Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sensitivity to lightly ionizing particles (LIPs) in a previously unexplored region of charge, mass, and velocity parameter space. We report first direct-detection limits calculated using the optimum interval method on the vertical intensity of cosmogenically produced LIPs with an electric charge smaller than e/(310^{5}), as well as the strongest limits for charge e/160, with a minimum vertical intensity of 1.3610^{-7}cm^{-2}s^{-1}sr^{-1} at charge e/160. These results apply over a wide range of LIP masses (5MeV/c^{2} to 100TeV/c^{2}) and cover a wide range of values (0.1-10^{6}), thus excluding nonrelativistic LIPs with as small as 0.1 for the first time.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

altmetric score

  • 2.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Alkhatib, I., Amaral, D., Aralis, T., Aramaki, T., Arnquist, I. J., Ataee Langroudy, I., ... SuperCDMS Collaboration.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Alkhatib, I||Amaral, DWP||Aralis, T||Aramaki, T||Arnquist, IJ||Ataee Langroudy, I||Azadbakht, E||Banik, S||Barker, D||Bathurst, C||Bauer, DA||Bezerra, LVS||Bhattacharyya, R||Bowles, MA||Brink, PL||Bunker, R||Cabrera, B||Calkins, R||Cameron, RA||Cartaro, C||Cerdeño, DG||Chang, Y-Y||Chaudhuri, M||Chen, R||Chott, N||Cooley, J||Coombes, H||Corbett, J||Cushman, P||De Brienne, F||di Vacri, ML||Diamond, MD||Fascione, E||Figueroa-Feliciano, E||Fink, CW||Fouts, K||Fritts, M||Gerbier, G||Germond, R||Ghaith, M||Golwala, SR||Harris, HR||Hines, BA||Hollister, MI||Hong, Z||Hoppe, EW||Hsu, L||Huber, ME||Iyer, V||Jardin, D||Jastram, A||Kashyap, VKS||Kelsey, MH||Kubik, A||Kurinsky, NA||Lawrence, RE||Li, A||Loer, B||Lopez Asamar, E||Lukens, P||MacFarlane, DB||Mahapatra, R||Mandic, V||Mast, N||Mayer, AJ||Meyer Zu Theenhausen, H||Michaud, ÉM||Michielin, E||Mirabolfathi, N||Mohanty, B||Morales Mendoza, JD||Nagorny, S||Nelson, J||Neog, H||Novati, V||Orrell, JL||Oser, SM||Page, WA||Partridge, R||Podviianiuk, R||Ponce, F||Poudel, S||Pradeep, A||Pyle, M||Rau, W||Reid, E||Ren, R||Reynolds, T||Roberts, A||Robinson, AE||Saab, T||Sadoulet, B||Sander, J||Sattari, A||Schnee, RW||Scorza, S||Serfass, B||Sincavage, DJ||Stanford, C||Street, J||Toback, D||Underwood, R||Verma, S||Villano, AN||von Krosigk, B||Watkins, SL||Wilson, JS||Wilson, MJ||Winchell, J||Wright, DH||Yellin, S||Young, BA||Yu, TC||Zhang, E||Zhang, HG||Zhao, X||Zheng, L

publication date

  • August 2021