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DarkSide-20k: Next generation Direct Dark Matter searches with liquid Argon

DarkSide-20k is a next-generation dual-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber, currently under construction at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. With a 20 t fiducial mass of liquid Argon, DarkSide-20k will probe…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-11 I. Manthos

Implications on Inelastic Dark Matter from 100 Live Days of XENON100 Data

The XENON100 experiment has recently completed a dark matter run with 100.9 live-days of data, taken from January to June 2010. Events in a 48kg fiducial volume in the energy range between 8.4 and 44.6 keVnr have been analyzed. A total of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , K. Bokeloh , E. Brown , T. Bruch , G. Bruno , J. M. R. Cardoso , W. -T. Chen , B. Choi , D. Cline , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , F. Gao , K. -L. Giboni , E. Gross , A. Kish , C. W. Lam , J. Lamblin , R. F. Lang , C. Levy , K. E. Lim , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , K. Lung , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , Y. Mei , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , R. Persiani , G. Plante , A. C. C. Ribeiro , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Schumann , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , H. Simgen , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , O. Vitells , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

Direct dark matter detection: the next decade

Direct dark matter searches are promising techniques to identify the nature of dark matter particles. I describe the future of this field of research, focussing on the question of what can be achieved in the next decade. I will present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-04 Laura Baudis

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-15 The DarkSide Collaboration , P. Agnes , L. Agostino , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , K. Arisaka , H. O. Back , B. Baldin , K. Biery , G. Bonfini , M. Bossa , B. Bottino , A. Brigatti , J. Brodsky , F. Budano , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , L. Cadonati , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , N. Canci , A. Candela , H. Cao , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , S. Catalanotti , P. Cavalcante , A. Chepurnov , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , L. Crippa , D. D'Angelo , M. D'Incecco , S. Davini , S. De Cecco , M. De Deo , M. De Vincenzi , A. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , G. Di Pietro , E. Edkins , A. Empl , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , G. Forster , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , C. Giganti , A. M. Goretti , F. Granato , L. Grandi , M. Gromov , M. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , B. R. Hackett , K. Herner , E. V. Hungerford , Al. Ianni , An. Ianni , I. James , C. Jollet , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , V. Kobychev , G. Koh , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , X. Li , M. Lissia , P. Lombardi , S. Luitz , Y. Ma , I. N. Machulin , A. Mandarano , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , L. Marini , C. J. Martoff , A. Meregaglia , P. D. Meyers , T. Miletic , R. Milincic , D. Montanari , A. Monte , M. Montuschi , M. Monzani , P. Mosteiro , B. J. Mount , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , J. Napolitano , A. Nelson , S. Odrowski , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , E. Pantic , S. Parmeggiano , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , S. Perasso , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , D. A. Pugachev , H. Qian , K. Randle , G. Ranucci , A. Razeto , B. Reinhold , A. L. Renshaw , A. Romani , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , D. Rountree , D. Sablone , P. Saggese , R. Saldanha , W. Sands , S. Sangiorgio , C. Savarese , E. Segreto , D. A. Semenov , E. Shields , P. N. Singh , M. D. Skorokhvatov , M. Smallcomb , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , C. Stanford , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , J. Tatarowicz , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , P. Trinchese , E. V. Unzhakov , A. Vishneva , B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , S. Walker , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. W. Watson , S. Westerdale , J. Wilhelmi , M. M. Wojcik , X. Xiang , J. Xu , C. Yang , J. Yoo , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zec , W. Zhong , C. Zhu , G. Zuzel

Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ Bubble Chamber

New results are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C$_3$F$_8$ located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. As in previous PICO bubble chambers, PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-03 C. Amole , M. Ardid , I. J. Arnquist , D. M. Asner , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , P. Bhattacharjee , H. Borsodi , M. Bou-Cabo , P. Campion , G. Cao , C. J. Chen , U. Chowdhury , K. Clark , J. I. Collar , P. S. Cooper , M. Crisler , G. Crowder , C. E. Dahl , M. Das , S. Fallows , J. Farine , I. Felis , R. Filgas , F. Girard , G. Giroux , J. Hall , O. Harris , E. W. Hoppe , M. Jin , C. B. Krauss , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , A. Leblanc , I. Levine , W. H. Lippincott , F. Mamedov , D. Maurya , P. Mitra , T. Nania , R. Neilson , A. J. Noble , S. Olson , A. Ortega , A. Plante , R. Podviyanuk , S. Priya , A. E. Robinson , A. Roeder , R. Rucinski , O. Scallon , S. Seth , A. Sonnenschein , N. Starinski , I. Štekl , F. Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , J. Wells , U. Wichoski , Y. Yan , V. Zacek , J. Zhang

Final Analysis and Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

We report the final results of the Phase II SIMPLE measurements, comprising two run stages of 15 superheated droplet detectors each, the second stage including an improved neutron shielding. The analyses includes a refined signal analysis,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Felizardo , T. A. Girard , T. Morlat , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , J. G. Marques , M. Auguste , D. Boyer , A. Cavaillou , J. Poupeney , C. Sudre , J. Puibasset , H. S. Miley , R. F. Payne , F. P. Carvalho , M. I. Prudêncio , R. Marques

Final Results of the PICASSO Dark Matter Search Experiment

The PICASSO dark matter search experiment operated an array of 32 superheated droplet detectors containing 3.0 kg of C$_{4}$F$_{10}$ and collected an exposure of 231.4 kgd at SNOLAB between March 2012 and January 2014. We report on the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-24 E. Behnke , M. Besnier , P. Bhattacharjee , X. Dai , M. Das , A. Davour , F. Debris , N. Dhungana , J. Farine , M. Fines-Neuschild , S. Gagnebin , G. Giroux , E. Grace , C. M. Jackson , A. Kamaha , C. B. Krauss , M. Lafrenière , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , L. Lessard , I. Levine , D. Marlisov , J. -P. Martin , P. Mitra , A. J. Noble , A. Plante , R. Podviyanuk , S. Pospisil , O. Scallon , S. Seth , N. Starinski , I. Stekl , U. Wichoski , V. Zacek

Likelihood Approach to the First Dark Matter Results from XENON100

Many experiments that aim at the direct detection of Dark Matter are able to distinguish a dominant background from the expected feeble signals, based on some measured discrimination parameter. We develop a statistical model for such…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-10-20 XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , K. Bokeloh , E. Brown , T. Bruch , J. M. R. Cardoso , B. Choi , D. Cline , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , K. -L. Giboni , E. Gross , A. Kish , C. W. Lam , J. Lamblin , R. F. Lang , K. E. Lim , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , Y. Mei , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , G. Plante , A. C. C. Ribeiro , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Schumann , P. Shagin , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , E. Tziaferi , O. Vitells , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

The CYGNO experiment, a directional detector for direct Dark Matter searches

The CYGNO project aims at the development of a high precision optical readout gaseous Tima Projection Chamber (TPC) for directional dark matter (DM) searches, to be hosted at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). CYGNO employs a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-06-08 F. D. Amaro , E. Baracchini , L. Benussi , S. Bianco , C. Capoccia , M. Caponero , D. S. Cardoso , G. Cavoto , A. Cortez , I. A. Costa , E. Dané , G. Dho , F. Di Giambattista , E. Di Marco , G. D'Imperio , F. Iacoangeli , H. P. L. Jùnior , G. S. P. Lopes , G. Maccarrone , R. D. P. Mano , R. R. M. Gregorio , D. J. G. Marques , G. Mazzitelli , A. G. McLean , A. Messina , C. M. B. Monteiro , R. A. Nobrega , I. F. Pains , E. Paoletti , L. Passamonti , S. Pelosi , F. Petrucci , S. Piacentini , D. Piccolo , D. Pierluigi , D. Pinci , A. Prajapati , F. Renga , R. J. C. Roque , F. Rosatelli , A. Russo , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Saviano , N. J. C. Spooner , R. Tesauro , S. Tomassini , S. Torelli

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data

We present new experimental constraints on the elastic, spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section using recent data from the XENON100 experiment, operated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. An analysis of 224.6 live days x…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 XENON100 collaboration , E. Aprile , M. Alfonsi , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , C. Balan , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , A. Behrens , P. Beltrame , K. Bokeloh , A. Brown , E. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , J. M. R. Cardoso , W. -T. Chen , B. Choi , A. P. Colijn , H. Contreras , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , W. Fulgione , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Ghag , K. -L. Giboni , L. W. Goetzke , C. Grignon , E. Gross , W. Hampel , F. Kaether , A. Kish , J. Lamblin , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , M. Le Calloch , D. Lellouch , C. Levy , K. E. Lim , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , K. Lung , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , F. V. Massoli , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , M. Messina , A. Molinario , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , R. Persiani , G. Plante , N. Priel , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , P. R. Scovell , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , H. Simgen , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , O. Vitells , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

Results of Dark Matter Search using the Full PandaX-II Exposure

We report the dark matter search results obtained using the full 132 ton$\cdot$day exposure of the PandaX-II experiment, including all data from March 2016 to August 2018. No significant excess of events is identified above the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Qiuhong Wang , Abdusalam Abdukerim , Wei Chen , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Chen Cheng , Xiangyi Cui , Yingjie Fan , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Mengting Fu , Lisheng Geng , Karl Giboni , Linhui Gu , Xuyuan Guo , Ke Han , Changda He , Di Huang , Yan Huang , Yanlin Huang , Zhou Huang , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Shuaijie Li , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Wenbo Ma , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Yue Meng , Kaixiang Ni , Jinhua Ning , Xuyang Ning , Xiangxiang Ren , Changsong Shang , Lin Si , Guofang Shen , Andi Tan , Anqing Wang , Hongwei Wang , Meng Wang , Siguang Wang , Wei Wang , Xiuli Wang , Zhou Wang , Mengmeng Wu , Shiyong Wu , Weihao Wu , Jingkai Xia , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Jijun Yang , Yong Yang , Chunxu Yu , Jumin Yuan , Ying Yuan , Xinning Zeng , Dan Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Qibin Zheng , Jifang Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou

Have we found conclusive evidence for dark matter through direct detection experiments?

We employ a SUSY-model-independent method to examine the remaining evidence for the low mass dark matter. Using the XENON100's recent result of 224.6 live days $\times$ 34kg exposure and PICASSO's result published in 2009, we have obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Yang

Comment on "On the subtleties of searching for dark matter with liquid xenon detectors"

In a recent manuscript (arXiv:1208.5046) Peter Sorensen claims that XENON100's upper limits on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross sections for WIMP masses below 10 GeV "may be understated by one order of magnitude or more". Having…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-29 The XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , M. Alfonsi , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , C. Balan , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , A. Behrens , P. Beltrame , K. Bokeloh , E. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , J. M. R. Cardoso , W. -T. Chen , B. Choi , D. Cline , A. P. Colijn , H. Contreras , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , W. Fulgione , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Ghag , K. -L. Giboni , L. W. Goetzke , C. Grignon , E. Gross , W. Hampel , F. Kaether , A. Kish , J. Lamblin , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , M. Le Calloch , C. Levy , K. E. Lim , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , K. Lung , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , F. V. Massoli , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , A. Molinario , E. Nativ , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , R. Persiani , G. Plante , N. Priel , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , P. R. Scovell , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , H. Simgen , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , O. Vitells , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

Search for inelastic scattering of WIMP dark matter in XENON1T

We report the results of a search for the inelastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Scattering off $^{129}$Xe is the most sensitive probe of inelastic WIMP interactions, with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-24 XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , S. Andaloro , E. Angelino , J. R. Angevaare , V. C. Antochi , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , L. Bellagamba , M. L. Benabderrahmane , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , B. Cimmino , M. Clark , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. Cuenca , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , A. Depoian , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , R. Di Stefano , S. Diglio , A. Elykov , A. D. Ferella , W. Fulgione , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , M. Galloway , F. Gao , L. Grandi , C. Hils , K. Hiraide , L. Hoetzsch , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , F. Joerg , N. Kato , S. Kazama , M. Kobayashi , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , S. Liang , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , A. Manfredini , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , D. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Miuchi , K. Mizukoshi , A. Molinario , K. Morå , S. Moriyama , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , K. Odgers , J. Palacio , B. Pelssers , R. Peres , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , S. Reichard , A. Rocchetti , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , N. Šarčević , M. Scheibelhut , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , A. Takeda , C. Therreau , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , K. Valerius , M. Vargas , G. Volta , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , T. Wolf , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , J. Ye , G. Zavattini , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , J. P. Zopounidis

Determining the WIMP mass using the complementarity between direct and indirect searches and the ILC

We study the possibility of identifying dark matter properties from XENON-like 100 kg experiments and the GLAST satellite mission. We show that whereas direct detection experiments will probe efficiently light WIMPs, given a positive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-09 N. Bernal , A. Goudelis , Y. Mambrini , C. Munoz

New Constraints on Xenonphobic Dark Matter from DEAP-3600

The first-year results from DEAP-3600, a single-phase liquid argon direct-detection dark matter experiment, were recently reported. At first sight, they seem to provide no new constraints, as the limit lies well within the region already…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-30 Carlos E. Yaguna

Prospects for direct detection of dark matter in an effective theory approach

We perform the first comprehensive analysis of the prospects for direct detection of dark matter with future ton-scale detectors in the general 11-dimensional effective theory of isoscalar dark matter-nucleon interactions mediated by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-20 Riccardo Catena

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

Recent results from the CDMS-II experiment

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to detect WIMPs via their elastic scattering interaction with the target nuclei. The current analysis of 397.8 kg-days Ge exposure resulted in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Bruch

Current status and projected sensitivity of COSINE-100

COSINE-100, a direct detection WIMP dark matter search, is using 106 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals to definitively test the DAMA collaboration's claim of WIMP discovery. In the context of most standard models of WIMP dark matter, the DAMA result…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-12 W. G. Thompson