Low-threshold sapphire detector for rare event searches

S. Verma; S. Maludze; M. Lee; M. Chaudhuri; V. Iyer; V. K.S. Kashyap; A. Kubik; Y. T. Lin; R. Mahapatra; N. Mirabolfathi; N. Mishra; B. Mohanty; H. Neog; A. Jastram; M. Platt

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2022.167634

Low-threshold sapphire detector for rare event searches

S. Verma, S. Maludze, M. Lee, M. Chaudhuri, V. Iyer, V. K.S. Kashyap, A. Kubik, Y. T. Lin, R. Mahapatra, N. Mirabolfathi, N. Mishra, B. Mohanty, H. Neog, A. Jastram, M. Platt

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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)
Article number	167634
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	1046
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167634
State	Published - Jan 11 2023
Externally published	Yes

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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.

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© 2022 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

CEνNS
Low mass dark matter
Low temperature
Low threshold detector
Phonon detector

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Verma, S., Maludze, S., Lee, M., Chaudhuri, M., Iyer, V., Kashyap, V. K. S., Kubik, A., Lin, Y. T., Mahapatra, R., Mirabolfathi, N., Mishra, N., Mohanty, B., Neog, H., Jastram, A., & Platt, M. (2023). Low-threshold sapphire detector for rare event searches. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1046, Article 167634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167634

Verma, S, Maludze, S, Lee, M, Chaudhuri, M, Iyer, V, Kashyap, VKS, Kubik, A, Lin, YT, Mahapatra, R, Mirabolfathi, N, Mishra, N, Mohanty, B, Neog, H, Jastram, A & Platt, M 2023, 'Low-threshold sapphire detector for rare event searches', Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 1046, 167634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167634

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