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Materials Informatics for Dark Matter Detection

Dark Matter particles are commonly assumed to be weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with a mass in the GeV to TeV range. However, recent interest has shifted towards lighter WIMPs, which are more difficult to probe experimentally.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-27 R. Matthias Geilhufe , Bart Olsthoorn , Alfredo Ferella , Timo Koski , Felix Kahlhoefer , Jan Conrad , Alexander V. Balatsky

Search for Light Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particle Dark Matter by Annual Modulation Analysis with a Point-Contact Germanium Detector at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory

We present results on light weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) searches with annual modulation (AM) analysis on data from a 1-kg mass $p$-type point-contact germanium detector of the CDEX-1B experiment at the China Jinping…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-11-27 L. T. Yang , H. B. Li , Q. Yue , H. Ma , K. J. Kang , Y. J. Li , H. T. Wong , M. Agartioglu , H. P. An , J. P. Chang , J. H. Chen , Y. H. Chen , J. P. Cheng , Z. Deng , Q. Du , H. Gong , Q. J. Guo , L. He , J. W. Hu , Q. D. Hu , H. X. Huang , L. P. Jia , H. Jiang , H. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. L. Li , B. Liao , F. K. Lin , S. T. Lin , S. K. Liu , Y. D. Liu , Y. Y. Liu , Z. Z. Liu , J. L. Ma , Y. C. Mao , H. Pan , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , V. Sharma , Z. She , M. B. Shen , L. Singh , M. K. Singh , T. X. Sun , C. J. Tang , W. Y. Tang , Y. Tian , G. F. Wang , J. M. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. X. Wang , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , H. Y. Xing , Y. Xu , T. Xue , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. J. Yu , J. F. Yue , X. H. Zeng , M. Zeng , Z. Zeng , F. S. Zhang , Y. H. Zhang , M. G. Zhao , J. F. Zhou , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu , Z. H. Zhu

The Scientific Reach of Multi-Ton Scale Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments

The next generation of large scale WIMP direct detection experiments have the potential to go beyond the discovery phase and reveal detailed information about both the particle physics and astrophysics of dark matter. We report here on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-05 Jayden L. Newstead , Thomas D. Jacques , Lawrence M. Krauss , James B. Dent , Francesc Ferrer

Complementarity of direct detection experiments in search of light Dark Matter

Dark Matter experiments searching for Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) primarily use nuclear recoils (NRs) in their attempt to detect WIMPs. Migdal-induced electronic recoils (ERs) provide additional sensitivity to light Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-22 J. R. Angevaare , G. Bertone , A. P. Colijn , M. P. Decowski , B. J. Kavanagh

Double Beta and Dark Matter Search - Window to New Physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics

Nuclear double beta decay provides an extraordinarily broad potential to search for beyond Standard Model physics, probing already now the TeV scale, on which new physics should manifest itself. These possibilities are reviewed here. First,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Dark Matter 2014

This article gives an overview on the status of experimental searches for dark matter at the end of 2014. The main focus is on direct searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) using underground-based low-background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Marc Schumann

Electron-interacting dark matter: Implications from DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 and prospects for liquid xenon detectors and NaI detectors

We investigate the possibility for the direct detection of low mass (GeV scale) WIMP dark matter in scintillation experiments. Such WIMPs are typically too light to leave appreciable nuclear recoils, but may be detected via their scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-09 B. M. Roberts , V. V. Flambaum

A Search of Low-Mass WIMPs with p-type Point Contact Germanium Detector in the CDEX-1 Experiment

The CDEX-1 experiment conducted a search of low-mass (< 10 GeV/c2) Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory using a p-type point-contact germanium detector with a fiducial mass of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-25 W. Zhao , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , J. P. Cheng , Y. J. Li , H. T. Wong , S. T. Lin , J. P. Chang , J. H. Chen , Q. H. Chen , Y. H. Chen , Z. Deng , Q. Du , H. Gong , X. Q. Hao , H. J. He , Q. J. He , H. X. Huang , T. R. Huang , H. Jiang , H. B. Li , J. Li , J. Li , J. M. Li , X. Li , X. Y. Li , Y. L. Li , F. K. Lin , S. K. Liu , L. C. Lü , H. Ma , J. L. Ma , S. J. Mao , J. Q. Qin , J. Ren , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , V. Sharma , M. B. Shen , L. Singh , M. K. Singh , A. K. Soma , J. Su , C. J. Tang , J. M. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , Z. Z. Xianyu , R. Q. Xiao , H. Y. Xing , F. Z. Xu , Y. Xu , X. J. Xu , T. Xue , L. T. Yang , S. W. Yang , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. Yu , X. Z. Yu , M. Zeng , X. H. Zeng , Z. Zeng , L. Zhang , Y. H. Zhang , M. G. Zhao , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu , W. B. Zhu , X. Z. Zhu , Z. H. Zhu

Background discrimination capabilities of a heat and ionization germanium cryogenic detector

The discrimination capabilities of a 70 g heat and ionization Ge bolometer are studied. This first prototype has been used by the EDELWEISS Dark Matter experiment, installed in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, for direct detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Di Stefano , L. Berge , B. Chambon , M. Chapellier , J. Chaumont , G. Chardin , P. Charvin , M. De Jesus , D. Drain , L. Dumoulin , P. Forget , P. Garoche , J. Gascon , C. Goldbach , D. L'Hote , J. Mallet , J. Mangin , S. Marnieros , L. Miramonti , L. Mosca , X. -F. Navick , G. Nollez , P. Pari , S. Pecourt , E. Simon , L. Stab , J. -P. Torre , R. Tourbot , D. Yvon

WIMP Searches at the International Linear Collider

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs, $\chi$) are candidates for Dark Matter. WIMP searches at lepton colliders are complementary to searches at hadron colliders and direct and indirect detection, since they directly probe the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-20 Moritz Habermehl , Keisuke Fujii , Jenny List , Shigeki Matsumoto , Tomohiko Tanabe

Search for Dark Matter WIMPs using Upward Through-going Muons in Super-Kamiokande

We present the results of indirect searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with 1679.6 live days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector using neutrino-induced upward through-going muons. The search is performed by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Kamiokande Collaboration , S. Desai , Y. Ashie , S. Fukuda , Y. Fukuda , K. Ishihara , Y. Itow , Y. Koshio , A. Minamino , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , T. Namba , R. Nambu , Y. Obayashi , N. Sakurai , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , H. Takeuchi , Y. Takeuchi , S. Yamada , M. Ishitsuka , T. Kajita , K. Kaneyuki , S. Nakayama , A. Okada , T. Ooyabu , C. Saji , M. Earl , E. Kearns , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , C. W. Walter , W. Wang , M. Goldhaber , T. Barszczak , D. Casper , J. P. Cravens , W. Gajewski , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , D. W. Liu , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , C. W. Sterner , M. R. Vagins , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , R. W. Ellsworth , S. Tasaka , G. Guillian , A. Kibayashi , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , D. Takemori , M. D. Messier , Y. Hayato , A. K. Ichikawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Iwashita , J. Kameda , T. Kobayashi , T. Maruyama , K. Nakamura , K. Nitta , Y. Oyama , M. Sakuda , Y. Totsuka , A. T. Suzuki , M. Hasegawa , K. Hayashi , T. Inagaki , I. Kato , H. Maesaka , T. Morita , T. Nakaya , K. Nishikawa , T. Sasaki , S. Ueda , S. Yamamoto , T. J. Haines , S. Dazeley , S. Hatakeyama , R. Svoboda , E. Blaufuss , J. A. Goodman , G. W. Sullivan , D. Turcan , K. Scholberg , A. Habig , C. K. Jung , T. Kato , K. Kobayashi , M. Malek , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , A. Sarrat , E. Sharkey , C. Yanagisawa , T. Toshito , C. Mitsuda , K. Miyano , T. Shibata , Y. Kajiyama , Y. Nagashima , M. Takita , M. Yoshida , H. I. Kim , H. Okazawa , T. Ishizuka , Y. Choi , H. K. Seo , Y. Gando , T. Hasegawa , K. Inoue , J. Shirai , A. Suzuki , M. Koshiba , T. Hashimoto , Y. Nakajima , K. Nishijima , T. Harada , H. Ishino , M. Morii , R. Nishimura , Y. Watanabe , D. Kielczewska , J. Zalipska , R. Gran , K. K. Shiraishi , K. Washburn , R. J. Wilkes

Multi-site event discrimination for the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76Ge using arrays of point-contact germanium detectors operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Background results in the neutrinoless double-beta…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-12 S. I. Alvis , I. J. Arnquist , F. T. Avignone , A. S. Barabash , C. J. Barton , F. E. Bertrand , B. Bos , M. Buuck , T. S. Caldwell , Y-D. Chan , C. D. Christofferson , P. -H. Chu , C. Cuesta , J. A. Detwiler , H. Ejiri , S. R. Elliott , T. Gilliss , G. K. Giovanetti , M. P. Green , J. Gruszko , I. S. Guinn , V. E. Guiseppe , C. R. Haufe , R. J. Hegedus , L. Hehn , R. Henning , D. Hervas Aguilar , E. W. Hoppe , M. A. Howe , K. J. Keeter , M. F. Kidd , S. I. Konovalov , R. T. Kouzes , A. M. Lopez , R. D. Martin , R. Massarczyk , S. J. Meijer , S. Mertens , J. Myslik , G. Othman , W. Pettus , A. Piliounis , A. W. P. Poon , D. C. Radford , J. Rager , A. L. Reine , K. Rielage , N. W. Ruof , B. Shanks , M. Shirchenko , D. Tedeschi , R. L. Varner , S. Vasilyev , Vasundhara , B. R. White , J. F. Wilkerson , C. Wiseman , W. Xu , E. Yakushev , C. -H. Yu , V. Yumatov , I. Zhitnikov , B. X. Zhu

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

Probing Majorana neutrinos with double-$\beta$ decay

A discovery that neutrinos are not the usual Dirac but Majorana fermions, i.e. identical to their antiparticles, would be a manifestation of new physics with profound implications for particle physics and cosmology. Majorana neutrinos would…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-01 GERDA collaboration , M. Agostini , A. M. Bakalyarov , M. Balata , I. Barabanov , L. Baudis , C. Bauer , E. Bellotti , S. Belogurov , A. Bettini , L. Bezrukov , D. Borowicz , V. Brudanin , R. Brugnera , A. Caldwell , C. Cattadori , A. Chernogorov , T. Comellato , V. D'Andrea , E. V. Demidova , N. Di Marco , A. Domula , E. Doroshkevich , V. Egorov , R. Falkenstein , M. Fomina , A. Gangapshev , A. Garfagnini , M. Giordano , P. Grabmayr , V. Gurentsov , K. Gusev , J. Hakenmüller , A. Hegai , M. Heisel , S. Hemmer , R. Hiller , W. Hofmann , M. Hult , L. V. Inzhechik , J. Janicskó Csáthy , J. Jochum , M. Junker , V. Kazalov , Y. Kermaïdic , T. Kihm , I. V. Kirpichnikov , A. Kirsch , A. Kish , A. Klimenko , R. Kneißl , K. T. Knöpfle , O. Kochetov , V. N. Kornoukhov , P. Krause , V. V. Kuzminov , M. Laubenstein , A. Lazzaro , M. Lindner , I. Lippi , A. Lubashevskiy , B. Lubsandorzhiev , G. Lutter , C. Macolino , B. Majorovits , W. Maneschg , M. Miloradovic , R. Mingazheva , M. Misiaszek , P. Moseev , I. Nemchenok , K. Panas , L. Pandola , K. Pelczar , L. Pertoldi , P. Piseri , A. Pullia , C. Ransom , S. Riboldi , N. Rumyantseva , C. Sada , E. Sala , F. Salamida , C. Schmitt , B. Schneider , S. Schönert , A. -K. Schütz , O. Schulz , B. Schwingenheuer , M. Schwarz , O. Selivanenko , E. Shevchik , M. Shirchenko , H. Simgen , A. Smolnikov , L. Stanco , D. Stukov , L. Vanhoefer , A. A. Vasenko , A. Veresnikova , K. von Sturm , V. Wagner , A. Wegmann , T. Wester , C. Wiesinger , M. Wojcik , E. Yanovich , I. Zhitnikov , S. V. Zhukov , D. Zinatulina , A. Zschocke , A. J. Zsigmond , K. Zuber , G. Zuzel

Direct Detection of WIMP Dark Matter: Concepts and Status

The existence of dark matter as evidenced by numerous indirect observations is one of the most important indications that there must be physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. This article reviews the concepts of direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-26 Marc Schumann

Dark Matter searches in Dwarf Galaxies with the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter density of the Universe, yet its true nature remains uncertain. Among dark matter theories, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a prominent candidate for dark matter because…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Micael Andrade , Aion Viana

Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE

The MiniBooNE-DM collaboration searched for vector-boson mediated production of dark matter using the Fermilab 8 GeV Booster proton beam in a dedicated run with $1.86 \times 10^{20}$ protons delivered to a steel beam dump. The MiniBooNE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-24 A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo , M. Backfish , A. Bashyal , B. Batell , B. C. Brown , R. Carr , A. Chatterjee , R. L. Cooper , P. deNiverville , R. Dharmapalan , Z. Djurcic , R. Ford , F. G. Garcia , G. T. Garvey , J. Grange , J. A. Green , W. Huelsnitz , I. L. de Icaza Astiz , G. Karagiorgi , T. Katori , W. Ketchum , T. Kobilarcik , Q. Liu , W. C. Louis , W. Marsh , C. D. Moore , G. B. Mills , J. Mirabal , P. Nienaber , Z. Pavlovic , D. Perevalov , H. Ray , B. P. Roe , M. H. Shaevitz , S. Shahsavarani , I. Stancu , R. Tayloe , C. Taylor , R. T. Thornton , R. Van de Water , W. Wester , D. H. White , J. Yu

Differentiating hidden sector dark matter from light WIMPs with Germanium detectors

Light WIMP dark matter and hidden sector dark matter have been proposed to explain the DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST-II data. Both of these approaches feature spin independent elastic scattering of dark matter particles on nuclei. Light WIMP dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 R. Foot

CDMSlite: A Search for Low-Mass WIMPs using Voltage-Assisted Calorimetric Ionization Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment

SuperCDMS is an experiment designed to directly detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a favored candidate for dark matter ubiquitous in the Universe. In this paper, we present WIMP-search results using a calorimetric…

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New class of biological detectors for WIMPs

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) may constitute a large fraction of the matter in the Universe. There are excess events in the data of DAMA/LIBRA, CoGeNT, CRESST-II, and recently CDMS-Si, which could be consistent with WIMP…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-03 Andrzej K. Drukier , Charles Cantor , Mark Chonofsky , George M. Church , Robert L. Fagaly , Katherine Freese , Alejandro Lopez , Takeshi Sano , Christopher Savage , Wesley P. Wong