Abstract
Low mass nuclear recoil dark matter and coherent-elastic-neutrino-nucleus-scattering (CEνNS) searches confront similar challenges in choosing ultra-low threshold and large-mass detectors. We report experimental results from a 100 g single-crystal sapphire detector design with a diameter of 76 mm and thickness of 4 mm instrumented with transition edge sensors (TES). Sapphire is a crystal of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and has been found to be a good candidate for light mass dark matter search experiments due to its lower atomic mass compared to other detector materials such as germanium and silicon. This new phonon-assisted sapphire detector was characterized to yield a baseline recoil energy resolution of 28.4 ± 0.4 eV. The detector is designed to be sensitive to low-energy rare interactions with an intention to investigate the low-mass region of dark matter phase-space and search for CEνNS at the reactor site.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 167634 |
Journal | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
Volume | 1046 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 11 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the DOE Grant Nos DE-SC0020097 , DE-SC0018981 , DE-SC0017859 , and DE-SC0021051 . We acknowledge the seed funding provided by the Mitchell Institute for early conceptual and prototype development . We would like to acknowledge the support of DAE-India through the project Research in Basic Sciences - Dark Matter and SERB-DST-India through the J. C. Bose Fellowship.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the DOE Grant Nos DE-SC0020097, DE-SC0018981, DE-SC0017859, and DE-SC0021051. We acknowledge the seed funding provided by the Mitchell Institute for early conceptual and prototype development. We would like to acknowledge the support of DAE-India through the project Research in Basic Sciences - Dark Matter and SERB-DST-India through the J. C. Bose Fellowship.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
- CEνNS
- Low mass dark matter
- Low temperature
- Low threshold detector
- Phonon detector