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Results from the Final Exposure of the CDMS II Experiment

We report results from a blind analysis of the final data taken with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS II) at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, Minnesota, USA. A total raw exposure of 612 kg-days was analyzed for this work.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 The CDMS Collaboration , Z. Ahmed

Dark matter search with the SABRE experiment

The SABRE (Sodium Iodide with Active Background Rejection) experiment will search for an annually modulating signal from dark matter particles in our Galaxy using an array of ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detectors surrounded by an active scintillator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-07-24 Paolo Montini

Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment

LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a next generation dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Using a two-phase xenon detector with an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 D. S. Akerib , C. W. Akerlof , S. K. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , M. Arthurs , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , S. Balashov , D. Bauer , J. Belle , P. Beltrame , T. Benson , E. P. Bernard , T. P. Biesiadzinski , K. E. Boast , B. Boxer , P. Brás , J. H. Buckley , V. V. Bugaev , S. Burdin , J. K. Busenitz , C. Carels , D. L. Carlsmith , B. Carlson , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. J. Cherwinka , A. Cole , A. Cottle , W. W. Craddock , A. Currie , J. E. Cutter , C. E. Dahl , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. E. Y. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , T. K. Edberg , W. R. Edwards , A. Fan , S. Fayer , S. Fiorucci , T. Fruth , R. J. Gaitskell , J. Genovesi , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , M. G. D. van der Grinten , C. R. Hall , S. Hans , K. Hanzel , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , S. Hillbrand , C. Hjemfelt , M. D. Hoff , J. Y-K. Hor , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , W. Ji , A. C. Kaboth , K. Kamdin , J. Keefner , D. Khaitan , A. Khazov , Y. D. Kim , C. D. Kocher , E. V. Korolkova , H. Kraus , H. J. Krebs , L. Kreczko , B. Krikler , V. A. Kudryavtsev , S. Kyre , J. Lee , B. G. Lenardo , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , C. Levy , J. Li , J. Liao , F. -T. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , R. Linehan , W. H. Lippincott , X. Liu , M. I. Lopes , B. López Paredes , W. Lorenzon , S. Luitz , J. M. Lyle , P. Majewski , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , C. Maupin , D. N. McKinsey , Y. Meng , E. H. Miller , J. Mock , M. E. Monzani , J. A. Morad , E. Morrison , B. J. Mount , A. St. J. Murphy , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , J. Nikoleyczik , K. O'Sullivan , I. Olcina , M. A. Olevitch , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , S. J. Patton , E. K. Pease , B. Penning , A. Piepke , S. Powell , R. M. Preece , K. Pushkin , B. N. Ratcliff , J. Reichenbacher , C. A. Rhyne , A. Richards , J. P. Rodrigues , R. Rosero , P. Rossiter , J. S. Saba , M. Sarychev , R. W. Schnee , M. Schubnell , P. R. Scovell , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , J. J. Silk , C. Silva , K. Skarpaas , W. Skulski , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , I. Stancu , M. R. Stark , T. M. Stiegler , K. Stifter , M. Szydagis , W. C. Taylor , R. Taylor , D. J. Taylor , D. Temples , P. A. Terman , K. J. Thomas , M. Timalsina , W. H. To , A. Tomás , T. E. Tope , M. Tripathi , C. E. Tull , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , J. Va'vra , A. Vacheret , J. R. Verbus , E. Voirin , W. L. Waldron , J. R. Watson , R. C. Webb , D. T. White , T. J. Whitis , W. J. Wisniewski , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , S. D. Worm , M. Yeh , J. Yin , I. Young

The Present and Future of Searching for Dark Matter with LUX and LZ

The LUX collaboration new results advance the search for dark matter candidate particles in the 4 GeV/c^2 and higher mass range, with a maximal spin-independent 90% C.L. limit of 2 x 10^-46 cm^2 at 50 GeV/c^2 for its 332 live-day run,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Szydagis

Characterization of the background spectrum in DAMIC at SNOLAB

We construct the first comprehensive radioactive background model for a dark matter search with charge-coupled devices (CCDs). We leverage the well-characterized depth and energy resolution of the DAMIC at SNOLAB detector and a detailed…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-25 A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , I. Arnquist , D. Baxter , G. Cancelo , B. A. Cervantes Vergara , A. E. Chavarria , N. Corso , E. Darragh-Ford , M. L. Di Vacri , J. C. D'Olivo , J. Estrada , F. Favela-Perez , R. Gaïor , Y. Guardincerri , T. W. Hossbach , B. Kilminster , I. Lawson , S. J. Lee , A. Letessier-Selvon , A. Matalon , P. Mitra , A. Piers , P. Privitera , K. Ramanathan , J. Da Rocha , M. Settimo , R. Smida , R. Thomas , J. Tiffenberg , D. Torres Machado , M. Traina , R. Vilar , A. L. Virto

Can Tonne-Scale Direct Detection Experiments Discover Nuclear Dark Matter?

Models of nuclear dark matter propose that the dark sector contains large composite states consisting of dark nucleons in analogy to Standard Model nuclei. We examine the direct detection phenomenology of a particular class of nuclear dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-01 A. Butcher , R. Kirk , J. Monroe , S. M. West

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

Background studies for the EDELWEISS dark matter experiment

The EDELWEISS-II collaboration has completed a direct search for WIMP dark matter using cryogenic Ge detectors (400 g each) and 384 kg$\times$days of effective exposure. A cross-section of $4.4 \times 10^{-8}$ pb is excluded at 90% C.L. for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-11 E. Armengaud , C. Augier , A. Benoît , A. Benoît , L. Bergé , T. Bergmann , J. Blümer , A. Broniatowski , V. Brudanin , B. Censier , M. Chapellier , F. Charlieux , F. Couedo , P. Coulter , G. A. Cox , M. De Jesus , J. Domange , A. -A. Drilien , L. Dumoulin , K. Eitel , D. Filosofov , N. Fourches , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , M. Gros , S. Henry , S. Hervé , G. Heuermann , N. Holtzer , A. Juillard , M. Kleifges , H. Kluck , V. Kozlov , H. Kraus , V. A. Kudryavtsev , H. Le Sueur , P. Loaiza , S. Marnieros , A. Menshikov , X-F. Navick , C. Nones , E. Olivieri , P. Pari , B. Paul , O. Rigaut , M. Robinson , S. Rozov , V. Sanglard , B. Schmidt , S. Scorza , B. Siebenborn , S. Semikh , D. Tcherniakhovski , A. S. Torrento-Coello , L. Vagneron , R. J. Walker , M. Weber , E. Yakushev , X. Zhang

The ArDM Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory: a ton-scale detector for Dark Matter Searches

The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM) experiment consists of a liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC) sensitive to nuclear recoils resulting from scattering of hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on argon targets.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-24 ArDM Collaboration , J. Calvo , C. Cantini , P. Crivelli , M. Daniel , S. DiLuise , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , B. Montes , W. Mu , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , K. Ngyuen , L. Periale , Y. Quan , B. Radics , C. Regenfus , L. Romero , A. Rubbia , R. Santorelli , F. Sergiampietri , T. Viant , S. Wu

Exclusion limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross-section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their elastic-scattering interactions with nuclei while discriminating against interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

Results from the XENON100 Dark Matter Search Experiment

XENON100 is a liquid xenon time projection chamber built to search for rare collisions of hypothetical, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are candidates for the dark matter in our universe, with xenon atoms. Operated in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Laura Baudis

DarkSide-20k sensitivity to light dark matter particles

The dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber is presently one of the leading technologies to search for dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV/c$^2$. This was demonstrated by the DarkSide-50 experiment with approximately 50…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-07 20k Collaboration , F. Acerbi , P. Adhikari , P. Agnes , I. Ahmad , S. Albergo , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , M. Angiolilli , E. Aprile , R. Ardito , M. Atzori Corona , D. J. Auty , M. Ave , I. C. Avetisov , O. Azzolini , H. O. Back , Z. Balmforth , A. Barrado Olmedo , P. Barrillon , G. Batignani , P. Bhowmick , S. Blua , V. Bocci , W. Bonivento , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , A. Buchowicz , S. Bussino , J. Busto , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , R. Calabrese , V. Camillo , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Capra , M. Caravati , M. Cárdenas-Montes , N. Cargioli , M. Carlini , A. Castellani , P. Castello , P. Cavalcante , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , L. Cifarelli , D. Cintas , M. Citterio , B. Cleveland , Y. Coadou , V. Cocco , D. Colaiuda , E. Conde Vilda , L. Consiglio , B. S. Costa , M. Czubak , M. D'Aniello , S. D'Auria , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , G. Darbo , S. Davini , S. De Cecco , G. De Guido , G. Dellacasa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Capua , A. Di Ludovico , L. Di Noto , P. Di Stefano , L. K. Dias , D. Díaz Mairena , X. Ding , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , V. Dronik , A. Elersich , E. Ellingwood , T. Erjavec , M. Fernandez Diaz , A. Ficorella , G. Fiorillo , P. Franchini , D. Franco , H. Frandini Gatti , E. Frolov , F. Gabriele , D. Gahan , C. Galbiati , G. Galiński , G. Gallina , G. Gallus , M. Garbini , P. Garcia Abia , A. Gawdzik , A. Gendotti , A. Ghisi , G. K. Giovanetti , V. Goicoechea Casanueva , A. Gola , L. Grandi , G. Grauso , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , C. Guo , B. R. Hackett , A. Hallin , A. Hamer , M. Haranczyk , B. Harrop , T. Hessel , S. Hill , S. Horikawa , J. Hu , F. Hubaut , J. Hucker , T. Hugues , E. V. Hungerford , A. Ianni , V. Ippolito , A. Jamil , C. Jillings , S. Jois , P. Kachru , R. Keloth , N. Kemmerich , A. Kemp , C. L. Kendziora , M. Kimura , K. Kondo , G. Korga , L. Kotsiopoulou , S. Koulosousas , A. Kubankin , P. Kunzé , M. Kuss , M. Kuźniak , M. Kuzwa , M. La Commara , M. Lai , E. Le Guirriec , E. Leason , A. Leoni , L. Lidey , M. Lissia , L. Luzzi , O. Lychagina , O. Macfadyen , I. N. Machulin , S. Manecki , I. Manthos , L. Mapelli , A. Marasciulli , S. M. Mari , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , M. Martinez , C. J. Martoff , G. Matteucci , K. Mavrokoridis , A. B. McDonald , J. Mclaughlin , S. Merzi , A. Messina , R. Milincic , S. Minutoli , A. Mitra , S. Moioli , J. Monroe , E. Moretti , M. Morrocchi , T. Mroz , V. N. Muratova , M. Murphy , M. Murra , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , M. Nessi , G. Nieradka , K. Nikolopoulos , E. Nikoloudaki , J. Nowak , K. Olchanski , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , P. Organtini , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , D. Papi , G. Pastuszak , G. Paternoster , A. Peck , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , L. A. Pellegrini , R. Perez , F. Perotti , V. Pesudo , S. Piacentini , N. Pino , G. Plante , A. Pocar , M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , S. Puglia , M. Queiroga Bazetto , F. Ragusa , Y. Ramachers , A. Ramirez , S. Ravinthiran , M. Razeti , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , A. Rivetti , A. Roberts , C. Roberts , G. Rogers , L. Romero , M. Rossi , A. Rubbia , D. Rudik , M. Sabia , P. Salomone , O. Samoylov , E. Sandford , S. Sanfilippo , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , E. M. Santos , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , G. Schillaci , F. G. Schuckman , G. Scioli , D. A. Semenov , V. Shalamova , A. Sheshukov , M. Simeone , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , T. Smirnova , B. Smith , A. Sotnikov , F. Spadoni , M. Spangenberg , R. Stefanizzi , A. Steri , V. Stornelli , S. Stracka , S. Sulis , A. Sung , C. Sunny , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , O. Taborda , R. Tartaglia , A. Taylor , J. Taylor , S. Tedesco , G. Testera , K. Thieme , A. Thompson , A. Tonazzo , S. Torres-Lara , A. Tricomi , E. V. Unzhakov , T. J. Vallivilayil , M. Van Uffelen , L. Velazquez-Fernandez , T. Viant , S. Viel , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , J. Vossebeld , B. Vyas , M. B. Walczak , Y. Wang , H. Wang , S. Westerdale , L. Williams , R. Wojaczyński , M. Wojcik , M. M. Wojcik , T. Wright , Y. Xie , C. Yang , J. Yin , A. Zabihi , P. Zakhary , A. Zani , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel , M. P. Zykova

Projected Sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment

SuperCDMS SNOLAB will be a next-generation experiment aimed at directly detecting low-mass (< 10 GeV/c$^2$) particles that may constitute dark matter by using cryogenic detectors of two types (HV and iZIP) and two target materials…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-12 R. Agnese , A. J. Anderson , T. Aramaki , I. Arnquist , W. Baker , D. Barker , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , A. Borgland , M. A. Bowles , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , R. Calkins , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeño , H. Chagani , Y. Chen , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , P. Cushman , M. Daal , P. C. F. Di Stefano , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , S. Fallows , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , M. Ghaith , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , H. R. Harris , T. Hofer , D. Holmgren , Z. Hong , E. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , D. Jardin , A. Jastram , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , A. Leder , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , J. D. Morales Mendoza , J. L. Orrell , S. M. Oser , K. Page , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , A. Phipps , S. Poudel , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , H. E. Rogers , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , B. Serfass , D. Speller , M. Stein , J. Street , H. A. Tanaka , D. Toback , R. Underwood , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , B. Welliver , J. S. Wilson , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , B. A. Young , X. Zhang , X. Zhao

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment, results from the 2004 campaign and status of the current update

The CDMS II experiment uses Z-dependent Ionization Phonon (ZIP) detectors made of Germanium and Silicon to identify nuclear recoils from Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with near complete event-by-event rejection of various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel Leclercq

Dark Matter Results from First 98.7-day Data of PandaX-II Experiment

We report the WIMP dark matter search results using the first physics-run data of the PandaX-II 500 kg liquid xenon dual-phase time-projection chamber, operating at the China JinPing Underground Laboratory. No dark matter candidate is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-21 II Collaboration , Andi Tan , Mengjiao Xiao , Xiangyi Cui , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Karl Giboni , Franco Giuliani , Haowei Gong , Shouyang Hu , Xingtao Huang , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Siao Lei , Shaoli Li , Xiaomei Li , Xinglong Li , Hao Liang , Qing Lin , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Wolfgang Lorenzon , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Kaixuan Ni , Xiangxiang Ren , Michael Schubnell , Manbin Shen , Fang Shi , Hongwei Wang , Jiming Wang , Meng Wang , Qiuhong Wang , Siguang Wang , Xuming Wang , Zhou Wang , Shiyong Wu , Xiang Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Yong Yang , Jianfeng Yue , Xionghui Zeng , Hongguang Zhang , Hua Zhang , Huanqiao Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Jing Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou

The Scientific Reach of Multi-Ton Scale Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments

The next generation of large scale WIMP direct detection experiments have the potential to go beyond the discovery phase and reveal detailed information about both the particle physics and astrophysics of dark matter. We report here on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-05 Jayden L. Newstead , Thomas D. Jacques , Lawrence M. Krauss , James B. Dent , Francesc Ferrer

A Search for WIMPs with the First Five-Tower Data from CDMS

We report first results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment running with its full complement of 30 cryogenic particle detectors at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. This report is based on the analysis of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

First dark matter search results from a 4-kg CF$_3$I bubble chamber operated in a deep underground site

New data are reported from the operation of a 4.0 kg CF$_{3}$I bubble chamber in the 6800-foot-deep SNOLAB underground laboratory. The effectiveness of ultrasound analysis in discriminating alpha-decay background events from single nuclear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-21 E. Behnke , J. Behnke , S. J. Brice , D. Broemmelsiek , J. I. Collar , A. Conner , P. S. Cooper , M. Crisler , C. E. Dahl , D. Fustin , E. Grace , J. Hall , M. Hu , I. Levine , W. H. Lippincott , T. Moan , T. Nania , E. Ramberg , A. E. Robinson , A. Sonnenschein , M. Szydagis , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui

Simulation and background characterisation of the SABRE South experiment

SABRE (Sodium iodide with Active Background REjection) is a direct detection dark matter experiment based on arrays of radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystals. The experiment aims at achieving an ultra-low background rate and its primary goal is to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-03 E. Barberio , T. Baroncelli , L. J. Bignell , I. Bolognino , G. Brooks , F. Dastgiri , G. D'Imperio , A. Di Giacinto , A. R. Duffy , M. Froehlich , G. Fu , M. S. M. Gerathy , G. C. Hill , S. Krishnan , G. J. Lane , G. Lawrence , K. T. Leaver , I. Mahmood , A. Mariani , P. McGee , L. J. McKie , P. C. McNamara , M. Mews , W. J. D. Melbourne , G. Milana , L. J. Milligan , J. Mould , F. Nuti , V. Pettinacci , F. Scutti , Z. Slavkovská , N. J. Spinks , O. Stanley , A. E. Stuchbery , G. N. Taylor , C. Tomei , P. Urquijo , C. Vignoli , A. G. Williams , Y. Y. Zhong , M. J. Zurowski

The ArDM project: a Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiment based on Liquid Argon

The Dark Matter part of the universe presumably consists of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The ArDM project aims at measuring signals induced by WIMPs in a liquid argon detector. A 1-ton prototype is currently developed with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Kaufmann , A. Rubbia