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20242026
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9 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Characterization of Spurious Charge in SENSEI Skipper-CCDs

Yikai Wu, Ansh Desai, Sho Uemura +16

Skipper Charge-Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) are a leading technology in the search for sub-GeV dark matter and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. A key background for…

hep-ph2026

NASDUCK': Laboratory Limits on Ultralight Dark-Photon Dark Matter with Null-Axis Magnetometry

Joel Barir, Itay M. Bloch, Yair Goldszeft +4

The dark photon is a well-motivated ultralight dark-matter candidate that may couple to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing. We search for dark-photon dark matter in the mass…

hep-ph2025

Earth-Scattering Induced Modulation in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Experiments

Xavier Bertou, Ansh Desai, Timon Emken +3

Dark matter particles with sufficiently large interactions with ordinary matter can scatter in the Earth before reaching and scattering in a detector. This induces a modulation in…

hep-ex2025

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-…

hep-ph2025

Constraints on axion-like dark matter from a SERF comagnetometer

Itay M. Bloch, Roy Shaham, Yonit Hochberg +3

Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated relics that might compose the cosmological dark matter and source anomalous time-dependent magnetic fields. We report on terrestr…

hep-ph2025

Primordial Black Holes from Supercooled Phase Transitions

Yann Gouttenoire, Tomer Volansky

Cosmological first-order phase transitions (1stOPTs) are said to be strongly supercooled when the nucleation temperature is much smaller than the critical temperature. These are of…