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Constraints on the Blazar-Boosted Dark Matter from the CDEX-10 Experiment

We report new constraints on light dark matter (DM) boosted by blazars using the 205.4 kg day data from the CDEX-10 experiment located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. Two representative blazars, TXS 0506+56 and BL Lacertae are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-01 R. Xu , L. T. Yang , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , Y. J. Li , H. P. An , Greeshma C. , J. P. Chang , Y. H. Chen , J. P. Cheng , W. H. Dai , Z. Deng , C. H. Fang , X. P. Geng , H. Gong , Q. J. Guo , T. Guo , X. Y. Guo , L. He , S. M. He , J. W. Hu , H. X. Huang , T. C. Huang , L. Jiang , S. Karmakar , H. B. Li , H. Y. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , Q. Y. Li , R. M. J. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. L. Li , Y. F. Liang , B. Liao , F. K. Lin , S. T. Lin , J. X. Liu , S. K. Liu , Y. D. Liu , Y. Liu , Y. Y. Liu , H. Ma , Y. C. Mao , Q. Y. Nie , J. H. Ning , H. Pan , N. C. Qi , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , M. K. Singh , T. X. Sun , C. J. Tang , Y. Tian , G. F. Wang , J. Z. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. X. Wang , H. T. Wong , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , H. Y. Xing , Y. Xu , T. Xue , Y. L. Yan , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. J. Yu , J. F. Yue , M. Zeng , Z. Zeng , B. T. Zhang , F. S. Zhang , L. Zhang , Z. H. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , J. Z. Zhao , K. K. Zhao , M. G. Zhao , J. F. Zhou , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu

Pulse Shape Discrimination of Bulk and Very Bulk Events within HPGe Detectors

The CDEX (China Dark matter Experiment) now deploys ~10 kg pPCGe (p-type Point Contact Germanium) detectors in CJPL (China Jinping Underground Laboratory). It aims to detect rare events such as dark matter and 0vbb (neutrinoless double beta…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-26 Jinfu Zhu , Tao Xue , Liangjun Wei , Jianmin Li

Study of few-electron backgrounds in the LUX-ZEPLIN detector

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment aims to detect rare interactions between dark matter particles and xenon. Although the detector is designed to be the most sensitive to GeV/$c^2$--TeV/$c^2$ Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), it is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-20 D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , B. J. Almquist , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , E. E. Barillier , K. Beattie , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , S. Contreras , M. V. Converse , R. Coronel , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , L. Di Felice , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Dubey , C. L. Dunbar , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , A. Ghosh , S. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. Hall , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , K. Jenkins , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , M. K. Kannichankandy , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , J. Kingston , D. Kodroff , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , J. Long , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. McLaughlin , R. McMonigle , B. Mitra , E. Mizrachi , M. E. Monzani , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , F. H. O'Shea , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , N. J. Pannifer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , S. S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , S. Saltão , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , K. Shi , T. Shutt , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , A. M. Slivar , R. Smith , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , A. Stevens , T. J. Sumner , A. Swain , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , K. Trengove , M. Tripathi , A. Usón , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , J. Winnicki , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , W. Zha , H. Zhang , T. Zhang

Light Dark Matter Constraints from SuperCDMS HVeV Detectors Operated Underground with an Anticoincidence Event Selection

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-26 SuperCDMS Collaboration , M. F. Albakry , I. Alkhatib , D. Alonso-González , D. W. P. Amaral , J. Anczarski , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , I. Ataee Langroudy , E. Azadbakht , C. Bathurst , R. Bhattacharyya , A. J. Biffl , P. L. Brink , M. Buchanan , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , R. Calkins , R. A. Cameron , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeño , Y. -Y. Chang , M. Chaudhuri , J. -H. Chen , R. Chen , N. Chott , J. Cooley , H. Coombes , P. Cushman , R. Cyna , S. Das , F. De Brienne , S. Dharani , M. L. di Vacri , M. D. Diamond , M. Elwan , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , K. Fouts , M. Fritts , R. Germond , M. Ghaith , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , S. A. S. Harms , K. Harris , N. Hassan , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , D. Jardin , V. K. S. Kashyap , S. T. D. Keller , M. H. Kelsey , K. T. Kennard , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , M. Lee , J. Leyva , J. Liu , Y. Liu , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , D. B. MacFarlane , R. Mahapatra , J. S. Mammo , N. Mast , A. J. Mayer , H. Meyer zu Theenhausen , É. Michaud , E. Michielin , N. Mirabolfathi , M. Mirzakhani , B. Mohanty , D. Monteiro , J. Nelson , H. Neog , V. Novati , J. L. Orrell , M. D. Osborne , S. M. Oser , L. Pandey , S. Pandey , R. Partridge , D. S. Pedreros , W. Peng , L. Perna , W. L. Perry , R. Podviianiuk , S. S. Poudel , A. Pradeep , M. Pyle , W. Rau , E. Reid , R. Ren , T. Reynolds , M. Rios , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , J. L. Ryan , T. Saab , D. Sadek , B. Sadoulet , S. P. Sahoo , I. Saikia , J. Sander , A. Sattari , B. Schmidt , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , A. Simchony , D. J. Sincavage , P. Sinervo , J. Street , H. Sun , E. Tanner , G. D. Terry , D. Toback , S. Verma , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , S. L. Watkins , O. Wen , Z. Williams , M. J. Wilson , J. Winchell , K. Wykoff , S. Yellin , B. A. Young , T. C. Yu , B. Zatschler , S. Zatschler , A. Zaytsev , E. Zhang , L. Zheng , A. Zuniga , M. J. Zurowski

CoGeNT: A Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter using p-type Point Contact Germanium Detectors

CoGeNT employs p-type point-contact (PPC) germanium detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). By virtue of its low energy threshold and ability to reject surface backgrounds, this type of device allows an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-10 C. E. Aalseth , P. S. Barbeau , J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , J. Diaz Leon , J. E. Fast , N. E. Fields , T. W. Hossbach , A. Knecht , M. S. Kos , M. G. Marino , H. S. Miley , M. L. Miller , J. L. Orrell , K. M. Yocum

Search for boosted dark matter with high-Z material in underground experiments

We propose to search for a boosted dark matter (DM) particle from astrophysical sources using an emulsion detector in deep underground facilities. We further propose using high-$Z$ material such as the lead for a larger DM-nucleus coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Xin Chen , Litao Yang

Study on cosmogenic activation in germanium detectors for future tonne-scale CDEX experiment

A study on cosmogenic activation in germanium was carried out to evaluate the cosmogenic background level of natural and $^{70}$Ge depleted germanium detectors. The production rates of long-lived radionuclides were calculated with Geant4…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-23 J. L. Ma , Q. Yue , S. T. Lin , H. T. Wong , J. W. Hu , L. P. Jia , H. Jiang , J. Li , S. K. Liu , Z. Z. Liu , H. Ma , W. Y. Tang , Y. Tian , L. Wang , Q. Wang , L. T. Yang , Z. Zeng

Limits on Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with an Ultra-Low-Energy Germanium Detector at 220 eV Threshold

An energy threshold of (220$\pm$10) eV was achieved at an efficiency of 50% with a four-channel ultra-low-energy germanium detector each with an active mass of 5 g\cite{wimppaper}. This provides a unique probe to WIMP dark matter with mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Shin-Ted Lin , H. T. Wong

Direct detection experiments explained with mirror dark matter

Recently, the CDMS/Si experiment has observed a low energy excess of events in their dark matter search. In light of this new result we update the mirror dark matter explanation of the direction detection experiments. We find that the DAMA,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Foot

Status of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure oscillation parameters by detecting reactor neutrinos from the Yangjiang and Taishan…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-24 Cong Guo

Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab -- 2018 update to PR12-16-001

This document complements and completes what was submitted last year to PAC45 as an update to the proposal PR12-16-001 "Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX)" at Jefferson Lab submitted to JLab-PAC44 in 2016. Following the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-09 M. Battaglieri , A. Bersani , G. Bracco , B. Caiffi , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , L. Marsicano , P. Musico , F. Panza , M. Ripani , E. Santopinto , M. Taiuti , V. Bellini , M. Bondi' , P. Castorina , M. De Napoli , A. Italiano , V. Kuznetzov , E. Leonora , F. Mammoliti , N. Randazzo , L. Re , G. Russo , M. Russo , A. Shahinyan , M. Sperduto , S. Spinali , C. Sutera , F. Tortorici , N. Baltzell , M. Dalton , A. Freyberger , F. -X. Girod , G. Kharashvili , V. Kubarovsky , E. Pasyuk , E. S. Smith , S. Stepanyan , H. Szumilla-Vance , M. Ungaro , T. Whitlatch , E. Izaguirre , G. Krnjaic , I. Ehle , D. Snowden-Ifft , D. Loomba , M. Carpinelli , D. D'Urso , A. Gabrieli , G. Maccioni , M. Sant , V. Sipala , F. Ameli , E. Cisbani , F. De Persio , A. Del Dotto , F. Garibaldi , F. Meddi , C. A. Nicolau , G. M. Urciuoli , T. Chiarusi , M. Manzali , C. Pellegrino , P. Schuster , N. Toro , R. Essig , M. H. Wood , M. Holtrop. , R. Paremuzyan , G. De Cataldo , R. De Leo , D. Di Bari , L. Lagamba , E. Nappi , R. Perrino , I. Balossino , L. Barion , G. Ciullo , M. Contalbrigo , A. Drago , P. Lenisa , A. Movsisyan , L. Pappalardo , F. Spizzo , M. Turisini , D. Hasch , V. Lucherini , M. Mirazita , S. Pisano , P. Rossi , S. Tomassini , G. Simi , A. D'Angelo , L. Lanza , A. Rizzo , A. Filippi , M. Genovese , M. Kunkel , M. Bashkanov , A. Murphy , G. Smith , D. Watts , N. Zachariou , L. Zana , D. Glazier , D. Ireland , B. McKinnon , D. Sokhan , L. Colaneri , S. Anefalos Pereira , A. Afanasev , B. Briscoe , I. Strakovsky , N. Kalantarians , L. Weinstein , K. P. Adhikari , J. A. Dunne , D. Dutta , L. El Fassi , L. Ye , K. Hicks , P. Cole , S. Dobbs , C. Fanelli , P. Mohanmurthy

DAMIC-M Experiment: Thick, Silicon CCDs to search for Light Dark Matter

This report presents an overview of the unconventional use of charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for Dark Matter (DM). The DArk Matter In CCDs (DAMIC Experiment) employs the bulk silicon of thick, fully-depleted CCDs as a target for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-14 N. Castello-Mor , DAMIC-M Collaboration

DAMIC: a novel dark matter experiment

DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) is a novel dark matter experiment that has unique sensitivity to dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV. Due to its low electronic readout noise (R.M.S. ~3 e-) this instrument is able to reach a detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-25 The DAMIC Collaboration , Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo , Xavier Bertou , Melissa J. Butner , Gustavo Cancelo , Alvaro Chavarria , Juan Carlos D'Olivo , Juan Cruz Estrada Vigil , Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Federico Izraelevitch , Ben Kilminster , Ian T. Lawson , Fernando Marsal , Jorge Molina , Paolo Privitera , Tom Schwarz , Miguel Sofo Haro , Javier Tiffenberg , Frederic Trillaud , Jing Zhou

First Dark Matter Search Results from a Surface Run of the 10-L DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Detector

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) is a low pressure (75 Torr CF4) 10 liter detector capable of measuring the vector direction of nuclear recoils with the goal of directional dark matter detection. In this paper we present the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-27 S. Ahlen , J. B. R. Battat , T. Caldwell , C. Deaconu , D. Dujmic , W. Fedus , P. Fisher , F. Golub , S. Henderson , A. Inglis , A. Kaboth , G. Kohse , R. Lanza , A. Lee , J. Lopez , J. Monroe , T. Sahin , G. Sciolla , N. Skvorodnev , H. Tomita , H. Wellenstein , I. Wolfe , R. Yamamoto , H. Yegoryan

Germanium and Silicon Detectors for WIMP Searches: Key Experimental Insights

Dark matter plays a crucial role in our comprehension of the universe, but its mysterious nature poses challenges for direct detection. A primary obstacle in detecting dark matter is distinguishing genuine signals from the prevailing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-05 M. Mirzakhani , S. Maludze

After LUX: The LZ Program

The LZ program consists of two stages of direct dark matter searches using liquid Xe detectors. The first stage will be a 1.5-3 tonne detector, while the last stage will be a 20 tonne detector. Both devices will benefit tremendously from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 D. C. Malling , D. S. Akerib , H. M. Araujo , X. Bai , S. Bedikian , E. Bernard , A. Bernstein , A. Bradley , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , D. Carr , J. J. Chapman , K. Clark , T. Classen , T. Coffey , A. Curioni , A. Currie , S. Dazeley , L. de Viveiros , M. Dragowsky , E. Druszkiewicz , C. H. Faham , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , K. R. Gibson , C. Hall , M. Hanhardt , B. Holbrook , M. Ihm , R. G. Jacobsen , L. Kastens , K. Kazkaz , R. Lander , N. Larsen , C. Lee , D. Leonard , K. Lesko , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Lyashenko , P. Majewski , R. Mannino , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Morii , A. St J. Murphy , H. Nelson , F. Neves , J. A. Nikkel , M. Pangilinan , P. Phelps , L. Reichhart , T. Shutt , C. Silva , W. Skulski , V. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Spaans , T. Stiegler , T. J. Sumner , R. Svoboda , M. Sweany , M. Szydagis , J. Thomson , M. Tripathi , J. R. Verbus , N. Walsh , R. Webb , J. T. White , M. Wlasenko , F. L. H. Wolfs , M. Woods , C. Zhang

The Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx): Search for axions at 90 GHz with Kinetic Inductance Detectors

We propose a novel experiment, the Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx), to probe dark matter axions with masses in the range 330-460 $\mu$eV, within the W-band (80-110 GHz), an unexplored parameter space in the well-motivated dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-30 Beatriz Aja , Sergio Arguedas Cuendis , Ivan Arregui , Eduardo Artal , R. Belén Barreiro , Francisco J. Casas , Maria C. de Ory , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo , Luisa de la Fuente , Juan Daniel Gallego , José María García-Barceló , Benito Gimeno , Alicia Gomez , Daniel Granados , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Miguel A. G. Laso , Txema Lopetegi , Antonio José Lozano-Guerrero , Maria T. Magaz , Jesús Martín-Pintado , Enrique Martínez-González , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Juan Monzó-Cabrera , Jose R. Navarro-Madrid , Ana B. Nuñez Chico , Juan Pablo Pascual , Jorge Pelegrin , Carlos Peña Garay , David Rodriguez , Juan M. Socuéllamos , Fernando Teberio , Jorge Teniente , Patricio Vielva , Iván Vila , Rocío Vilar , Enrique Villa

First Production of Skipper-CCD Modules for the DAMIC-M Experiment

The DAMIC-M experiment will search for sub-GeV dark matter particles with a large array of silicon skipper charge-coupled devices (CCDs) at the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM) in France. After five years of development, we recently…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-09 H. Lin , M. Traina , S. Paul , K. Aggarwal , I. Arnquist , N. Castello-Mor , A. E. Chavarria , M. Conde , C. De Dominicis , M. Huehn , S. Hope , T. Hossbach , L. Iddir , I. Lawson , R. Lou , S. Munagavalasa , D. Norcini , P. Privitera , B. Roach , R. Roehnelt , N. Rocco , R. Saldanha , T. Schleider , R. Smida , B. Stillwell , A. Vellozzi , D. Venegas-Vargas , R. Yajur , N. Avalos , X. Bertou , C. Bourgeois , J. Brandt , C. Centeno Lorca , J. Cuevas-Zepeda , A. Dastgheibi-Fard , O. Deligny , R. Desani , M. Dhellot , J. Duarte-Campderros , E. Estrada , D. Florin , N. Gadola , R. Gaior , E. -L. Gkougkousis , J. Gonzalez Sanchez , B. Kavanagh , B. Kilminster , A. Letessier Selvon , P. Loaiza , D. Loeb , A. Lopez-Virto , D. Moya Martin , J. Noonan , X. Ni , M. Perez Martinez , D. Peterson , O. Pochon , D. Reynet , P. Robmann , M. Settimo , S. Smee , T. Van Wechel , R. Vilar , P. Vallerand , A. Vollhardt , D. Wolf , C. Zhu , Y. Zhu

The nEDM experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute

The quest for a non-zero electric dipole moment (EDM) of simple systems such as the electron, the neutron or atoms / molecules is a pow- erful way to search for physics beyond the standard model (SM) in par- ticular for new sources of CP…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-22 Yoann Kermaidic

TREX-DM: a low background Micromegas-based TPC for low mass WIMP detection

Dark Matter experiments are recently focusing their detection techniques in low-mass WIMPs, which requires the use of light elements and low energy threshold. In this context, we present the TREX-DM experiment, a low background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-24 F. J. Iguaz , J. G. Garza , F. Aznar , J. F. Castel , S. Cebrian , T. Dafni , J. A. Garcia , H. Gomez , D. Gonzalez-Diaz , I. G. Irastorza , A. Lagraba , G. Luzon , A. Peiro , A. Rodriguez