1. Search for sub-GeV dark matter via the Migdal effect with an EDELWEISS germanium detector with NbSi transition-edge sensors
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Armengaud, E., Arnaud, Q., Augier, C., Benoît, A., Bergé, L., Billard, J., Broniatowski, A., Camus, P., Caze, A., Chapellier, M., Charlieux, F., de Jésus, M., Dumoulin, L., Eitel, K., Filippini, J.B., Filosofov, D., Gascon, J., Giuliani, A., Gros, M., Guy, E., Jin, Y., Juillard, A., Kleifges, M., Lattaud, H., Marnieros, S., Misiak, D., Navick, X.F., Nones, C., Olivieri, E., Oriol, C., Pari, P., Paul, B., Poda, D., Rozov, S., Salagnac, T., Sanglard, V., Vagneron, L., Yakushev, E., Zolotarova, A., Kavanagh, B.J., Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), Université de Lyon, Russian Foundation for Basic Research, European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Research Council, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hélium : du fondamental aux applications (NEEL - HELFA), Institut Néel (NEEL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cryogénie (NEEL - Cryo), Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies [Orsay] (C2N), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Cryogénie (LC), Service de physique de l'état condensé (SPEC - UMR3680), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (IRAMIS), and EDELWEISS
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background ,resolution ,GeV ,sensitivity ,dark matter ,particle: interaction ,thermal ,EDELWEISS ,cryogenics ,electron: recoil: energy ,ionization ,germanium: detector ,phonon ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] - Abstract
The EDELWEISS collaboration reports on the search for dark matter particle interactions via Migdal effect with masses between 32MeV⋅c−2 to 2 GeV⋅c−2 using a 200 g cryogenic Ge detector sensitive to simultaneously heat and ionization signals and operated underground at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in France. The phonon signal was read out using a transition edge sensor made of a NbSi thin film. The detector was biased at 66 V in order to benefit from the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke amplification and resulting in a resolution on the energy of electron recoils of 4.46eVee (102.58 eV at 66 V) and an analysis threshold of 30eVee. The sensitivity is limited by a dominant background not associated to charge creation in the detector. The search constrains a new region of parameter space for cross sections down to 10−29cm2 and masses between 32 and 100MeV⋅c−2. The achieved low threshold with the NbSi sensor shows the relevance of its use for out-of-equilibrium phonon sensitive devices for low-mass dark matter searches., The EDELWEISS project is supported in part by the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR) and the LabEx Lyon Institute of Origins (ANR-10-LABX0066) of the Universite de Lyon within the program “Investissements d’Avenir” (ANR-11-IDEX-00007), by the P2IO LabEx(ANR-10-LABX-0038)inthe framework “Investissements d’Avenir” (ANR-11-IDEX-0003-01) managed by the ANR (France), and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 18-0200159). This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 838537. B.J.K. thanks the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, MICIU) for the support to the Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Ref. MDM-2017-0765.
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- 2022