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The Argon Dark Matter experiment is a ton-scale double phase argon Time Projection Chamber designed for direct Dark Matter searches. It combines the detection of scintillation light together with the ionisation charge in order to…

Automated tools for the computation of particle physics' processes have become the backbone of phenomenological studies beyond the standard model. Here, we present MadDM v3.2. This release enables the fully automated computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-27 Chiara Arina , Jan Heisig , Fabio Maltoni , Daniele Massaro , Olivier Mattelaer

Riptide is a detector concept aiming to track fast neutrons. It is based on neutron--proton elastic collisions inside a plastic scintillator, where the neutron momentum can be measured by imaging the scintillation light. More specifically,…

Muon-induced neutrons constitute a prominent background component in a number of low count rate experiments, namely direct searches for Dark Matter. In this work we describe a neutron detector to measure this background in an underground…

The project of a micro-TPC matrix of cells of 3He for direct detection of non-baryonic dark matter is presented. The privileged properties of 3He for this detection are highlighted. The double detection: ionization-projection of tracks is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Daniel Santos , Emmanuel Moulin

Directional detection is a promising direct Dark Matter (DM) search strategy. The angular distribution of the nuclear recoil tracks from WIMP events should present an anisotropy in galactic coordinates. This strategy requires both a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-19 Q. Riffard , J. Billard , G. Bosson , O. Bourrion , O. Guillaudin , J. Lamblin , F. Mayet , J. -F. Muraz , J. -P. Richer , D. Santos , L. Lebreton , D. Maire , J. Busto , J. Brunner , D. Fouchez

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…

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next generation long baseline (1300 km) neutrino oscillation experiment. The neutrino beam measurements will be performed by a near detector (ND) and far detector (FD). The far detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-01 H. V. Souza

DarkSHINE is an electron fixed target experiment under proposal that aims to probe light dark matter in the MeV-GeV mass range via the invisible decay of dark photons, leveraging the High repetition rate 8 GeV electron beam from the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-16 Haijun Yang

The DMTPC directional dark matter detection experiment is a low-pressure CF4 gas time projection chamber, instrumented with charge and scintillation photon readout. This detector design strategy emphasizes reconstruction of WIMP-induced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Jocelyn Monroe

FASER$\nu$ is a newly proposed experiment which will take data in run III of the LHC during 2021-2023. It will be located in front of the FASER detector, 480~m away from the ATLAS interaction point in the forward direction. Its main goal is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Pouya Bakhti , Yasaman Farzan , Silvia Pascoli

Dark matter experiments are rare event search experiments that require zero background environment over very long exposures. To achieve this condition, a detailed simulation of detector geometry and experimental setup is required before the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-15 Susmita Das , Maitreyee Nandy , Mala Das

The technical design of the PANDA experiment at the future FAIR facility next to GSI is progressing. At the proposed anti-proton storage ring the spectroscopy of double Lambda hypernuclei is one of the four main topics which will be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-22 P. Achenbach , J. Pochodzalla , A. Sanchez Lorente , S. Sánchez Majos

We determine the neutrino spectra arising from low-mass (4-10 GeV) dark matter annihilating in the sun. We also determine the low-mass dark matter capture rates (element by element in the sun), assuming dark matter interacts either through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-16 Jason Kumar , John G. Learned , Katherine Richardson , Stefanie Smith

For optical systems, states inside the light cone could be detected by far-field measurement, while those below the light cone are not detectable by far-field measurement. A new method for far-field detection has been developed for…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-27 Jiajun Wang , Ang Chen , Maoxiong Zhao , Wenzhe Liu , Yiwen Zhang , Xiaohan Liu , Lei Shi , Jian Zi

The Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) has been designed to push the field of deep inelastic scattering to the high energy and intensity frontier using an intense electron beam with a proton beam from the High Luminosity-Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Guo-yuan Huang , Sudip Jana , Alvaro S. de Jesus , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Werner Rodejohann

Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers are planned to comprise a central role in the future of the U.S. High Energy Physics neutrino program. In particular, this detector technology will form the basis for the 40 kton Deep Underground…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-22 Eric Church , Christopher Jackson , Richard Saldanha

In the present ongoing study, we are proposing a prototype model for positron emission tomography detection technology by introduction of a new discriminatory window parameter. It can be a new generation PET detection technique. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-18 Sunil Kumar , Sushil Singh Chauhan , Vipin Bhatnagar

Positron physics touches on a wide-ranging variety of fields from materials science to medical imaging to high energy physics. In this paper we present the development of a flexible positron annihilation spectrometer appropriate for the…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-08-01 Jason Engbrecht , Nathaniel Hillson

Recently, new data on antiprotons and positrons from PAMELA, e- + e+ spectra from ATIC, FERMI and HESS up to TeV energies all indicate deviations from expectations, which has caused an interesting mix of new explanations, ranging from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Wim de Boer