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Impact of COHERENT measurements, cross section uncertainties and new interactions on the neutrino floor

We reconsider the discovery limit of multi-ton direct detection dark matter experiments in the light of recent measurements of the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering process. Assuming the cross section to be a parameter entirely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-28 D. Aristizabal Sierra , V. De Romeri , L. J. Flores , D. K. Papoulias

Direct Dark Matter Searches

For many working in particle physics and cosmology successful discovery and characterisation of the new particles that most likely explain the non-baryonic cold dark matter, known to comprise the majority of matter in the Universe, would be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 N. J. Spooner

A new way to test the WIMP dark matter models

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of testing the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM) models by applying the simplest phenomenological model which introduces an interaction term between dark energy (DE)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Wei Cheng , Yuan He , Jin-Wang Diao , Yu Pan , Jun Zeng , Jia-Wei Zhang

Searching for light WIMPS via their interaction with electrons

In the present work we examine the possibility of detecting light dark matter particles (WIMP) utilizing their possible interactions with the electrons. Employing reasonable theoretical models we evaluate the expected event rates in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-11 J. D. Vergados

Generalized Analysis of Weakly-Interacting Massive Particle Searches

We perform a generalized analysis of data from WIMP search experiments for point-like WIMPs of arbitrary spin and general Lorenz-invariant WIMP-nucleus interaction. We show that in the non-relativistic limit only spin-independent (SI) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andriy Kurylov , Marc Kamionkowski

Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from an 11 kg-day Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB

We present constraints on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) from an 11 kg-day target exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The observed energy spectrum and spatial distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , D. Baxter , G. Cancelo , B. A. Cervantes Vergara , A. E. Chavarria , J. C. D'Olivo , J. Estrada , F. Favela-Perez , R. Gaior , Y. Guardincerri , E. W. Hoppe , T. W. Hossbach , B. Kilminster , I. Lawson , S. J. Lee , A. Letessier-Selvon , A. Matalon , P. Mitra , C. T. Overman , A. Piers , P. Privitera , K. Ramanathan , J. Da Rocha , Y. Sarkis , M. Settimo , R. Smida , R. Thomas , J. Tiffenberg , M. Traina , R. Vilar , A. L. Virto

Background Determination for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recently reported limits on WIMP-nucleus interactions from its initial science run, down to $9.2\times10^{-48}$ cm$^2$ for the spin-independent interaction of a 36 GeV/c$^2$ WIMP at 90% confidence level. In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-19 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , S. K. Alsum , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , A. Baxter , K. Beattie , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. Buuck , R. Cabrita , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. Chawla , H. Chen , A. P. S. Chiang , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , A. Cottle , G. Cox , O. Creaner , C. E. Dahl , A. David , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , N. M. Fearon , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , R. Gibbons , M. G. D. Gilchriese , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. B. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , R. S. James , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , D. Khaitan , I. Khurana , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. A. Leason , J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , E. Lopez Asamar , B. López Paredes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , E. H. Miller , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , D. Naim , A. Naylor , C. Nedlik , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , J. A. Nikoleyczik , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , D. Porzio , S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , T. Rushton , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , S. Shaw , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , R. Smith , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , N. Swanson , M. Szydagis , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , D. J. Temples , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , D. R. Tronstad , W. Turner , U. Utku , A. C. Vaitkus , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , W. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , T. J. Whitis , M. Williams , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , X. Xiang , J. Xu , M. Yeh

Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with the DarkSide-50 Experiment

We present the results of a search for dark matter WIMPs in the mass range below 20 GeV/c^2 using a target of low-radioactivity argon. The data were obtained using the DarkSide-50 apparatus at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 The DarkSide Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , G. R. Araujo , D. M. Asner , M. Ave , H. O. Back , B. Baldin , G. Batignani , K. Biery , V. Bocci , G. Bonfini , W. Bonivento , B. Bottino , F. Budano , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Candela , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , M. Carpinelli , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , R. Cereseto , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalò , L. Cifarelli , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , D. D'Angelo , M. D'Incecco , D. D'Urso , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , M. De Deo , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , M. De Vincenzi , P. Demontis , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , G. Di Pietro , C. Dionisi , M. Downing , E. Edkins , A. Empl , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , A. Gabrieli , C. Galbiati , P. Garcia Abia , C. Ghiano , S. Giagu , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , O. Gorchakov , A. M. Goretti , F. Granato , M. Gromov , M. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , M. Gulino , B. R. Hackett , M. H. Hassanshahi , K. Herner , B. Hosseini , D. Hughes , P. Humble , E. V. Hungerford , Al. Ianni , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , I. James , T. N. Johnson , Y. Kahn , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , I. Kochanek , G. Koh , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , M. Lai , X. Li , M. Lisanti , M. Lissia , B. Loer , G. Longo , Y. Ma , A. A. Machado , I. N. Machulin , A. Mandarano , L. Mapelli , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , C. J. Martoff , A. Messina , P. D. Meyers , R. Milincic , S. Mishra-Sharma , A. Monte , M. Morrocchi , B. J. Mount , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , R. Nania , A. Navrer Agasson , A. O. Nozdrina , A. Oleinik , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , F. Pazzona , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , V. Pesudo , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , S. S. Poudel , D. A. Pugachev , H. Qian , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , B. Reinhold , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , Q. Riffard , A. Romani , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , D. Sablone , O. Samoylov , W. Sands , S. Sanfilippo , M. Sant , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , B. Schlitzer , E. Segreto , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , P. N. Singh , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , C. Stanford , S. Stracka , G. B. Suffritti , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , P. Trinchese , E. V. Unzhakov , M. Verducci , A. Vishneva , B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , T. J. Waldrop , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. W. Watson , S. Westerdale , M. M. Wojcik , M. Wojcik , X. Xiang , X. Xiao , C. Yang , Z. Ye , C. Zhu , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel

Directional Sensitivity In Light-Mass Dark Matter Searches With Single-Electron Resolution Ionization Detectors

We propose a method using solid state detectors with directional sensitivity to dark matter interactions to detect low-mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) originating from galactic sources. In spite of a large body of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-21 Fedja Kadribasic , Nader Mirabolfathi , Kai Nordlund , Andrea E. Sand , E. Holmström , Flyura Djurabekova

Dark Matter Results from First 98.7-day Data of PandaX-II Experiment

We report the WIMP dark matter search results using the first physics-run data of the PandaX-II 500 kg liquid xenon dual-phase time-projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground Laboratory. No dark matter candidate is…

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Dark Matter Direct Detection

Solving the Dark Matter enigma represents one of the key objectives of contemporary physics. Recent astrophysical and cosmological measurements have unambiguously demonstrated that ordinary matter contributes to less than 5 % of the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gabriel Chardin

Aspects of spin-dependent dark matter search

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is the main candidate for the relic dark matter. A set of exclusion curves currently obtained for cross sections of the spin-dependent WIMP-proton and WIMP-neutron interaction is given. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Bednyakov

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment, results from the 2004 campaign and status of the current update

The CDMS II experiment uses Z-dependent Ionization Phonon (ZIP) detectors made of Germanium and Silicon to identify nuclear recoils from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with near complete event-by-event rejection of various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel Leclercq

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

Search for low-mass WIMPs in a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB

We present results of a dark matter search performed with a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. We measure the energy spectrum of ionization events in the bulk silicon of charge-coupled devices…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-11 A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , X. Bertou , M. Butner , G. Cancelo , A. Castañeda Vázquez , B. A. Cervantes Vergara , A. E. Chavarria , C. R. Chavez , J. R. T. de Mello Neto , J. C. D'Olivo , J. Estrada , G. Fernandez Moroni , R. Gaïor , Y. Guandincerri , K. P. Hernández Torres , F. Izraelevitch , A. Kavner , B. Kilminster , I. Lawson , A. Letessier-Selvon , J. Liao , J. Molina , J. R. Peña , P. Privitera , K. Ramanathan , Y. Sarkis , T. Schwarz , C. Sengul , M. Settimo , M. Sofo Haro , R. Thomas , J. Tiffenberg , E. Tiouchichine , D. Torres Machado , F. Trillaud , X. You , J. Zhou

Results from the First Science Run of the ZEPLIN-III Dark Matter Search Experiment

The ZEPLIN-III experiment in the Palmer Underground Laboratory at Boulby uses a 12kg two-phase xenon time projection chamber to search for the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that may account for the dark matter of our Galaxy.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. N. Lebedenko , H. M. Araujo , E. J. Barnes , A. Bewick , R. Cashmore , V. Chepel , A. Currie , D. Davidge , J. Dawson , T. Durkin , B. Edwards , C. Ghag , M. Horn , A. S. Howard , A. J. Hughes , W. G. Jones , M. Joshi , G. E. Kalmus , A. G. Kovalenko , A. Lindote , I. Liubarsky , M. I. Lopes , R. Luscher , P. Majewski , A. StJ. Murphy , F. Neves , J. Pinto da Cunha , R. Preece , J. J. Quenby , P. R. Scovell , C. Silva , V. N. Solovov , N. J. T. Smith , P. F. Smith , V. N. Stekhanov , T. J. Sumner , C. Thorne , R. J. Walker

XENON1T Dark Matter Data Analysis: Signal Reconstruction, Calibration and Event Selection

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso is the most sensitive direct detection experiment for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting particles (WIMPs) with masses above $6\,$GeV/$c^2$ scattering off nuclei.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-06 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , V. C. Antochi , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , L. Bellagamba , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , 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 , A. Elykov , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , R. Itay , F. Joerg , S. Kazama , A. Kish , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , E. López Fune , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Manfredini , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , D. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , K. Miller , A. Molinario , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , K. Odgers , B. Pelssers , R. Peres , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , R. Podviianiuk , H. Qiu , D. Ramírez García , S. Reichard , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , A. Rocchetti , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , N. N. Šarčević , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , C. Therreau , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , N. Upole , M. Vargas , O. Wack , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , J. P. Zopounidis

On the sensitivity of present direct detection experiments to WIMP-quark and WIMP-gluon effective interactions: a systematic assessment and new model-independent approaches

Assuming for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) a Maxwellian velocity distribution in the Galaxy we provide an assessment of the sensitivity of existing Dark Matter (DM) direct detection (DD) experiments to operators up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar , Jong-Hyun Yoon

Dark Matter 2014

This article gives an overview on the status of experimental searches for dark matter at the end of 2014. The main focus is on direct searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using underground-based low-background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Marc Schumann

General Heavy WIMP Nucleon Elastic Scattering

Heavy WIMP (weakly-interacting-massive-particle) effective field theory is used to compute the WIMP-nucleon scattering rate for general heavy electroweak multiplets through order $m_W/M$, where $m_W$ and $M$ denote the electroweak and WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Qing Chen , Gui-Jun Ding , Richard J. Hill