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Search for low-mass dark matter WIMPs with 12 ton-day exposure of DarkSide-50

We report on the search for dark matter WIMPs in the mass range below 10 GeV/c$^2$, from the analysis of the entire dataset acquired with a low-radioactivity argon target by the DarkSide-50 experiment at LNGS. The new analysis benefits from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-18 50 Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , M. Ave , H. O. Back , G. Batignani , K. Biery , V. Bocci , W. M. Bonivento , B. Bottino , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , A. Caminata , N. Canci , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , M. Carpinelli , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalò , G. Covone , D. D'Angelo , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , M. D'Incecco , C. Dionisi , F. Dordei , M. Downing , D. D'Urso , G. Fiorillo , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , C. Ghiano , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , A. M. Goretti , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. Gulino , B. R. Hackett , K. Herner , T. Hessel , B. Hosseini , F. Hubaut , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , M. Kimura , I. Kochanek , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , M. Lai , X. Li , M. Lissia , G. Longo , O. Lychagina , I. N. Machulin , L. P. Mapelli , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , A. Messina , R. Milincic , J. Monroe , M. Morrocchi , X. Mougeot , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , A. O. Nozdrina , A. Oleinik , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , S. Piacentini , S. Piacentini , E. Picciau , A. Pocar , D. M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , S. S. Poudel , P. Pralavorio , D. D. Price , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , J. Rode , A. Romani , D. Sablone , O. Samoylov , W. Sands , S. Sanfilippo , E. Sanford , C. Savarese , B. Schlitzer , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , S. Stracka , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , E. V. Unzhakov , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , M. M. Wojcik , X. Xiao , C. Yang , G. Zuzel

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

Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C$_3$F$_8$ located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The chamber was operated at thermodynamic thresholds as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 C. Amole , M. Ardid , I. J. Arnquist , D. M. Asner , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , M. Bressler , B. Broerman , G. Cao , C. J. Chen , U. Chowdhury , K. Clark , J. I. Collar , P. S. Cooper , C. B. Coutu , C. Cowles , M. Crisler , G. Crowder , N. A. Cruz-Venegas , C. E. Dahl , M. Das , S. Fallows , J. Farine , I. Felis , R. Filgas , F. Girard , G. Giroux , J. Hall , C. Hardy , O. Harris , T. Hillier , E. W. Hoppe , C. M. Jackson , M. Jin , L. Klopfenstein , C. B. Krauss , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , A. Leblanc , I. Levine , C. Licciardi , W. H. Lippincott , B. Loer , F. Mamedov , P. Mitra , C. Moore , T. Nania , R. Neilson , A. J. Noble , P. Oedekerk , A. Ortega , M. -C. Piro , A. Plante , R. Podviyanuk , S. Priya , A. E. Robinson , S. Sahoo , O. Scallon , S. Seth , A. Sonnenschein , N. Starinski , I. Štekl , T. Sullivan , F. Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , N. Walkowski , E. Weima , U. Wichoski , K. Wierman , Y. Yan , V. Zacek , J. Zhang

DARWIN: dark matter WIMP search with noble liquids

DARWIN (dark matter wimp search with noble liquids) is a design study for a next-generation, multi-ton dark matter detector in Europe. Liquid argon and/or liquid xenon are the target media for the direct detection of dark matter candidates…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Laura Baudis

First results from a Dark Matter search with liquid Argon at 87 K in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory

A new method of searching for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) has been developed with the direct detection of the low energy nuclear recoils observed in a massive target (ultimately many tons) of ultra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Benetti , R. Acciarri , F. Adamo , B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo-Ceolin , M. Belluco , F. Calaprice , E. Calligarich , M. Cambiaghi , F. Carbonara , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , A. G. Cocco , F. Di Pompeo , N. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , C. Galbiati , V. Gallo , L. Grandi , A. Ianni , G. Mangano , G. Meng , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , L. Pandola , F. Pietropaolo , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , A. M. Szelc , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli

Development and characterization of a slow wavelength shifting coating for background rejection in liquid argon detectors

We describe a technique, applicable to liquid-argon-based dark matter detectors, allowing for discrimination of alpha-decays in detector regions with incomplete light collection from nuclear-recoil-like events. Nuclear recoils and alpha…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-18 D. Gallacher , A. Leonhardt , H. Benmansour , E. Ellingwood , Q. Hars , M. Kuźniak , J. Anstey , B. Bondzior , M. G. Boulay , B. Cai , P. J. Dereń , P. C. F. Di Stefano , S. Garg , J. Mason , T. R. Pollmann , P. Skensved , V. Strickland , M. Stringer

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

First Results from the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso

We report the first results of DarkSide-50, a direct search for dark matter operating in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and searching for the rare nuclear recoils possibly induced by weakly interacting massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 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 Pietro , 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. V. 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. Mari , J. Maricic , L. Marini , C. J. Martoff , A. Meregaglia , E. Meroni , P. D. Meyers , R. Milincic , D. Montanari , A. Monte , M. Montuschi , M. E. Monzani , P. Mosteiro , B. Mount , V. Muratova , P. Musico , A. Nelson , S. Odrowski , M. Okounkova , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , E. Pantic , L. Papp , S. Parmeggiano , R. 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 , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , J. Tatarowicz , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , E. Unzhakov , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , S. 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

Application of the TPB Wavelength Shifter to the DEAP-3600 Spherical Acrylic Vessel Inner Surface

DEAP-3600 uses liquid argon contained in a spherical acrylic vessel as a target medium to perform a sensitive spin-independent dark matter search. Argon scintillates in the vacuum ultraviolet spectrum, which requires wavelength shifting to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-20 B. Broerman , M. G. Boulay , B. Cai , D. Cranshaw , K. Dering , S. Florian , R. Gagnon , P. Giampa , C. Gilmour , C. Hearns , J. Kezwer , M. Kuźniak , T. Pollmann , M. Ward

Preliminary test results of LAr prototype detector

WIMPs are a well-motivated galactic dark matter candidate. Liquid argon (LAr) is an attractive target for the direct detection of WIMPs. The LAr prototype detector is designed to study the technology and property of LAr detector. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-21 Pei-Xian Li , Meng-Yun Guan , Chang-Gen Yang , Peng Zhang , Jin-Chang Liu , Yong-Pen Zhang , Cong Guo , Yi Wang

Low-Mass Dark Matter Search with the DarkSide-50 Experiment

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

Status of the TREX-DM experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory

The TREX-DM experiment is conceived to look for low mass WIMPs by means of a gas time projection chamber equipped with novel micromegas readout planes at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. The detector can hold 20 l of pressurized gas up…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-29 F Aznar , J Castel , S Cebrian , I Coarasa , T Dafni , J Galan , JG Garza , FJ Iguaz , IG Irastorza , G Luzon , H Mirallas , A Ortiz de Solorzano , E Ruiz-Choliz , JA Villar

First results of the ROSEBUD Dark Matter experiment

Rare Objects SEarch with Bolometers UndergrounD) is an experiment which attempts to detect low mass Weak Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) through their elastic scattering off Al and O nuclei. It consists of three small sapphire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 S. Cebrian , N. Coron , G. Dambier , E. Garcia , D. Gonzalez , I. G. Irastorza , J. Leblanc , P. de Marcillac , A. Morales , J. Morales , A. Ortiz de Solorzano , A. Peruzzi , J. Puimedon , M. L. Sarsa , S. Scopel , J. A. Villar

Studies of a three-stage dark matter and neutrino observatory based on multi-ton combinations of liquid xenon and liquid argon detectors

We study a three stage dark matter and neutrino observatory based on multi-ton two-phase liquid Xe and Ar detectors with sufficiently low backgrounds to be sensitive to WIMP dark matter interaction cross sections down to 10E-47 cm^2, and to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Arisaka , P. Beltrame , C. W. Lam , P. F. Smith , C. Ghag , D. B. Cline , K. Lung , Y. Meng , E. Pantic , P. R. Scovell , A. Teymourian , H. Wang

TREX-DM: a low background Micromegas-based TPC for low mass WIMP detection

Dark Matter experiments are recently focusing their detection techniques in low-mass WIMPs, which requires the use of light elements and low energy threshold. In this context, we present the TREX-DM experiment, a low background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-24 F. J. Iguaz , J. G. Garza , F. Aznar , J. F. Castel , S. Cebrian , T. Dafni , J. A. Garcia , H. Gomez , D. Gonzalez-Diaz , I. G. Irastorza , A. Lagraba , G. Luzon , A. Peiro , A. Rodriguez

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

Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $\sim$50 eV$_{ee}$, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 DAMIC Collaboration , A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , X. Bertou , D. Boule , M. Butner , G. Cancelo , A. Castañeda Vázquez , A. E. Chavarría , J. R. T. de Melo 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. Schwartz , M. Sofo Haro , J. Tiffenberg , D. Torres Machado , F. Trillaud , X. You , J. Zhou

New limits on WIMP interactions from the SIMPLE dark matter search

The SIMPLE project uses superheated C2ClF5 liquid detectors to search for particle dark matter candidates. We report the results of the first stage exposure (14.1 kgd) of its latest two-stage, Phase II run, with 15 superheated droplet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-11 TA Girard , T. A. Morlat , M. Felizardo , A. C. Fernandes , A. R. Ramos , J. G. Marques

ArDM: a ton-scale LAr detector for direct Dark Matter searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM-1t) experiment is a ton-scale liquid argon (LAr) double-phase time projection chamber designed for direct Dark Matter searches. Such a device allows to explore the low energy frontier in LAr with a charge imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-20 ArDM Collaboration , A. Marchionni , C. Amsler , A. Badertscher , V. Boccone , A. Bueno , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , J. Coleman , W. Creus , A. Curioni , M. Daniel , E. J. Dawe , U. Degunda , A. Gendotti , L. Epprecht , S. Horikawa , L. Kaufmann , L. Knecht , M. Laffranchi , C. Lazzaro , P. K. Lightfoot , D. Lussi , J. Lozano , K. Mavrokoridis , A. Melgarejo , P. Mijakowski , G. Natterer , S. Navas-Concha , P. Otyugova , M. de Prado , P. Przewlocki , C. Regenfus , F. Resnati , M. Robinson , J. Rochet , L. Romero , E. Rondio , A. Rubbia , L. Scotto-Lavina , N. J. C. Spooner , T. Strauss , C. Touramanis , J. Ulbricht , T. Viant

Dark matter sensitivity of multi-ton liquid xenon detectors

We study the sensitivity of multi ton-scale time projection chambers using a liquid xenon target, e.g., the proposed DARWIN instrument, to spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon scattering interactions. Taking into account…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-14 Marc Schumann , Laura Baudis , Lukas Bütikofer , Alexander Kish , Marco Selvi

MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

The MiniCLEAN dark matter experiment will exploit a single-phase liquid-argon detector instrumented with 92 photomultiplier tubes placed in the cryogen temperature with 4-$\pi$ coverage of a 500 kg (150 kg) target (fiducial) mass. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-08 JuiJen , Wang