- Aguilar-Arevalo, A;
- Arnquist, I;
- Avalos, N;
- Barak, L;
- Baxter, D;
- Bertou, X;
- Bloch, IM;
- Botti, AM;
- Cababie, M;
- Cancelo, G;
- Castelló-Mor, N;
- Cervantes-Vergara, BA;
- Chavarria, AE;
- Cortabitarte-Gutiérrez, J;
- Crisler, M;
- Cuevas-Zepeda, J;
- Dastgheibi-Fard, A;
- De Dominicis, C;
- Deligny, O;
- Drlica-Wagner, A;
- Duarte-Campderros, J;
- D’Olivo, JC;
- Essig, R;
- Estrada, E;
- Estrada, J;
- Etzion, E;
- Favela-Perez, F;
- Gadola, N;
- Gaïor, R;
- Holland, SE;
- Hossbach, T;
- Iddir, L;
- Kilminster, B;
- Korn, Y;
- Lantero-Barreda, A;
- Lawson, I;
- Lee, S;
- Letessier-Selvon, A;
- Loaiza, P;
- Lopez-Virto, A;
- Luoma, S;
- Marrufo-Villalpando, E;
- McGuire, KJ;
- Moroni, GF;
- Munagavalasa, S;
- Norcini, D;
- Orly, A;
- Papadopoulos, G;
- Paul, S;
- Perez, SE;
- Piers, A;
- Privitera, P;
- Robmann, P;
- Rodrigues, D;
- Saffold, NA;
- Scorza, S;
- Settimo, M;
- Singal, A;
- Smida, R;
- Sofo-Haro, M;
- Stefanazzi, L;
- Stifter, K;
- Tiffenberg, J;
- Traina, M;
- Uemura, S;
- Vila, I;
- Vilar, R;
- Volansky, T;
- Warot, G;
- Yajur, R;
- Yu, T-T;
- Zopounidis, J-P
We present results from a 3.25 kg-day target exposure of two silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs), each with 24 megapixels and skipper readout, deployed in the DAMIC setup at SNOLAB. With a reduction in pixel readout noise of a factor of 10 relative to the previous detector, we investigate the excess population of low-energy events in the CCD bulk previously observed above expected backgrounds. We address the dominant systematic uncertainty of the previous analysis through a depth fiducialization designed to reject surface backgrounds on the CCDs. The measured bulk ionization spectrum confirms the presence of an excess population of low-energy events in the CCD target with characteristic rate of ∼7 events per kg-day and electron-equivalent energies of ∼80 eV, whose origin remains unknown.