@article{bd402bf2d45b467cbbf65cb4430b05e7,
title = "Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite",
abstract = "The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sensitivity to lightly ionizing particles (LIPs) in a previously unexplored region of charge, mass, and velocity parameter space. We report first direct-detection limits calculated using the optimum interval method on the vertical intensity of cosmogenically produced LIPs with an electric charge smaller than e/(3×105), as well as the strongest limits for charge ≤e/160, with a minimum vertical intensity of 1.36×10-7 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 at charge e/160. These results apply over a wide range of LIP masses (5 MeV/c2 to 100 TeV/c2) and cover a wide range of βγ values (0.1-106), thus excluding nonrelativistic LIPs with βγ as small as 0.1 for the first time.",
author = "{(SuperCDMS Collaboration)} and I. Alkhatib and Amaral, {D. W.P.} and T. Aralis and T. Aramaki and Arnquist, {I. J.} and {Ataee Langroudy}, I. and E. Azadbakht and S. Banik and D. Barker and C. Bathurst and Bauer, {D. A.} and Bezerra, {L. V.S.} and R. Bhattacharyya and Bowles, {M. A.} and Brink, {P. L.} and R. Bunker and B. Cabrera and R. Calkins and Cameron, {R. A.} and C. Cartaro and Cerde{\~n}o, {D. G.} and Chang, {Y. Y.} and M. Chaudhuri and R. Chen and N. Chott and J. Cooley and H. Coombes and J. Corbett and P. Cushman and {De Brienne}, F. and {Di Vacri}, {M. L.} and Diamond, {M. D.} and E. Fascione and E. Figueroa-Feliciano and Fink, {C. W.} and K. Fouts and M. Fritts and G. Gerbier and R. Germond and M. Ghaith and Golwala, {S. R.} and Harris, {H. R.} and Hines, {B. A.} and Hollister, {M. I.} and Z. Hong and Hoppe, {E. W.} and L. Hsu and D. Jardin and V. Mandic and H. Neog",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.081802",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "127",
journal = "Physical review letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "8",
}