Search for low-mass dark matter WIMPs with 12 ton-day exposure of DarkSide-50

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We report on the search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the
mass range below 10 GeV/c 2, from the analysis of the entire dataset acquired with a low …

Low-mass dark matter search with the DarkSide-50 experiment

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present the results of a search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles
(WIMPs) in the mass range below 20 GeV/c 2 using a target of low-radioactivity argon with a …

Constraints on sub-GeV dark-matter–electron scattering from the DarkSide-50 experiment

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We present new constraints on sub-GeV dark-matter particles scattering off electrons based
on 6780.0 kg d of data collected with the DarkSide-50 dual-phase argon time projection …

DarkSide-50 532-day dark matter search with low-radioactivity argon

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The DarkSide-50 direct-detection dark matter experiment is a dual-phase argon time
projection chamber operating at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. This paper reports on …

Search for dark matter particle interactions with electron final states with DarkSide-50

P Agnes, IFM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
We present a search for dark matter particles with sub-GeV/c 2 masses whose interactions
have final state electrons using the DarkSide-50 experiment's (12 306±184) kg d low …

Migdal effect and photon bremsstrahlung in effective field theories of dark matter direct detection and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering

NF Bell, JB Dent, JL Newstead, S Sabharwal, TJ Weiler - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Dark matter direct detection experiments have limited sensitivity to light dark matter (below a
few GeV), due to the challenges of lowering energy thresholds for the detection of nuclear …

Calibration of the liquid argon ionization response to low energy electronic and nuclear recoils with DarkSide-50

P Agnes, IFDM Albuquerque, T Alexander, AK Alton… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
DarkSide-50 has demonstrated the high potential of dual-phase liquid argon time projection
chambers in exploring interactions of WIMPs in the GeV/c 2 mass range. The technique …

Measurement of the liquid argon energy response to nuclear and electronic recoils

P Agnes, J Dawson, S De Cecco, A Fan, G Fiorillo… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
A liquid argon time projection chamber, constructed for the Argon Response to Ionization
and Scintillation (ARIS) experiment, is exposed to the highly collimated and …

Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos

P Agnes, S Albergo, IFM Albuquerque… - … of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) are violent explosions of very massive stars at the end of
their lives, triggered by the gravitational collapse of the stellar cores [1]. The characteristic …

Sensitivity projections for a dual-phase argon TPC optimized for light dark matter searches through the ionization channel

P Agnes, I Ahmad, S Albergo, IFM Albuquerque… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Dark matter lighter than 10 GeV/c 2 encompasses a promising range of candidates. A
conceptual design for a new detector, DarkSide-LowMass, is presented, based on the …