Search for low-mass electron-recoil dark matter using a single-charge sensitive SuperCDMS-HVeV detector
We present constraints on low-mass dark matter electron scattering and absorption interactions using a SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution (HVeV) detector. Data were taken underground in the NEXUS facility located at Fermilab with an overburden of 225 meters of water equivalent. The experiment benefits from the minimizing of luminescence from the printed circuit boards in the detector holder used in all previous HVeV studies. A blind analysis of <a:math xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <a:mrow> <a:mn>6.1</a:mn> <a:mtext> </a:mtext> <a:mtext> </a:mtext> <a:mi mathvariant="normal">g</a:mi> <a:mo>·</a:mo> <a:mi>days</a:mi> </a:mrow> </a:math> of exposure produces exclusion limits for dark matter-electron scattering cross sections for masses as low as <d:math xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <d:mrow> <d:mn>1</d:mn> <d:mtext> </d:mtext> <d:mtext> </d:mtext> <d:mi>MeV</d:mi> <d:mo>/</d:mo> <d:msup> <d:mrow> <d:mi>c</d:mi> </d:mrow> <d:mrow> <d:mn>2</d:mn> </d:mrow> </d:msup> </d:mrow> </d:math> , as well as on the photon-dark photon mixing parameter and the coupling constant between axionlike particles and electrons for particles with masses <f:math xmlns:f="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <f:mo>></f:mo> <f:mn>1.2</f:mn> <f:mtext> </f:mtext> <f:mtext> </f:mtext> <f:mi>eV</f:mi> <f:mo>/</f:mo> <f:msup> <f:mi>c</f:mi> <f:mn>2</f:mn> </f:msup> </f:math> probed via absorption processes.
Authors
- Ann Roberts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4295-9730)
- Charles Hays
- R. Mahapatra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0286-1114)
- H. Coombes
- Byron K. Lichtenberg
- M. Ghaith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3304-4803)
- M. Stukel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9052-7513)
- Nolan Tenpas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1185-4313)
- S. Yellin
- J. Winchell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5122-3034)
- T. Reynolds (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6606-5953)
- I. Alkhatib (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2262-5839)
- T. Aralis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3501-6948)
- B. Serfass (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4681-4109)
- N. Mirabolfathi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-8910)
- G. Godden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7100-0072)
- M. L. Buchanan
- H. Neog (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1658-0022)
- P. Cushman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4950-9807)
- E. Figueroa‐Feliciano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9285-5556)
- David Alonso-González (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7572-9184)
- E. Michielin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5751-8116)
- Zackary Kromer
- M. Mirzakhani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9002-1697)
- J. Leyva
- L.L. Hsu
- Sukeerthi Dharani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7119-0927)
- Deena Sadek
- S. Fallows (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7200-3628)
- Corey Bathurst
- Evan Tanner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-6051)
- Eva Michaud
- JJ Nelson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-2123)
- M. Pyle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3490-6754)
- A. Pradeep (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8014-9953)
- S. Zatschler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8872-5628)
- J. Cooley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6761-2042)
- Z. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8803-9094)
- S. Pandey
- E. Fascione
- N. Mast
- M. Chaudhuri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6591-0951)
- B. von Krosigk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5223-3023)
- R. Partridge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0806-2308)
- Álvaro Zúñiga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1774-3690)
- Bernardo A. Sandoval
- T. Aramaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5104-4682)
- John Street (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-063X)
- Aviv Simchony (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4895-3145)
- M. Potts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1255-4735)
- C. Cartaro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1351-2630)
- Rajarshi Bhattacharyya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8354-2248)
- Martín de los Rios (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2190-2196)
- V. Novati (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0922-0475)
- Wolfgang Rau
- David Toback
- A. Zaytsev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4450-365X)
- N. Chott
- K. Stifter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0263-175X)
- Y. Liu
- Sohrab Salehi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8276-1765)
- W. Peng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4062-4347)
- L. Pandey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2447-0312)
- Rajendra Kumar Soni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2621-6671)
- Dionne Cavalcante Monteiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8643-851X)
- Anonymous
- Y-Y Chang
- P. C. McNamara
- P. Sinervo
- B. Cabrera
- S. M. Oser
- T. Saab
- M. H. Kelsey
- B. Sadoulet
- R. Calkins
- J. Liu
- A. E. Sharbaugh
- D. B. MacFarlane
- A. J. Mayer
- R. López Noé
- V. Iyer
- A. N. Villano
- H. Sun
- R. Chen
- B. A. Young
- B. A. Hines
- A. J. Biffl
- M. Elwan
- J. Anczarski
- D. Mondal
- D. G. Cerdeño
- A. E. Robinson
- S. A. S. Harms
- O. Wen
- J. Golatkar
- S. T. D. Keller
- S. P. Sahoo
- M. D. Diamond
- J. L. Ryan
- K. Mickelson
- S. R. Golwala
- W. L. Perry
- A. Sattari
- M. D. Osborne
- S. S. Poudel
- J. Hall
- S. Das
- B. Mohanty
- J.-H. Chen
- J. Viol
- Y. Wang
- B. Schmidt
- M. J. Zurowski
- N. A. Kurinsky
- P. K. Patel
- A. Kubik
- R. Gualtieri
- R. Cyna
- P. Lukens
- M. E. Huber
- J. S. Mammo
- Z. J. Smith
- J. Sander
- J. L. Orrell
- H. Meyer zu Theenhausen
- E. Lopez Asamar
- D. S. Pedreros
- E. Zhang
- L. Zheng
- L. Rosado Del Rio
- M. J. Wilson
- K. T. Kennard
- I. Ataee Langroudy
- M. L. di Vacri
- Z. Hong
- V. K. S. Kashyap
- A. Gevorgian
- R. Ren
- R. W. Schnee
- R. A. Cameron
- R. Bunker
- R. S. Shenoy
- B. Zatschler
- M. Lee
- S. L. Franzen
- P. L. Brink
- R. Podviianiuk
- I. Saikia
Institutions
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Santa Clara University (US)
- National Institute of Science Education and Research (IN)
- Southern Methodist University (US)
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of South Dakota (US)
- Queen's University (CA)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- University of Minnesota System (US)
- Mitchell Institute (US)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- University of California System (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (US)
- Laurentian University (CA)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES)
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- Universidad del Noreste (MX)
- Zayed University (AE)
- Texas A&M University (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/5lnp-6mng
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 27.96