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Single-electron detection in a high-purity Ge device
Antoine Armatol, Corinne Augier, Laurent Bergé +69
High-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors are among the most powerful instruments for gamma ray spectroscopy, combining exceptional energy resolution with large active volumes. Althou…
Characterization of Aluminum Microwave SQUID Multiplexers for CENS Detection
James Amidei, Antoine Armatol, Corinne Augier +92
We present the design, fabrication, and characterization of an aluminum-based six-channel microwave SQUID multiplexer (MUX) prototype for transition-edge sensor (TES) readout in…
Low Energy Phonon Bursts Created By Fast Neutron Damage
A. Armatol, C. Augier, L. Bergé +67
Solid state athermal phonon calorimeters used in the search for low mass dark matter or coherent neutrino-nucleus interactions have long observed a large excess of events below sev…
Performance of a SuperCDMS HVeV Detector with Sub-eV Energy Resolution and Single Charge-sensitivity
Kyle Kennard, Aditi Pradeep, Mason Buchanan +41
We present a detailed characterization of a new generation of athermal-phonon single-charge sensitive Si HVeV detectors, the best of which achieved 589~meV~~5~meV baseline res…
Low-Energy Calibration of SuperCDMS HVeV Cryogenic Silicon Calorimeters Using Compton Steps
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +148
Cryogenic calorimeters for low-mass dark matter searches have achieved sub-eV energy resolutions, driving advances in both low-energy calibration techniques and our understanding o…
Improved Modelling of Detector Response Effects in Phonon-based Crystal Detectors used for Dark Matter Searches
M. J. Wilson, A. Zaytsev, B. von Krosigk +20
Various dark matter search experiments employ phonon-based crystal detectors operated at cryogenic temperatures. Some of these detectors, including certain silicon detectors used b…
Performance of a Kinetic Inductance Phonon-Mediated Detector at the NEXUS Cryogenic Facility
Dylan J Temples, Osmond Wen, Karthik Ramanathan +18
Microcalorimeters that leverage microwave kinetic inductance detectors to read out phonon signals in the particle-absorbing target, referred to as kinetic inductance phonon-mediate…
Results from a Prototype TES Detector for the Ricochet Experiment
Ricochet Collaboration, C. Augier, G. Baulieu +88
Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CENS) offers valuable sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. The Ricochet experiment will use cryogenic solid-state dete…
First measurement of the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon at 100 eV
M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso +137
We measured the nuclear--recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a mono-energetic beam scatter off of the silicon nu…
A Strategy for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors in the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Facility
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +125
The SuperCDMS Collaboration is currently building SuperCDMS SNOLAB, a dark matter search focused on nucleon-coupled dark matter in the 1-5 GeV/c mass range. Looking to the futu…
Ionization yield measurement in a germanium CDMSlite detector using photo-neutron sources
SuperCDMS Collaboration, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib +126
Two photo-neutron sources, YBe and SbBe, have been used to investigate the ionization yield of nuclear recoils in the CDMSlite germanium detectors by the…
CUORE Opens the Door to Tonne-scale Cryogenics Experiments
CUORE Collaboration, D. Q. Adams, C. Alduino +206
The past few decades have seen major developments in the design and operation of cryogenic particle detectors. This technology offers an extremely good energy resolution - comparab…
Design and Characterization of a Phonon-Mediated Cryogenic Particle Detector with an eV-Scale Threshold and 100 keV-Scale Dynamic Range
R. Ren, C. Bathurst, Y. Y. Chang +27
We present the design and characterization of a cryogenic phonon-sensitive 1-gram Si detector exploiting the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect to detect single-charge excitations. This…
The CUPID-Mo experiment for neutrinoless double-beta decay: performance and prospects
E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +86
CUPID-Mo is a bolometric experiment to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay () of Mo. In this article, we detail the CUPID-Mo detector concept, assembly, install…
First test of a scintillating bolometer for neutrinoless double beta decay experiments with and nuclides
M. Xue, D. V. Poda, Y. Zhang +18
A large cylindrical cadmium molybdate crystal with natural isotopic abundance has been used to fabricate a scintillating bolometer. The measurement was performed above ground at mi…
The CROSS Experiment: Rejecting Surface Events by PSD Induced by Superconducting Films
H. Khalife, L. Bergé, M. Chapellier +13
Neutrinoless double beta () decay is a hypothetical rare nuclear transition ( y). Its observation would provide an important insight about the nature of neut…
Charge-to-heat transducers exploiting the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect for light detection in rare-event searches
V. Novati, L. Bergé, L. Dumoulin +8
In this work we present how to fabricate large-area (15 cm2), ultra-low threshold germanium bolometric photo-detectors and how to operate them to detect few (optical) photons. Thes…
Growth and characterization of a Li2Mg2(MoO4)3 scintillating bolometer
F. A. Danevich, V. Ya. Degoda, L. L. Dulger +12
Lithium magnesium molybdate (LiMg(MoO)) crystals were grown by the low-thermal-gradient Czochralski method. Luminescence properties of the material (emission spectr…
First scintillating bolometer tests of a CLYMENE R&D on LiMoO scintillators towards a large-scale double-beta decay experiment
G. Buşe, A. Giuliani, P. de Marcillac +10
A new R&D on lithium molybdate scintillators has begun within a project CLYMENE (Czochralski growth of LiMoO crYstals for the scintillating boloMeters used in the rare EveN…
Complete event-by-event / separation in a full-size TeO CUORE bolometer by Neganov-Luke-magnified light detection
L. Bergé, M. Chapellier, M. de Combarieu +41
In the present work, we describe the results obtained with a large ( cm) TeO bolometer, with a view to a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay () of…
Low Energy Analysis Techniques for CUORE
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +121
CUORE is a tonne-scale cryogenic detector operating at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) that uses tellurium dioxide bolometers to search for neutrinoless double-beta…
CUORE Sensitivity to Decay
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +128
We report a study of the CUORE sensitivity to neutrinoless double beta () decay. We used a Bayesian analysis based on a toy Monte Carlo (MC) approach to extract the exclusion…
The projected background for the CUORE experiment
CUORE Collaboration, C. Alduino, K. Alfonso +129
The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay of 130Te with an array of 988 TeO2 bolometers operating at te…
Development of Mo-containing scintillating bolometers for a high-sensitivity neutrinoless double-beta decay search
E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. S. Barabash +99
This paper reports on the development of a technology involving Mo-enriched scintillating bolometers, compatible with the goals of CUPID, a proposed next-generation bolomet…