Scientific publications

Papers and Conference Proceedings

2012

• Measurement of the differential neutron flux inside a lead shielding in a cryogenic experiment.
  N. Coron et al., Journal of Physics: Conference Series 375 (2012) 012018.
• Measurement of the L/K electron capture ratio of the ²⁰⁷Bi decay to the 1633 keV level of ²⁰⁷Pb with a BGO scintillating bolometer.
  N. Coron et al., The European Physical Journal A 48:89 (2012).
• Characterization of a SrF₂ Scintillating Bolometer.
  C. Ginestra et al., in the issue entitled "Low Temperature Detectors (LTD-14): Part II" Journal of Low Temperature Physics 167 (2012) 973.

2011

• Energy partition in sapphire and BGO scintillating bolometers.
  Y. Ortigoza et al., Astroparticle Physics 34 (2011) 603.
• 2010 update on the ROSEBUD project.
  N. Coron et al., in proceedings of "Identification of Dark Matter 2010", PoS(IDM2010)054.

2010

• BGO scintillating bolometer: Its application in dark matter experiments.
  N. Coron et al., in proceedings of "Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2009)", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 203 (2010) 012038.
• Detection of fast neutrons with LiF and Al₂O₃ scintillating bolometers.
  N. Coron et al., in proceedings of "Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2009)", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 203 (2010) 012139.

2009

• Neutron spectroscopy with ⁶LiF bolometers.
  J. Gironnet et al., in proceedings of "The Thirteenth International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors - LTD13", AIP Conference Proceedings 1185 (2009) 751.
• A BGO scintillating bolometer as dark matter detector prototype.
  N. Coron et al., Optical Materials 31 (2009) 1393.

2008

• Our short experience at IAS and within ROSEBUD with radioactive contaminations in scintillating bolometers: uses and needs.
  N. Coron et al., in proceedings of "The 1^st International Workshop on Radiopure Scintillators for EURECA (RPScint’2008)", arXiv:0903.1539v2 [nucl-ex] (2008) 12.
• Sapphire, BGO and LiF scintillating bolometers developed for dark matter experiments.
  N. Coron et al., in proceedings of "Identification of Dark Matter 2008", PoS(IDM2008)007.
• Thermal relative efficiency factor for recoiling ²⁰⁶Pb nuclei in a sapphire bolometer.
  N. Coron et al., Physics Letters B 659 (2008) 113.
• Measurement of the Nuclear Recoil Thermal Relative Efficiency Factor with an Undoped Sapphire Scintillating Bolometer.
  N. Coron et al., in proceedings of "The 12^th International Workshop on Low Temperature Dectectors (LTD12)- Part II", Journal of Low Temperature Physics 151 (2008) 865.
• Recent Performance of Scintillating Bolometers Developed for Dark Matter Searches.
  A. Calleja et al., in proceedings of "The 12^th International Workshop on Low Temperature Dectectors (LTD12) - Part II", Journal of Low Temperature Physics 151 (2008) 848.

2006

• High performance scintillating bolometers in the search for WIMPs: ROSEBUD experiment.
  E. García et al., in proceedings of "The Sixth International Workshop on The Identification of Dark Matter", World Scientific Publishing Co., edited by M. Axenides, G. Fanourakis and J. Vergados, (2006) 302.
• Recent developments on scintillating bolometers for WIMP searches: ROSEBUD status.
  J. Amaré et al., in proceedings of "The Ninth International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2005)", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 39 (2006) 133.
• UZ dark matter searches at Canfranc.
  J. Amaré et al., in proceedings of "The Dark Side of the Universe, 2^nd International Conference on the Dark Side of the Universe, DSU 2006", edited by C. Muńoz and G. Yepes. AIP Conference Proceedings 878 (2006) 99.
• Scintillation of Sapphire under particle excitation at low temperature.
  J. Amaré et al., in proceedings of "The Ninth International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2005)", Journal of Physics: Conference Series 39 (2006) 200.

2005

• Light yield of undoped sapphire at low temperature under particle excitation.
  J. Amaré et al., Applied Physics Letters 87 (2005) 264102.
• ROSEBUD-II. Light-heat discrimination with scintillating bolometers underground.
  S. Cebrián et al., Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 138 (2005) 519.

2004

• Bolometric WIMP search at Canfranc with different absorbers.
  S. Cebrián et al., Astroparticle Physics 21 (2004) 23.
• Performance of a scintillating sapphire bolometer for the ROSEBUD experiment.
  J. Amaré et al., in proceedings of "The Fifth International Workshop on The Identification of Dark Matter", World Scientific Publishing Co., edited by Neil J. C. Spooner and Vitaly Kudryavtsev, (2004) 384.

2003

• Cryogenic Detection Techniques at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory: The ROSEBUD Experiment.
  S. Cebrián et al., Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 118 (2003) 523.
• First underground light versus heat discrimination for dark matter search.
  S. Cebrián et al., Physics Letters B 563 (2003) 48.
• Improved limits for natural α radioactivity of tungsten with CaWO₄ scintillating bolometer.
  S. Cebrián et al., Physics Letters B 556 (2003) 14.

2002

• The ROSEBUD experiment at Canfranc: 2001 report.
  S. Cebrián et al., Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 110 (2002) 97.

2001

• First results of the ROSEBUD dark matter experiment.
  S. Cebrián et al., Astroparticle Physics 15 (2001) 79.

2000

• Status of the ROSEBUD Dark Matter search experiment.
  S. Cebrián et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 444 (2000) 315.
• Status of the ROSEBUD Dark Matter Experiment in 1999.
  S. Cebrián et al., Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 87 (2000) 500.
• Cold dark matter searches at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.
  S. Cebrián et al., New Journal of Physics 2 (2000) 13.
• Status report on the ROSEBUD dark matter experiment.
  S. Cebrián et al., in proceedings of "The Third International Workshop on The Identification of Dark Matter", World Scientific Publishing Co., edited by Neil J. C. Spooner and Vitaly Kudryavtsev, (2000) 361.

1999

• Performances and prospects of the "ROSEBUD" dark matter search experiment.
  S. Cebrián et al., Astropatticle Physics 10 (1999) 361
• Towards measurements of recoils below 4 keV with the "ROSEBUD" experiment.
  C. Bobin et al., Nuclear Physics B (Proc. Suppl.) 70 (1999) 90.

Conference talks

2012

• EURECA-ROSEBUD: update for the Summary of the Working Group on Direct Detection.
  7^th Multidark Consolider Workshop, Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, 19 - 20 November, 2012.
• Cryogenic efforts in the University of Zaragoza and the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.
  First Topical Workshop of the HAP Dark Universe: Workshop on Data Analysis and Detector Technologies, Burg Liebenzell, Bad Liebenzell, Germany, 18 - 23 November, 2012.
• Rare event searches at Canfranc: ANAIS and ROSEBUD experiments.
  "Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting" on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, and Relativistic Field Theory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, 1 - 7 July, 2012.
• Scintillating bolometers: at the forefront of particle detection.
  Cantabria Campus Nobel 2012, Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander (Cantabria), Spain, 11 - 15 June, 2012.
• ROSEBUD experiment and the UZ participation in EURECA.
  6^th Multidark Consolider Workshop & RENATA meeting, Canfranc Underground Laboratory, Canfranc (Huesca), Spain, 12 - 15 April, 2012.

2011

• Bolometric experiments at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.
  Reunión de la Red Temática Nacional de Astropartículas (RENATA), Hotel Catalonia Barcelona Plaza, Barcelona, Spain, 02 - 04 November, 2011.
• Development of Scintillating Bolometers for Dark Matter Searches.
  3^rd Galileo-Xu Guangqi meeting, National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China, 11 - 15 October, 2011.
• Cryogenic particle detection at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.
  First International Workshop for the Design of the ANDES Underground Laboratory, Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 11 - 14 April, 2011.

2010

• ROSEBUD: recent results.
  3^rd MULTIDARK Consolider Workshop, Centro Extremeño de Tecnologías Avanzadas CETA-CIEMAT, Trujillo (Cáceres), Spain, 15 - 16 Noviembre, 2010.
• 2010 update on the ROSEBUD Project.
  8^th International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter 2010 (IDM2010), University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 26 - 30 July, 2010.
• Cryogenic direct search for dark matter: ROSEBUD-EURECA.
  1^st MULTIDARK Consolider Workshop, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 25 - 27 January, 2010.

2009

• BGO scintillating bolometer: its application in dark matter experiments.
  Eleventh International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2009), Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy, 1 - 5 July, 2009.

2008

• Our short experience at IAS and within ROSEBUD with radioactive contaminations in scintillating bolometers: uses and needs.
  1^st International Workshop on Radiopure Scintillators for EURECA (RPScint'2008), Institute for Nuclear Research, Kyiv, Ukraine, 9 - 10 September, 2008.
• Sapphire, BGO and LiF scintillating bolometers developed for dark matter experiments.
  7^th International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter 2008 (IDM2008), AlbaNova University Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, 18 - 22 August, 2008.
• BGO scintillating bolometer as a dark matter detector prototype.
  4^th Workshop on Cryogenic Scintillation (CryoScint'08), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Lyon, France, 6 June, 2008.
• WIMP search with scintillating bolometers at LSC within TA-DUSL (P2004-05-LSC).
  The ILIAS 5^th Annual Meeting, Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Jaca, Jaca, Spain, 18 - 21 February, 2008.

2007

• Sapphire and BGO performance as scintillating bolometers developed for dark matter searches.
  EURECA meeting, Max Planck Institute for Physics of the Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany, 24 October, 2007.
• Recent performance of scintillating bolometers developed for dark matter searches.
  12^th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD12), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, 22 - 27 July, 2007.
• Status of the ROSEBUD experiment.
  4^th Workshop on Cryogenic Scintillation (CryoScint 2007), Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, Lyon, France, 23 April, 2007.
• Status of the ROSEBUD experiment.
  4^th Applied Cryodetectors Network Meeting, Max Planck Institute for Physics of the Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany, 30 March, 2007.

2006

• High performance scintillating calorimeters in the search for WIMPs: ROSEBUD experiment.
  6^th International Workshop on The Identification of Dark Matter, The Island of Rhodes, Greece, 11 - 16 September, 2006.
• Recent progress on R&D activities for the ROSEBUD experiment.
  2^nd Workshop on the development and characterization of Cryogenic Scintillation Detectors for low background experiments (CryoScint), Oxford, United Kingdom, 7 March, 2006.
• Light and heat for direct dark matter detection: R&D + ROSEBUD status.
  The ILIAS 3^rd Annual Meeting, LNGS, Assergi, Italy, 27 February - 3 March, 2006.

2005

• Recent developments on scintillating bolometers for WIMP searches: ROSEBUD status.
  9^th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2005), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 10 - 14 September, 2005.

Posters

2011

• Measurement of the differential neutron flux inside a lead shielding in a cryogenic experiment.
  12^th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2011), Münchner Künstlerhaus (Munich House of Artists), Munich, Germany, 5 – 9 September, 2011.
• Characterization of a SrF₂ scintillating bolometer.
  14^th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD-14), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, 1 - 5 August, 2011.

2009

• Detection of fast neutrons with LiF and Al₂O₃scintillating bolometers.
  Eleventh International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics TAUP2009, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy, 1 - 5 July, 2009.

2007

• Measurement of the nuclear recoil thermal relative efficiency factor with an undoped sapphire scintillating bolometer.
  12^th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France, 22 - 27 July, 2007.

2005

• Scintillation of Sapphire under particle excitation at low temperature.
  12^th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2005), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 10 - 14 September, 2005.

Ph.D. Thesis

2010

• Caracterización de un bolómetro centelleador de BGO (Bi₄Ge₃O₁₂) para su aplicación en la búsqueda directa de Materia Oscura.
  Ysrael Richard Ortigoza Paredes. Tesis Doctoral. Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Astropartículas. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Zaragoza. Enero de 2010.

2008

• Bolómetros centelleadores para búsqueda de materia oscura.
  Lidia C. Torres Ferrández. Tesis Doctoral. Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Astropartículas. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad de Zaragoza. Mayo de 2008.