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A low-mass dark matter search using ionization signals in XENON100

We perform a low-mass dark matter search using an exposure of 30\,kg$\times$yr with the XENON100 detector. By dropping the requirement of a scintillation signal and using only the ionization signal to determine the interaction energy, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 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 , A. Buss , L. Bütikofer , 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 , E. Duchovni , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , D. Franco , W. Fulgione , M. Galloway , M. Garbini , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , E. Gross , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , R. Itay , B. Kaminsky , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , M. Le Calloch , C. Levy , F. Linde , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Lyashenko , A. Manfredini , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , B. Miguez , A. Molinario , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , 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 , H. Simgen , A. Stein , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. D. Tunnell , M. von Sivers , R. Wall , H. Wang , M. Weber , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , Y. Zhang

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

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Determination of the WIMP Mass

In the earlier work on the development of a model-independent data analysis method for determining the mass of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using measured recoil energies from direct Dark Matter detection experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Yu-Ting Chou , Chung-Lin Shan

First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment

We report on the first search for nuclear recoils from dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with the XENONnT experiment which is based on a two-phase time projection chamber with a sensitive liquid xenon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-08 XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Abe , F. Agostini , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , J. R. Angevaare , V. C. Antochi , D. Antón Martin , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , A. L. Baxter , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , E. J. Brookes , A. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , T. K. Bui , C. Cai , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , A. P. Cimental Chavez , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. J. Cuenca-García , J. P. Cussonneau , V. D'Andrea , M. P. Decowski , P. Di Gangi , S. Di Pede , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , A. Elykov , S. Farrell , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , M. Flierman , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , R. Hammann , A. Higuera , C. Hils , L. Hoetzsch , N. F. Hood , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , J. Jakob , F. Joerg , A. Joy , N. Kato , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , M. Kobayashi , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , F. Kuger , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , K. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , D. Masson , E. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Miuchi , K. Mizukoshi , A. Molinario , S. Moriyama , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Müller , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , B. Paetsch , J. Palacio , R. Peres , C. Peters , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , S. Shi , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , A. Takeda , P. -L. Tan , A. Terliuk , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , F. Tönnies , K. Valerius , G. Volta , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , T. Wolf , V. H. S. Wu , Y. Xing , D. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , L. Yang , J. Ye , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , M. Zhong , T. Zhu

A Search for WIMPs with the First Five-Tower Data from CDMS

We report first results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment running with its full complement of 30 cryogenic particle detectors at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. This report is based on the analysis of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

Studies of the muon-induced neutron background in LSM: detector concept and status of the installation

A good particle candidate for Cold Dark Matter (CDM) is the supersymmetric neutralino or more generally a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). The expected interaction rate of WIMPs with the detector medium in the direct detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 V. Kozlov

First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment

We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a $\sim$2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy and the first ton-scale detector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 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 , 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 , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , R. Gardner , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , R. Itay , B. Kaminsky , S. Kazama , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Manfredini , I. Mariş , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , A. Molinario , K. Morå , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , M. -C. Piro , G. Plante , N. Priel , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , C. Reuter , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , N. Rupp , R. Saldanha , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , M. v. Sivers , A. Stein , S. Thapa , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , M. Vargas , N. Upole , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu

Ultra-Low-Energy Germanium Detector for Neutrino-Nucleus Coherent Scattering and Dark Matter Searches

The status and plans of a research program on the development of ultra-low-energy germanium detectors with sub-keV sensitivities are reported. We survey the scientific goals which include the observation of neutrino-nucleus coherent…

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

Dark Matter Search Backgrounds from Primordial Radionuclide Chain Disequilibrium

Dark matter direct-detection searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are commonly limited in sensitivity by neutron and gamma backgrounds from the decay of radioactive isotopes. Several common radioisotopes in detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-23 D. C. Malling , S. Fiorucci , M. Pangilinan , J. J. Chapman , C. H. Faham , J. R. Verbus , R. J. Gaitskell

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Determinations of Ratios of WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections

In our work on the development of model-independent data analysis methods for determining ratios between different couplings/cross sections of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using measured recoil energies from direct Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Chung-Lin Shan

EDELWEISS-II : Status and future

The EDELWEISS experiment is dedicated to the WIMPs direct search using heat-and-ionization Ge cryogenic detectors. We present the final results obtained by the first stage of the experiment, EDELWEISS-I which used three 320 g bolometers,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Sanglard

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment, results from the 2004 campaign and status of the current update

The CDMS II experiment uses Z-dependent Ionization Phonon (ZIP) detectors made of Germanium and Silicon to identify nuclear recoils from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with near complete event-by-event rejection of various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel Leclercq

Beta/gamma and alpha backgrounds in CRESST-II Phase 2

The experiment CRESST-II aims at the detection of dark matter with scintillating CaWO$_4$ crystals operated as cryogenic detectors. Recent results on spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering from the CRESST-II Phase 2 allowed to probe a new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-26 R. Strauss , G. Angloher , A. Bento , C. Bucci , L. Canonica , A. Erb , F. v. Feilitzsch , N. Ferreiro Iachellini , P. Gorla , A. Gütlein , D. Hauff , J. Jochum , M. Kiefer , H. Kluck , H. Kraus , J. -C. Lanfranchi , J. Loebell , A. Münster , F. Petricca , W. Potzel , F. Pröbst , F. Reindl , S. Roth , K. Rottler , C. Sailer , K. Schäffner , J. Schieck , S. Scholl , S. Schönert , W. Seidel , M. v. Sivers , L. Stodolsky , C. Strandhagen , A. Tanzke , M. Uffinger , A. Ulrich , I. Usherov , S. Wawoczny , M. Willers , M. Wüstrich , A. Zöller

Status and Outlook of the EDELWEISS WIMP Search

EDELWEISS is a direct dark matter search using cryogenic germanium heat-ionisation detectors, located in the Modane underground laboratory beneath the Alps. We summarize the final results of EDELWEISS I, which deployed up to almost one kg…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. LUCA

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

First dark matter search results from a 4-kg CF$_3$I bubble chamber operated in a deep underground site

New data are reported from the operation of a 4.0 kg CF$_{3}$I bubble chamber in the 6800-foot-deep SNOLAB underground laboratory. The effectiveness of ultrasound analysis in discriminating alpha-decay background events from single nuclear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-21 E. Behnke , J. Behnke , S. J. Brice , D. Broemmelsiek , J. I. Collar , A. Conner , P. S. Cooper , M. Crisler , C. E. Dahl , D. Fustin , E. Grace , J. Hall , M. Hu , I. Levine , W. H. Lippincott , T. Moan , T. Nania , E. Ramberg , A. E. Robinson , A. Sonnenschein , M. Szydagis , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

Searches for axions with the EDELWEISS experiment

The EDELWEISS experiment primarily aims at the direct detection of WIMPs using germanium bolometers. It is also sensitive to the low-energy electron recoils that would be induced by axions. We present new constraints on the couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-14 Thibault de Boissière

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

Constraints on inelastic dark matter from the CDEX-1B experiment

We present limits on spin-independent inelastic weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP)-nucleus scattering using the 737.1 kg$\cdot$day dataset from the CDEX-1B experiment. Expected nuclear recoil spectra for various inelastic WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-01 Y. F. Liang , L. T. Yang , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , Y. J. Li , H. P. An , Greeshma C. , J. P. Chang , H. Chen , Y. H. Chen , J. P. Cheng , J. Y. Cui , W. H. Dai , Z. Deng , Y. X. Dong , C. H. Fang , H. Gong , Q. J. Guo , T. Guo , X. Y. Guo , L. He , J. R. He , H. X. Huang , T. C. Huang , S. Karmakar , Y. S. Lan , H. B. Li , H. Y. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , M. C. Li , Q. Y. Li , R. M. J. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. L. Li , B. Liao , F. K. Lin , S. T. Lin , J. X. Liu , R. Z. Liu , S. K. Liu , Y. D. Liu , Y. Liu , Y. Y. Liu , H. Ma , Y. C. Mao , A. Mureed , H. Pan , N. C. Qi , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , M. B. Shen , H. Y. Shi , M. K. Singh , T. X. Sun , W. L. Sun , C. J. Tang , Y. Tian , H. F. Wan , G. F. Wang , J. Z. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. X. Wang , H. T. Wong , Y. C. Wu , H. Y. Xing , K. Z. Xiong , R. Xu , Y. Xu , T. Xue , Y. L. Yan , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. J. Yu , X. Yu , M. Zeng , Z. Zeng , F. S. Zhang , P. Zhang , P. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , M. G. Zhao , J. F. Zhou , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu

Search for dark matter from the first data of the PandaX-II experiment

Results of WIMP dark matter search from the first data of the PandaX-II experiment are presented. PandaX-II experiment uses a 500 kg scale dual phase liquid xenon time projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-16 Yong Yang