Low-mass dark matter search with the DarkSide-50 experiment

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present the results of a search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles
(WIMPs) in the mass range below 20 GeV/c 2 using a target of low-radioactivity argon with a …

A review of basic energy reconstruction techniques in liquid xenon and argon detectors for dark matter and neutrino physics using NEST

M Szydagis, GA Block, C Farquhar, AJ Flesher… - Instruments, 2021 - mdpi.com
Detectors based upon the noble elements, especially liquid xenon as well as liquid argon,
as both single-and dual-phase types, require reconstruction of the energies of interacting …

DarkSide-50 532-day dark matter search with low-radioactivity argon

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The DarkSide-50 direct-detection dark matter experiment is a dual-phase argon time
projection chamber operating at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. This paper reports on …

Constraints on sub-GeV dark-matter–electron scattering from the DarkSide-50 experiment

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present new constraints on sub-GeV dark-matter particles scattering off electrons based
on 6780.0 kg d of data collected with the DarkSide-50 dual-phase argon time projection …

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

P Agnes, L Agostino, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an
attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter …

Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics

V Chepel, H Araújo - Journal of Instrumentation, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current status of liquid noble gas radiation detectors with energy threshold in
the keV range, which are of interest for direct dark matter searches, measurement of …

Sensitivity of the COHERENT experiment to accelerator-produced dark matter

D Akimov, P An, C Awe, PS Barbeau, B Becker… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
The COHERENT experiment is well poised to test sub-GeV dark matter models using
detectors sensitive to coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) in the π+ decay …

First probe of sub-GeV dark matter beyond the cosmological expectation with the COHERENT CsI detector at the SNS

D Akimov, P An, C Awe, PS Barbeau, B Becker… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The COHERENT Collaboration searched for scalar dark matter particles produced at the
Spallation Neutron Source with masses between 1 and 220 MeV/c 2 using a CsI [Na] …

Measuring active-to-sterile neutrino oscillations with neutral current<? format?> coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering

AJ Anderson, JM Conrad, E Figueroa-Feliciano… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
Light sterile neutrinos have been introduced as an explanation for a number of oscillation
signals at Δ m 2∼ 1 eV 2. Neutrino oscillations at relatively short baselines provide a probe …

Annual modulation in direct dark matter searches

F Froborg, AR Duffy - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The measurement of an annual modulation in the event rate of direct dark matter detection
experiments is a powerful tool for dark matter discovery. Indeed, several experiments have …