NEWAGE is a direction-sensitive dark matter search using a low-pressure gaseous time projection chamber. A low alpha-ray emission rate micro pixel chamber had been developed in order to reduce background for dark matter search. We conducted the dark matter search at the Kamioka Observatory in 2018. The total live time was 107.6 days corresponding to an exposure of 1.1 kg⋅days. Two events remained in the energy region of 50-60 keV which was consistent with 2.5 events of the expected background. A directional analysis was carried out and no significant forward-backward asymmetry derived from the WIMP-nucleus elastic scatterings was found. Thus a 90% confidence level upper limit on Spin-Dependent WIMP-proton cross section of 50 pb for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c2 was derived. This limit is the most stringent yet obtained from direction-sensitive dark matter search experiments.
@article{arxiv.2101.09921,
title = {Direction-sensitive dark matter search with a low-background gaseous detector NEWAGE-0.3b''},
author = {Tomonori Ikeda and Kiseki Nakamura and Takuya Shimada and Ryota Yakabe and Takashi Hashimoto and Hirohisa Ishiura and Takuma Nakamura and Hiroshi Ito and Koichi Ichimura and Ko Abe and Kazuyoshi Kobayashi and Toru Tanimori and Hidetoshi Kubo and Atsushi Takada and Hiroyuki Sekiya and Atsushi Takeda and Kentaro Miuchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.09921},
year = {2022}
}