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New limits on WIMP interactions from the SIMPLE dark matter search

The SIMPLE project uses superheated C2ClF5 liquid detectors to search for particle dark matter candidates. We report the results of the first stage exposure (14.1 kgd) of its latest two-stage, Phase II run, with 15 superheated droplet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-11 TA Girard , T. A. Morlat , M. Felizardo , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , J. G. Marques

Final Analysis and Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

We report the final results of the Phase II SIMPLE measurements, comprising two run stages of 15 superheated droplet detectors each, the second stage including an improved neutron shielding. The analyses includes a refined signal analysis,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Felizardo , T. A. Girard , T. Morlat , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , J. G. Marques , M. Auguste , D. Boyer , A. Cavaillou , J. Poupeney , C. Sudre , J. Puibasset , H. S. Miley , R. F. Payne , F. P. Carvalho , M. I. Prudêncio , R. Marques

Final Results of the PICASSO Dark Matter Search Experiment

The PICASSO dark matter search experiment operated an array of 32 superheated droplet detectors containing 3.0 kg of C$_{4}$F$_{10}$ and collected an exposure of 231.4 kgd at SNOLAB between March 2012 and January 2014. We report on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-24 E. Behnke , M. Besnier , P. Bhattacharjee , X. Dai , M. Das , A. Davour , F. Debris , N. Dhungana , J. Farine , M. Fines-Neuschild , S. Gagnebin , G. Giroux , E. Grace , C. M. Jackson , A. Kamaha , C. B. Krauss , M. Lafrenière , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , L. Lessard , I. Levine , D. Marlisov , J. -P. Martin , P. Mitra , A. J. Noble , A. Plante , R. Podviyanuk , S. Pospisil , O. Scallon , S. Seth , N. Starinski , I. Stekl , U. Wichoski , V. Zacek

SIMPLE Dark Matter Search Results

We report an improved SIMPLE experiment comprising four superheated droplet detectors with a total exposure of 0.42 kgd. The result yields ~ factor 10 improvement in the previously-reported results, and -- despite the low exposure -- is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 TA Girard , F. Giuliani , T. Morlat , M. Felizardo da Costa , J. I. Collar , D. Limagne , G. Waysand , J. Puibasset , H. S. Miley , M. Auguste , D. Boyer , A. Cavaillou , J. G. Marques , C. Oliveira , M. Felizardo , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , R. C. Martins

Direct Dark Matter Search with XENON100

The XENON100 experiment is the second phase of the XENON program for the direct detection of the dark matter in the universe. The XENON100 detector is a two-phase Time Projection Chamber filled with 161 kg of ultra pure liquid xenon. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 S. E. A. Orrigo

Direct Dark Matter search with the XENON program

We present the most recent results from XENON100, the current phase of the XENON dark matter search program. XENON100 is a dual phase time-projection chamber operated at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) whose ultra-low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-14 Paolo Beltrame

Recent Results from the SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

SIMPLE is an experimental search for evidence of spin-dependent dark matter, based on superheated droplet detectors using C$_{2}$ClF$_{5}$. We report preliminary results of a 0.6 kgdy exposure of five one liter devices, each containing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-03 TA Girard , F. Giuliani , J. I. Collar

The SIMPLE Phase II Dark Matter Search

Phase II of SIMPLE (Superheated Instrument for Massive ParticLe Experiments) searched for astroparticle dark matter using superheated liquid C$_{2}$ClF$_{5}$ droplet detectors. Each droplet generally requires an energy deposition with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Felizardo , TA Girard , T. Morlat , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , J. G. Marques , A. Kling , J. Puibasset , M. Auguste , D. Boyer , A. Cavaillou , J. Poupeney , C. Sudre , F. P. Carvalho , M. I. Prudencio , R. Marques

First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory

The XENON10 experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory uses a 15 kg xenon dual phase time projection chamber (XeTPC) to search for dark matter weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The detector measures simultaneously the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Angle , E. Aprile , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , A. Bolozdynya , P. Brusov , L. C. C. Coelho , C. E. Dahl , L. DeViveiros , A. D. Ferella , L. M. P. Fernandes , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , K. L. Giboni , R. Gomez , R. Hasty , L. Kastens , J. Kwong , J. A. M. Lopes , N. Madden , A. Manalaysay , A. Manzur , D. N. McKinsey , M. E. Monzani , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , J. Orboeck , G. Plante , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , P. Shagin , T. Shutt , P. Sorensen , S. Schulte , C. Winant , M. Yamashita

Improved Spin Dependent Limits from the PICASSO Dark Matter Search Experiment

The PICASSO experiment reports an improved limit for the existence of cold dark matter WIMPs interacting via spin-dependent interactions with nuclei. The experiment is installed in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory at a depth of 2070 m. With…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The PICASSO Collaboration , M. Barnabe-Heider , E. Behnke , K. Clark , M. Di Marco , P. Doane , W. Feighery , M. -H. Genest , R. Gornea , R. Guenette , S. Kanagalingam , C. B. Krauss , C. Leroy , L. Lessard , I. Levine , J. -P. Martin , C. Muthusi , A. J. Noble , R. Noulty , U. Wichoski , V. Zacek

First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment

The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, is designed to search for dark matter WIMPs scattering off 62 kg of liquid xenon in an ultra-low background dual-phase time projection chamber. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-03 The XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , E. Brown , J. M. R. Cardoso , B. Choi , D. B. Cline , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , K. -L. Giboni , K. Hugenberg , A. Kish , C. W. Lam , J. Lamblin , R. F. Lang , K. E. Lim , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , Y. Mei , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , G. Plante , A. C. C. Ribeiro , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Schumann , P. Shagin , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , E. Tziaferi , H. Wang , C. Weinheimer

The XENON Dark Matter Experiment

The XENON experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) via their elastic scattering off Xenon nuclei. With a fiducial mass of 1000 kg of liquid xenon, a sufficiently low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 XENON Collaboration , Elena Aprile

A Search for WIMPs with the First Five-Tower Data from CDMS

We report first results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment running with its full complement of 30 cryogenic particle detectors at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. This report is based on the analysis of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

New limits on dark--matter WIMPs from the Heidelberg--Moscow experiment

New results after 0.69 kg yr of measurement with an enriched 76Ge detector of the Heidelberg--Moscow experiment with an active mass of 2.758 kg are presented. An energy threshold of 9 keV and a background level of 0.042 counts/(kg d keV) in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 L. Baudis , J. Hellmig , G. Heusser , H. V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus , S. Kolb , B. Majorovits , H. Päs , Y. Ramachers , H. Strecker , V. Alexeev , A. Bakalyarov , A. Balysh , S. T. Belyaev , V. I. Lebedev , S. Zhukov

First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment

We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a $\sim$2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy and the first ton-scale detector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , F. D. Amaro , M. Anthony , F. Arneodo , P. Barrow , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , L. Bütikofer , J. Calvén , J. M. R. Cardoso , M. Cervantes , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , P. de Perio , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , S. Diglio , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , R. Gardner , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , R. Itay , B. Kaminsky , S. Kazama , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Manfredini , I. Mariş , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , A. Molinario , K. Morå , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , M. -C. Piro , G. Plante , N. Priel , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , C. Reuter , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , N. Rupp , R. Saldanha , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , M. v. Sivers , A. Stein , S. Thapa , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , M. Vargas , N. Upole , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu

WIMP Dark Matter Search using a 3.1 Tonne-Year Exposure of the XENONnT Experiment

We report on a search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) via elastic DM-xenon-nucleus interactions in the XENONnT experiment. We combine datasets from the first and second science campaigns resulting in a total…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-18 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , K. Abe , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , D. Antón Martin , S. R. Armbruster , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , K. Boese , A. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Cai , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , A. P. Cimental Chávez , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. J. Cuenca-García , V. D'Andrea , L. C. Daniel Garcia , M. P. Decowski , A. Deisting , C. Di Donato , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , S. el Morabit , A. Elykov , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , T. Flehmke , M. Flierman , D. Fuchs , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , F. Gao , S. Ghosh , R. Giacomobono , F. Girard , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , P. Gyorgy , R. Hammann , A. Higuera , C. Hils , L. Hoetzsch , N. F. Hood , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , J. Jakob , F. Joerg , Y. Kaminaga , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , P. Kharbanda , M. Kobayashi , D. Koke , K. Kooshkjalali , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , Z. Liang , Y. -T. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , K. Liu , M. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , G. M. Lucchetti , T. Luce , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , S. Mastroianni , A. Melchiorre , J. Merz , M. Messina , A. Michael , K. Miuchi , A. Molinario , S. Moriyama , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Müller , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , B. Paetsch , Y. Pan , Q. Pellegrini , R. Peres , C. Peters , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , G. Plante , T. R. Pollmann , L. Principe , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , M. Rajado , A. Ravindran , A. Razeto , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , S. Shi , J. Shi , M. Silva , H. Simgen , A. Stevens , C. Szyszka , A. Takeda , Y. Takeuchi , P. -L. Tan , D. Thers , G. Trinchero , C. D. Tunnell , F. Tönnies , K. Valerius , S. Vecchi , S. Vetter , F. I. Villazon Solar , G. Volta , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , V. H. S. Wu , Y. Xing , D. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , J. Yang , L. Yang , J. Ye , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , Y. Zhao , M. Zhong

Recent results from the CDMS-II experiment

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to detect WIMPs via their elastic scattering interaction with the target nuclei. The current analysis of 397.8 kg-days Ge exposure resulted in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Bruch

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections from the XENON10 experiment

XENON10 is an experiment to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMPs), which may comprise the bulk of the non-baryonic dark matter in our Universe. We report new results for spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Angle , E. Aprile , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , A. Bolozdynya , P. Brusov , L. C. C. Coelho , C. E. Dahl , L. DeViveiros , A. D. Ferella , L. M. P. Fernandes , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , K. L. Giboni , R. Gomez , R. Hasty , L. Kastens , J. Kwong , J. A. M. Lopes , N. Madden , A. Manalaysay , A. Manzur , D. N. McKinsey , M. E. Monzani , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , J. Orboeck , G. Plante , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , P. Shagin , T. Shutt , P. Sorensen , S. Schulte , C. Winant , M. Yamashita

The XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment

The XENON experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) via their elastic scattering off Xe nuclei. A fiducial mass of 1000 kg, distributed in ten independent liquid xenon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Aprile , K. L. Giboni , P. Majewski , K. Ni , M. Yamashita , R. Gaitskell , P. Sorensen , L. DeViveiros , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , C. Hagmann , C. Winant , T. Shutt , J. Kwong , U. Oberlack , D. McKinsey , R. Hasty

First Limits on Light Dark Matter Interactions in a Low Threshold Two Channel Athermal Phonon Detector from the TESSERACT Collaboration

We present results of a search for spin-independent dark matter-nucleon interactions in a 1 cm$^2$ by 1 mm thick (0.233 gram) high-resolution silicon athermal phonon detector operated above ground. For interactions in the substrate, this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-14 C. L. Chang , Y. -Y. Chang , L. Chaplinsky , C. W. Fink , M. Garcia-Sciveres , W. Guo , S. A. Hertel , X. Li , J. Lin , M. Lisovenko , R. Mahapatra , W. Matava , D. N. McKinsey , V. Novati , P. K. Patel , B. Penning , H. D. Pinckney , M. Platt , M. Pyle , Y. Qi , M. Reed , G. R. C Rischbieter , R. K. Romani , B. Sadoulet , B. Serfass , P. Sorensen , A. Suzuki , V. Velan , G. Wang , Y. Wang , S. L. Watkins , M. R. Williams , J. K. Wuko , T. Aramaki , P. Cushman , N. N. Gite , A. Gupta , M. E. Huber , N. A. Kurinsky , J. S. Mammo , B. von Krosigk , A. J. Mayer , J. Nelson , S. M. Oser , L. Pandey , A. Pradeep , W. Rau , T. Saab