Sub-GeV dark matter searches with SENSEI

ORAL

Abstract

SENSEI (Sub-Electron Noise Skipper Experimental Instrument) is a direct detection dark matter experiment with detectors operating at Fermilab and at the SNOLAB underground facility. The experiment consists of silicon Skipper-CCD sensors that make multiple non-destructive measurements of the charge contained in each of millions of pixels, reducing the readout noise to a level that allows for resolution of single electrons. This low energy threshold, along with low rates of events with one, two, three, and four electrons, results in competitive sensitivity for low-mass dark matter candidates that interact with electrons over a wide range of dark matter masses. In this talk we present an overview of the SENSEI experiment, as well as the current status after the successful commissioning of the first batch of science-grade sensors at SNOLAB.

*The SENSEI project is grateful for the support of the Heising-Simons Foundation under Grant No. 79921. This work was supported by Fermilab under DOE Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359.

Presenters

  • Nathan Saffold

    • Fermilab

Authors

  • Sho Uemura

    • Fermilab
  • Prakruth Adari

    • State Univ of NY - Stony Brook
  • Yonatan Ben Gal

    • Tel Aviv University
  • Itay M Bloch

    • Tel Aviv University
  • Mariano Cababie

    • University of Buenos Aires
  • Gustavo Cancelo

    • Fermilab
  • Fernando Chierchie

    • Fermilab
  • Rouven Essig

    • State Univ of NY - Stony Brook
  • Juan Estrada

    • Fermilab
  • Erez Etzion

    • Tel Aviv University
  • Guillermo Fernandez Moroni

    • Fermilab
  • Yaron Korn

    • Tel Aviv University
  • Aviv Orly

    • Tel Aviv University
  • Dario Rodriguez

    • University of Buenos Aires
  • Nathan Saffold

    • Fermilab
  • Aman Singal

    • State Univ of NY - Stony Brook
  • Miguel Sofo Haro

    • Centro Atómico Bariloche
  • Leandro Stefanazzi

    • Fermilab
  • Javier S Tiffenberg

    • Fermilab
  • Liron Barak

    • Tel Aviv University
  • Kelly Stifter

    • Fermilab
  • Tomer Volansky

    • Tel Aviv University
  • Tien-Tien Yu

    • University of Oregon
  • Ana Martina Botti

    • Fermilab