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ANAIS-112 three years data: a sensitive model independent negative test of the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter signal

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are well-motivated candidates for dark matter. One signature of galactic WIMPs is the annual modulation expected in a detector's interaction rate, which arises from Earth's revolution around the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Iván Coarasa , Julio Amaré , Jaime Apilluelo , Susana Cebrián , David Cintas , Eduardo García , María Martínez , Miguel Ángel Oliván , Ysrael Ortigoza , Alfonso Ortiz de Solórzano , Tamara Pardo , Jorge Puimedón , Ana Salinas , María Luisa Sarsa , Patricia Villar

Search for inelastic scattering of WIMP dark matter in XENON1T

We report the results of a search for the inelastic scattering of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the XENON1T dark matter experiment. Scattering off $^{129}$Xe is the most sensitive probe of inelastic WIMP interactions, with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-24 XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , S. Andaloro , E. Angelino , J. R. Angevaare , V. C. Antochi , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , L. Bellagamba , M. L. Benabderrahmane , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , B. Cimmino , M. Clark , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. Cuenca , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , A. Depoian , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , R. Di Stefano , S. Diglio , A. Elykov , A. D. Ferella , W. Fulgione , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , M. Galloway , F. Gao , L. Grandi , C. Hils , K. Hiraide , L. Hoetzsch , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , F. Joerg , N. Kato , S. Kazama , M. Kobayashi , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , S. Liang , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , A. Manfredini , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , D. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Miuchi , K. Mizukoshi , A. Molinario , K. Morå , S. Moriyama , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , K. Odgers , J. Palacio , B. Pelssers , R. Peres , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , S. Reichard , A. Rocchetti , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , N. Šarčević , M. Scheibelhut , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , A. Takeda , C. Therreau , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , K. Valerius , M. Vargas , G. Volta , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , T. Wolf , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , J. Ye , G. Zavattini , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , J. P. Zopounidis

The XENON Dark Matter Search Experiment

The XENON experiment aims at the direct detection of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) via their elastic scattering off Xe nuclei. A fiducial mass of 1000 kg, distributed in ten independent liquid xenon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Aprile , K. L. Giboni , P. Majewski , K. Ni , M. Yamashita , R. Gaitskell , P. Sorensen , L. DeViveiros , L. Baudis , A. Bernstein , C. Hagmann , C. Winant , T. Shutt , J. Kwong , U. Oberlack , D. McKinsey , R. Hasty

Performance of a SensL-30035-16P Silicon Photomultiplier array at liquid argon temperature

Next generation multi-ton scale noble liquid experiments have the unique opportunity to discover dark matter particles at the TeV scale, reaching the sensitivity of 10^-48 cm2 in the WIMP nucleon scattering cross-section. A prerequisite…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-07 S. Catalanotti , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , M. D Incecco , G. Fiorillo , G. Korga , B. Rossi , S. Walker

Surface background rejection technique for liquid argon dark matter detectors using a thin scintillating layer

Future large liquid argon direct dark matter detectors can benefit greatly from an efficient surface background rejection technique. To aid the development of these large scale detectors a test stand, Argon-1, has been constructed at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 D. Gallacher , M. Boulay

First results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using Ge cryogenic detectors with interleaved electrodes

The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter with an array of ten 400 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors equipped with interleaved electrodes for the rejection of near-surface events. Six months…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 E. Armengaud , C. Augier , A. Benoit , L. Berge , O. Besida , J. Blumer , A. Broniatowski , A. Chantelauze , M. Chapellier , G. Chardin , F. Charlieux , S. Collin , X. Defay , M. De Jesus , P. Di Stefano , Y. Dolgorouki , J. Domange , L. Dumoulin , K. Eitel , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , M. Gros , M. Hannawald , S. Herve , A. Juillard , H. Kluck , V. Kozlov , R. Lemrani , P. Loaiza , A. Lubashevskiy , S. Marnieros , X-F. Navick , E. Olivieri , P. Pari , B. Paul , S. Rozov , V. Sanglard , S. Scorza , S. Semikh , A. S. Torrento-Coello , L. Vagneron , M-A. Verdier , E. Yakushev , the EDELWEISS Collaboration

Dark Matter Direct Detection

Solving the Dark Matter enigma represents one of the key objectives of contemporary physics. Recent astrophysical and cosmological measurements have unambiguously demonstrated that ordinary matter contributes to less than 5 % of the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gabriel Chardin

Searching for Light Dark Matter and Dark Sectors with the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS

Since its approval in 2016, NA64 has pioneered light dark matter (LDM) searches with electron, positron, muon, and hadron beams. The experiment has successfully met its primary objectives, as outlined in the EPPS input (2018), and even…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-21 Yu. M. Andreev , A. Antonov , M. A. Ayala Torres , D. Banerjee , B. Banto Oberhauser , V. Bautin , J. Bernhard , P. Bisio , A. Celentano , N. Charitonidis , P. Crivelli , A. V. Dermenev , S. V. Donskov , R. R. Dusaev , V. N. Frolov , S. V. Gertsenberger , S. Girod , S. N. Gninenko , A. V. Ivanov , Y. Kambar , A. E. Karneyeu , G. Kekelidze , B. Ketzer , D. V. Kirpichnikov , M. M. Kirsanov , V. A. Kramarenko , N. V. Krasnikov , S. V. Kuleshov , V. E. Lyubovitskij , A. Marini , L. Marsicano , V. A. Matveev , R. Mena Fredes , R. Mena Yanssen , L. Molina Bueno , M. Mongillo , D. V. Peshekhonov , V. A. Polyakov , B. Radics , K. Salamatin , V. D. Samoylenko , H. Sieber , D. Shchukin , O. Soto , V. O. Tikhomirov , I. Tlisova , A. N. Toropin , M. Tuzi , P. V. Volkov , I. V. Voronchikhin , J. Zamora-Saá , A. S. Zhevlakov

Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from an 11 kg-day Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB

We present constraints on the existence of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) from an 11 kg-day target exposure of the DAMIC experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The observed energy spectrum and spatial distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , D. Baxter , G. Cancelo , B. A. Cervantes Vergara , A. E. Chavarria , J. C. D'Olivo , J. Estrada , F. Favela-Perez , R. Gaior , Y. Guardincerri , E. W. Hoppe , T. W. Hossbach , B. Kilminster , I. Lawson , S. J. Lee , A. Letessier-Selvon , A. Matalon , P. Mitra , C. T. Overman , A. Piers , P. Privitera , K. Ramanathan , J. Da Rocha , Y. Sarkis , M. Settimo , R. Smida , R. Thomas , J. Tiffenberg , M. Traina , R. Vilar , A. L. Virto

Light WIMP search in XMASS

A search for light dark matter using low-threshold data from the single phase liquid xenon scintillation detector XMASS, has been conducted. Using the entire 835 kg inner volume as target, the analysis threshold can be lowered to 0.3 keVee…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-31 K. Abe , K. Hieda , K. Hiraide , S. Hirano , Y. Kishimoto , K. Kobayashi , S. Moriyama , K. Nakagawa , M. Nakahata , H. Ogawa , N. Oka , H. Sekiya , A. Shinozaki Y. Suzuki , A. Takeda , O. Takachio , K. Ueshima , D. Umemoto , M. Yamashita , B. S. Yang , S. Tasaka , J. Liu , K. Martens , K. Hosokawa , K. Miuchi , A. Murata , Y. Onishi , Y. Otsuka , Y. Takeuchi , Y. H. Kim , K. B. Lee , M. K. Lee , J. S. Lee , Y. Fukuda , Y. Itow , K. Masuda , Y. Nishitani , H. Takiya , H. Uchida , N. Y. Kim , Y. D. Kim , F. Kusaba , D. Motoki , K. Nishijima , K. Fujii , I. Murayama , S. Nakamura

Dark matter direct search sensitivity of the PandaX-4T experiment

The PandaX-4T experiment, a four-ton scale dark matter direct detection experiment, is being planned at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. In this paper we present a simulation study of the expected background in this experiment. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-18 Hongguang Zhang , Abdusalam Abdukerim , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Xiangyi Cui , Binbin Dong , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Karl Giboni , Franco Giuliani , Linhui Gu , Xuyuan Guo , Zhifan Guo , Ke Han , Changda He , Shengming He , Di Huang , Xingtao Huang , Zhou Huang , Peng Ji , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Shaoli Li , Yao Li , Heng Lin , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Kaixiang Ni , Jinhua Ning , Xiangxiang Ren , Fang Shi , Andi Tan , Anqing Wang , Cheng Wang , Hongwei Wang , Meng Wang , Qiuhong Wang , Siguang Wang , Xiuli Wang , Xuming Wang , Zhou Wang , Mengmeng Wu , Shiyong Wu , Jingkai Xia , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Jijun Yang , Yong Yang , Chunxu Yu , Jumin Yuan , Jianfeng Yue , Dan Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Jifang Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou

Direct WIMP Detection Using Scintillation Time Discrimination in Liquid Argon

Discrimination between electron and nuclear recoil events in a liquid argon scintillation detector has been demonstrated with simulations by using the differences in the scintillation photon time distribution between these classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Boulay , A. Hime

A Strategy for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches with Cryogenic Detectors in the SuperCDMS SNOLAB Facility

The SuperCDMS Collaboration is currently building SuperCDMS SNOLAB, a dark matter search focused on nucleon-coupled dark matter in the 1-5 GeV/c$^2$ mass range. Looking to the future, the Collaboration has developed a set of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-04 SuperCDMS Collaboration , M. F. Albakry , I. Alkhatib , D. W. P. Amaral , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , I. Ataee Langroudy , E. Azadbakht , S. Banik , C. Bathurst , D. A. Bauer , R. Bhattacharyya , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , R. Calkins , R. A. Cameron , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeno , Y. -Y. Chang , M. Chaudhuri , R. Chen , N. Chott , J. Cooley , H. Coombes , J. Corbett , P. Cushman , F. De Brienne , S. Dharani , M. L. di Vacri , M. D. Diamond , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , C. W. Fink , K. Fouts , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , R. Germond , M. Ghaith , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , N. Hassan , B. A. Hines , M. I. Hollister , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , A. Jastram , V. K. S. Kashyap , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , R. E. Lawrence , M. Lee , A. Li , J. Liu , Y. Liu , B. Loer , P. Lukens , D. B. MacFarlane , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , A. J. Mayer , H. Meyer zu Theenhausen , E. Michaud , E. Michielin , N. Mirabolfathi , B. Mohanty , S. Nagorny , J. Nelson , H. Neog , V. Novati , J. L. Orrell , M. D. Osborne , S. M. Oser , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , D. S. Pedreros , R. Podviianiuk , F. Ponce , S. Poudel , A. Pradeep , M. Pyle , W. Rau , E. Reid , R. Ren , T. Reynolds , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , I. Saikia , J. Sander , A. Sattari , B. Schmidt , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , S. S. Poudel , D. J. Sincavage , C. Stanford , J. Street , H. Sun , F. K. Thasrawala , D. Toback , R. Underwood , S. Verma , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , S. L. Watkins , O. Wen , Z. Williams , M. J. Wilson , J. Winchell , K. Wyko , S. Yellin , B. A. Young , T. C. Yu , B. Zatschler , S. Zatschler , A. Zaytsev , E. Zhang , L. Zheng , S. Zuber

Status and Sensitivity Projections for the XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment

The XENON experimental program aims to detect cold dark matter particles via their elastic collisions with xenon nuclei in two-phase time projection chambers (TPCs). We are currently testing a new TPC at the 100 kg scale, XENON100. This…

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

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

If Dark Matter is made of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with masses below $\sim$20 GeV, the corresponding nuclear recoils in mainstream WIMP experiments are of energies too close, or below, the experimental threshold. Gas…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-21 F. J. Iguaz , J. G. Garza , F. Aznar , J. F. Castel , S. Cebrián , T. Dafni , J. A. García , I. G. Irastorza , A. Lagraba , G. Luzón , A. Peiró

Limits on light WIMPs with a germanium detector at 177 eVee threshold at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory

The China Dark Matter Experiment reports results on light WIMP dark matter searches at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory with a germanium detector array with a total mass of 20 g. The physics threshold achieved is 177 eVee ("ee"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-08-20 S. K. Liu , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , J. P. Cheng , H. T. Wong , Y. J. Li , S. T. Lin , J. P. Chang , N. Chen , Q. H. Chen , Y. H. Chen , Y. C. Chuang , Z. Deng , Q. Du , H. Gong , X. Q. Hao , H. J. He , Q. J. He , H. X. Huang , T. R. Huang , H. Jiang , H. B. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , J. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , X. Y. Li , Y. L. Li , H. Y. Liao , F. K. Lin , L. C. Lü , H. Ma , S. J. Mao , J. Q. Qin , J. Ren , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , M. B. Shen , L. Singh , M. K. Singh , A. K. Soma , J. Su , C. J. Tang , C. H. Tseng , J. M. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , Y. C. Wu , Z. Z. Xianyu , R. Q. Xiao , H. Y. Xing , F. Z. Xu , Y. Xu , X. J. Xu , T. Xue , C. W. Yang , L. T. Yang , S. W. Yang , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. Yu , X. Z. Yu , X. H. Zeng , Z. Zeng , L. Zhang , Y. H. Zhang , M. G. Zhao , W. Zhao , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu , W. B. Zhu , X. Z. Zhu , Z. H. Zhu

Limits on light WIMPs with a 1 kg-scale germanium detector at 160 eVee physics threshold at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory

We report results of a search for light weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter from the CDEX-1 experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL). Constraints on WIMP-nucleon spin-independent (SI) and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-27 L. T. Yang , H. B. Li , Q. Yue , K. J. Kang , J. P. Cheng , Y. J. Li , H. T. Wong , M. Aǧartioǧlu , H. P. An , J. P. Chang , J. H. Chen , Y. H. Chen , Z. Deng , Q. Du , H. Gong , L. He , J. W. Hu , Q. D. Hu , H. X. Huang , L. P. Jia , H. Jiang , H. Li , J. M. Li , J. Li , X. Li , X. Q. Li , Y. L. Li , F. K. Lin , S. T. Lin , S. K. Liu , Z. Z. Liu , H. Ma , J. L. Ma , H. Pan , J. Ren , X. C. Ruan , B. Sevda , V. Sharma , M. B. Shen , L. Singh , M. K. Singh , C. J. Tang , W. Y. Tang , Y. Tian , J. M. Wang , L. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Y. Wu , Y. C. Wu , H. Y. Xing , Y. Xu , T. Xue , S. W. Yang , N. Yi , C. X. Yu , H. J. Yu , J. F. Yue , X. H. Zeng , M. Zeng , Z. Zeng , Y. H. Zhang , M. G. Zhao , W. Zhao , J. F. Zhou , Z. Y. Zhou , J. J. Zhu , Z. H. Zhu

Dark Matter at Boulby Mine

The Boulby Dark Matter Collaboration (BDMC) is running a WIMP Dark Matter research programme in the underground laboratory of Boulby Mine. The two axes of the programme are based on (1) liquid Xenon (LXe) as the WIMP target and (2)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Luscher

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

Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz