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The GAPS experiment is foreseen to carry out a dark matter search by measuring low-energy cosmic-ray antideuterons and antiprotons with a novel detection approach. It will provide a new avenue to access a wide range of different dark matter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-14 P. von Doetinchem , T. Aramaki , S. Boggs , H. Fuke , C. J. Hailey , S. I. Mognet , R. A. Ong , K. Perez , J. Zweerink

The GAPS experiment is foreseen to carry out a dark matter search using a novel detection approach to detect low-energy cosmic-ray antideuterons. The theoretically predicted antideuteron flux resulting from secondary interactions of primary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-02 Ph. von Doetinchem , T. Aramaki , St. Boggs , W. Craig , H. Fuke , F. Gahbauer , Ch. Hailey , J. Koglin , N. Madden , I. Mognet , K. Mori , R. Ong , T. Yoshida , T. Zhang , J. Zweerink

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is designed to carry out indirect dark matter search by measuring low-energy cosmic-ray antiparticles. Below a few GeVs the flux of antiparticles produced by cosmic-ray collisions with the…

The general antiparticle spectrometer (GAPS) experiment is a proposed indirect dark matter search focusing on antiparticles produced by WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle) annihilation and decay in the Galactic halo. In addition to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-09 T. Aramaki , S. E. Boggs , P. von Doetinchem , H. Fuke , C. J. Hailey , S. A. I. Mognet , R. A. Ong , K. M. Perez , J. Zweerink

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) will carry out a sensitive dark matter search by measuring low-energy ($\mathrm{E} < 0.25 \mathrm{GeV/nucleon}$) cosmic ray antinuclei. The primary targets are low-energy antideuterons produced…

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a balloon-borne instrument designed to detect cosmic-ray antimatter using the novel exotic atom technique, obviating the strong magnetic fields required by experiments like AMS, PAMELA, or…

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a novel approach for indirect dark matter searches that exploits cosmic antiparticles, especially antideuterons. The GAPS antideuteron measurement utilizes distinctive detection methods using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 T. Aramaki , C. J. Hailey , S. E. Boggs , P. von Doetinchem , H. Fuke , S. I. Mognet , R. A. Ong , K. Perez , J. Zweerink

Experiments aiming to directly detect dark matter (DM) particles have yet to make robust detections, thus underscoring the need for complementary approaches such as searches for new particles at colliders, and indirect DM searches in…

Low energy antideuterons suffer a very low secondary and tertiary astrophysical background, while they can be abundantly synthesized in dark matter pair annihilations, therefore providing a privileged indirect dark matter detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Howard Baer , Stefano Profumo

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a novel approach for the indirect dark matter search that exploits cosmic antideuterons. GAPS utilizes a distinctive detection method using atomic X-rays and charged particles from the exotic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-28 T. Aramaki , S. K. Chan , W. W. Craig , L. Fabris , F. Gahbauer , C. J. Hailey , J. E. Koglin , N. Madden , K. Mori , H. T. Yu , K. P. Ziock

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is an Antarctic balloon experiment designed for low-energy (0.1$-$0.3 GeV/$n$) cosmic antinuclei as signatures of dark matter annihilation or decay. GAPS is optimized to detect low-energy…

The search for antideuterons in cosmic rays has been proposed as a promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for dark matter particles with a low or intermediate mass. With the current operational phase of the AMS-02…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 N. Fornengo , L. Maccione , A. Vittino

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 General Anti-Particle Spectrometer (GAPS) project is being carried out to search for primary cosmic-ray antiparticles especially for antideuterons produced by cold dark matter. GAPS plans to realize the science observation by Antarctic…

The General AntiParticle Spectrometer experiment (GAPS) is foreseen to carry out a dark matter search using low-energy cosmic ray antideuterons at stratospheric altitudes with a novel detection approach. A prototype flight from Taiki, Japan…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 P. von Doetinchem , T. Aramaki , N. Bando , S. E. Boggs , H. Fuke , F. H. Gahbauer , C. J. Hailey , J. E. Koglin , S. A. I. Mognet , N. Madden , S. Okazaki , R. A. Ong , K. M. Perez , T. Yoshida , J. Zweerink

We report on recent accelerator testing of a prototype general antiparticle spectrometer (GAPS). GAPS is a novel approach for indirect dark matter searches that exploits the antideuterons produced in neutralino-neutralino annihilations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C J Hailey , T Aramaki , W W Craig , L Fabris , F Gahbauer , J E Koglin , N Madden , K Mori , H T Yu , K P Ziock

Low energy cosmic ray antideuterons provide a unique low background channel for indirect detection of dark matter. We compute the cosmic ray flux of antideuterons from hadronic annihilations of dark matter for various Standard Model final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Yanou Cui , John D. Mason , Lisa Randall

The search for an excess of antideuterons in the cosmic rays flux has been proposed as a very promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for WIMPs with a low or intermediate mass. With the development of the AMS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Vittino , N. Fornengo , L. Maccione

We propose a novel antiparticle detector. The gaseous antiparticle spectrometer (GAPS) effects particle identification through the characteristic X-rays emitted by antiparticles when they form exotic atoms in gases. GAPS obtains…

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