First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 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 0.93g CDMS high-voltage device). These electron-recoil limits significantly improve experimental constraints on dark matter particles with masses as low as 1MeV/c^{2}. We demonstrate a sensitivity to dark photons competitive with other leading approaches but using substantially less exposure (0.49gd). These results demonstrate the scientific potential of phonon-mediated semiconductor detectors that are sensitive to single electronic excitations.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 42.788

author list (cited authors)

  • Agnese, R., Aralis, T., Aramaki, T., Arnquist, I. J., Azadbakht, E., Baker, W., ... Zhao, X.

citation count

  • 157

complete list of authors

  • Agnese, R||Aralis, T||Aramaki, T||Arnquist, IJ||Azadbakht, E||Baker, W||Banik, S||Barker, D||Bauer, DA||Binder, T||Bowles, MA||Brink, PL||Bunker, R||Cabrera, B||Calkins, R||Cartaro, C||Cerdeño, DG||Chang, Y-Y||Cooley, J||Cornell, B||Cushman, P||Di Stefano, PCF||Doughty, T||Fascione, E||Figueroa-Feliciano, E||Fink, C||Fritts, M||Gerbier, G||Germond, R||Ghaith, M||Golwala, SR||Harris, HR||Hong, Z||Hoppe, EW||Hsu, L||Huber, ME||Iyer, V||Jardin, D||Jena, C||Kelsey, MH||Kennedy, A||Kubik, A||Kurinsky, NA||Lawrence, RE||Leyva, JV||Loer, B||Lopez Asamar, E||Lukens, P||MacDonell, D||Mahapatra, R||Mandic, V||Mast, N||Miller, EH||Mirabolfathi, N||Mohanty, B||Morales Mendoza, JD||Nelson, J||Orrell, JL||Oser, SM||Page, WA||Partridge, R||Pepin, M||Phipps, A||Ponce, F||Poudel, S||Pyle, M||Qiu, H||Rau, W||Reisetter, A||Reynolds, T||Roberts, A||Robinson, AE||Rogers, HE||Romani, RK||Saab, T||Sadoulet, B||Sander, J||Scarff, A||Schnee, RW||Scorza, S||Senapati, K||Serfass, B||So, J||Speller, D||Stanford, C||Stein, M||Street, J||Tanaka, HA||Toback, D||Underwood, R||Villano, AN||von Krosigk, B||Watkins, SL||Wilson, JS||Wilson, MJ||Winchell, J||Wright, DH||Yellin, S||Young, BA||Zhang, X||Zhao, X

publication date

  • August 2018