English
Related papers

Related papers: Background studies for the EDELWEISS dark matter e…

200 papers

We report on WIMP search results of the XENON100 experiment, combining three runs summing up to 477 live days from January 2010 to January 2014. Data from the first two runs were already published. A blind analysis was applied to the last…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-13 XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , F. D. Amaro , M. Anthony , F. Arneodo , P. Barrow , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , L. Bütikofer , J. Calvén , J. M. R. Cardoso , M. Cervantes , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , P. de Perio , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , S. Diglio , E. Duchovni , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , D. Franco , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , R. Itay , B. Kaminsky , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , M. Le Calloch , C. Levy , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Manfredini , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , Y. Meng , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , B. Miguez , A. Molinario , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , M. -C. Piro , G. Plante , N. Priel , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , C. Reuter , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , M. Silva , H. Simgen , M. v. Sivers , A. Stein , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. D. Tunnell , R. Wall , H. Wang , M. Weber , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , Y. Zhang

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment recently reported limits on WIMP-nucleus interactions from its initial science run, down to $9.2\times10^{-48}$ cm$^2$ for the spin-independent interaction of a 36 GeV/c$^2$ WIMP at 90% confidence level. In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-19 J. Aalbers , D. S. Akerib , A. K. Al Musalhi , F. Alder , S. K. Alsum , C. S. Amarasinghe , A. Ames , T. J. Anderson , N. Angelides , H. M. Araújo , J. E. Armstrong , M. Arthurs , A. Baker , J. Bang , J. W. Bargemann , A. Baxter , K. Beattie , P. Beltrame , E. P. Bernard , A. Bhatti , A. Biekert , T. P. Biesiadzinski , H. J. Birch , G. M. Blockinger , B. Boxer , C. A. J. Brew , P. Brás , S. Burdin , M. Buuck , R. Cabrita , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , A. Chawla , H. Chen , A. P. S. Chiang , N. I. Chott , M. V. Converse , A. Cottle , G. Cox , O. Creaner , C. E. Dahl , A. David , S. Dey , L. de Viveiros , C. Ding , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , S. R. Eriksen , A. Fan , N. M. Fearon , S. Fiorucci , H. Flaecher , E. D. Fraser , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , R. Gibbons , M. G. D. Gilchriese , S. Gokhale , J. Green , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. B. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. Han , E. Hartigan-O'Connor , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , G. Heuermann , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , D. Hunt , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , R. S. James , J. Johnson , A. C. Kaboth , A. C. Kamaha , D. Khaitan , I. Khurana , R. Kirk , D. Kodroff , L. Korley , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , S. Kravitz , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. A. Leason , J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , E. Lopez Asamar , B. López Paredes , W. Lorenzon , C. Lu , S. Luitz , P. A. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , M. E. McCarthy , D. N. McKinsey , J. McLaughlin , E. H. Miller , E. Mizrachi , A. Monte , M. E. Monzani , J. D. Morales Mendoza , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , M. Murdy , A. St. J. Murphy , D. Naim , A. Naylor , C. Nedlik , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nguyen , J. A. Nikoleyczik , I. Olcina , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , J. Orpwood , K. J. Palladino , J. Palmer , N. Parveen , S. J. Patton , B. Penning , G. Pereira , E. Perry , T. Pershing , A. Piepke , D. Porzio , S. Poudel , Y. Qie , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , H. S. Riyat , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , T. Rushton , D. Santone , A. B. M. R. Sazzad , R. W. Schnee , S. Shaw , T. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , G. Sinev , R. Smith , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , J. Soria , I. Stancu , A. Stevens , K. Stifter , B. Suerfu , T. J. Sumner , N. Swanson , M. Szydagis , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , D. J. Temples , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , M. Timalsina , Z. Tong , D. R. Tovey , J. Tranter , M. Trask , M. Tripathi , D. R. Tronstad , W. Turner , U. Utku , A. C. Vaitkus , A. Wang , J. J. Wang , W. Wang , Y. Wang , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , T. J. Whitis , M. Williams , F. L. H. Wolfs , S. Woodford , D. Woodward , C. J. Wright , Q. Xia , X. Xiang , J. Xu , M. Yeh

We report results from a blind analysis of the final data taken with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS II) at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, Minnesota, USA. A total raw exposure of 612 kg-days was analyzed for this work.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 The CDMS Collaboration , Z. Ahmed

The Edelweiss programme is dedicated to the direct search for Dark Matter as massive weakly interacting particles (WIMPs) with Germanium cryogenic detectors operated in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in the French Alps at a depth of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-01 A. Chantelauze

Rare event experiments, such as those targeting dark matter interactions and neutrinoless double beta (0$\nu\beta\beta$) decay, should be shielded from gamma-rays that originated in rock. This paper describes the simulation of gamma-ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-20 J. K. Tranter , V. A. Kudryavtsev , P. R. Scovell

The EDELWEISS Dark Matter search uses low-temperature Ge detectors with heat and ionisation read- out to identify nuclear recoils induced by elastic collisions with WIMPs from the galactic halo. Results from the operation of 70 g and 320 g…

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

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Bruch

One IGEX 76Ge double-beta decay detector is currently operating in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in a search for dark matter WIMPs, through the Ge nuclear recoil produced by the WIMP elastic scattering. In this talk we report on the…

We report on the results of a search for a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) signal in low-energy data of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS~II) experiment using a maximum likelihood analysis. A background model is constructed…

We examine electron and nuclear recoil backgrounds from radioactivity in the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment at Boulby. The rate of low-energy electron recoils in the liquid xenon WIMP target is 0.75$\pm$0.05 events/kg/day/keV, which…

We present new constraints on the couplings of axions and more generic axion-like particles using data from the EDELWEISS-II experiment. The EDELWEISS experiment, located at the Underground Laboratory of Modane, primarily aims at the direct…

The EDELWEISS experiment used in 2001 a 320g heat-and-ionization cryogenic Ge detector operated in a low-background environment in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane for direct WIMP detection. This detector presents an increase of more…

Ambient radiation background contributed by the penetrating cosmic ray particles and the radionuclides present in the rock materials have been measured at an underground laboratory located inside a mine at 555 m depth. The laboratory is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Sayan Ghosh , Shubham Dutta , Naba Kumar Mondal , Satyajit Saha

EDELWEISS-2 is a Ge-bolometer experiment located in the underground laboratory Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM, France). For the second phase of the experiment, the collaboration has developed new cryogenic detectors with an improved…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Valentin Kozlov

We present the results of a search for dark matter WIMPs in the mass range below 20 GeV/c^2 using a target of low-radioactivity argon. The data were obtained using the DarkSide-50 apparatus at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 The DarkSide Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , G. R. Araujo , D. M. Asner , M. Ave , H. O. Back , B. Baldin , G. Batignani , K. Biery , V. Bocci , G. Bonfini , W. Bonivento , B. Bottino , F. Budano , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Candela , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , M. Carpinelli , S. Catalanotti , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , R. Cereseto , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalò , L. Cifarelli , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , D. D'Angelo , M. D'Incecco , D. D'Urso , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , M. De Deo , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , M. De Vincenzi , P. Demontis , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , G. Di Pietro , C. Dionisi , M. Downing , E. Edkins , A. Empl , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , A. Gabrieli , C. Galbiati , P. Garcia Abia , C. Ghiano , S. Giagu , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , O. Gorchakov , A. M. Goretti , F. Granato , M. Gromov , M. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , M. Gulino , B. R. Hackett , M. H. Hassanshahi , K. Herner , B. Hosseini , D. Hughes , P. Humble , E. V. Hungerford , Al. Ianni , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , I. James , T. N. Johnson , Y. Kahn , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , I. Kochanek , G. Koh , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , M. Lai , X. Li , M. Lisanti , M. Lissia , B. Loer , G. Longo , Y. Ma , A. A. Machado , I. N. Machulin , A. Mandarano , L. Mapelli , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , C. J. Martoff , A. Messina , P. D. Meyers , R. Milincic , S. Mishra-Sharma , A. Monte , M. Morrocchi , B. J. Mount , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , R. Nania , A. Navrer Agasson , A. O. Nozdrina , A. Oleinik , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , F. Pazzona , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , V. Pesudo , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , S. S. Poudel , D. A. Pugachev , H. Qian , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , B. Reinhold , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , Q. Riffard , A. Romani , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , D. Sablone , O. Samoylov , W. Sands , S. Sanfilippo , M. Sant , R. Santorelli , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , B. Schlitzer , E. Segreto , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , P. N. Singh , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , C. Stanford , S. Stracka , G. B. Suffritti , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , P. Trinchese , E. V. Unzhakov , M. Verducci , A. Vishneva , B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , T. J. Waldrop , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. W. Watson , S. Westerdale , M. M. Wojcik , M. Wojcik , X. Xiang , X. Xiao , C. Yang , Z. Ye , C. Zhu , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel

The report describes the research program on the development of ultra-low-energy germanium detectors, with emphasis on WIMP dark matter searches. A threshold of 100 eV is achieved with a 20 g detector array, providing a unique probe to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 H. T. Wong

We report a new search of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using the combined low background data sets in 2016 and 2017 from the PandaX-II experiment in China. The latest data set contains a new exposure of 77.1 live day, with…

CDMS II data from the 5-tower runs at the Soudan Underground Laboratory were reprocessed with an improved charge-pulse fitting algorithm. Two new analysis techniques to reject surface-event backgrounds were applied to the 612 kg days…