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Search for dark matter at colliders

Multiple astrophysical and cosmological observations show that the majority of the matter in the universe is non-luminous. It is not made of known particles, and it is called dark matter. This is one of the few pieces of concrete…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-01 Oliver Buchmueller , Caterina Doglioni , Lian-Tao Wang

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Using a two-phase xenon detector with an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 D. S. Akerib , C. W. Akerlof , S. K. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , M. Arthurs , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , S. Balashov , D. Bauer , J. Belle , P. Beltrame , T. Benson , E. P. Bernard , T. P. Biesiadzinski , K. E. Boast , B. Boxer , P. Brás , J. H. Buckley , V. V. Bugaev , S. Burdin , J. K. Busenitz , C. Carels , D. L. Carlsmith , B. Carlson , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. J. Cherwinka , A. Cole , A. Cottle , W. W. Craddock , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , C. E. Dahl , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , T. K. Edberg , W. R. Edwards , A. Fan , S. Fayer , S. Fiorucci , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. R. Hall , S. Hans , K. Hanzel , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , S. Hillbrand , C. Hjemfelt , M. D. Hoff , J. Y-K. Hor , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , W. Ji , A. C. Kaboth , K. Kamdin , J. Keefner , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , Y. D. Kim , C. D. Kocher , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , H. J. Krebs , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , S. Kyre , J. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Li , J. Liao , F. -T. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , B. López Paredes , W. Lorenzon , S. Luitz , J. M. Lyle , P. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , D. N. McKinsey , Y. Meng , E. H. Miller , J. Mock , M. E. Monzani , J. A. Morad , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , J. Nikoleyczik , K. O'Sullivan , I. Olcina , M. A. Olevitch , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , S. J. Patton , E. K. Pease , B. Penning , A. Piepke , S. Powell , R. M. Preece , K. Pushkin , B. N. Ratcliff , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , J. P. Rodrigues , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , J. S. Saba , M. Sarychev , R. W. Schnee , M. Schubnell , P. R. Scovell , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , K. Skarpaas , W. Skulski , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , I. Stancu , M. R. Stark , T. M. Stiegler , K. Stifter , M. Szydagis , W. C. Taylor , R. Taylor , D. J. Taylor , D. Temples , P. A. Terman , K. J. Thomas , M. Timalsina , W. H. To , A. Tomás , T. E. Tope , M. Tripathi , C. E. Tull , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , J. Va'vra , A. Vacheret , J. R. Verbus , E. Voirin , W. L. Waldron , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , D. T. White , T. J. Whitis , W. J. Wisniewski , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , S. D. Worm , M. Yeh , J. Yin , I. Young

Expected Sensitivity to Galactic/Solar Axions and Bosonic Super-WIMPs based on the Axio-electric Effect in Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors

We present systematic case studies to investigate the sensitivity of axion searches by liquid xenon detectors, using the axio-electric effect (analogue of the photoelectric effect) on xenon atoms. Liquid xenon is widely considered to be one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Arisaka , P. Beltrame , C. Ghag , J. Kaidi , K. Lung , A. Lyashenko , R. D. Peccei , P. Smith , K. Ye

LIME -- a gas TPC prototype for directional Dark Matter search for the CYGNO experiment

The CYGNO experiment aims at the development of a large gaseous TPC with GEM-based amplification and an optical readout by means of PMTs and scientific CMOS cameras for 3D tracking down to O(keV) energies, for the directional detection of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-05 Fernando Domingues Amaro , Elisabetta Baracchini , Luigi Benussi , Stefano Bianco , Cesidio Capoccia , Michele Caponero , Danilo Santos Cardoso , Gianluca Cavoto , André Cortez , Igor Abritta Costa , Emiliano Dané , Giorgio Dho , Flaminia Di Giambattista , Emanuele Di Marco , Giulia D'Imperio , Francesco Iacoangeli , Herman Pessoa Lima Junior , Guilherme Sebastiao Pinheiro Lopes , Giovanni Maccarrone , Rui Daniel Passos Mano , Robert Renz Marcelo Gregorio , David José Gaspar Marques , Giovanni Mazzitelli , Alasdair Gregor McLean , Andrea Messina , Cristina Maria Bernardes Monteiro , Rafael Antunes Nobrega , Igor Fonseca Pains , Emiliano Paoletti , Luciano Passamonti , Sandro Pelosi , Fabrizio Petrucci , Stefano Piacentini , Davide Piccolo , Daniele Pierluigi , Davide Pinci , Atul Prajapati , Francesco Renga , Rita Joanna da Cruz Roque , Filippo Rosatelli , Alessandro Russo , Joaquim Marques Ferreira dos Santos , Giovanna Saviano , Neil John Curwen Spooner , Roberto Tesauro , Sandro Tommasini , Samuele Torelli

Dark Matter in the Cosmos- Exploiting the Signatures of its Interaction with Nuclei

We review various issues related to the direct detection of constituents of dark matter, which are assumed to be Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). We specifically consider heavy WIMPs such as: 1) The lightest supersymmetric…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 J. D. Vergados

Latest results of the EDELWEISS-II experiment

The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400-g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with Inter-Digit electrodes for the rejection of near-surface events. Results from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-09 Torrento-Coello , A. S

Dark matter search by exclusive studies of X-rays following WIMPs nuclear interactions

It is shown that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are possible cold dark matter candidates, can be studied by exclusive measurements of X-rays following WIMPs nuclear interactions. Inner-shell atomic electrons are ionized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Ejiri , Ch. C. Moustakidis , J. D. Vergados

Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to light dark matter

Dark matter is a well-established theoretical addition to the Standard Model supported by many observations in modern astrophysics and cosmology. In this context, the existence of weakly interacting massive particles represents an appealing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-06-03 SHiP Collaboration

Direct dark matter search by annual modulation in XMASS-I

A search for dark matter was conducted by looking for an annual modulation signal due to the Earth's rotation around the Sun using XMASS, a single phase liquid xenon detector. The data used for this analysis was 359.2 live days times 832 kg…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-27 XMASS Collaboration , K. Abe , K. Hiraide , K. Ichimura , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , M. Kobayashi , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , T. Norita , H. Ogawa , H. Sekiya , O. Takachio , A. Takeda , M. Yamashita , B. S. Yang , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , S. Tasaka , K. Fushimi , J. Liu , K. Martens , Y. Suzuki , B. D. Xu , R. Fujita , K. Hosokawa , K. Miuchi , Y. Onishi , N. Oka , Y. Takeuchi , Y. H. Kim , J. S. Lee , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , R. Kegasa , K. Kobayashi , K. Masada , H. Takiya , K. Nishijima , S. Nakamura

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-02 Caden LaFontaine , Bailey Tallman , Spencer Ellis , Trevor Croteau , Brandon Torres , Sabrina Hernandez , Diego Cristancho Guerrero , Jessica Jaksik , Drue Lubanski , Roland E. Allen

Light weakly interacting massive particles

Light WIMPs are dark matter particle candidates with weak scale interaction with the known particles, and mass in the GeV to 10's of GeV range. Hints of light WIMPs have appeared in several dark matter searches in the last decade. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Graciela B. Gelmini

Simulations of neutron background in a time projection chamber relevant to dark matter searches

Presented here are results of simulations of neutron background performed for a time projection chamber acting as a particle dark matter detector in an underground laboratory. The investigated background includes neutrons from rock and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Carson , J. C. Davies , E. Daw , R. J. Hollingworth , J. A. Kirkpatrick , V. A. Kudryavtsev , T. B. Lawson , P. K. Lightfoot , J. E. McMillan , B. Morgan , S. M. Paling , M. Robinson , N. J. C Spooner , D. R. Tovey , E. Tziaferi

Xenon Bubble Chambers for Direct Dark Matter Detection

The search for dark matter is one of today's most exciting fields. As bigger detectors are being built to increase their sensitivity, background reduction is an ever more challenging issue. To this end, a new type of dark matter detector is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-11 C. Levy , S. Fallon , J. Genovesi , D. Khaitan , K. Klimov , J. Mock , M. Szydagis

Study of the response of a large volume TPC prototype for the CYGNO experiment at LNGS

Astrophysical and cosmological evidence strongly supports the existence of Dark Matter (DM), yet no candidate particle is predicted by the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. Among the most studied and hypotheses are Weakly Interacting…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-03 Rita Antonietti

Results from the CDMS 5-Tower Operation

Astrophysical observations strongly suggest that non-luminous, nonbaryonic components, so called "Dark Matter", may constitute most of the matter in the Universe. The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment is designed to detect Dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jonghee Yoo

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Conceptual Design Report

The design and performance of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector is described as of March 2015 in this Conceptual Design Report. LZ is a second-generation dark-matter detector with the potential for unprecedented sensitivity to weakly interacting…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-05 The LZ Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , C. W. Akerlof , D. Yu. Akimov , S. K. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , S. Balashov , M. J. Barry , P. Bauer , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , K. E. Boast , A. I. Bolozdynya , E. M. Boulton , R. Bramante , J. H. Buckley , V. V. Bugaev , R. Bunker , S. Burdin , J. K. Busenitz , C. Carels , D. L. Carlsmith , B. Carlson , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Cascella , C. Chan , J. J. Cherwinka , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , W. W. Craddock , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , J. P. da Cunha , C. E. Dahl , S. Dasu , T. J. R. Davison , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , T. K. Edberg , B. N. Edwards , W. R. Edwards , M. M. Elnimr , W. T. Emmet , C. H. Faham , S. Fiorucci , P. Ford , V. B. Francis , C. Fu , R. J. Gaitskell , N. J. Gantos , V. M. Gehman , R. M. Gerhard , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , B. Gomber , C. R. Hall , A. Harris , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , M. D. Hoff , B. Holbrook , E. Holtom , D. Q. Huang , T. W. Hurteau , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , W. Ji , X. Ji , M. Johnson , Y. Ju , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , A. V. Khromov , A. M. Konovalov , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , H. J. Krebs , V. A. Kudryavtsev , A. V. Kumpan , S. Kyre , N. A. Larsen , C. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , F. -T. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , J. Liu , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , S. Luitz , P. Majewski , D. C. Malling , A. G. Manalaysay , L. Manenti , R. L. Mannino , D. J. Markley , T. J. Martin , M. F. Marzioni , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , Y. Meng , E. H. Miller , J. Mock , M. E. Monzani , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , J. A. Nikkel , F. G. O'Neill , J. O'Dell , K. O'Sullivan , M. A. Olevitch , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , M. Pangilinan , S. J. Patton , E. K. Pease , A. Piepke , S. Powell , R. M. Preece , K. Pushkin , B. N. Ratcliff , J. Reichenbacher , L. Reichhart , C. Rhyne , J. P. Rodrigues , H. J. Rose , R. Rosero , J. S. Saba , M. Sarychev , R. W. Schnee , M. S. G. Schubnell , P. R. Scovell , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , K. Skarpaas , W. Skulski , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , V. V. Sosnovtsev , I. Stancu , M. R. Stark , S. Stephenson , T. M. Stiegler , T. J. Sumner , K. Sundarnath , M. Szydagis , D. J. Taylor , W. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , K. J. Thomas , J. A. Thomson , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , A. Tomás , M. Tripathi , C. E. Tull , L. Tvrznikova , S. Uvarov , J. Va'vra , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. R. Verbus , C. O. Vuosalo , W. L. Waldron , L. Wang , R. C. Webb , W. -Z. Wei , M. While , D. T. White , T. J. Whitis , W. J. Wisniewski , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , E. Woods , D. Woodward , S. D. Worm , M. Yeh , J. Yin , S. K. Young , C. Zhang

Search for dark matter in the form of hidden photons and axion-like particles in the XMASS detector

Hidden photons and axion-like particles are candidates for cold dark matter if they were produced non-thermally in the early universe. We conducted a search for both of these bosons using 800 live-days of data from the XMASS detector with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 XMASS Collaboration , K. Abe , K. Hiraide , K. Ichimura , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , M. Kobayashi , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , H. Ogawa , K. Sato , H. Sekiya , T. Suzuki , O. Takachio , A. Takeda , S. Tasaka , M. Yamashita , B. S. Yang , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. Itow , K. Kanzawa , K. Masuda , K. Martens , Y. Suzuki , B. D. Xu , K. Miuchi , N. Oka , Y. Takeuchi , Y. H. Kim , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , Y. Fukuda , M. Miyasaka , K. Nishijima , K. Fushimi , G. Kanzaki , S. Nakamura

Commissioning Run of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search

The CRESST cryogenic direct dark matter search at Gran Sasso, searching for WIMPs via nuclear recoil, has been upgraded to CRESST-II by several changes and improvements.We present the results of a commissioning run carried out in 2007. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-30 G. Angloher , M. Bauer , I. Bavykina , A. Bento , A. Brown , C. Bucci , C. Ciemniak , C. Coppi , G. Deuter , F. von Feilitzsch , D. Hauff , S. Henry , P. Huff , J. Imber , S. Ingleby , C. Isaila , J. Jochum , M. Kiefer , M. Kimmerle , H. Kraus , J. -C. Lanfranchi , R. F. Lang , B. Majorovits , M. Malek , R. McGowan , V. B. Mikhailik , E. Pantic , F. Petricca , S. Pfister , W. Potzel , F. Proebst , W. Rau , S. Roth , K. Rottler , C. Sailer , K. Schaeffner , J. Schmaler , S. Scholl , W. Seidel , L. Stodolsky , A. J. B. Tolhurst , I. Usherov , W. Westphal

Exclusion limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross-section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their elastic-scattering interactions with nuclei while discriminating against interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

Study of dark matter physics in non-universal gaugino mass scenario

We study dark matter physics in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with non-universal gaugino masses at the unification scale. In this scenario, the specific ratio of wino and gluino masses realizes the electro-weak scale naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Junichiro Kawamura , Yuji Omura