Searches for New Physics through Dark Matter and Coherent Neutrino Interactions

Direct detection of Dark Matter WIMP is challenging due to the very small energy deposition from rare recoils on terrestrial detectors, compounded by the dominant radioactive background. Our group has developed low-threshold, large-mass cryogenic semiconductor (Germanium and Silicon) detector technologies that will provide unprecedented low mass (1-10 GeV) Dark Matter search capabilities to the SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB, Canada. The experiment is currently being commissioned with the initial data expected by the end of 2024.