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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…
Skipper-CCD Sensors for the Oscura Experiment: Requirements and Preliminary Tests
Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara, Santiago Perez, Juan Estrada +52
Oscura is a proposed multi-kg skipper-CCD experiment designed for a dark matter (DM) direct detection search that will reach unprecedented sensitivity to sub-GeV DM-electron intera…
Improved search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
SNO+ Collaboration, :, A. Allega +116
This paper reports results from a search for single and multi-nucleon disappearance from the O nucleus in water within the \snoplus{} detector using all of the available dat…
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…
Characterization of the background spectrum in DAMIC at SNOLAB
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, I. Arnquist +31
We construct the first comprehensive radioactive background model for a dark matter search with charge-coupled devices (CCDs). We leverage the well-characterized depth and energy r…
Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from a 11 kg d Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB (ICRC2021 Proceedings)
Michelangelo Traina
Experimental efforts of the last decades have been unsuccessful in detecting WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) in the 10-to-10 GeV/ range, thus motivating the s…
Optical calibration of the SNO+ detector in the water phase with deployed sources
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +120
SNO+ is a large-scale liquid scintillator experiment with the primary goal of searching for neutrinoless double beta decay, and is located approximately 2 km underground in SNOLAB,…
Development, characterisation, and deployment of the SNO+ liquid scintillator
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +223
A liquid scintillator consisting of linear alkylbenzene as the solvent and 2,5-diphenyloxazole as the fluor was developed for the SNO+ experiment. This mixture was chosen as it is…
Measurement of the bulk radioactive contamination of detector-grade silicon with DAMIC at SNOLAB
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, D. Baxter +28
We present measurements of bulk radiocontaminants in the high-resistivity silicon CCDs from the DAMIC at SNOLAB experiment. We utilize the exquisite spatial resolution of CCDs to d…
Search for solar neutrinos and the diffuse supernova neutrino background using all three phases of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +129
A search has been performed for neutrinos from two sources, the reaction in the solar fusion chain and the component of the diffuse supernova neutrino background (…
Measurement of neutron-proton capture in the SNO+ water phase
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. R. Anderson +130
The SNO+ experiment collected data as a low-threshold water Cherenkov detector from September 2017 to July 2019. Measurements of the 2.2-MeV produced by neutron capture on hydr…
Cosmogenic Neutron Production at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed, A. E. Anthony +128
Neutrons produced in nuclear interactions initiated by cosmic-ray muons present an irreducible background to many rare-event searches, even in detectors located deep underground. M…
Constraints on Light Dark Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons from DAMIC at SNOLAB
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, D. Baxter +31
We report direct-detection constraints on light dark matter particles interacting with electrons. The results are based on a method that exploits the extremely low levels of leakag…
Data-Driven Modeling of Electron Recoil Nucleation in PICO CF Bubble Chambers
C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +76
The primary advantage of moderately superheated bubble chamber detectors is their simultaneous sensitivity to nuclear recoils from WIMP dark matter and insensitivity to electron re…
Measurement of neutron production in atmospheric neutrino interactions at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +129
Neutron production in GeV-scale neutrino interactions is a poorly studied process. We have measured the neutron multiplicities in atmospheric neutrino interactions in the Sudbury N…
Dark Matter Search Results from the Complete Exposure of the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber
C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +69
Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 CF dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of CF located in the SNOLAB underground laborat…
Measurement of the B Solar Neutrino Flux in SNO+ with Very Low Backgrounds
The SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +120
A measurement of the B solar neutrino flux has been made using a 69.2 kt-day dataset acquired with the SNO+ detector during its water commissioning phase. At energies above 6 M…
Search for invisible modes of nucleon decay in water with the SNO+ detector
SNO+ Collaboration, :, M. Anderson +195
This paper reports results from a search for nucleon decay through 'invisible' modes, where no visible energy is directly deposited during the decay itself, during the initial wate…
Constraints on Neutrino Lifetime from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +128
The long baseline between the Earth and the Sun makes solar neutrinos an excellent test beam for exploring possible neutrino decay. The signature of such decay would be an energy-d…
Developing a Bubble Chamber Particle Discriminator Using Semi-Supervised Learning
B. Matusch, C. Amole, M. Ardid +70
The identification of non-signal events is a major hurdle to overcome for bubble chamber dark matter experiments such as PICO-60. The current practice of manually developing a disc…
Tests of Lorentz invariance at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +131
Experimental tests of Lorentz symmetry in systems of all types are critical for ensuring that the basic assumptions of physics are well-founded. Data from all phases of the Sudbury…
The search for neutron-antineutron oscillations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
SNO Collaboration, B. Aharmim, S. N. Ahmed +122
Tests on symmetry breaking models are important probes to search for new physics. One proposed model with involves the oscillations of a neutron to an antineutron.…
Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber
C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +59
New results are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of CF located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. As i…
First Direct-Detection Constraints on eV-Scale Hidden-Photon Dark Matter with DAMIC at SNOLAB
A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, X. Bertou +35
We present direct detection constraints on the absorption of hidden-photon dark matter with particle masses in the range 1.2-30 eV with the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB. Unde…