Going Beyond the WIMP: From Theory to Detection of Light Dark Matter

Project Information

LDMThExp

Grant agreement ID: 682676

DOI 10.3030/682676

Project closed

EC signature date 8 February 2016

Start date 1 March 2016

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 822 083,00

EU contribution € 1 822 083,00

Coordinated by

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
Israel

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

SENSEI: Characterization of Single-Electron Events Using a Skipper-CCD

Author(s): Barak, Liron; Bloch, Itay M.; Botti, Ana; Cababie, Mariano; Cancelo, Gustavo; Chaplinsky, Luke; Chierchie, Fernando; Crisler, Michael; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Essig, Rouven; Estrada, Juan; Etzion, Erez; Moroni, Guillermo Fernandez; Gift, Daniel; Holland, Stephen E.; Munagavalasa, Sravan; Orly, Aviv; Rodrigues, Dario; Singal, Aman; Haro, Miguel Sofo; Stefanazzi, Leandro; Tiffenberg, Javier; Uemura, Sh
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 014022, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.17.014022

NASDUCK SERF: New constraints on axion-like dark matter from a SERF comagnetometer

Author(s): Bloch, Itay M.; Shaham, Roy; Hochberg, Yonit; Kuflik, Eric; Volansky, Tomer; Katz, Or
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 22, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.13588

Accretion of dissipative dark matter onto active galactic nuclei

Author(s): Nadav Joseph Outmezguine, Oren Slone, Walter Tangarife, Lorenzo Ubaldi & Tomer Volansky
Published in: JHEP, 2018, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2018)005

Constraints on the electron-hole pair creation energy and Fano factor below 150 eV from Compton scattering in a skipper CCD

Author(s): A. M. Botti; S. Uemura; G. Fernandez Moroni; L. Barak; M. Cababie; R. Essig; E. Etzion; D. Rodrigues; N. Saffold; M. Sofo Haro; J. Tiffenberg; T. Volansky
Published in: PRD, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.106.072005

Axion-like relics: new constraints from old comagnetometer data

Author(s): Itay M. Bloch, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Tomer Volansky
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2020/1, 2020, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep01(2020)167

Exploring New Physics with O(keV) Electron Recoils in Direct Detection Experiments

Author(s): Bloch, Itay M.; Caputo, Andrea; Essig, Rouven; Redigolo, Diego; Sholapurkar, Mukul; Volansky, Tomer
Published in: Submitted to JHEP, Issue 1, 2019, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing

Reviving millicharged dark matter for 21-cm cosmology

Author(s): Hongwan Liu, Nadav Joseph Outmezguine, Diego Redigolo, Tomer Volansky
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 100/12, 2019, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.123011

SENSEI: First Direct-Detection Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Surface Run

Author(s): M. Crisler; Guillermo Fernandez; Javier Tiffenberg; Tomer Volansky; Tomer Volansky; Juan Estrada; Tien-Tien Yu; Tien-Tien Yu; R. Essig; Miguel Sofo Haro; Miguel Sofo Haro
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 7, 2018, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.061803

Gravitational Waves from Incomplete Inflationary Phase Transitions

Author(s): Barir, Joel; Geller, Michael; Chen Sun; Volansky, Tomer
Published in: PRD, Issue 20, 2023, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.00693

SENSEI: Direct-Detection Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Shallow Underground Run Using a Prototype Skipper CCD

Author(s): Orr Abramoff, Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Luke Chaplinsky, Michael Crisler, Dawa, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Rouven Essig, Juan Estrada, Erez Etzion, Guillermo Fernandez, Daniel Gift, Miguel Sofo-Haro, Joseph Taenzer, Javier Tiffenberg, Tomer Volansky, Tien-Tien Yu
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 122/16, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.161801

Light dark matter from leptogenesis

Author(s): Adam Falkowski, Eric Kuflik, Noam Levi, Tomer Volansky
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 99/1, 2019, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: PRD
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.015022

Direct detection of light dark matter and solar neutrinos via color center production in crystals

Author(s): Ranny Budnik, Ori Cheshnovsky, Oren Slone, Tomer Volansky
Published in: Physics Letters B, Issue 782, 2018, Page(s) 242-250, ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.04.063

Single-Electron and Single-Photon Sensitivity with a Silicon Skipper CCD

Author(s): Javier Tiffenberg, Miguel Sofo-Haro, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Rouven Essig, Yann Guardincerri, Steve Holland, Tomer Volansky, Tien-Tien Yu
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 119/13, 2017, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.131802

Detection of sub-GeV dark matter and solar neutrinos via chemical-bond breaking

Author(s): Rouven Essig, Jeremy Mardon, Oren Slone, Tomer Volansky
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 95/5, 2017, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.056011

New constraints and prospects for sub-GeV dark matter scattering off electrons in xenon

Author(s): Rouven Essig, Tomer Volansky, Tien-Tien Yu
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 96/4, 2017, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.043017

Searching for dark absorption with direct detection experiments

Author(s): Itay M. Bloch, Rouven Essig, Kohsaku Tobioka, Tomer Volansky, Tien-Tien Yu
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2017/6, 2017, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2017)087

Dynamics of relaxed inflation

Author(s): Walter Tangarife, Kohsaku Tobioka, Lorenzo Ubaldi, Tomer Volansky
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2018/2, 2018, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep02(2018)084

Strong constraints on light dark matter interpretation of the EDGES signal

Author(s): Rennan Barkana; Nadav Joseph Outmezguine; Nadav Joseph Outmezguine; D. Redigolo; D. Redigolo; D. Redigolo; Tomer Volansky; Tomer Volansky
Published in: Phys. Rev. D, Issue 26, 2018, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.98.103005

Crunching Away the Cosmological Constant Problem: Dynamical Selection of a Small $\Lambda$

Author(s): Bloch, Itay M.; Csáki, Csaba; Geller, Michael; Volansky, Tomer
Published in: Submitted to JHEP, Issue 4, 2019, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing

SENSEI: Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a New Skipper CCD

Author(s): Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Mariano Cababie, Gustavo Cancelo, Luke Chaplinsky, Fernando Chierchie, Michael Crisler, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Rouven Essig, Juan Estrada, Erez Etzion, Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Daniel Gift, Sravan Munagavalasa, Aviv Orly, Dario Rodrigues, Aman Singal, Miguel Sofo Haro, Leandro Stefanazzi, Javier Tiffenberg, Sho Uemura, Tomer Volansky, Tien-Tien Yu
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 125/17, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.171802

NASDUCK: New Constraints on Axion-like Dark Matter from Floquet Quantum Detector

Author(s): Bloch, Itay M.; Ronen, Gil; Shaham, Roy; Katz, Ori; Volansky, Tomer; Katz, Or
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science's
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.04603

Conference proceedings (1)

NASDUCK: New Constraints on Axion-like Dark Matter from Floquet Quantum Detector

Author(s): Itay Bloch; Ronen, Gil; Shaham, Roy; Katz, Ori; Volansky, Tomer; Katz, Or
Published in: Science Advances, 2022
Publisher: Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abl8919

Other (1)

Relaxed Inflation

Author(s): Walter Tangarife , Kohsaku Tobioka , Lorenzo Ubaldi, Tomer Volansky
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Submitted to PRD