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Estimating the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. For understanding the nature of WIMPs and identifying them among new particles produced at colliders (hopefully in the near future),…

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Prospects of indirect searches for dark matter annihilations in the earth with ICAL@INO

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In-situ Surface Contamination Removal and Cool-down Process of the DEAP-3600 Experiment

The DEAP-3600 experiment is a single-phase detector that uses 3600 Kg of liquid argon to search for Dark Matter at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada, 6800 ft. underground. The projected sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section…

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Limits on Low-Mass WIMP Dark Matter with an Ultra-Low-Energy Germanium Detector at 220 eV Threshold

An energy threshold of (220$\pm$10) eV was achieved at an efficiency of 50% with a four-channel ultra-low-energy germanium detector each with an active mass of 5 g\cite{wimppaper}. This provides a unique probe to WIMP dark matter with mass…

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First measurement of low intensity fast neutron background from rock at the Boulby Underground Laboratory

A technique to measure low intensity fast neutron flux has been developed. The design, calibrations, procedure for data analysis and interpretation of the results are discussed in detail. The technique has been applied to measure the…

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Results from a Low-Energy Analysis of the CDMS II Germanium Data

We report results from a reanalysis of data from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Data taken between October 2006 and September 2008 using eight germanium detectors are reanalyzed…

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A Search of Low-Mass WIMPs with p-type Point Contact Germanium Detector in the CDEX-1 Experiment

The CDEX-1 experiment conducted a search of low-mass (< 10 GeV/c2) Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory using a p-type point-contact germanium detector with a fiducial mass of…

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New Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment

Using improved Ge and Si detectors, better neutron shielding, and increased counting time, the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment has obtained stricter limits on the cross section of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs)…

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Measurement of directional range components of nuclear recoil tracks in a fiducialised dark matter detector

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An Effective Field Theory Analysis of the First LUX Dark Matter Search

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter search was a 250-kg active mass dual-phase time projection chamber that operated by detecting light and ionization signals from particles incident on a xenon target. In December 2015, LUX…

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A review of the discovery reach of directional Dark Matter detection

Cosmological observations indicate that most of the matter in the Universe is Dark Matter. Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) can be detected directly, via its elastic scattering off target nuclei. Most…

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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…

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First results on low-mass WIMP from the CDEX-1 experiment at the China Jinping underground Laboratory

The China Dark matter Experiment collaboration reports the first experimental limit on WIMP dark matter from 14.6 kg-day of data taken with a 994 g p-type point-contact germanium detector at the China Jinping underground Laboratory where…

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WIMP-Search Results from the Second CDMSlite Run

The CDMS low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) uses cryogenic germanium detectors operated at a relatively high bias voltage to amplify the phonon signal in the search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Results are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-10 SuperCDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , A. J. Anderson , T. Aramaki , M. Asai , W. Baker , D. Balakishiyeva , D. Barker , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , J. Billard , A. Borgland , M. A. Bowles , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , R. Calkins , D. G. Cerdeno , H. Chagani , Y. Chen , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , P. Cushman , M. Daal , P. C. F. Di Stefano , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , S. Fallows , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , M. Ghaith , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , H. R. Harris , T. Hofer , D. Holmgren , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , D. Jardin , A. Jastram , O. Kamaev , B. Kara , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , A. Leder , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , J. D. Morales Mendoza , S. M. Oser , K. Page , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , A. Phipps , K. Prasad , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , Y. Ricci , A. Roberts , H. E. Rogers , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , B. Shank , D. Speller , D. Toback , R. Underwood , S. Upadhyayula , A. N. Villano , B. Welliver , J. S. Wilson , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , B. A. Young , J. Zhang

Simulation of neutrons produced by high-energy muons underground

This article describes the Monte Carlo simulation used to interpret the measurement of the muon-induced neutron flux in the Boulby Underground Laboratory (North Yorkshire, UK), recently performed using a large scintillator veto deployed…

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New Limits on Dark Matter from Super-Kamiokande

The signals observed at the direct detection experiments DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST could be explained by light WIMPs with sizeable spin-independent cross sections with nucleons. The capture and subsequent annihilation of such particles in the…

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Radon backgrounds in the DEAP-1 liquid-argon-based Dark Matter detector

The DEAP-1 \SI{7}{kg} single phase liquid argon scintillation detector was operated underground at SNOLAB in order to test the techniques and measure the backgrounds inherent to single phase detection, in support of the \mbox{DEAP-3600}…

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Direct WIMP Detection Using Scintillation Time Discrimination in Liquid Argon

Discrimination between electron and nuclear recoil events in a liquid argon scintillation detector has been demonstrated with simulations by using the differences in the scintillation photon time distribution between these classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Boulay , A. Hime