DAMIC: a novel dark matter experiment
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2013-10-25 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) is a novel dark matter experiment that has unique sensitivity to dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV. Due to its low electronic readout noise (R.M.S. ~3 e-) this instrument is able to reach a detection threshold below 0.5 keV nuclear recoil energy, making the search for dark matter particles with low masses possible. We report on early results and experience gained from a detector that has been running at SNOLAB from Dec 2012. We also discuss the measured and expected backgrounds and present the plan for future detectors to be installed in 2014.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.6688,
title = {DAMIC: a novel dark matter experiment},
author = {The DAMIC Collaboration and Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo and Xavier Bertou and Melissa J. Butner and Gustavo Cancelo and Alvaro Chavarria and Juan Carlos D'Olivo and Juan Cruz Estrada Vigil and Guillermo Fernandez Moroni and Federico Izraelevitch and Ben Kilminster and Ian T. Lawson and Fernando Marsal and Jorge Molina and Paolo Privitera and Tom Schwarz and Miguel Sofo Haro and Javier Tiffenberg and Frederic Trillaud and Jing Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6688},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figures, ICRC2013