Searches for light dark matter using condensed matter systems

Y Kahn, T Lin - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Identifying the nature of dark matter (DM) has long been a pressing question for particle
physics. In the face of ever-more-powerful exclusions and null results from large-exposure …

Detection and Calibration of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils for Dark Matter and Neutrino Scattering Experiments

J Xu, PS Barbeau, Z Hong - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Detection of low-energy nuclear recoil events plays a central role in searches for particle
dark matter interactions with atomic matter and studies of coherent neutrino scatters. Precise …

[HTML][HTML] Single-photon detection in the mid-infrared up to 10 μm wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectors

VB Verma, B Korzh, AB Walter, AE Lita, RM Briggs… - APL photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We developed superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on tungsten
silicide, which show saturated internal detection efficiency up to a wavelength of 10 μm …

The canfranc axion detection experiment (cadex): search for axions at 90 ghz with kinetic inductance detectors

B Aja, SA Cuendis, I Arregui, E Artal… - … of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a novel experiment, the Canfranc Axion Detection Experiment (CADEx), to
probe dark matter axions with masses in the range 330–460 μeV, within the W-band (80 …

[HTML][HTML] Transition edge sensors: Physics and applications

M De Lucia, P Dal Bo, E Di Giorgi, T Lari, C Puglia… - Instruments, 2024 - mdpi.com
Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are amongst the most sensitive cryogenic detectors and
can be easily optimized for the detection of massive particles or photons ranging from X-rays …

G4CMP: Condensed matter physics simulation using the Geant4 toolkit

MH Kelsey, R Agnese, YF Alam, IA Langroudy… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
G4CMP simulates phonon and charge transport in cryogenic semiconductor crystals using
the Geant4 toolkit. The transport code is capable of simulating the propagation of acoustic …

1/f noise in quantum nanoscience

G Falci, PJ Hakonen, E Paladino - arxiv preprint arxiv:2401.11989, 2024 - arxiv.org
Fundamental issues of 1/f noise in quantum nanoscience are reviewed starting from basic
statistical noise processes. Fundamental noise models based on two-level systems (TLS) …

The effect of niobium thin film structure on losses in superconducting circuits

M Drimmer, S Telkamp, FL Fischer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The performance of superconducting microwave circuits is strongly influenced by the
material properties of the superconducting film and substrate. While progress has been …

Zeptojoule calorimetry

A Gunyhó, K Kohvakka, QM Chen, JP Girard… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The measurement of energy is a fundamental tool used, for example, in exploring the early
universe, characterizing particle decay processes, as well as in quantum technology and …

Simulation of a single photon counting photonic spectrograph for exoplanet atmospheric characterization

E Alexani, DF Figer, P Gatkine - Space Telescopes and …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
NASA's highest priority future flagship astrophysics mission is a large infrared/optical/
ultraviolet (IR/O/UV) telescope, the first in a series of new Great Observatories …