Skipper-CCD sensors for the Oscura experiment: Requirements and preliminary tests

Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara; Santiago Perez; Juan Estrada; Ana Botti; Claudio R. Chavez; Fernando Chierchie; Nathan Saffold; Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo; Fabricio Alcalde-Bessia; Nicolás Avalos; Oscar Baez; Daniel Baxter; Xavier Bertou; Carla Bonifazi; Gustavo Cancelo; Nuria Castelló-Mor; Alvaro E. Chavarria; Juan Manuel De Egea; Juan Carlos D'Olivo; Cyrus Dreyer; Alex Drlica-Wagner; Rouven Essig; Ezequiel Estrada; Erez Etzion; Paul Grylls; Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni; Marivi Fernández-Serra; Santiago Ferreyra; Stephen Holland; Agustín Lantero Barreda; Andrew Lathrop; Ian Lawson; Ben Loer; Steffon Luoma; Edgar Marrufo Villalpando; Mauricio Martinez Montero; Kellie McGuire; Jorge Molina; Sravan Munagavalasa; Danielle Norcini; Alexander Piers; Paolo Privitera; Dario Rodrigues; Richard Saldanha; Aman Singal; Radomir Smida; Miguel Sofo-Haro; Diego Stalder; Leandro Stefanazzi; Javier Tiffenberg; Michelangelo Traina; Sho Uemura; Pedro Ventura; Rocío Vilar Cortabitarte; Rachana Yajur

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/18/08/P08016

Skipper-CCD sensors for the Oscura experiment: Requirements and preliminary tests

Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara
, Santiago Perez
, Juan Estrada
, Ana Botti
, Claudio R. Chavez
, Fernando Chierchie
, Nathan Saffold
, Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo
, Fabricio Alcalde-Bessia
, Nicolás Avalos
, Oscar Baez
, Daniel Baxter
, Xavier Bertou
, Carla Bonifazi
, Gustavo Cancelo
, Nuria Castelló-Mor
, Alvaro E. Chavarria
, Juan Manuel De Egea
, Juan Carlos D'Olivo
, Cyrus Dreyer

Alex Drlica-Wagner, Rouven Essig, Ezequiel Estrada, Erez Etzion, Paul Grylls, Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni, Marivi Fernández-Serra, Santiago Ferreyra, Stephen Holland, Agustín Lantero Barreda, Andrew Lathrop, Ian Lawson, Ben Loer, Steffon Luoma, Edgar Marrufo Villalpando, Mauricio Martinez Montero, Kellie McGuire, Jorge Molina, Sravan Munagavalasa, Danielle Norcini, Alexander Piers, Paolo Privitera, Dario Rodrigues, Richard Saldanha, Aman Singal, Radomir Smida, Miguel Sofo-Haro, Diego Stalder, Leandro Stefanazzi, Javier Tiffenberg, Michelangelo Traina, Sho Uemura, Pedro Ventura, Rocío Vilar Cortabitarte, Rachana Yajur

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Universidad Nacional del Sur
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
Universidad Nacional de Asunción
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas - Universidad de Cantabria
University of Washington
The University of Chicago
Tel Aviv University
SNOLAB
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Stony Brook University
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

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Abstract

Oscura is a proposed multi-kg skipper-CCD experiment designed for a dark matter (DM) direct detection search that will reach unprecedented sensitivity to sub-GeV DM-electron interactions with its 10 kg detector array. Oscura is planning to operate at SNOLAB with 2070 m overburden, and aims to reach a background goal of less than one event in each electron bin in the 2-10 electron ionization-signal region for the full 30 kg-year exposure, with a radiation background rate of 0.01 dru.[1 dru (differential rate unit) corresponds to 1 event/kg/day/keV.] In order to achieve this goal, Oscura must address each potential source of background events, including instrumental backgrounds. In this work, we discuss the main instrumental background sources and the strategy to control them, establishing a set of constraints on the sensors' performance parameters. We present results from the tests of the first fabricated Oscura prototype sensors, evaluate their performance in the context of the established constraints and estimate the Oscura instrumental background based on these results.

Original language	English
Article number	P08016
Journal	Journal of Instrumentation
Volume	18
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/08/P08016
State	Published - Aug 1 2023

Keywords

Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs, axions, etc.)
Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs, CMOS imagers, etc)
Solid state detectors
Very low-energy charged particle detectors

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Cervantes-Vergara, B. A., Perez, S., Estrada, J., Botti, A., Chavez, C. R., Chierchie, F., Saffold, N., Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Alcalde-Bessia, F., Avalos, N., Baez, O., Baxter, D., Bertou, X., Bonifazi, C., Cancelo, G., Castelló-Mor, N., Chavarria, A. E., De Egea, J. M., D'Olivo, J. C., ... Yajur, R. (2023). Skipper-CCD sensors for the Oscura experiment: Requirements and preliminary tests. Journal of Instrumentation, 18(8), Article P08016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/08/P08016

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