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WIMPs are promising dark matter candidates. A WIMP occasionally collides with a mirror equipped with interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and the Einstein Telescope (ET). When WIMPs collide with a mirror…

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We present the technical design for the SuperCDMS high-voltage, low-mass dark matter detectors, designed to be sensitive to dark matter down to 300 MeV/$c^2$ in mass and resolve individual electron-hole pairs from low-energy scattering…

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We investigate novel strategies to extend the sensitivity of dark matter direct detection experiments to energy deposits well below the thresholds of conventional detectors. In liquid-argon time-projection chambers equipped with silicon…

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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…

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First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. This Letter reports results from LUX-ZEPLIN's…

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Searching for WIMPs with TREX-DM: achievements and challenges

The TREX-DM detector, a low background chamber with microbulk Micromegas readout, was commissioned in the underground laboratory of Canfranc (LSC) in 2018. Since then, data taking campaigns have been carried out with Argon and Neon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-21 Juan F. Castel , Susana Cebrián , Theopisti Dafni , David Díez-Ibáñez , Álvaro Ezquerro , Javier Galán , Juan Antonio García , Igor G. Irastorza , María Jiménez , Gloria Luzón , Cristina Margalejo , Ángel de Mira , Hector Mirallas , Luis Obis , Alfonso Ortiz de Solórzano , Oscar Pérez , Jaime Ruz , Julia Vogel

Light weakly interacting massive particles

Light WIMPs are dark matter particle candidates with weak scale interaction with the known particles, and mass in the GeV to 10's of GeV range. Hints of light WIMPs have appeared in several dark matter searches in the last decade. The…

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Germanium and Silicon Detectors for WIMP Searches: Key Experimental Insights

Dark matter plays a crucial role in our comprehension of the universe, but its mysterious nature poses challenges for direct detection. A primary obstacle in detecting dark matter is distinguishing genuine signals from the prevailing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-05 M. Mirzakhani , S. Maludze

Results of direct dark matter detection with CDEX experiment at CJPL

The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX), located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) whose overburden is about 2400m rock, aims at direct searches of light Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). A single-element…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-03-24 Hao Ma , Ze She , Zhongzhi Liu , Litao Yang , Qian Yue , Zhi Zeng , Tao Xue

Constraints on low-mass, relic dark matter candidates from a surface-operated SuperCDMS single-charge sensitive detector

This article presents an analysis and the resulting limits on light dark matter inelastically scattering off of electrons, and on dark photon and axion-like particle absorption, using a second-generation SuperCDMS high-voltage eV-resolution…

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First Results from the HDMS experiment in the Final Setup

The Heidelberg Dark Matter Search (HDMS) is an experiment designed for the search for WIMP dark matter. It is using a special configuration of Ge detectors, to efficiently reduce the background in the low-energy region below 100 keV. After…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus , A. Dietz , G. Heusser , I. V. Krivosheina , D. Mazza , H. Strecker , C. Tomei

Limits on WIMP dark matter with NaI(Tl) crystals in three years of COSINE-100 data

We report limits on WIMP dark matter derived from three years of data collected by the COSINE-100 experiment with NaI(Tl) crystals, achieving an improved energy threshold of 0.7 keV. This lowered threshold enhances sensitivity in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-24 G. H. Yu , N. Carlin , J. Y. Cho , J. J. Choi , S. Choi , A. C. Ezeribe , L. E. Franca , C. Ha , I. S. Hahn , S. J. Hollick , E. J. Jeon , H. W. Joo , W. G. Kang , M. Kauer , B. H. Kim , H. J. Kim , J. Kim , K. W. Kim , S. H. Kim , S. K. Kim , W. K. Kim , Y. D. Kim , Y. H. Kim , Y. J. Ko , D. H. Lee , E. K. Lee , H. Lee , H. S. Lee , H. Y. Lee , I. S. Lee , J. Lee , J. Y. Lee , M. H. Lee , S. H. Lee , S. M. Lee , Y. J. Lee , D. S. Leonard , N. T. Luan , V. H. A. Machado , B. B. Manzato , R. H. Maruyama , R. J. Neal , S. L. Olsen , B. J. Park , H. K. Park , H. S. Park , J. C. Park , K. S. Park , S. D. Park , R. L. C. Pitta , H. Prihtiadi , S. J. Ra , C. Rott , K. A. Shin , D. F. F. S. Cavalcante , M. K. Son , N. J. C. Spooner , L. T. Truc , L. Yang

Low Pressure Negative Ion Drift Chamber for Dark Matter Search

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are an attractive candidate for the dark matter thought to make up the bulk of the mass of our universe. We explore here the possibility of using a low pressure negative ion drift chamber to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 D. P. Snowden-Ifft , C. J. Martoff , J. M. Burwell

Nuclear Spin in Direct Dark Matter Search

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the main candidates for the relic dark matter (DM). The idea of the direct DM detection relies on elastic in-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) interaction of WIMPs with…

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Direct Search for Low Mass Dark Matter Particles with CCDs

A direct dark matter search is performed using fully-depleted high-resistivity CCD detectors . Due to their low electronic readout noise (RMS ~ 7 eV) these devices operate with a very low detection threshold of 40 eV, making the search for…

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Dark Matter Search with sub-keV Germanium Detectors at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory

Germanium detectors with sub-keV sensitivities open a window to search for low-mass WIMP dark matter. The CDEX-TEXONO Collaboration is conducting the first research program at the new China Jinping Underground Laboratory with this approach.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Qian Yue , Henry T. Wong

Direct and indirect detection of WIMPs

We present here the principles of detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, which could represent a large contribution to Dark Matter. A status of the experimental situation is given both for indirect and direct detection. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 O. Martineau