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Dark Matter experiments are recently focusing their detection techniques in low-mass WIMPs, which requires the use of light elements and low energy threshold. In this context, we describe the TREX-DM experiment, a low background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-08 F. J. Iguaz , J. G. Garza , F. Aznar , J. F. Castel , S. Cebrian , T. Dafni , J. A. Garcia , I. G. Irastorza , A. Lagraba , G. Luzon , A. Peiro

Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with Wire-Cell LArTPC Event Reconstruction in the MicroBooNE Detector

For a large liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) operating on or near the Earth's surface to detect neutrino interactions, the rejection of cosmogenic background is a critical and challenging task because of the large cosmic ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-01 MicroBooNE collaboration , P. Abratenko , M. Alrashed , R. An , J. Anthony , J. Asaadi , A. Ashkenazi , S. Balasubramanian , B. Baller , C. Barnes , G. Barr , V. Basque , L. Bathe-Peters , O. Benevides Rodrigues , S. Berkman , A. Bhanderi , A. Bhat , M. Bishai , A. Blake , T. Bolton , L. Camilleri , D. Caratelli , I. Caro Terrazas , R. Castillo Fernandez , F. Cavanna , G. Cerati , Y. Chen , E. Church , D. Cianci , J. M. Conrad , M. Convery , L. Cooper-Troendle , J. I. Crespo-Anadon , M. Del Tutto , D. Devitt , R. Diurba , L. Domine , R. Dorrill , K. Duffy , S. Dytman , B. Eberly , A. Ereditato , L. Escudero Sanchez , J. J. Evans , G. A. Fiorentini Aguirre , R. S. Fitzpatrick , B. T. Fleming , N. Foppiani , D. Franco , A. P. Furmanski , D. Garcia-Gamez , S. Gardiner , G. Ge , S. Gollapinni , O. Goodwin , E. Gramellini , P. Green , H. Greenlee , W. Gu , R. Guenette , P. Guzowski , L. Hagaman , E. Hall , P. Hamilton , O. Hen , G. A. Horton-Smith , A. Hourlier , E. C. Huang , R. Itay , C. James , J. Jan de Vries , X. Ji , L. Jiang , J. H. Jo , R. A. Johnson , Y. J. Jwa , N. Kamp , N. Kaneshige , G. Karagiorgi , W. Ketchum , B. Kirby , M. Kirby , T. Kobilarcik , I. Kreslo , R. LaZur , I. Lepetic , K. Li , Y. Li , B. R. Littlejohn , D. Lorca , W. C. Louis , X. Luo , A. Marchionni , C. Mariani , D. Marsden , J. Marshall , J. Martin-Albo , D. A. Martinez Caicedo , K. Mason , A. Mastbaum , N. McConkey , V. Meddage , T. Mettler , K. Miller , J. Mills , K. Mistry , T. Mohayai , A. Mogan , J. Moon , M. Mooney , A. F. Moor , C. D. Moore , L. Mora Lepin , J. Mousseau , M. Murphy , D. Naples , A. Navrer-Agasson , R. K. Neely , P. Nienaber , J. Nowak , O. Palamara , V. Paolone , A. Papadopoulou , V. Papavassiliou , S. F. Pate , A. Paudel , Z. Pavlovic , E. Piasetzky , I. Ponce-Pinto , D. Porzio , S. Prince , X. Qian , J. L. Raaf , V. Radeka , A. Rafique , M. Reggiani-Guzzo , L. Ren , L. Rochester , J. Rodriguez Rondon , H. E. Rogers , M. Rosenberg , M. Ross-Lonergan , B. Russell , G. Scanavini , D. W. Schmitz , A. Schukraft , W. Seligman , M. H. Shaevitz , R. Sharankova , J. Sinclair , A. Smith , E. L. Snider , M. Soderberg , S. Soldner-Rembold , S. R. Soleti , P. Spentzouris , J. Spitz , M. Stancari , J. St. John , T. Strauss , K. Sutton , S. Sword-Fehlberg , A. M. Szelc , N. Tagg , W. Tang , K. Terao , C. Thorpe , M. Toups , Y. -T. Tsai , S. Tufanli , M. A. Uchida , T. Usher , W. Van De Pontseele , B. Viren , M. Weber , H. Wei , Z. Williams , S. Wolbers , T. Wongjirad , M. Wospakrik , W. Wu , E. Yandel , T. Yang , G. Yarbrough , L. E. Yates , H. W. Yu , G. P. Zeller , J. Zennamo , C. Zhang

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…

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CoGeNT: A Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter using p-type Point Contact Germanium Detectors

CoGeNT employs p-type point-contact (PPC) germanium detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). By virtue of its low energy threshold and ability to reject surface backgrounds, this type of device allows an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-10 C. E. Aalseth , P. S. Barbeau , J. Colaresi , J. I. Collar , J. Diaz Leon , J. E. Fast , N. E. Fields , T. W. Hossbach , A. Knecht , M. S. Kos , M. G. Marino , H. S. Miley , M. L. Miller , J. L. Orrell , K. M. Yocum

Dark Matter Directionality Detection performance of the Micromegas-based $\mu$TPC-MIMAC detector

Directional Dark Matter Detection (DDMD) can open a new signature for Weakly Massive Interacting Particles (WIMPs) Dark Matter. The directional signature provides in addition, an unique way to overcome the neutron and neutrino backgrounds.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-07 Y. Tao , C. Beaufort , I. Moric , C. Tao , D. Santos , N. Sauzet , C. Couturier , O. Guillaudin , J. F. Muraz , F. Naraghi , N. Zhou , J. Busto

Charge collection efficiency in back-illuminated Charge-Coupled Devices

Low noise CCDs fully-depleted up to 675 micrometers have been identified as a unique tool for Dark Matter searches and low energy neutrino physics. The charge collection efficiency (CCE) for these detectors is a critical parameter for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-16 Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni , Kevin Andersson , Ana Botti , Juan Estrada , Dario Rodrigues , Javier Tiffenberg

Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with CDMSlite

The SuperCDMS experiment is designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that may constitute the dark matter in our Galaxy. During its operation at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, germanium detectors were run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 SuperCDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , A. J. Anderson , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , W. Baker , D. Balakishiyeva , D. Barker , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , T. Binder , M. A. Bowles , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , R. Calkins , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeno , Y. Chang , H. Chagani , Y. Chen , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , P. Cushman , M. Daal , P. C. F. Di Stefano , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , M. Ghaith , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , H. R. Harris , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , D. Jardin , A. Jastram , C. Jena , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , A. Leder , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , D. MacDonell , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , E. H. Miller , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , B. Mohanty , J. D. Morales Mendoza , J. Nelson , J. L. Orrell , S. M. Oser , K. Page , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , M. Penalver Martinez , A. Phipps , S. Poudel , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , T. Reynolds , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , H. E. Rogers , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , K. Senapati , B. Serfass , D. Speller , M. Stein , J. Street , H. A. Tanaka , D. Toback , R. Underwood , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , B. Welliver , J. S. Wilson , M. J Wilson , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , B. A. Young , X. Zhang , X. Zhao

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Estimation of the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling

In our work on the development of a model-independent data analysis method for estimating the spin-independent (SI) scalar coupling of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons by using measured recoil energies from direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Chung-Lin Shan

Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $\sim$50 eV$_{ee}$, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 DAMIC Collaboration , A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , X. Bertou , D. Boule , M. Butner , G. Cancelo , A. Castañeda Vázquez , A. E. Chavarría , J. R. T. de Melo Neto , S. Dixon , J. C. D'Olivo , J. Estrada , G. Fernandez Moroni , K. P. Hernández Torres , F. Izraelevitch , A. Kavner , B. Kilminster , I. Lawson , J. Liao , M. López , J. Molina , G. Moreno-Granados , J. Pena , P. Privitera , Y. Sarkis , V. Scarpine , T. Schwartz , M. Sofo Haro , J. Tiffenberg , D. Torres Machado , F. Trillaud , X. You , J. Zhou

Comparing readout strategies to directly detect dark matter

Over the past decades, several ideas and technologies have been developed to directly detect WIMP from the galactic halo. All these detection strategies share the common goal of discriminating a WIMP signal from the residual backgrounds. By…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Billard

Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2 Tonne-Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

We report results of a search for nuclear recoils induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter using the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) two-phase xenon time projection chamber. This analysis uses a total exposure of $4.2\pm0.1$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-10 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , S. Balashov , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , E. E. Barillier , D. Bauer , K. Beattie , T. Benson , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , E. Bishop , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. Buuck , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , M. Carter , A. Chawla , H. Chen , J. J. Cherwinka , Y. T. Chin , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , R. Coronel , A. Cottle , G. Cox , D. Curran , C. E. Dahl , I. Darlington , S. Dave , A. David , J. Delgaudio , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , L. Di Felice , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. Dubey , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , S. Fayer , N. M. Fearon , N. Fieldhouse , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. M. A. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , A. Geffre , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , A. Ghosh , R. Gibbons , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , J. J. Haiston , C. R. Hall , T. J. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , M. A. Hernandez , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , G. J. Homenides , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , E. Jacquet , R. S. James , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , Meghna K. K. , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , I. Khurana , J. Kim , Y. D. Kim , J. Kingston , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , V. A. Kudryavtsev , C. Lawes , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , W. H. Lippincott , M. I. Lopes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , M. E. McCarthy , G. McDowell , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , J. B. McLaughlin , R. McMonigle , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , C. L. O'Brien , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. Y Oyulmaz , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. J. Pannifer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , E. Ritchey , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , T. Rushton , D. Rynders , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , G. Sehr , B. Shafer , S. Shaw , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , J. Siniscalco , R. Smith , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , A. Usón , A. Vacheret , A. C. Vaitkus , O. Valentino , V. Velan , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , L. Weeldreyer , T. J. Whitis , K. Wild , M. Williams , W. J. Wisniewski , L. Wolf , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , J. Xu , Y. Xu , M. Yeh , D. Yeum , W. Zha , E. A. Zweig

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

Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with CsI(Tl) Crystal Detectors

We present a search for low-mass ($\leq 20 GeV/c^{2}$) weakly interacting massive particles(WIMPs), strong candidates of dark matter particles,using the low-background CsI(Tl) detector array of the Korea Invisible Mass Search (KIMS)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-09 H. S. Lee , H. Bhang , J. H. Choi , S. Choi , I. S. Hahn , E. J. Jeon , H. W. Joo , W. G. Kang , B. H. Kim , G. B. Kim , H. J. Kim , J. H. Kim , K. W. Kim , S. C. Kim , S. K. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. H. Kim , J. H. Lee , J. K. Lee , S. J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , J. Li , J. Li , Y. J. Li , X. R. Li , S. S. Myung , S. L. Olsen , J. W. Park , I. S. Seong , J. H. So , Q. Yue

MIMAC: MIcro-tpc MAtrix of Chambers for dark matter directional detection

Directional detection of non-baryonic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating WIMP events from neutrons, the ultimate background for dark matter direct detection. This strategy requires both a precise measurement of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Santos , G. Bosson , J. L. Bouly , O. Bourrion , Ch. Fourel , O. Guillaudin , J. Lamblin , F. Mayet , J. F. Muraz , J. P. Richer , Q. Riffard , L. Lebreton , D. Maire , J. Busto , J. Brunner , D. Fouchez

Looking for WIMPs through the neutrino fogs

We revisit the expected sensitivity of large-scale xenon detectors to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Assuming current primary noise sources can be mitigated, we find that with the present discrimination power between nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Itay M. Bloch , Salvatore Bottaro , Diego Redigolo , Ludovico Vittorio

New Concept for Electron Beam-Dump Experiment Utilizing Directional WIMP Detector

Light dark matter in the context of dark sector theories is an attractive candidate for the dark matter thought to make up the bulk of the mass of our universe. We explore here the possibility of using a low-pressure, negative-ion, time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 D. P. Snowden-Ifft , J. L. Harton , N. Ma , F. G. Schuckman

Direct Search for Dark Matter - Striking the Balance - and the Future

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the main candidates for the relic dark matter (DM). The idea of the direct DM detection relies on elastic spin-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) interaction of WIMPs with target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-20 V. A. Bednyakov , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

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

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

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Detection Experiments on Identifying WIMP Dark Matter

We reexamine the model-independent data analysis methods for extracting properties of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using data (measured recoil energies) from direct Dark Matter detection experiments directly and, as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Chung-Lin Shan