The DAMIC dark matter experiment
Abstract
The DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment uses high resistivity, scientific grade CCDs to search for dark matter. The CCD's low electronic noise allows an unprecedently low energy threshold of a few tens of eV that make it possible to detect silicon recoils resulting from interactions of low mass WIMPs. In addition the CCD's high spatial resolution and the excellent energy response results in very effective background identification techniques. The experiment has a unique sensitivity to dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV/c. Previous results have demonstrated the potential of this technology, motivating the construction of DAMIC100, a 100 grams silicon target detector currently being installed at SNOLAB. In this contribution, the mode of operation and unique imaging capabilities of the CCDs, and how they may be exploited to characterize and suppress backgrounds will be discussed, as well as physics results after one year of data taking.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.02126,
title = {The DAMIC dark matter experiment},
author = {A. Aguilar-Arevalo and D. Amidei and X. Bertou and D. Bole and M. Butner and G. Cancelo and A. Castañeda Vázquez and A. E. Chavarria and J. R. T. de Mello 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. Schwarz and M. Sofo Haro and J. Tiffenberg and D. Torres Machado and F. Trillaud and X. You and J. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02126},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Presented at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands