At present the results in the field of direct dark matter search are in tension: the positive claim of DAMA/LIBRA versus null results from other experiments. However, the comparison of the results of different experiments involves model dependencies, in particular because of the different target materials in use. The COSINUS R&D project aims to operate NaI as a cryogenic calorimeter. Such a detector would not only allow for a direct comparison to DAMA/LIBRA, but would also provide a low(er) nuclear recoil threshold and particle discrimination.
@article{arxiv.1610.03876,
title = {The COSINUS project - a NaI-based cryogenic calorimeter for direct dark matter detection},
author = {G. Angloher and P. Carniti and L. Cassina and L. Gironi and C. Gotti and A. Gütlein and D. Hauff and M. Maino and S. S. Nagorny and L. Pagnanini and G. Pessina and F. Petricca and S. Pirro and F. Pröbst and F. Reindl and K. Schäffner and J. Schieck and W. Seidel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03876},
year = {2017}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures, Poster proceedings for the Neutrino2016 conference held in London (July 2016)