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First Results from Dark Matter Search Experiment in the Nokogiriyama Underground Cell

An experiment to search for hypothetical particle dark matter using cryogenic thermal detector, or bolometer is ongoing. The bolometer consists of eight pieces of 21 g LiF absorbers and sensitive NTD germanium thermistors attached to them…

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XENONnT WIMP Search: Signal & Background Modeling and Statistical Inference

The XENONnT experiment searches for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter scattering off a xenon nucleus. In particular, XENONnT uses a dual-phase time projection chamber with a 5.9-tonne liquid xenon target, detecting both…

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Updates on the DEAP-3600 experiment and steps towards the ARGO experiment

The DEAP-3600 experiment, with an approximately 3.3 tonne liquid argon (LAr) target, is currently the world's largest single-phase LAr dark matter detector. It is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, Canada, one of the most radiopure…

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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…

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Dual-Phase Liquid Xenon Detectors for Dark Matter Searches

Dual-phase time projection chambers (TPCs) filled with the liquid noble gas xenon (LXe) are currently the most sensitive detectors searching for interactions of WIMP dark matter in a laboratory-based experiment. This is achieved by…

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A Novel Use of Light Guides and Wavelength Shifting Plates for the Detection of Scintillation Photons in Large Liquid Argon Detectors

Scintillation light generated as charged particles traverse large liquid argon detectors adds valuable information to studies of weakly-interacting particles. This paper uses both laboratory measurements and cosmic ray data from the Blanche…

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DarkSide-50 532-day Dark Matter Search with Low-Radioactivity Argon

The DarkSide-50 direct-detection dark matter experiment is a dual-phase argon time projection chamber operating at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. This paper reports on the blind analysis of a (16,660+-270) kg d exposure using a target…

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A CsI low temperature detector for dark matter search

Cryogenic detectors have a long history of success in the field of rare event searches. In particular scintillating calorimeters are very suitable detectors for this task since they provide particle discrimination: the simultaneous…

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First Direct Search for Light Dark Matter Using the NEON Experiment at a Nuclear Reactor

We report new results from the Neutrino Elastic Scattering Observation with NaI (NEON) experiment in the search for light dark matter (LDM) using 2,636 kg$\cdot$days of NaI(Tl) exposure. The experiment employs an array of NaI(Tl) crystals…

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Search for WIMPs in liquid argon

Our group from the University of Zurich is performing R&D work towards the design of a large liquid argon detector to detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). This project is developed within the DARWIN Collaboration funded by…

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Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation to Monoenergetic Neutrinos with Liquid Scintillation Detectors

We consider searches for dark matter annihilation to monoenergetic neutrinos in the core of the Sun. We find that liquid scintillation neutrino detectors have enhanced sensitivity to this class of dark matter models, due to the energy and…

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Design of Prototype Front-end Digital Module for Direct Dark Matter Detection based on LAr

Liquid argon (LAr) with a high light yield of approximately 40 photons per keV is an attractive target for the direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are well motivated galactic dark matter candidates. We…

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WIMP mass from direct, indirect dark matter detection experiments and colliders: A complementary and model-independent approach

We study the possibility of identifying dark matter properties from direct (XENON100) and indirect (GLAST) detection experiments. In the same way, we examine the perspectives given by the next generation of colliders (ILC). All this…

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Complementarity of direct detection experiments in search of light Dark Matter

Dark Matter experiments searching for Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) primarily use nuclear recoils (NRs) in their attempt to detect WIMPs. Migdal-induced electronic recoils (ERs) provide additional sensitivity to light Dark…

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Design and construction of a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon

Large liquid argon detectors offer one of the best avenues for the detection of galactic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their scattering on atomic nuclei. The liquid argon target allows exquisite discrimination between…

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Exploring dark matter with quantum-enhanced haloscopes and time projection chambers

This thesis explores experimental and theoretical approaches to dark matter detection, from gas-based detectors to quantum sensors, tackling the challenge of identifying dark matter, which makes up 27% of the Universe's energy. It reviews…

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Introduction of the CDEX experiment

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are the candidates of dark matter in our universe. Up to now any direct interaction of WIMP with nuclei has not been observed yet. The exclusion limits of the spin-independent cross section of…

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A new high-background-rejection dark matter Ge cryogenic detector

A new design of a cryogenic germanium detector for dark matter search is presented, taking advantage of the coplanar grid technique of event localisation for improved background discrimination. Experiments performed with prototype devices…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 A. Broniatowski , X. Defay , E. Armengaud , L. Berge , A. Benoit , O. Besida , J. Blumer , A. Chantelauze , M. Chapellier , G. Chardin , F. Charlieux , S. Collin , O. Crauste , M. De Jesus , P. Di Stefano , Y. Dolgorouki , J. Domange , L. Dumoulin , K. Eitel , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , M. Gros , M. Hannawald , S. Herve , A. Juillard , H. Kluck , V. Kozlov , R. Lemrani , A. Lubashevskiy , C. Marrache , S. Marnieros , X. -F. Navick , C. Nones , E. Olivieri , P. Pari , B. Paul , S. Rozov , V. Sanglard , S. Scorza , S. Semikh , M. -A. Verdier , L. Vagneron , E. Yakushev

The Performance of the Thin NaI(Tl) Detector Pico-Lon for Dark Matter Search

Thin and large area NaI(Tl) scintillator to search for WIMPs dark matter was developed. The performance of thin and wide area NaI(Tl) showed good enough to search for dark matter. The energy threshold was as low as 2keV and the energy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-06-06 K. Harada , K. Fushimi , S. Nakayama , R. Orito , S. Iida , S. Ito , H. Ejiri , T. Shima , R. Hazama , E. Matsumoto , H. Ito , K. Imagawa

Table-top setup for investigating the scintillation properties of liquid argon

The spectral and temporal light emission properties of liquid argon have been studied in the context of its use in large liquid rare-gas detectors for detecting Dark Matter particles in astronomy. A table-top setup has been developed.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-25 T. Heindl , T. Dandl , A. Fedenev , M. Hofmann , R. Krücken , L. Oberauer , W. Potzel , J. Wieser , A. Ulrich