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The DAMIC dark matter experiment

The DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment uses high resistivity, scientific grade CCDs to search for dark matter. The CCD's low electronic noise allows an unprecedently low energy threshold of a few tens of eV that make it possible to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-07 A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , X. Bertou , D. Bole , M. Butner , G. Cancelo , A. Castañeda Vázquez , A. E. Chavarria , J. R. T. de Mello 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. Schwarz , M. Sofo Haro , J. Tiffenberg , D. Torres Machado , F. Trillaud , X. You , J. Zhou

Explanation of the knee-like feature in the DAMPE cosmic $e^-+e^+$ energy spectrum

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), a space-based high precision cosmic ray detector, has just reported the new measurement of the total electron plus positron energy spectrum up to 4.6 TeV. A notable feature in the spectrum is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Kun Fang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Track Recognition for the $\Delta E-E$ Telescopes with Silicon Strip Detectors

For the high granularity and high energy resolution, Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) is widely applied in assembling telescopes to measure the charged particles in heavy ion reactions. In this paper, we present a novel method to achieve track…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-14 Fenhai Guan , Yijie Wang , Xinyue Diao , Yuhao Qin , Zhi Qin , Dong Guo , Qianghua Wu , Dawei Si , Sheng Xiao , Boyuan Zhang , Yaopeng Zhang , Xuan Zhao , Zhigang Xiao

Measurement of separate electron and positron spectra from 10 GeV to 20GeV with the geomagnetic field on DAMPE

The cosmic-ray (CR) electrons and positrons in space are of great significance for studying the origin and propagation of cosmic-rays. The satellite-borne experiment DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has been used to measure the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 DAMPE Collaboration , F. Alemanno , Q. An , P. Azzarello , F. C. T. Barbato , P. Bernardini , X. J. Bi , H. Boutin , I. Cagnoli , M. S. Cai , E. Casilli , E. Catanzani , J. Chang , D. Y. Chen , J. L. Chen , Z. F. Chen , Z. X. Chen , P. Coppin , M. Y. Cui , T. S. Cui , Y. X. Cui , I. DeMitri , F. dePalma , A. DiGiovanni , T. K. Dong , Z. X. Dong , G. Donvito , D. Droz , J. L. Duan , K. K. Duan , R. R. Fan , Y. Z. Fan , F. Fang , K. Fang , C. Q. Feng , L. Feng , J. M. Frieden , P. Fusco , M. Gao , F. Gargano , E. Ghose , K. Gong , Y. Z. Gong , D. Y. Guo , J. H. Guo , S. X. Han , Y. M. Hu , G. S. Huang , X. Y. Huang , Y. Y. Huang , M. Ionica , L. Y. Jiang , Y. Z. Jiang , W. Jiang , J. Kong , A. Kotenko , D. Kyratzis , S. J. Lei , M. B. Li , W. H. Li , W. L. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. M. Liang , C. M. Liu , H. Liu , J. Liu , S. B. Liu , Y. Liu , F. Loparco , C. N. Luo , M. Ma , P. X. Ma , T. Ma , X. Y. Ma , G. Marsella , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Mo , Y. Nie , X. Y. Niu , A. Parenti , W. X. Peng , X. Y. Peng , C. Perrina , E. Putti-Garcia , R. Qiao , J. N. Rao , Y. Rong , R. Sarkar , P. Savina , A. Serpolla , Z. Shangguan , W. H. Shen , Z. Q. Shen , Z. T. Shen , L. Silveri , J. X. Song , M. Stolpovskiy , H. Su , M. Su , H. R. Sun , Z. Y. Sun , A. Surdo , X. J. Teng , A. Tykhonov , G. F. Wang , J. Z. Wang , L. G. Wang , S. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. Wang , D. M. Wei , J. J. Wei , Y. F. Wei , D. Wu , J. Wu , S. S. Wu , X. Wu , Z. Q. Xia , Z. Xiong , E. H. Xu , H. T. Xu , J. Xu , Z. H. Xu , Z. L. Xu , Z. Z. Xu , G. F. Xue , H. B. Yang , P. Yang , Y. Q. Yang , H. J. Yao , M. Y. Yan , Y. H. Yu , Q. Yuan , C. Yue , J. J. Zang , S. X. Zhang , W. Z. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , Y. L. Zhang , Y. P. Zhang , Y. Q. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , C. Zhao , H. Y. Zhao , X. F. Zhao , C. Y. Zhou , Y. Zhu

Front-end electronics for the GAPS tracker

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic balloon-borne mission to indirectly search for dark matter through sensitive observation of cosmic antiparticles. The first flight is planned for late 2021. GAPS is the first…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Valentina Scotti , Alfonso Boiano , Lorenzo Fabris , Massimo Manghisoni , Giuseppe Osteria , Elisa Riceputi , Francesco Perfetto , Valerio Re , Gianluigi Zampa

The Electronics and Data Acquisition System of the DarkSide Dark Matter Search

It is generally inferred from astronomical measurements that Dark Matter (DM) comprises approximately 27\% of the energy-density of the universe. If DM is a subatomic particle, a possible candidate is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-26 The DarkSide Collaboration , P. Agnes , T. Alexander , A. Alton , K. Arisaka , H. O. Back , B. Baldin , K. Biery , G. Bonfini , M. Bossa , A. Brigatti , J. Brodsky , F. Budano , L. Cadonati , F. Calaprice , N. Canci , A. Candela , H. Cao , M. Cariello , P. Cavalcante , A. Chavarria , A. Chepurnov , A. G. Cocco , L. Crippa , D. D'Angelo , M. D'Incecco , S. Davini , M. De Deo , A. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , G. Di Pieto , E. Edkins , A. Empl , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , G. Forster , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , A. Goretti , L. Grandi , M. Gromov , M. Y. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , B. Hackett , K. Herner , E. Hungerford , Al. Ianni , An. Ianni , C. Jollet , K. Keeter , C. Kendziora , S. Kidner , V. Kobychev , G. Koh , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kurlej , P. X. Li , B. Loer , P. Lombardi , C. Love , L. Ludhova , S. Luitz , Y. Q. Ma , I. Machulin , A. Mandarano , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , L. Marini , J. Martoff , A. Meregaglia , E. Meroni , P. D. Meyers , R. Milincic , D. Montanari , M. Montuschi , M. E. Monzani , P. Mosteiro , B. Mount , V. Muratova , P. Musico , A. Nelson , S. Odrowski , M. Okounkoa , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , E. Pantic , L. Papp , S. Parmeggiano , Bob Parsells , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , S. Perasso , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , D. Pugachev , H. Qian , K. Randle , G. Ranucci , A. Razeto , B. Reinhold , A. Renshaw , A. Romani , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , S. D. Rountree , D. Sablone , P. Saggese , R. Saldanha , W. Sands , S. Sangiorgio , E. Segreto , D. Semenov , E. Shields , M. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , C. Stanford , Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , J. Tatarowicz , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , E. Unzhakov , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , S. E. Walker , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. Watson , S. Westerdale , M. Wojcik , A. Wright , X. Xiang , J. Xu , C. G. Yang , J. Yoo , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zec , C. Zhu , G. Zuzel

DMTPC: A dark matter detector with directional sensitivity

By correlating nuclear recoil directions with the Earth's direction of motion through the Galaxy, a directional dark matter detector can unambiguously detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), even in the presence of backgrounds.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 J. B. R. Battat , S. Ahlen , T. Caldwell , D. Dujmic , A. Dushkin , P. Fisher , F. Golub , S. Goyal , S. Henderson , A. Inglis , R. Lanza , J. Lopez , A. Kaboth , G. Kohse , J. Monroe , G. Sciolla , B. N. Skvorodnev , H. Tomita , R. Vanderspek , H. Wellenstein , R. Yamamoto

Measurement of the cosmic ray helium energy spectrum from 70 GeV to 80 TeV with the DAMPE space mission

The measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic ray helium nuclei from 70 GeV to 80 TeV using 4.5 years of data recorded by the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is reported in this work. A hardening of the spectrum is observed at an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-09 F. Alemanno , Q. An , P. Azzarello , F. C. T. Barbato , P. Bernardini , X. J. Bi , M. S. Cai , E. Catanzani , J. Chang , D. Y. Chen , J. L. Chen , Z. F. Chen , M. Y. Cui , T. S. Cui , Y. X. Cui , H. T. Dai , A. D'Amone , A. De Benedittis , I. De Mitri , F. de Palma , M. Deliyergiyev , M. Di Santo , T. K. Dong , Z. X. Dong , G. Donvito , D. Droz , J. L. Duan , K. K. Duan , D. D'Urso , R. R. Fan , Y. Z. Fan , K. Fang , F. Fang , C. Q. Feng , L. Feng , P. Fusco , M. Gao , F. Gargano , K. Gong , Y. Z. Gong , D. Y. Guo , J. H. Guo , X. L. Guo , S. X. Han , Y. M. Hu , G. S. Huang , X. Y. Huang , Y. Y. Huang , M. Ionica , W. Jiang , J. Kong , A. Kotenko , D. Kyratzis , S. J. Lei , S. Li , W. L. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. M. Liang , C. M. Liu , H. Liu , J. Liu , S. B. Liu , W. Q. Liu , Y. Liu , F. Loparco , C. N. Luo , M. Ma , P. X. Ma , T. Ma , X. Y. Ma , G. Marsella , M. N. Mazziotta , D. Mo , X. Y. Niu , X. Pan , A. Parenti , W. X. Peng , X. Y. Peng , C. Perrina , R. Qiao , J. N. Rao , A. Ruina , M. M. Salinas , G. Z. Shang , W. H. Shen , Z. Q. Shen , Z. T. Shen , L. Silveri , J. X. Song , M. Stolpovskiy , H. Su , M. Su , Z. Y. Sun , A. Surdo , X. J. Teng , A. Tykhonov , H. Wang , J. Z. Wang , L. G. Wang , S. Wang , X. L. Wang , Y. Wang , Y. F. Wang , Y. Z. Wang , Z. M. Wang , D. M. Wei , J. J. Wei , Y. F. Wei , S. C. Wen , D. Wu , J. Wu , L. B. Wu , S. S. Wu , X. Wu , Z. Q. Xia , H. T. Xu , Z. H. Xu , Z. L. Xu , Z. Z. Xu , G. F. Xue , H. B. Yang , P. Yang , Y. Q. Yang , H. J. Yao , Y. H. Yu , G. W. Yuan , Q. Yuan , C. Yue , J. J. Zang , F. Zhang , S. X. Zhang , W. Z. Zhang , Y. Zhang , Y. J. Zhang , Y. L. Zhang , Y. P. Zhang , Y. Q. Zhang , Z. Zhang , Z. Y. Zhang , C. Zhao , H. Y. Zhao , X. F. Zhao , C. Y. Zhou , Y. Zhu

An Unsupervised Machine Learning Method for Electron--Proton Discrimination of the DAMPE Experiment

Galactic cosmic rays are mostly made up of energetic nuclei, with less than $1\%$ of electrons (and positrons). Precise measurement of the electron and positron component requires a very efficient method to reject the nuclei background,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Zhihui Xu , Xiang Li , Mingyang Cui , Chuan Yue , Wei Jiang , Wenhao Li , Qiang Yuan

Cryogenic SiPMs for the Optical Readout of DarkSide-20k

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) have gained significant traction as an alternative technology to the well-established photomultiplier tube (PMT), with numerous high-sensitivity experiments adopting them either complementarily or as a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-24 Giuseppe Matteucci

Implications of dark matter cascade decay from DAMPE, HESS, Fermi-LAT and AMS02 data

Recent high-energy cosmic $e^\pm$ measurement from the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite confirms the deviation of total cosmic ray electron spectrum above 700-900 GeV from a simple power law. In this paper we demonstrate that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-11 Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma

Construction and characterisation of the DarkSide-20k veto silicon photo-multiplier tiles

Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) are state-of-the-art sensors capable of detecting a single photoelectron under cryogenic conditions, with potentially lower radioactivity than widely used photomultiplier tubes. The DarkSide-20k experiment,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-06 20k collaboration

Constraints on box-shaped cosmic ray electron feature from dark matter annihilation with the AMS-02 and DAMPE data

Precise measurements of spectra of cosmic ray electrons and positrons can effectively probe the nature of dark matter (DM) particles. In a class of models where DM particles initially annihilate into a pair of intermediate particles which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Lei Zu , Cun Zhang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

The Double-Sided Silicon Strip Detector Tracker onboard the ComPair Balloon Flight

The ComPair balloon instrument is a prototype of the All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) mission concept. AMEGO aims to bridge the spectral gap in sensitivity that currently exists from $\sim$100 keV to $\sim$100 MeV by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Nicholas Kirschner , Carolyn Kierans , Sambid Wasti , Adam J. Schoenwald , Regina Caputo , Sean Griffin , Iker Liceaga-Indart , Lucas Parker , Jeremy S. Perkins , Anna Zajczyk

Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from a 11 kg d Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB (ICRC2021 Proceedings)

Experimental efforts of the last decades have been unsuccessful in detecting WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) in the 10-to-10$^4$ GeV/$c^2$ range, thus motivating the search for lighter dark matter. The DAMIC (DArk Matter In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Michelangelo Traina

New Dark Matter Detectors using DNA or RNA for Nanometer Tracking

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) may constitute most of the matter in the Universe. The ability to detect the directionality of recoil nuclei will considerably facilitate detection of WIMPs. In this paper we propose a novel type…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 Andrzej Drukier , Katherine Freese , Alejandro Lopez , David Spergel , Charles Cantor , George Church , Takeshi Sano

Design of SPT-SLIM focal plane; a spectroscopic imaging array for the South Pole Telescope

The Summertime Line Intensity Mapper (SLIM) is a mm-wave line-intensity mapping (mm-LIM) experiment for the South Pole Telescope (SPT). The goal of SPT-SLIM is to serve as a technical and scientific pathfinder for the demonstration of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 P. S. Barry , A. Anderson , B. Benson , J. E. Carlstrom , T. Cecil , C. Chang , M. Dobbs , M. Hollister , K. S. Karkare , G. K. Keating , D. Marrone , J. McMahon , J. Montgomery , Z. Pan , G. Robson , M. Rouble , E. Shirokoff , G. Smecher

Progress report on the Large Scale Polarization Explorer

The Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) is a cosmology program for the measurement of large scale curl-like features (B-modes) in the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. Its goal is to constrain the background of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 L. Lamagna , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. Battistelli , A. Baù , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , C. Boragno , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , D. Corsini , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , F. Del Torto , V. Fafone , Z. Farooqui , F. Farsian , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , M. Grassi , D. Grosso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Paonessa , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Pezzotta , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , A. Rocchi , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , B. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

Machine learning-based method of calorimeter saturation correction for helium flux analysis with DAMPE experiment

DAMPE is a space-borne experiment for the measurement of the cosmic-ray fluxes at energies up to around 100 TeV per nucleon. At energies above several tens of TeV, the electronics of DAMPE calorimeter would saturate, leaving certain bars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Mikhail Stolpovskiy , Xin Wu , Andrii Tykhonov , Maksym Deliyergiyev , Chiara Perrina , Maria Munoz , David Droz , Arshia Ruina , Enrico Catanzani

First Dark Matter Search Results from a Surface Run of the 10-L DMTPC Directional Dark Matter Detector

The Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber (DMTPC) is a low pressure (75 Torr CF4) 10 liter detector capable of measuring the vector direction of nuclear recoils with the goal of directional dark matter detection. In this paper we present the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-27 S. Ahlen , J. B. R. Battat , T. Caldwell , C. Deaconu , D. Dujmic , W. Fedus , P. Fisher , F. Golub , S. Henderson , A. Inglis , A. Kaboth , G. Kohse , R. Lanza , A. Lee , J. Lopez , J. Monroe , T. Sahin , G. Sciolla , N. Skvorodnev , H. Tomita , H. Wellenstein , I. Wolfe , R. Yamamoto , H. Yegoryan