy nuclear recoil peak in the neutron calibration data of the CRESST-III Experiment

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +58

New-generation direct searches for low mass dark matter feature detection thresholds at energies well below 100 eV, much lower than the energies of commonly used X-ray calibration…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 43 cited

Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a 10 eV Threshold CRESST-III Silicon Detector

CRESST Collaboration, G. Angloher, S. Banik +59

We present limits on the spin-independent interaction cross section of dark matter particles with silicon nuclei, derived from data taken with a cryogenic calorimeter with 0.35 g t…

physics.ins-det2022★ 13 cited

Towards an automated data cleaning with deep learning in CRESST

G. Angloher, S. Banik, D. Bartolot +62

The CRESST experiment employs cryogenic calorimeters for the sensitive measurement of nuclear recoils induced by dark matter particles. The recorded signals need to undergo a caref…

physics.ins-det2022★ 2 cited

Secular Equilibrium Assessment in a Target Crystal from the Dark Matter Experiment CRESST using Bayesian Likelihood Normalisation

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58

CRESST is a leading direct detection sub- dark matter experiment. During its second phase, cryogenic bolometers were used to detect nuclear recoils off the $\ma…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 39 cited

Testing spin-dependent dark matter interactions with lithium aluminate targets in CRESST-III

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +58

In the past decades, numerous experiments have emerged to unveil the nature of dark matter, one of the most discussed open questions in modern particle physics. Among them, the CRE…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 24 cited

Latest observations on the low energy excess in CRESST-III

G. Angloher, S. Banik, G. Benato +57

The CRESST experiment observes an unexplained excess of events at low energies. In the current CRESST-III data-taking campaign we are operating detector modules with different desi…

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…

hep-ph2022★ 40 cited

Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of low-threshold dark matter direct detection in the next decade

Rouven Essig, Graham K. Giovanetti, Noah Kurinsky +90

The search for particle-like dark matter with meV-to-GeV masses has developed rapidly in the past few years. We summarize the science case for these searches, the recent progress,…

physics.ins-det2021★ 22 cited

First measurements of remoTES cryogenic calorimeters: easy-to-fabricate particle detectors for a wide choice of target materials

G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, I. Dafinei +34

Low-temperature calorimeters based on a readout via Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) and operated below mK are well suited for rare event searches with outstanding resolution a…

physics.ins-det2021★ 12 cited

Simulation-based design study for the passive shielding of the COSINUS dark matter experiment

G. Angloher, I. Dafinei, N. Di Marco +28

The COSINUS (Cryogenic Observatory for SIgnatures seen in Next-generation Underground Searches) experiment aims at the detection of dark matter-induced recoils in sodium iodide (Na…