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Long-Lived Charge Trap Characterization for Rare-Event Searches with Skipper-CCDs
Ansh Desai, Ana M. Botti, Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara +9
Skipper Charge-Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) are detectors with sub-electron resolution, allowing them to play a critical role in rare-event searches. A major challenge in experim…
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-…
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…
Extracting Halo Independent Information from Dark Matter Electron Scattering Data
Elias Bernreuther, Patrick J. Fox, Benjamin Lillard +2
Direct detection experiments and the interpretation of their results are sensitive to the velocity structure of the dark matter in our galactic halo. In this work, we extend the fo…
The Postdoc Accord in Theoretical High Energy Physics
Djuna Croon, Patrick J. Fox, Roni Harnik +4
We present the results of a survey meant to assess the opinion of the high-energy physics theory (HET) community on the January 7th postdoc acceptance deadline - specifically, whet…
Hunting Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions and Leptoquarks in Dark Matter Experiments
Thomas Schwemberger, Volodymyr Takhistov, Tien-Tien Yu
Next generation direct dark matter (DM) detection experiments will have unprecedented capabilities to explore coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) complementary to dedica…
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…
Searching for millicharged particles with 1 kg of Skipper-CCDs using the NuMI beam at Fermilab
Santiago Perez, Dario Rodrigues, Juan Estrada +57
Oscura is a planned light-dark matter search experiment using Skipper-CCDs with a total active mass of 10 kg. As part of the detector development, the collaboration plans to build…
Constraints on Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Quadratic Couplings
Thomas Bouley, Philip Sørensen, Tien-Tien Yu
Ultralight dark matter is a compelling dark matter candidate. In this work, we examine the impact of quadratically-coupled ultralight dark matter on the predictions of Big Bang Nuc…
Snowmass 2021 Cross Frontier Report: Dark Matter Complementarity (Extended Version)
Antonio Boveia, Mohamed Berkat, Thomas Y. Chen +24
The fundamental nature of Dark Matter is a central theme of the Snowmass 2021 process, extending across all frontiers. In the last decade, advances in detector technology, analysis…
Searching for Muonphilic Dark Sectors with Proton Beams
Claudia Rella, Babette Döbrich, Tien-Tien Yu
Proton beam-dump experiments are a high-intensity source of secondary muons and provide an opportunity to probe muon-specific dark sectors. We adopt a simplified-models framework f…
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,…
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: Modeling, statistics, simulations, and computing needs for direct dark matter detection
Yonatan Kahn, Maria Elena Monzani, Kimberly J. Palladino +34
This paper summarizes the modeling, statistics, simulation, and computing needs of direct dark matter detection experiments in the next decade.
Detecting Beyond the Standard Model Interactions of Solar Neutrinos in Low-Threshold Dark Matter Detectors
Thomas Schwemberger, Tien-Tien Yu
As low-threshold dark matter detectors advance in development, they will become sensitive to recoils from solar neutrinos which opens up the possibility to explore neutrino propert…
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…
Absorption of Sub-MeV Fermionic Dark Matter by Electron Targets
Jeff A. Dror, Gilly Elor, Robert McGehee +1
We study a new class of signals where fermionic dark matter is absorbed by bound electron targets. Fermionic absorption signals in direct detection and neutrino experiments are sen…
Solar Neutrinos as a Signal and Background in Direct-Detection Experiments Searching for Sub-GeV Dark Matter With Electron Recoils
Rouven Essig, Mukul Sholapurkar, Tien-Tien Yu
Direct-detection experiments sensitive to low-energy electron recoils from sub-GeV dark matter (DM) interactions will also be sensitive to solar neutrinos via coherent neutrino-nuc…
Simplified Models for Displaced Dark Matter Signatures
Oliver Buchmueller, Albert De Roeck, Matthew McCullough +4
We propose a systematic programme to search for long-lived neutral particle signatures through a minimal set of displaced searches requiring significant missing transverse energy (…
Superradiance in rotating stars and pulsar-timing constraints on dark photons
Vitor Cardoso, Paolo Pani, Tien-Tien Yu
In the presence of massive bosonic degrees of freedom, rotational superradiance can trigger an instability that spins down black holes. This leads to peculiar gravitational-wave si…
New Constraints and Prospects for sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering off Electrons in Xenon
Rouven Essig, Tomer Volansky, Tien-Tien Yu
We study in detail sub-GeV dark matter scattering off electrons in xenon, including the expected electron recoil spectra and annual modulation spectra. We derive improved constrain…
Dark Sectors 2016 Workshop: Community Report
Jim Alexander, Marco Battaglieri, Bertrand Echenard +201
This report, based on the Dark Sectors workshop at SLAC in April 2016, summarizes the scientific importance of searches for dark sector dark matter and forces at masses beneath the…
Searching for Dark Absorption with Direct Detection Experiments
Itay M. Bloch, Rouven Essig, Kohsaku Tobioka +2
We consider the absorption by bound electrons of dark matter in the form of dark photons and axion-like particles, as well as of dark photons from the Sun, in current and next-gene…
Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter with Scintillating Targets
Stephen Derenzo, Rouven Essig, Andrea Massari +2
We describe a novel search for MeV-to-GeV-mass dark matter, in which the dark matter scatters off electrons in a scintillating target. The excitation and subsequent de-excitation o…
Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter with Semiconductor Targets
Rouven Essig, Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Jeremy Mardon +3
Dark matter in the sub-GeV mass range is a theoretically motivated but largely unexplored paradigm. Such light masses are out of reach for conventional nuclear recoil direct detect…