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We show, by using an extensive sample of viable supersymmetric models as templates, that indirect detection of dark matter through gamma rays may have a large potential for identifying the nature of dark matter. This is in particular true…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) collaboration is developing low-pressure gas TPC detectors for measuring WIMP-nucleon interactions. Optical readout with CCD cameras allows for the detection for the daily modulation in the…

Dark matter (DM) particles with mass in the sub-GeV range are an attractive alternative to heavier weakly-interacting massive particles, but direct detection of such light particles is challenging. If however DM-nucleus scattering leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Matthew J. Dolan , Felix Kahlhoefer , Christopher McCabe

Searches for dark matter-induced recoils have made impressive advances in the last few years. Yet the field is confronted by several outstanding problems. First, the inevitable background of solar neutrinos will soon inhibit the conclusive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-23 Sven E. Vahsen , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Dinesh Loomba

The DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment will use skipper CCDs to search for low mass (sub-GeV) dark matter underground at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM) in France. With about 1 kg of silicon target mass and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-01 R. Smida

Motivated by the current interest in employing quantum sensors on Earth and in space to conduct searches for new physics, we provide a perspective on the suitability of large-mass levitated optomechanical systems for observing dark matter…

We provide an algorithm for detection of possible dark matter particle interactions recorded within NEWSdm detector. The NEWSdm (Nuclear Emulsions for WIMP Search directional measure) is an underground Direct detection Dark Matter search…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Artem Golovatiuk , Giovanni De Lellis , Andrey Ustyuzhanin

The viability of using a Bubble Chamber for rare event searches and in particular for the detection of dark matter particle candidates is considered. Techniques leading to the deactivation of inhomogeneous nucleation centers and subsequent…

Direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches may help overcome the challenges faced by direct dark matter detection experiments. In particular, directional detectors should be able to clearly differentiate a dark matter signal from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-04 Steven Ross

In recent decades, inorganic crystals have been widely used in dark matter direct search experiments. To contribute to the understanding of the capabilities of $CsI(Na)$ and $CaF_{2}(Eu)$ crystals, a mono-energetic neutron beam is utilized…

Paleo-detectors are a proposed experimental technique to search for dark matter (DM). In lieu of the conventional approach of operating a tonne-scale real-time detector to search for DM-induced nuclear recoils, paleo-detectors take…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-15 Sebastian Baum , Thomas D. P. Edwards , Katherine Freese , Patrick Stengel

Dark matter candidates such as weakly-interacting massive particles are predicted to annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles leaving behind distinctive signatures in gamma rays, neutrinos, positrons, antiprotons, or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-01 Jan Conrad , Olaf Reimer

Directional detection is a promising Dark Matter search strategy. Even though it could accommodate to a sizeable background contamination, electron/recoil discrimination remains a key and challenging issue as for direction-insensitive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos

We propose to use high-purity lab-grown diamond for the detection of sub-GeV dark matter. Diamond targets can be sensitive to both nuclear and electron recoils from dark matter scattering in the MeV and above mass range, as well as to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-19 Noah Kurinsky , To Chin Yu , Yonit Hochberg , Blas Cabrera

Dark matter particles populating our galactic halo could be directly detected by measuring their scattering off target nuclei or electrons in a suitable detector. As this interaction is expected to occur with very low probability and would…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-14 Susana Cebrián

Dark matter experiments primarily search for the scattering of WIMPs on target nuclei of well shielded underground detectors. The results from liquid scintillator experiments furthermore provide precise probes of very light and very weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-19 Haipeng An , Kaixuan Ni , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

Low energy antideuteron detection presents a unique channel for indirect detection, targeting dark matter that annihilates into hadrons in a relatively background-free way. Since the idea was first proposed, many WIMP-type models have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-26 Lisa Randall , Weishuang Linda Xu

Direct searches for light dark matter particles (mass $<10$ GeV) are especially challenging because of the low energies transferred in elastic scattering to typical heavy nuclear targets. We investigate the possibility of using liquid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Wei Guo , Daniel N. McKinsey

We briefly discuss the expected level of supersymmetric dark matter cross-sections as a reference for dark matter detectors. We then discuss the current ZEPLIN II program as a prototype of large liquid Xenon detectors. Cryoarray is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David B. Cline