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Directional detection as a strategy to discover Galactic Dark Matter

Directional detection of Galactic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating genuine WIMP events from background ones. Technical progress on gaseous detectors and read-outs has permitted the design and construction of…

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Identifying WIMP dark matter from particle and astroparticle data

One of the most promising strategies to identify the nature of dark matter consists in the search for new particles at accelerators and with so-called direct detection experiments. Working within the framework of simplified models, and…

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A dark matter WIMP that can be detected and definitively identified with currently planned experiments

A recently proposed dark matter WIMP has only second-order couplings to gauge bosons and itself. As a result, it has small annihilation, scattering, and creation cross-sections, and is consequently consistent with all current experiments…

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Directionality of nuclear recoils in a liquid argon time projection chamber

The direct search for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) is performed by detecting nuclear recoils (NR) produced in a target material from the WIMP elastic scattering. A promising experimental strategy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-12 20k Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. Ahmad , S. Albergo , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , M. Atzori Corona , M. Ave , I. Ch. Avetisov , O. Azzolini , H. O. Back , Z. Balmforth , A. Barrado-Olmedo , P. Barrillon , A. Basco , G. Batignani , V. Bocci , W. M. Bonivento , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , J. Busto , M. Cadeddu , A. Caminata , N. Canci , G. Cappello , A. Capra , S. Caprioli , M. Caravati , N. Cargioli , M. Carlini , P. Castello , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , E. Chyhyrynets , L. Cifarelli , D. Cintas , M. Citterio , B. Cleveland , V. Cocco , E. Conde Vilda , L. Consiglio , S. Copello , G. Covone , M. Czubak , M. D'Aniello , S. D'Auria , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , S. Davini , A. de Candia , S. De Cecco , D. De Gruttola , G. De Filippis , D. Dell'Aquila , S. De Pasquale , G. De Rosa , G. Dellacasa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Capua , L. Di Noto , C. Dionisi , P. Di Stefano , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , A. Elersich , E. Ellingwood , T. Erjavec , M. Fernandez Diaz , G. Fiorillo , P. Franchini , D. Franco , N. Funicello , F. Gabriele , D. Gahan , C. Galbiati , G. Gallina , G. Gallus , M. Garbini , P. Garcia Abia , A. Gendotti , C. Ghiano , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , V. Goicoechea Casanueva , A. Gola , G. Grauso , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , C. Guo , B. R. Hackett , A. L. Hallin , A. Hamer , M. Haranczyk , T. Hessel , S. Hill , S. Horikawa , F. Hubaut , J. Hucker , T. Hugues , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , C. Jillings , S. Jois , P. Kachru , N. Kemmerich , A. A. Kemp , C. L. Kendziora , M. Kimura , I. Kochanek , K. Kondo , G. Korga , S. Koulosousas , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. Kuzniak , M. La Commara , M. Lai , E. Le Guirriec , E. Leason , A. Leoni , X. Li , L. Lidey , M. Lissia , L. Luzzi , O. Lychagina , O. Macfadyen , I. N. Machulin , S. Manecki , I. Manthos , L. Mapelli , A. Margotti , S. M. Marik , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , A. Marini , M. Martínez , C. J. Martoff , G. Matteucci , K. Mavrokoridis , A. B. McDonald , A. Messina , R. Milincic , A. Mitra , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , E. Moretti , M. Morrocchi , T. Mróz , V. N. Muratova , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , M. Nessi , G. Nieradka , K. Nikolopoulos , J. Nowak , K. Olchansky , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , P. Organtini , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , G. Paternoster , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , V. Pesudo , S. Piacentini , N. Pino , A. Pocar , D. M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , F. Ragusa , Y. Ramachers , M. Razeti , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , C. Ripoli , A. Rivetti , A. Roberts , C. Roberts , J. Rode , G. Rogers , L. Romero , M. Rossi , A. Rubbia , M. A. Sabia , P. Salomone , E. Sandford , S. Sanfilippo , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , G. Schillaci , F. G. Schuckman , G. Scioli , M. Simeone , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , T. Smirnova , B. Smith , A. Sosa , F. Spadoni , M. Spangenberg , R. Stefanizzi , A. Steri , V. Stornelli , S. Stracka , M. Stringer , S. Sulis , A. Sung , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , R. Tartaglia , A. Taylor , J. Taylor , S. Tedesco , G. Testera , K. Thieme , T. N. Thorpe , A. Tonazzo , A. Tricomi , E. V. Unzhakov , T. Vallivilayil John , M. Van Uffelen , T. Viant , S. Viel , R. B. Vogelaar , J. Vossebeld , M. Wada , M. B. Walczak , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , L. Williams , I. Wingerter-Seez , R. Wojaczynski , Ma. M. Wojcik , T. Wright , Y. Xie , C. Yang , A. Zabihi , P. Zakhary , A. Zani , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel , M. P. Zykova

The ZEPLIN-III dark matter detector: instrument design, manufacture and commissioning

We present details of the technical design and manufacture of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment. ZEPLIN-III is a two-phase xenon detector which measures both the scintillation light and the ionisation charge generated in the liquid by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Yu. Akimov , G. J. Alner , H. M. Araujo , A. Bewick , C. Bungau , A. A. Burenkov , M. J. Carson , V. Chepel , D. Cline , D. Davidge , J. C. Davies , E. Daw , J. Dawson , T. Durkin , B. Edwards , T. Gamble , C. Chag , R. J. Hollingworth , A. S. Howard , W. G. Jones , M. Joshi , J. Kirkpatrick , A. Kovalenko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , I. S. Kuznetsov , T. Lawson , V. N. Lebedenko , J. D. Lewin , P. Lightfoot , A. Lindote , I. Liubarsky , M. I. Lopes , R. Luscher , J. E. McMillan , B. Morgan , D. Muna , A. S. Murphy , F. Neves , G. G. Nicklin , S. M. Paling , D. Muna , J. Pinto da Cunha , S. J. S. Plank , R. Preece , J. J. Quenby , M. Robinson , C. Silva , V. N. Solovov , N. J. T. Smith , P. F. Smith , N. J. C. Spooner , V. Stekhanov , T. J. Sumner , C. Thorne , D. R. Tovey , E. Tziaferi , R. J. Walker , H. Wang , J. White , F. Wolfs

Introduction to dark matter experiments

This is a set of four lectures presented at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI-09) in June 2009. I provide an introduction to experiments designed to detect WIMP dark matter directly, focusing on building intuitive understanding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 R. W. Schnee

The ZEPLIN II dark matter detector: data acquisition system and data reduction

ZEPLIN-II is a two-phase (liquid/gas) xenon dark matter detector searching for WIMP-nucleon interactions. In this paper we describe the data acquisition system used to record the data from ZEPLIN-II and the reduction procedures which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. J. Alner

First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. This Letter reports results from LUX-ZEPLIN's…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-07 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , C. W. Akerlof , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , A. Alqahtani , S. K. Alsum , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , S. Azadi , A. J. Bailey , A. Baker , J. Balajthy , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , M. J. Barry , J. Barthel , D. Bauer , A. Baxter , K. Beattie , J. Belle , P. Beltrame , J. Bensinger , T. Benson , E. P. Bernard , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , B. Birrittella , G. M. Blockinger , K. E. Boast , B. Boxer , R. Bramante , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , J. H. Buckley , V. V. Bugaev , S. Burdin , J. K. Busenitz , M. Buuck , R. Cabrita , C. Carels , D. L. Carlsmith , B. Carlson , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Cascella , C. Chan , A. Chawla , H. Chen , J. J. Cherwinka , N. I. Chott , A. Cole , J. Coleman , M. V. Converse , A. Cottle , G. Cox , W. W. Craddock , O. Creaner , D. Curran , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , C. E. Dahl , A. David , J. Davis , T. J. R. Davison , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , A. Dushkin , T. K. Edberg , W. R. Edwards , M. M. Elnimr , W. T. Emmet , S. R. Eriksen , C. H. Faham , A. Fan , S. Fayer , N. M. Fearon , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , P. Ford , V. B. Francis , E. D. Fraser , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , N. J. Gantos , D. Garcia , A. Geffre , V. M. Gehman , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , R. Gibbons , E. Gibson , M. G. D. Gilchriese , S. Gokhale , B. Gomber , J. Green , A. Greenall , S. Greenwood , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. B. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. Hans , K. Hanzel , A. Harrison , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , C. Hjemfelt , M. D. Hoff , E. Holtom , J. Y-K. Hor , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , R. S. James , S. N. Jeffery , W. Ji , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , K. Kamdin , V. Kasey , K. Kazkaz , J. Keefner , D. Khaitan , M. Khaleeq , A. Khazov , I. Khurana , Y. D. Kim , C. D. Kocher , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , J. Kras , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , H. J. Krebs , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , S. Kyre , B. Landerud , E. A. Leason , C. Lee , J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , R. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Li , F. -T. Liao , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , R. Liu , X. Liu , Y. Liu , C. Loniewski , M. I. Lopes , E. Lopez Asamar , B. López Paredes , W. Lorenzon , D. Lucero , S. Luitz , J. M. Lyle , P. A. Majewski , J. Makkinje , D. C. Malling , A. Manalaysay , L. Manenti , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. F. Marzioni , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , C. T. McConnell , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , Y. Meng , J. Migneault , E. H. Miller , E. Mizrachi , J. A. Mock , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. A. Morad , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , D. Naim , A. Naylor , C. Nedlik , C. Nehrkorn , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , J. A. Nikoleyczik , A. Nilima , J. O'Dell , F. G. O'Neill , K. O'Sullivan , I. Olcina , M. A. Olevitch , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , D. Pagenkopf , S. Pal , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , M. Pangilinan , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , E. K. Pease , B. Penning , C. Pereira , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , I. B. Peterson , A. Piepke , J. Podczerwinski , D. Porzio , S. Powell , R. M. Preece , K. Pushkin , Y. Qie , B. N. Ratcliff , J. Reichenbacher , L. Reichhart , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , J. P. Rodrigues , A. Rodriguez , H. J. Rose , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , T. Rushton , G. Rutherford , D. Rynders , J. S. Saba , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , P. R. Scovell , D. Seymour , S. Shaw , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , K. Skarpaas , W. Skulski , R. Smith , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , M. R. Stark , A. Stevens , T. M. Stiegler , K. Stifter , R. Studley , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , P. Sutcliffe , N. Swanson , M. Szydagis , M. Tan , D. J. Taylor , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , D. J. Temples , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , K. J. Thomas , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , W. H. To , A. Tomás , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , D. R. Tronstad , C. E. Tull , W. Turner , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , J. Va'vra , A. Vacheret , A. C. Vaitkus , J. R. Verbus , E. Voirin , W. L. Waldron , A. Wang , B. Wang , J. J. Wang , W. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , A. White , D. T. White , J. T. White , R. G. White , T. J. Whitis , M. Williams , W. J. Wisniewski , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , J. D. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , S. D. Worm , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , X. Xiang , Q. Xiao , J. Xu , M. Yeh , J. Yin , I. Young , P. Zarzhitsky , A. Zuckerman , E. A. Zweig

The Directional Dark Matter Detector

Gas-filled Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) and pixels appear suitable for direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches. We present the background and motivation for our work on this technology, past and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. E. Vahsen , H. Feng , M. Garcia-Sciveres , I. Jaegle , J. Kadyk , Y. Nguyen , M. Rosen , S. Ross , T. Thorpe , J. Yamaoka

DArT, a detector for measuring the 39Ar depletion factor

One of the most powerful techniques for direct detection of dark matter via elastic scattering of galactic WIMPs is the use of liquid argon time projection chambers. Atmospheric argon (AAr) has a naturally occurring radioactive isotope,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-12 E. Sánchez García

Theoretical prospects for directional WIMP detection

Direct detection of dark matter with directional sensitivity is a promising concept for improving the search for weakly interacting massive particles. With information on the direction of WIMP induced nuclear recoils one has access to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-15 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare

Supernova neutrino physics with xenon dark matter detectors: A timely perspective

Dark matter detectors that utilize liquid xenon have now achieved tonne-scale targets, giving them sensitivity to all flavours of supernova neutrinos via coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. Considering for the first time a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Rafael F. Lang , Christopher McCabe , Shayne Reichard , Marco Selvi , Irene Tamborra

Direction-sensitive dark matter search results in a surface laboratory

We developed a three-dimensional gaseous tracking device and performed a direction-sensitive dark matter search in a surface laboratory. By using 150 Torr carbon-tetrafluoride (CF_4 gas), we obtained a sky map drawn with the recoil…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kentaro Miuchi , Kaori Hattori , Shigeto Kabuki , Hidetoshi Kubo , Shunsuke Kurosawa , Hironobu Nishimura , Yoko Okada , Atsushi Takada , Toru Tanimori , Ken'ichi Tsuchiya , Kazuki Ueno , Hiroyuki Sekiya , Atsushi Takeda

Direct detection prospects of dark vectors with xenon-based dark matter experiments

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

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

Astrophysical uncertainties on direct detection experiments

Direct detection experiments are poised to detect dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The signals expected in these experiments depend on the ultra-local WIMP density and velocity distribution. Firstly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-14 Anne M. Green

DarkSHINE: Search for Light Dark Matter at the SHINE Facility in Shanghai

DarkSHINE is an electron fixed target experiment under proposal that aims to probe light dark matter in the MeV-GeV mass range via the invisible decay of dark photons, leveraging the High repetition rate 8 GeV electron beam from the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-16 Haijun Yang

The MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

The MiniCLEAN dark matter experiment will exploit a single-phase liquid-argon detector instrumented with photomultiplier tubes submerged in the cryogen with nearly 4pi coverage of a 500 kg (150 kg) target (fiducial) mass. The high light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-06 Andrew Hime

The Argon Dark Matter Experiment (ArDM)

The ArDM experiment, a 1 ton liquid argon TPC/Calorimeter, is designed for the detection of dark matter particles which can scatter off the spinless argon nuclei. These events producing a recoiling nucleus will be discerned by their light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-12-09 C. Regenfus

Indirect Detection of Dark Matter WIMPs in a Liquid Argon TPC

We assess the prospects for indirect detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles using a large Liquid Argon TPC detector. Signal events will consist of energetic electron (anti)neutrinos coming from the decay of $\tau$ leptons and $b$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bueno , R. Cid , S. Navas-Concha , D. Hooper , T. J. Weiler