Group Publications


Publications (*indicates Refereed Journal/Book)
[some of more generic conference papers have been omitted]
[1] *   R.J.Gaitskell, D.J.Goldie, N.E.Booth, C.Patel and G.L.Salmon, Transport phenomena in single crystal superconducting niobium. Physica B167 (1991) 445.
[2]     N.E.Booth, R.J.Gaitskell, D.J.Goldie, C.Patel and G.L.Salmon, Single crystal superconductors as X-ray detectors. Published in Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on X-ray Detection by Superconducting Tunnel Junctions, Naples, Italy, eds. A.Barone, R.Cristiano and S.Pagano (World Scientific, 1991) p. 125.
[3]     R.J.Gaitskell, D.J.Goldie, N.E.Booth and G.L.Salmon, Low temperature superconducting detectors for dark matter and solar neutrinos experiments . Published in Massive Neutrinos, Tests of Fundamental Symmetries , XXVIth Rencontre de Moriond, Les Arcs, France, eds. O.Fackler, G.Fontaine and J.Tran Thanh Van (Editions FrontiËres, January 1991) p. 191.
[4] *   N. E. Booth, R. J. Gaitskell, D. J. Goldie, C. Patel and G. L. Salmon, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A315 , 201 (1992).
[5]     D.J.Goldie, N.E.Booth, R.J.Gaitskell and G.L.Salmon, Particle detection with superconducting tunnel junctions - modelling the non-equilibrium state generated by particle interactions , in Superconducting Devices and their Applications, H. Koch, H. L¸bbig, eds. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991), p. 474.
[6]     N.E.Booth, R.J.Gaitskell, D.J.Goldie, A.C.Howman, C.Patel and G.L.Salmon, Cryogenic detectors based on superconducting tunnel junction arrays for elementary particles. Published in The Vancouver Meeting, Particles and Fields '91 , eds. D.Axen, D.Bryman and M.Comyn (World Scientific, 1992) Vol. 2, p. 922.
[7] *   R. J. Gaitskell, N. E. Booth and G. L. Salmon, in Low Temperature Detectors for Neutrinos and Dark Matter IV, eds. N. E. Booth, G. L. Salmon, (Editions FrontiËres, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 1992), p. 435.
[8] *   N.E.Booth, R.J.Gaitskell, D.J.Goldie, A.C.Howman, C.Patel, G.L.Salmon and P.Valko, Plans for a cryogenic detector experiment on the 17-keV neutrino. ibid.
[9] *   R. J. Gaitskell, Non-Equilibrium Superconductivity in Niobium and its Application to Particle Detection, D.Phil. Thesis, Oxford University (1993).
[10] *  R. J. Gaitskell, Cryogenic Particle Detectors: Phonon Physics in Niobium, eds., T. Paszkiewicz, K. Rapcewicz, "Die Kunst of Phonons" The Proceedings of the XXIX Winter School of Theoretical Physics (Plenum Press, New York, Kudowazdroj, Poland, 1993)
[11] *  N. E. Booth, P. L. Brink, R. J. Gaitskell, D. J. Goldie, A. D. Hahn, G. L. Salmon and A. M. Swift, Superconducting Tunnel Junctions and Quasiparticle Trapping, J. Low Temp. Phys. 93 , 521 (1993).
[12] *  R. J. Gaitskell, A. D. Hahn, N. E. Booth, G. L. Salmon and D. L. Kazakovtsev, Modelling the thermalisation of non-equilibrium phonon distributions in bulk single crystals ,J. Low Temp. Phys. 93 , 683 (1993).
[13] *  A. D. Hahn, R. J. Gaitskell, N. E. Booth and G. L. Salmon, Study of non-equilibrium signals in superconducting single crystal niobium ,J. Low Temp. Phys. 93 , 611 (1993).
[14] *  N. E. Booth, P. L. Brink, R. J. Gaitskell, D. J. Goldie, A. D. Hahn, G. L. Salmon and A. M. Swift, Low temperature detectors for elementary particles ,Physica B 197 , 39 (1994).
[15] *  A. M. Swift, D. J. Goldie, N. E. Booth, P. L. Brink, R. J. Gaitskell, A. D. Hahn and G. L. Salmon, Development of a high resolution cryogenic detector with applications in beta-spectroscopy and solar neutrino searches ,Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 35 , 405 (1994).
[16]   R. J. Gaitskell, Non-equilibrium phonons in particle detectors , eds., T.A. Gerard, A. Morales, G. Waysand, International Workshop on Superconductivity and Particle Detection (World Scientific, Toledo, Spain, 1994),
[17] *  R J Gaitskell, L C Angrave, N E Booth, A D Hahn, G L Salmon and A M Swift, A Measurement of the Beta Spectrum of 63 Ni using a New Type of Calorimetric Cryogenic Detector, eds., P. J. Bussey, I. G. Knowles, 27th International Conference on High Energy Physics (IOP Publishing, Glasgow, UK, 1994).
[18]   R.J.Gaitskell, The Application of Cryogenic Detectors to Particle Physics Experiments , IoP High Energy Particle Physics Group Newsletter, March 1995.
[19] *  R.J. Gaitskell, L.C. Angrave, N.E. Booth, A.D. Hahn, G.L.Salmon and A.M.Swift, A measurement of the beta spectrum of Ni-63 using a new type of cryogenic detector ,Phys Lett B 370 (1996) 163
[20] *  R.J. Gaitskell, L.C. Angrave, N.E. Booth, A.D. Hahn, G.L.Salmon and A.M.Swift, A measurement of the beta spectrum of Ni-63 using a new type of cryogenic detector ,Nucl. Instrum. and Methods A 370 (1996) 250
[21] *  R.J. Gaitskell, L.C. Angrave, N.E. Booth, E. Esposito, T.J. Giles, C. Hˆss, E.P. Houwman, G.L. Salmon, M. van den Putte and S. W‰nninger, The design of a cryogenic dark matter detector based on the detection of the recoil direction of target nuclei, ibid. p.162
[22] *  E. Esposito, L.C. Angrave, N.E. Booth, R.J. Gaitskell, T.J. Giles, C. Hˆss, E.P. Houwman, G.L. Salmon, M. van den Putte and S. W‰nninger, Development of a dark matter detector using series arrays of superconducting tunnel junctions ,ibid. p.31
[23] *  M. van den Putte, C. Hˆss, T.J. Giles, L.C. Angrave, N.E. Booth, E. Esposito, R.J. Gaitskell, E.P. Houwman, G.L. Salmon, and S. W‰nninger, Status of a facility for measuring nuclear recoils by neutron scattering from cryogenic particle detectors, ibid. p 271
[24] *  R.J. Gaitskell, P.D. Barnes, Jr., A. Da Silva, B. Sadoulet and T. Shutt, The Statistics of Background Rejection in Direct Detection Experiments for Dark Matter ,Nucl. Phys. B (Proc.Suppl.) ,51B (1996) 279.
[25] *  T. Shutt et al. [CDMS Collaboration], Progress of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) Experiment ,Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) ,51B (1996) 318
[26]   R.J. Gaitskell, et al. [CDMS Collaboration], The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) Experiment ., ed. N J C Spooner, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on The Identification of the Dark Matter, Sheffield, UK, (World Scientific, September 1996)
[27]   J. Jochum et al. , [CDMS Collaboration], Looking for WIMPs: The Cryogenic Dark Mattter Search , eds. H.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, and Y.Ramachers, Proceedings of Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, Heidelberg, Germany (World Scientific, Singapore, 1996).
[28]   A. Sonnenschein et al. (1997) The Cryogenic Dark Matter Experiment (CDMS) in Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure, eds. D.N. Schramm and P. Galeotti, NATO ASI Series C., Vol. 503 (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht), 311-316
[29]   T. Shutt, et al. ,First Data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) Experiment , Proceedings of the 18th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics,16-20 December 1996, Chicago.
[30]   R.J. Gaitskell, et al. [CDMS Collaboration] Status and Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) , eds. H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and H. P‰s, Workshop on Physics beyond the Standard Model "Beyond the Desert" Accelerator- and Non-Accelerator approaches, Castle Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany, June 1997. (IOP Publishing Co., Bristol & Philadelphia, 1998)
[31]   R.J. Gaitskell, et al. ,Performance of 165g Ge BLIP Detectors in CDMS Experiment , ed. S. Cooper, Proceedings of the VIIth International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors, July 1997, Munich, Germany (MPI, Munich 1997) 221-223
[32]   T. Shutt, et al. ,Studies of the Dead Layer in BLIP Dark Matter Detectors ,ibid. pp. 224-226
[33]   S.W. Nam, et al. [CDMS Collaboration], Status and Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) ,ibid. pp. 217-220
[34]   L.C. Angrave, N.E. Booth, R.J. Gaitskell, A.D. Hahn, G.L.Salmon and A.M. Swift, Measurement of the Atomic Exchange Effect in 63 Ni ,ibid. pp. 178-180
[35]   D.S. Akerib, et al. [CDMS Collaboration], Preliminary Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) , Nuclear Physics B, Proc. Suppl., 70 (1999) 64
[36] *  L.C. Angrave, N.E. Booth, R.J. Gaitskell, G.L.Salmon and M.R. Harston, Measurement of the Atomic Exchange Effect in Nuclear Decay ,Phys. Rev. Lett., 80 (1998) 1610.
[37]   R. Schnee, et al. ,Results and Status of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) Physics Reports 307 (1998) 283
[38]   R. Schnee, et al. ,Results and Status of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) , Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Particles, Strings, and Cosmology, 22-26 March, 1998.
[39]   D. Bauer, et al. ,A Search for Dark Matter Using Cryogenic Detectors to appear in Proceedings of the XXIX Conference on High Energy Physics, Vancouver, Canada, July 23-29, 1998.
[40]   Jochum, J., et al. ,CDMS Dark Matter Experiment to appear in Proceedings of the 5th International WEIN Symposium on the Physics of the Standard Model, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 14-21 June 1998.
[41]   S. Golwala, et al ., [CDMS Collaboration] Hunting for WIMPs with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, Proceedings of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Paris, France, 14-18 December 1998.
[42] *  M.R. Hauser, R. Gaitskell, and J.P. Wolfe, Imaging Nonequilibrium Phonons in Nb , Physica B 263 (1999) 87
[43] *  M.R. Hauser, R. Gaitskell, and J.P. Wolfe, Imaging Nonequilibrium Phonons in Nb Phys. Rev. B 60 (1999) 3072
[44]*  T. Saab, R.M. Clarke, B. Cabrera, R.A. Abusaidi, R. Gaitskell, Design of QET Phonon Sensors for the CDMS Zip Detectors NIM A 444 (2000) 300.
[45]*  J. Hellmig, R. Gaitskell, R.A. Abusaidi, B. Cabrera, R.M. Clarke, J. Emes, S.W. Nam, T. Saab, B. Sadoulet, D. Seitz, B.A. Young, CDMS II Z-Sensitive Ionization and Phonon Germanium Detector , (ibid) p 308
[46]*  S. Golwala et al. , [CDMS Collaboration] Exclusion limits on the WIMP-nucleon scattering cross-section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiemnt , (ibid) p 345
[47]*  R. J. Gaitskell, et al. [CDMS Collaboration], Latest Results on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) , Proceedings of TAUP99 Conference, September 1999, Paris, France
[48]*  R Abusaidi et al. [CDMS Collaboration], Results on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) , Phys. Rev. Lett.  84  (2000) 5699
[49]   R J Gaitskell, Dark Matter Detection , Proceedings of Structure Formation in the Universe NATO Advanced Study Institute Summer School (Cambridge, UK, September 1999)
[50]*  R.M. Clarke, P.L. Brink, B. Cabrera, P. Colling, M.B. Crisler , A.K. Davies, S. Eichblatt , R.J. Gaitskell , J. Hellmig , J.M. Martinis, S.W. Nam, T. Saab, and B.A. Young Enhanced ballistic phonon production for surface events in cryogenic silicon detectors , Appl. Phys. Lett. 76 (2000) 2958
[51]*  D. Tovey, R. Gaitskell, P. Gondolo, Y. Ramachers, and L. Roszkowski, A New Method for Presenting Model-Independent Spin-Dependent Cross-Section Limits from Dark Matter Searches , Phys. Lett. B 488  (2000) 17
[52]   R J Gaitskell, Toward One Tonne Direct WIMP Detectors: Have We Got What It Takes? , 3rd International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter (World Scientific, September 2001). (astro-ph/0106200)
[53]   G. Eigen, R.J. Gaitskell, G.D. Kribs and K.T. Matchev, Indirect Investigations of Supersymmetry, Report of the "Indirect Investigations of SUSY" subgroup of the P3 Physics Group at Snowmass 2001 (hep-ph/0112312)
[54]*  R Abusaidi et al. [CDMS Collaboration], Results on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS), Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 5699
[55]   E. Aprile, T. Baltz, A. Curioni, K-L. Giboni, C. Hailey, L. Hui, M. Kobayashi, K. Ni, W. Craig, R Gaitskell, U. Oberlack, and T. Shutt, XENON: A 1 Tonne Liquid Xenon Experiment For A Sensitive Dark Matter Search, (2002) International Workshop on Technique and Application of Xenon Detectors (Xenon01), ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; astro-ph/0207670
[56]   R.W. Schnee, D.S. Akerib, and R. J. Gaitskell, "Expected Performance of CryoArray", DM2002 Conference, Marina del Ray, CA, Feb 2002, (astro-ph/0208326)
[57]   R. J. Gaitskell et al. Report to NFAC Committee from Dark Matter Working Group at NeSS 2002 (see discussion below).
[58]*  C. E. Aalseth et al. Comment on "Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay" Mod.Phys.Lett. A17 (2002) 1475-1478, (hep-ex/0202018)
[59]   The Majorana Collaboration, "The Majorana Ge-76 Double-Beta Decay Project", NANP 2001, Dubna, Russia, (hep-ex/0201021)
[60]*  D. Abrams et. al, (CDMS Collaboration) Exclusion Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Phys. Rev. D 66 , 122003 (2002), (astro-ph/0203500)
  Preprints from the CDMS collaboration can be obtained directly at http://cfpa.berkeley.edu/preprints/cdms/cdms.html