12 papers
Sensitivity enhancement techniques for cryogenic calorimeters in the NUCLEUS experiment
M. Cappelli, A. Wallach, H. Abele +62
Phonon-mediated cryogenic calorimeters find application in rare event searches due to their intrinsically low energy threshold. Achieving the best sensitivity for this kind of dete…
Cosmic Ray Boosted Dark Matter in COSINUS: Modeling and Constraints
G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +41
Direct detection of nuclear recoils due to sub-GeV dark matter is challenging because of the small kinetic energy of the light dark matter particles. Although limits down to a few…
ImpCresst -- A versatile simulation tool focusing on solid-state detectors at keV energies
G. Angloher, S. Banik, A. Bento +57
We present ImpCresst, a Geant4-based Monte Carlo tool to simulate backgrounds from natural and cosmogenic radionuclides, and calibration signals in solid-state detectors and their…
Defect Formation in NaI Crystals: A Novel Pathway to Dark Matter Detection
G. Angloher, M. R. Bharadwaj, A. Böhmer +44
Sodium iodide (NaI) is a widely used scintillator in direct dark matter searches. In particular, NaI-based cryogenic scintillating calorimeters have emerged as promising candidates…
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…
Particle background characterization and prediction for the NUCLEUS reactor CENS experiment
H. Abele, G. Anglogher, B. Arnold +57
NUCLEUS is a cryogenic detection experiment which aims to measure Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENS) and to search for new physics at the Chooz nuclear power p…