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Looking for WIMPs through the neutrino fogs

We revisit the expected sensitivity of large-scale xenon detectors to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Assuming current primary noise sources can be mitigated, we find that with the present discrimination power between nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Itay M. Bloch , Salvatore Bottaro , Diego Redigolo , Ludovico Vittorio

A DAMA/Libra-phase2 analysis in terms of WIMP-quark and WIMP-gluon effective interactions up to dimension seven

We analyze the DAMA/Libra-phase2 modulation result using a basis of 16 effective operators describing the WIMP interaction with photons, gluons and quarks up to mass dimension seven. For each operator we fix the effective theory at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-28 Sunghyun Kang , Stefano Scopel , Gaurav Tomar

Model-Independent Determination of the WIMP Mass from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for Dark Matter. We develop a model-independent method for determining the mass $m_\chi$ of the WIMP by using data (i.e., measured recoil energies) of direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 Manuel Drees , Chung-Lin Shan

A combined analysis of PandaX, LUX, and XENON1T experiments within the framework of dark matter effective theory

Weakly interacting massive particles are a widely well-probed dark matter candidate by the dark matter direct detection experiments. Theoretically, there are a large number of ultraviolet completed models that consist of a weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-06 Zuowei Liu , Yushan Su , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Bingrong Yu , Qiang Yuan

Search for Dark Matter WIMPs using Upward Through-going Muons in Super-Kamiokande

We present the results of indirect searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with 1679.6 live days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector using neutrino-induced upward through-going muons. The search is performed by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 Kamiokande Collaboration , S. Desai , Y. Ashie , S. Fukuda , Y. Fukuda , K. Ishihara , Y. Itow , Y. Koshio , A. Minamino , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , T. Namba , R. Nambu , Y. Obayashi , N. Sakurai , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , H. Takeuchi , Y. Takeuchi , S. Yamada , M. Ishitsuka , T. Kajita , K. Kaneyuki , S. Nakayama , A. Okada , T. Ooyabu , C. Saji , M. Earl , E. Kearns , J. L. Stone , L. R. Sulak , C. W. Walter , W. Wang , M. Goldhaber , T. Barszczak , D. Casper , J. P. Cravens , W. Gajewski , W. R. Kropp , S. Mine , D. W. Liu , M. B. Smy , H. W. Sobel , C. W. Sterner , M. R. Vagins , K. S. Ganezer , J. Hill , W. E. Keig , J. Y. Kim , I. T. Lim , R. W. Ellsworth , S. Tasaka , G. Guillian , A. Kibayashi , J. G. Learned , S. Matsuno , D. Takemori , M. D. Messier , Y. Hayato , A. K. Ichikawa , T. Ishida , T. Ishii , T. Iwashita , J. Kameda , T. Kobayashi , T. Maruyama , K. Nakamura , K. Nitta , Y. Oyama , M. Sakuda , Y. Totsuka , A. T. Suzuki , M. Hasegawa , K. Hayashi , T. Inagaki , I. Kato , H. Maesaka , T. Morita , T. Nakaya , K. Nishikawa , T. Sasaki , S. Ueda , S. Yamamoto , T. J. Haines , S. Dazeley , S. Hatakeyama , R. Svoboda , E. Blaufuss , J. A. Goodman , G. W. Sullivan , D. Turcan , K. Scholberg , A. Habig , C. K. Jung , T. Kato , K. Kobayashi , M. Malek , C. Mauger , C. McGrew , A. Sarrat , E. Sharkey , C. Yanagisawa , T. Toshito , C. Mitsuda , K. Miyano , T. Shibata , Y. Kajiyama , Y. Nagashima , M. Takita , M. Yoshida , H. I. Kim , H. Okazawa , T. Ishizuka , Y. Choi , H. K. Seo , Y. Gando , T. Hasegawa , K. Inoue , J. Shirai , A. Suzuki , M. Koshiba , T. Hashimoto , Y. Nakajima , K. Nishijima , T. Harada , H. Ishino , M. Morii , R. Nishimura , Y. Watanabe , D. Kielczewska , J. Zalipska , R. Gran , K. K. Shiraishi , K. Washburn , R. J. Wilkes

Direct and indirect limits on the electro-magnetic form factors of WIMPs

We use the results of direct and indirect searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) to obtain bounds on various electro-magnetic form factors of WIMPs. The limits on the recoil signal in underground dark matter detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Pospelov , Tonnis ter Veldhuis

Aspects of spin-dependent dark matter search

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is the main candidate for the relic dark matter. A set of exclusion curves currently obtained for cross sections of the spin-dependent WIMP-proton and WIMP-neutron interaction is given. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Bednyakov

WIMP identification through a combined measurement of axial and scalar couplings

We study the prospects for detecting Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), in a number of phenomenological scenarios, with a detector composed of a target simultaneously sensitive to both spin-dependent and spin-independent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Bertone , D. G. Cerdeno , J. I. Collar , B. Odom

First Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search

We report results of a 14.1 kgd measurement with 15 superheated droplet detectors of total active mass 0.208 kg, comprising the first stage of a 30 kgd Phase II experiment. In combination with the results of the neutron-spin sensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 M. Felizardo , T. Morlat , A. C. Fernandes , TA Girard , J. G. Marques , A. R. Ramos , M. Auguste , D. Boyer , A. Cavaillou , C. Sudre , J. Poupeney , R. F. Payne , H. S. Miley , J. Puibasset

Standard Model anatomy of WIMP dark matter direct detection II: QCD analysis and hadronic matrix elements

Models of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) specified at the electroweak scale are systematically matched to effective theories at hadronic scales where WIMP-nucleus scattering observables are evaluated. Anomalous dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Richard J. Hill , Mikhail P. Solon

Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from a 11 kg d Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB (ICRC2021 Proceedings)

Experimental efforts of the last decades have been unsuccessful in detecting WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) in the 10-to-10$^4$ GeV/$c^2$ range, thus motivating the search for lighter dark matter. The DAMIC (DArk Matter In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 Michelangelo Traina

Silicon Detector Dark Matter Results from the Final Exposure of CDMS II

We report results of a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS) with the silicon detectors of the CDMS II experiment. This blind analysis of 140.2 kg-days of data taken between July 2007 and September 2008 revealed three…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-10-15 CDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , Z. Ahmed , A. J. Anderson , S. Arrenberg , D. Balakishiyeva , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , J. Billard , A. Borgland , D. Brandt , P. L. Brink , T. Bruch , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , D. G. Cerdeno , H. Chagani , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , C. H. Crewdson , P. Cushman , M. Daal , F. Dejongh , E. Do Couto E Silva , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , S. Fallows , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , J. Filippini , J. Fox , M. Fritts , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , R. H. Harris , S. A. Hertel , T. Hofer , D. Holmgren , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , A. Jastram , O. Kamaev , B. Kara , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , P. Kim , M. Kiveni , K. Koch , M. Kos , S. W. Leman , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , C. Martinez , K. A. McCarthy , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , D. C. Moore , P. Nadeau , R. H. Nelson , K. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , A. Phipps , K. Prasad , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , Y. Ricci , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , B. Serfass , B. Shank , D. Speller , K. M. Sundqvist , A. N. Villano , B. Welliver , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , J. Yoo , B. A. Young , J. Zhang

Search for WIMP Inelastic Scattering off Xenon Nuclei with XENON100

We present the first constraints on the spin-dependent, inelastic scattering cross section of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons from XENON100 data with an exposure of 7.64$\times$10$^3$\,kg\,day. XENON100 is a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , F. D. Amaro , M. Anthony , F. Arneodo , P. Barrow , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , L. Bütikofer , J. Calvén , J. M. R. Cardoso , M. Cervantes , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , P. de Perio , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , S. Diglio , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , R. Itay , B. Kaminsky , S. Kazama , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Manfredini , I. Maris , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , A. Molinario , K. Mora , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , M. -C. Piro , G. Plante , N. Priel , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , C. Reuter , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , M. Silva , H. Simgen , M. v. Sivers , A. Stein , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , M. Vargas , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang

Model-independent WIMP Scattering Responses and Event Rates: A Mathematica Package for Experimental Analysis

The community's reliance on simplified descriptions of WIMP-nucleus interactions reflects the absence of analysis tools that integrate general theories of dark matter with standard treatments of nuclear response functions. To bridge this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 Nikhil Anand , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , W. C. Haxton

Design and Construction of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector

The Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target. The projected cross section sensitivity for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 P. -A. Amaudruz , M. Baldwin , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , C. E. Bina , D. Bishop , J. Bonatt , G. Boorman , M. G. Boulay , B. Broerman , T. Bromwich , J. F. Bueno , P. M. Burghardt , A. Butcher , B. Cai , S. Chan , M. Chen , R. Chouinard , S. Churchwell , B. T. Cleveland , D. Cranshaw , K. Dering , J. DiGioseffo , S. Dittmeier , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , A. Erlandson , N. Fatemighomi , S. Florian , A. Flower , R. J. Ford , R. Gagnon , P. Giampa , V. V. Golovko , P. Gorel , R. Gornea , E. Grace , K. Graham , D. R. Grant , E. Gulyev , A. Hall , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , P. J. Harvey , C. Hearns , C. J. Jillings , O. Kamaev , A. Kemp , M. Kuźniak , S. Langrock , F. La Zia , B. Lehnert , O. Li , J. J. Lidgard , P. Liimatainen , C. Lim , T. Lindner , Y. Linn , S. Liu , P. Majewski , R. Mathew , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , K. McFarlane , T. McGinn , J. B. McLaughlin , S. Mead , R. Mehdiyev , C. Mielnichuk , J. Monroe , A. Muir , P. Nadeau , C. Nantais , C. Ng , A. J. Noble , E. O'Dwyer , C. Ohlmann , K. Olchanski , K. S. Olsen , C. Ouellet , P. Pasuthip , S. J. M. Peeters , T. R. Pollmann , E. T. Rand , W. Rau , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , N. Seeburn , B. Shaw , K. Singhrao , P. Skensved , B. Smith , N. J. T. Smith , T. Sonley , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , C. Stone , V. Strickland , B. Sur , J. Tang , J. Taylor , L. Veloce , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , J. Walding , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , R. White , E. Woolsey , J. Zielinski

ALP-SMEFT Interference

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) offers a powerful theoretical framework for parameterizing the low-energy effects of heavy new particles with masses far above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. Additional light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-17 Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner

Effective Theory for Electroweak Doublet Dark Matter

We perform a detailed study of an effective field theory which includes the Standard Model particle content extended by a pair of Weyl fermionic SU(2)-doublets with opposite hypercharges. A discrete symmetry guarantees that a linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-29 Athanasios Dedes , Dimitrios Karamitros , Vassilis C. Spanos

Limits on spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross sections from 225 live days of XENON100 data

We present new experimental constraints on the elastic, spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon cross section using recent data from the XENON100 experiment, operated in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. An analysis of 224.6 live days x…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 XENON100 collaboration , E. Aprile , M. Alfonsi , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , C. Balan , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , A. Behrens , P. Beltrame , K. Bokeloh , A. Brown , E. Brown , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , J. M. R. Cardoso , W. -T. Chen , B. Choi , A. P. Colijn , H. Contreras , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , E. Duchovni , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , W. Fulgione , F. Gao , M. Garbini , C. Ghag , K. -L. Giboni , L. W. Goetzke , C. Grignon , E. Gross , W. Hampel , F. Kaether , A. Kish , J. Lamblin , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , M. Le Calloch , D. Lellouch , C. Levy , K. E. Lim , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , K. Lung , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , F. V. Massoli , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , M. Messina , A. Molinario , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , R. Persiani , G. Plante , N. Priel , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , P. R. Scovell , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , H. Simgen , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , O. Vitells , H. Wang , M. Weber , C. Weinheimer

Dark matter signals at neutrino telescopes in effective theories

We constrain the effective theory of one-body dark matter-nucleon interactions using neutrino telescope observations. We derive exclusion limits on the 28 coupling constants of the theory, exploring interaction operators previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-20 Riccardo Catena

Search for WIMPs in liquid argon

Our group from the University of Zurich is performing R&D work towards the design of a large liquid argon detector to detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). This project is developed within the DARWIN Collaboration funded by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-19 C. Amsler