WIMP searches with superheated droplet detectors: Status and Prospects
Astrophysics
2016-11-03 v2 Soft Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
SIMPLE (Superheated Instrument for Massive ParticLE searches) employs superheated droplet detectors (SDDs) to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter. As a result of the intrinsic SDD insensitivity to minimum ionizing particles and high fluorine content of target liquids, competitive WIMP limits were already obtained at the early prototype stage. We comment here on the expected immediate increase in sensitivity of the program and on future plans to exploit this promising technnique.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101176,
title = {WIMP searches with superheated droplet detectors: Status and Prospects},
author = {J. I. Collar and T. A. Girard and D. Limagne and H. S. Miley and T. Morlat and J. Puibasset and G. Waysand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101176},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages LaTeX, incl. 2 figures. Presented at the 3rd Intl. Workshop for the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM2000), York, Sept. 2000