Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground

Alkhatib, I.; Amaral, D. W. P.; Aralis, T.; Aramaki, T.; Arnquist, I. J.; Langroudy, I. Ataee; Azadbakht, E.; Banik, S.; Barker, D.; Bathurst, C.; Bauer, D. A.; Bezerra, L. V. S.; Bhattacharyya, R.; Binder, Tobias; Bowles, M. A.; Brink, P. L.; Bunker, R.; Cabrera, B.; Calkins, R.; Cameron, R. A.; Cartaro, C.; Cerdeño, D. G.; Chang, Yen-Yung; Chaudhuri, M.; Chen, R.; Chott, N.; Cooley, J.; Coombes, H.; Corbett, Jacqueline; Cushman, P.; Brienne, F. De; Vacri, M. L. Di; Diamond, M.; Fascione, E.; Figueroa‐Feliciano, E.; Fink, C. W.; Fouts, K.; Fritts, M.; Gerbier, G.; Germond, R.; Ghaith, M.; Golwala, S. R.; Harris, H. R.; Herbert, Nick; Hines, B. A.; Hollister, M. I.; Hong, Z.; Hoppe, E. W.; Hsu, L.; Huber, M. E.; Iyer, V.; Jardin, D.; Jastram, A.; Kashyap, Varchaswi; Kelsey, M.; Kubik, A.; Kurinsky, Noah; Lawrence, R. E.; Li, A.; Loer, B.; Asamar, E. López; Lukens, P.; Macdonell, Danika Marina; MacFarlane, D. B.; Mahapatra, R.; Mandic, V.; Mast, N.; Mayer, A.; Theenhausen, H. Meyer Zu; Michaud, Eva; Michielin, E.; Mirabolfathi, N.; Mohanty, B.; Mendoza, J. D. Morales; Nagorny, S.; Nelson, J. K.; Neog, H.; Novati, V.; Orrell, J. L.; Oser, S. M.; Page, W. A.; Pakarha, P.; Partridge, R.; Podviianiuk, R.; Ponce, F.; Poudel, S. S.; Pyle, M.; Rau, W.; Reid, E.; Ren, R.; Reynolds, T. N.; Roberts, A.; Robinson, Alan; Saab, T.; Sadoulet, B.; Sander, J.; Sattari, Amirmohammad; Schnee, R. W.; Scorza, S.; Serfass, B.; Sincavage, D. J.; Stanford, C.; Street, J. C.; Toback, D.; Underwood, R.; Verma, S.; Villano, A. N.; Krosigk, B. von; Watkins, S. L.; Wills, L.; Wilson, J. S.; Wilson, M. J.; Winchell, J.; Wright, D.; Yellin, S.; Young, B. A.; Yu, To Chin; Zhang, E.; Zhang, H. G.; Zhao, X.; Zheng, Liang; Camilleri, J.; Kolomensky, Yu. G.; Zuber, S.

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“…We choose to plot the most restrictive current bounds to highlight the fact that our parameter space has not yet been probed. Several other experiments such as XENON10 [63,64], XENON100 [65,66], DarkSide-50 [67], DAMIC [68], XENON1T [56,69], SuperCDMS [70][71][72], EDEL-WEISS [73,74], and CRESST-III [75][76][77] have set similar or weaker limits which we do not include for clarity.…”

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Dark QED from inflation

Arvanitaki

Dimopoulos

Galanis

et al. 2021

J. High Energ. Phys.

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One contribution to any dark sector’s abundance comes from its gravitational production during inflation. If the dark sector is weakly coupled to the inflaton and the Standard Model, this can be its only production mechanism. For non-interacting dark sectors, such as a free massive fermion or a free massive vector field, this mechanism has been studied extensively. In this paper we show, via the example of dark massive QED, that the presence of interactions can result in a vastly different mass for the dark matter (DM) particle, which may well coincide with the range probed by upcoming experiments.In the context of dark QED we study the evolution of the energy density in the dark sector after inflation. Inflation produces a cold vector condensate consisting of an enormous number of bosons, which via interesting processes — Schwinger pair production, strong field electromagnetic cascades, and plasma dynamics — transfers its energy to a small number of “dark electrons” and triggers thermalization of the dark sector. The resulting dark electron DM mass range is from 50 MeV to 30 TeV, far different from both the 10−5 eV mass of the massive photon dark matter in the absence of dark electrons, and from the 109 GeV dark electron mass in the absence of dark photons. This can significantly impact the search strategies for dark QED and, more generally, theories with a self-interacting DM sector. In the presence of kinetic mixing, a dark electron in this mass range can be searched for with upcoming direct detection experiments, such as SENSEI-100g and OSCURA.

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Dark QED from inflation

Arvanitaki

Dimopoulos

Galanis

et al. 2021

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…The helium in this collector film will be isotopically enriched to remove its 3 He. Enrichment of 4 He to less than 5 parts in 10 13 (< 0.5 ppt) 3 He has been demonstrated [21]. Af-ter being captured onto this enriched 4 He film, the 3 He atoms diffuse across the film surface [22].…”

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“…[3]) or athermal phonon detectors (e.g. [4]). However, dark matter events have not yet been observed in these energy ranges, and it is desirable to probe thermal DM as light as 1 keV.…”

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“…1. There are four major steps in the dark matter detector concept proposed here and shown in the Figure : (1) the production of phonons through the interaction with dark matter leading to the quantum evaporation of 3 He atoms from Andreev bound states [13], made possible because the binding energy of He atoms is only ∼5K [14]; (2) trapping the 3 He on the detector surface using electrons bound to a film of isotopically enriched liquid 4 He; (3) collecting and transporting the electrons and trapped 3 He atoms to a detector structure; and (4) quantum sensing of the 3 He atoms through their nuclear spin. An important feature of this detection concept is the separation of the dark matter absorber (i.e.…”

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Single Phonon Detection for Dark Matter via Quantum Evaporation and Sensing of $^3$Helium

Lyon¹,

Castoria²,

Kleinbaum³

et al. 2022

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Dark matter is five times more abundant than ordinary visible matter in our Universe. While laboratory searches hunting for dark matter have traditionally focused on the electroweak scale, theories of low mass hidden sectors motivate new detection techniques. Extending these searches to lower mass ranges, well below 1 GeV/c 2 , poses new challenges as rare interactions with standard model matter transfer progressively less energy to electrons and nuclei in detectors. Here, we propose an approach based on phonon-assisted quantum evaporation combined with quantum sensors for detection of desorption events via tracking of spin coherence. The intent of our proposed dark matter sensors is to extend the parameter space to energy transfers in rare interactions to as low as a few meV for detection of dark matter particles in the keV/c 2 mass range.

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“…Driven by the needs of both rare-event searches and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) experiments, substantial effort has been spent in refining the design of cryogenic calorimeters toward eV-scale energy thresholds. These efforts include cryogenic CCDs demonstrated by SENSEI [1][2][3][4] and DAMIC [5], calorimetric detectors from CRESST [6], ν-CLEUS [7,8], EDELWEISS [9][10][11], and SuperCDMS [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Of these technologies, the detector presented in this paper is the first capable of operating with a low threshold at 0 V, allowing us to measure recoil energy, while also being able to measure quantized charges under application of a voltage bias.…”

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Design and characterization of a phonon-mediated cryogenic particle detector with an eV-scale threshold and 100 keV-scale dynamic range

Ren¹,

Bathurst²,

Chang³

et al. 2021

Phys. Rev. D

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We present the design and characterization of a cryogenic phonon-sensitive 1-gram Si detector exploiting the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke effect to detect single-charge excitations. This device achieved 2.65(2) eV phonon energy resolution when operated without a voltage bias across the crystal and a corresponding charge resolution of 0.03 electron-hole pairs at 100 V bias. With a continuous-readout data acquisition system and an offline optimum-filter trigger, we obtain a 9.2 eV threshold with a trigger rate of the order of 20 Hz. The detector's energy scale is calibrated up to 120 keVusing an energy estimator based on the pulse area. The high performance of this device allows its application to different fields where excellent energy resolution, low threshold, and large dynamic range are required, including dark matter searches, precision measurements of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering, and ionization yield measurements.

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Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground

Cited by 88 publications

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Dark QED from inflation

Dark QED from inflation

Single Phonon Detection for Dark Matter via Quantum Evaporation and Sensing of $^3$Helium

Design and characterization of a phonon-mediated cryogenic particle detector with an eV-scale threshold and 100 keV-scale dynamic range

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