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Open AccessWater Cherenkov muon veto for the COSINUS experiment: design and simulation optimization
COSINUS is a dark matter (DM) direct search experiment that uses sodium iodide (NaI) crystals as cryogenic calorimeters. Thanks to the low nuclear recoil energy threshold and event-by-event discrimination capa...
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Open AccessOptimal Operation of Cryogenic Calorimeters Through Deep Reinforcement Learning
Cryogenic phonon detectors with transition-edge sensors achieve the best sensitivity to sub-GeV/c \(^2\) ...
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Open AccessDetector Development for the CRESST Experiment
Recently low-mass dark matter direct searches have been hindered by a low-energy background, drastically reducing the physics reach of the experiments. In the CRESST-III experiment, this signal is characterise...
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Open AccessLight dark matter search using a diamond cryogenic detector
Diamond operated as a cryogenic calorimeter is an excellent target for direct detection of low-mass dark matter candidates. Following the realization of the first low-threshold cryogenic detector that uses dia...
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Open AccessA plastic scintillation muon veto for sub-Kelvin temperatures
Rare-event search experiments located on-surface, such as short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments, are often limited by muon-induced background events. Highly efficient muon vetos are essential to reduce t...
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Open AccessTowards an automated data cleaning with deep learning in CRESST
The CRESST experiment employs cryogenic calorimeters for the sensitive measurement of nuclear recoils induced by dark matter particles. The recorded signals need to undergo a careful cleaning process to avoid ...
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Open AccessImproving the Quality of CaWO4 Target Crystals for CRESST
The Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter particles via their elastic scattering off nuclei in a scintillating CaWO ...
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Nucleus: Searching for Coherent Neutrino Nucleus Scattering at Lowest Energies
Coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering is a promising new tool in the toolbox of electroweak precision measurements at low q-transfer. It will enable precise measurements of standard model (SM) physics like the run...
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Open AccessA low-threshold diamond cryogenic detector for sub-GeV dark matter searches
In this work we report the realization of the first low-threshold cryogenic detector that uses diamond as absorber for astroparticle physics applications. We tested two 0.175 g CVD diamond samples, each instru...
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Open AccessSimulation-based design study for the passive shielding of the COSINUS dark matter experiment
The COSINUS (Cryogenic Observatory for SIgnatures seen in Next-generation Underground Searches) experiment aims at the detection of dark matter-induced recoils in sodium iodide (NaI) crystals operated as scint...
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Open AccessProbing spin-dependent dark matter interactions with \(^6\) Li
CRESST is one of the most prominent direct detection experiments for dark matter particles with sub-GeV/c \(^2\) ...
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Open AccessCryogenic characterization of a \(\hbox {LiAlO}_{2}\) crystal and new results on spin-dependent dark matter interactions with ordinary matter
In this work, a first cryogenic characterization of a scintillating \(\hbox {LiAlO}_{2}\) ...
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Open AccessCOSINUS: Cryogenic Calorimeters for the Direct Dark Matter Search with NaI Crystals
COSINUS (Cryogenic Observatory for SIgnatures seen in Next-generation Underground Searches) is an experiment employing cryogenic calorimeters, dedicated to direct dark matter search in underground laboratories...
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Open AccessSearches for Light Dark Matter with the CRESST-III Experiment
Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) is a long-standing direct dark matter detection experiment with cryogenic detectors located at the underground facility Laboratori Naziona...
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Open AccessLithium-Containing Crystals for Light Dark Matter Search Experiments
In the current direct dark matter search landscape, the leading experiments in the sub-GeV mass region mostly rely on cryogenic techniques which employ crystalline targets. One attractive type of crystals for ...
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Open AccessNUCLEUS: Exploring Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with Cryogenic Detectors
The NUCLEUS experiment aims for the detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering at a nuclear power reactor with gram-scale, ultra-low-threshold cryogenic detectors. This technology leads to a min...
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Open AccessDeposition of Tungsten Thin Films by Magnetron Sputtering for Large-Scale Production of Tungsten-Based Transition-Edge Sensors
To cope with the foreseen demand for tungsten-based TESs in the current and future phases of the CRESST experiment, we investigated the possibility to implement a reliable, simple and reproducible fabrication ...
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Open AccessExploring \(\hbox {CE}\nu \hbox {NS}\) with NUCLEUS at the Chooz nuclear power plant
Coherent elastic neutrino–nucleus scattering (\(\hbox {CE}\nu \hbox {NS}\)CEνNS) offers a unique way to study neutrino properties and to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. Nuclear reactors are prom...
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Open AccessErratum to: Geant4-based electromagnetic background model for the CRESST dark matter experiment
The original version of this article unfortunately contains mistakes.
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Open AccessGeant4-based electromagnetic background model for the CRESST dark matter experiment
The CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) dark matter search experiment aims for the detection of dark matter particles via elastic scattering off nuclei in \(\mathrm {CaWO_4}\)Ca...
