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Overlap-aware segmentation for topological reconstruction of obscured objects Open

J. Schueler, H. M. Araújo, S. N. Balashov, J. Borg, C. Brew , et al. · 2025

The separation of overlapping objects presents a significant challenge in scientific imaging. While deep learning segmentation-regression algorithms can predict pixel-wise intensities, they typically treat all regions equally rather than p…

Letter of Intent: AICE -- 100m Atom Interferometer Experiment at CERN Open

Charles F. A. Baynham, Andréa Bertoldi, Diego Blas, O. L. Buchmueller, S. Calatroni , et al. · 2025

We propose an O(100)m Atom Interferometer (AI) experiment -- AICE -- to be installed against a wall of the PX46 access shaft to the LHC. This experiment would probe unexplored ranges of the possible couplings of bosonic ultralight dark mat…

Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Open

Antun Balaž, Diego Blas, O. L. Buchmueller, S. Calatroni, Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete , et al. · 2025

Long-baseline atom interferometry is a promising technique for probing various aspects of fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology, including searches for ultralight dark matter (ULDM) and for gravitational waves (GWs) in the freque…

Light dark matter constraints from SuperCDMS HVeV detectors operated underground with an anticoincidence event selection Open

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, David Alonso-González, D. W. P. Amaral, Jadyn Anczarski , et al. · 2025

This article presents constraints on dark-matter-electron interactions obtained from the first underground data-taking campaign with multiple SuperCDMS HVeV detectors operated in the same housing. An exposure of 7.63 g−days is used to set…

First Measurement of the Nuclear-Recoil Ionization Yield in Silicon at 100 eV Open

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, Del Alonso, D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis , et al. · 2023

We measured the nuclear-recoil ionization yield in silicon with a cryogenic phonon-sensitive gram-scale detector. Neutrons from a monoenergetic beam scatter off of the silicon nuclei at angles corresponding to energy depositions from 4 keV…

Search for low-mass dark matter via bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal effect in SuperCDMS Open

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, David Alonso-González, D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis , et al. · 2023

We present a new analysis of previously published SuperCDMS data using a profile likelihood framework to search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles through two inelastic scattering channels: bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal effec…

Investigating the sources of low-energy events in a SuperCDMS-HVeV detector Open

M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki , et al. · 2022

Recent experiments searching for sub-GeV/$c^2$ dark matter have observed\nevent excesses close to their respective energy thresholds. Although specific\nto the individual technologies, the measured excess event rates have been\nconsistentl…

Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite Open

I. Alkhatib, D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist , et al. · 2021

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sensitivity to lightly ionizing particles (LIPs) in a previous…

Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground Open

I. Alkhatib, D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist , et al. · 2021

We present limits on spin-independent dark matter-nucleon interactions using a 10.6 g Si athermal phonon detector with a baseline energy resolution of σ_{E}=3.86±0.04(stat)_{-0.00}^{+0.19}(syst) eV. This exclusion analysis sets the most st…

Constraints on low-mass, relic dark matter candidates from a surface-operated SuperCDMS single-charge sensitive detector Open

D. W. P. Amaral, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, E. Azadbakht , et al. · 2020

This article presents an analysis and the resulting limits on light dark matter inelastically scattering off of electrons, and on dark photon and axionlike particle absorption, using a second-generation SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution…

Constraints on dark photons and axionlike particles from the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment Open

T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, E. Azadbakht, W. Baker , et al. · 2020

We present an analysis of electron recoils in cryogenic germanium detectors operated during the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment. The data are used to set new constraints on the axioelectric coupling of axion-like particles and the kinetic mixi…

SuperCDMS SNOLAB: status and prospects for measuring the coherent neutrino scattering Open

E. Lopez Asamar · 2019

SuperCDMS SNOLAB is a low-background experiment that will use semiconductor germanium and silicon detectors to search for galactic dark matter. In addition the experiment has potential to measure the coherent scattering of solar 8B neutrin…

Search for low-mass dark matter with CDMSlite using a profile likelihood fit Open

R. Agnese, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, E. Azadbakht , et al. · 2019

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) searches for interactions between dark matter particles and germanium nuclei in cryogenic detectors. The experiment has achieved a low energy threshold with im…

Erratum: First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector [Phys. Rev. Lett. <b>121</b>, 051301 (2018)] Open

R. Agnese, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, E. Azadbakht , et al. · 2019

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.051301.

Use of B → h +h 0− as control channels for the measurement of BR(B0 s → µ +µ −) at LHCb Open

E. Lopez Asamar · 2019

Energy loss due to defect formation from 206Pb recoils in SuperCDMS germanium detectors Open

R. Agnese, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, E. Azadbakht , et al. · 2018

The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory studied energy loss associated with defect formation in germanium crystals at mK temperatures using in situ 210Pb sources. We examine the spectrum of 20…

Production rate measurement of Tritium and other cosmogenic isotopes in Germanium with CDMSlite Open

R. Agnese, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, E. Azadbakht , et al. · 2018

First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector Open

R. Agnese, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, E. Azadbakht , et al. · 2018

We present the first limits on inelastic electron-scattering dark matter and dark photon absorption using a prototype SuperCDMS detector having a charge resolution of 0.1 electron-hole pairs (CDMS HVeV, a 0.93 g CDMS high-voltage device). …

Nuclear-recoil energy scale in CDMS II silicon dark-matter detectors Open

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aramaki, W. Baker, D. Balakishiyeva , et al. · 2018

Results from the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment at Soudan Open

R. Agnese, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, W. Baker, D. Balakishiyeva , et al. · 2018

We report the result of a blinded search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the majority of the SuperCDMS Soudan data set. With an exposure of 1690 kg d, a single candidate event is observed, consistent with expected ba…

Low-mass dark matter search with CDMSlite Open

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist , et al. · 2018

The SuperCDMS experiment is designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that may constitute the dark matter in our Galaxy. During its operation at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, germanium detectors were run…

Low-mass dark matter search with CDMSlite Open

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist , et al. · 2018

The SuperCDMS experiment is designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that may constitute the dark matter in our Galaxy. During its operation at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, germanium detectors were run…

Projected sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment Open

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, W. Baker , et al. · 2017

SuperCDMS SNOLAB will be a next-generation experiment aimed at directly detecting low-mass (< 10 GeV/c$^2$) particles that may constitute dark matter by using cryogenic detectors of two types (HV and iZIP) and two target materials (germani…

Projected Sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment Open

Robert Agnese, Takayuki Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, W. Baker, D. Barker , et al. · 2016

SuperCDMS SNOLAB will be a next-generation experiment aimed at directly detecting low-mass (< 10 GeV/c$^2$) particles that may constitute dark matter by using cryogenic detectors of two types (HV and iZIP) and two target materials (germani…

Low-threshold WIMP search at SuperCDMS Open

E. Lopez Asamar · 2016

The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment aims to detecting nuclear recoils from weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by measuring phonon and ionization energy in crystalline Ge. It has been operating at the Sou…

New Results from the Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with the CDMS Low Ionization Threshold Experiment Open

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aramaki, M. Asai, W. Baker , et al. · 2016

The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Results are …

Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data Open

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, M. Asai, D. Balakishiyeva, D. Barker , et al. · 2015

CDMS II data from the five-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surface-event backgrounds were applied to the 612 kg days ge…

Dark matter effective field theory scattering in direct detection experiments Open

K. Schneck, Blas Cabrera, D. G. Cerdeño, V. Mandic, H. E. Rogers , et al. · 2015

We examine the consequences of the effective field theory (EFT) of dark matter–nucleon scattering for current and proposed direct detection experiments. Exclusion limits on EFT coupling constants computed using the optimum interval method …

Improved WIMP-search reach of the CDMS II germanium data Open

R. Agnese, Makoto Asai, D. Balakishiyeva, D. Barker, R. Basu Thakur , et al. · 2015

CDMS II data from the 5-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surface-event backgrounds were applied to the 612 kg days germa…

Maximum likelihood analysis of low energy CDMS II germanium data Open

R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, D. Balakishiyeva, R. Basu Thakur, D. Bauer , et al. · 2015

We report on the results of a search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) signal in low-energy data of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment using a maximum likelihood analysis. A background model is constructed using gea…

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