Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a 10 eV Threshold CRESST-III Silicon Detector
Abstract
We present limits on the spin-independent interaction cross section of dark matter particles with silicon nuclei, derived from data taken with a cryogenic calorimeter with 0.35 g target mass operated in the CRESST-III experiment. A baseline nuclear recoil energy resolution of eV, currently the lowest reported for macroscopic particle detectors, and a corresponding energy threshold of eV have been achieved, improving the sensitivity to light dark matter particles with masses below 160 MeV/c by a factor of up to 20 compared to previous results. We characterize the observed low energy excess, and we exclude noise triggers and radioactive contaminations on the crystal surfaces as dominant contributions.
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@article{arxiv.2212.12513,
title = {Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a 10 eV Threshold CRESST-III Silicon Detector},
author = {CRESST Collaboration and G. Angloher and S. Banik and G. Benato and A. Bento and A. Bertolini and R. Breier and C. Bucci and J. Burkhart and L. Canonica and A. D'Addabbo and S. Di Lorenzo and L. Einfalt and A. Erb and F. v. Feilitzsch and N. Ferreiro Iachellini and S. Fichtinger and D. Fuchs and A. Fuss and A. Garai and V. M. Ghete and S. Gerster and P. Gorla and P. V. Guillaumon and S. Gupta and D. Hauff and M. Ješkovský and J. Jochum and M. Kaznacheeva and A. Kinast and H. Kluck and H. Kraus and A. Langenkämper and M. Mancuso and L. Marini and L. Meyer and V. Mokina and A. Nilima and M. Olmi and T. Ortmann and C. Pagliarone and L. Pattavina and F. Petricca and W. Potzel and P. Povinec and F. Pröbst and F. Pucci and F. Reindl and J. Rothe and K. Schäffner and J. Schieck and D. Schmiedmayer and S. Schönert and C. Schwertner and M. Stahlberg and L. Stodolsky and C. Strandhagen and R. Strauss and I. Usherov and F. Wagner and M. Willers and V. Zema},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.12513},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
8 pages, 5 figures; precised the position of the calibration source in Fig. 1; extended the discussion about the observed energy spectrum; added the DM limit curve to ancillary files. Published in Phys. Rev. D