A low-threshold diamond cryogenic detector for sub-GeV dark matter searches

A. H. Abdelhameed; G. Angloher; A. Bento; E. Bertoldo; A. Bertolini; L. Canonica; N. Ferreiro Iachellini; D. Fuchs; A. Garai; D. Hauff; A. Nilima; M. Mancuso; F. Petricca; F. Pröbst; F. Pucci; J. Rothe

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10829-5

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Particles and Fields

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Eur. Phys. J. C (2022) 82: 851
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10829-5

Letter

A low-threshold diamond cryogenic detector for sub-GeV dark matter searches

A. H. Abdelhameed¹, G. Angloher¹, A. Bento¹^,2, E. Bertoldo¹^,3, A. Bertolini¹, L. Canonica¹^f, N. Ferreiro Iachellini¹, D. Fuchs¹, A. Garai¹, D. Hauff¹, A. Nilima¹, M. Mancuso¹, F. Petricca¹, F. Pröbst¹, F. Pucci¹ and J. Rothe¹^,4

¹ Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, 80805, Munich, Germany
² LIBPhys-UC, Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004 516, Coimbra, Portugal
³ Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
⁴ Physik-Department and Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany

^f canonica@mpp.mpg.de

Received: 24 March 2022
Accepted: 21 September 2022
Published online: 30 September 2022

Abstract

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 instrumented with a W-TES. The sensors showed transitions at about 25 mK. We present the performance of the diamond detectors and we highlight the best performing one, where we obtained an energy threshold as low as 16.8 eV. This promising result lays the foundation for the use of diamond for different fields of applications where low threshold and excellent energy resolution are required, as i.e. light dark matter searches and BSM physics with coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering.

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