Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
2015-12-09 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold 50 eV, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and suppress radioactive backgrounds, having an unrivaled sensitivity to WIMPs with masses 6 GeV/. Early results motivated the construction of a 100 g detector, DAMIC100, currently being installed at SNOLAB. This contribution discusses the installation progress, new calibration efforts near the threshold, a preliminary result with 2014 data, and the prospects for physics results after one year of data taking.
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@article{arxiv.1510.00044,
title = {Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment},
author = {DAMIC Collaboration and A. Aguilar-Arevalo and D. Amidei and X. Bertou and D. Boule and M. Butner and G. Cancelo and A. Castañeda Vázquez and A. E. Chavarría and J. R. T. de Melo Neto and S. Dixon and J. C. D'Olivo and J. Estrada and G. Fernandez Moroni and K. P. Hernández Torres and F. Izraelevitch and A. Kavner and B. Kilminster and I. Lawson and J. Liao and M. López and J. Molina and G. Moreno-Granados and J. Pena and P. Privitera and Y. Sarkis and V. Scarpine and T. Schwartz and M. Sofo Haro and J. Tiffenberg and D. Torres Machado and F. Trillaud and X. You and J. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.00044},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Talk presented CIPANP2015. 9 pages, PDFLaTeX, 11 PDF figures, econfmacros LaTeX file