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New limits on spin-independent and spin-dependent couplings of low-mass WIMP dark matter with a germanium detector at a threshold of 220 eV

An energy threshold of (220+-10) eV was achieved at an efficiency of 50% with a four-channel ultra-low-energy germanium detector each with an active mass of 5 g. This provides a unique probe to WIMP dark matter with mass below 10 GeV. With…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-03-24 TEXONO Collaboration , S. T. Lin

Dark Matter Search with the DEAP-3600 Detector using the Profile Likelihood Ratio Method

We present here a search for WIMP dark matter using 790.8 live-days of data collected with 3269 kg of liquid argon (1266 kg fiducial) by the DEAP-3600 detector at SNOLAB, using the Profile Likelihood Ratio method. The likelihood model is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-17 DEAP Collaboration , P. Adhikari , R. Ajaj , M. Alpízar-Venegas , P. -A. Amaudruz , J. Anstey , D. J. Auty , M. Baldwin , M. Batygov , B. Beltran , A. Bigentini , C. E. Bina , W. Bonivento , M. G. Boulay , J. F. Bueno , P. M. Burghardt , A. Butcher , M. Cadeddu , B. Cai , M. Cárdenas-Montes , S. Cavuoti , Y. Chen , S. Choudhary , B. T. Cleveland , R. Crampton , S. Daugherty , P. DelGobbo , P. Di Stefano , G. Dolganov , L. Doria , F. A. Duncan , M. Dunford , E. Ellingwood , A. Erlandson , S. S. Farahani , N. Fatemighomi , G. Fiorillo , R. J. Ford , D. Gahan , D. Gallacher , A. Garai , P. García Abia , S. Garg , P. Giampa , A. Giménez-Alcázar , D. Goeldi , P. Gorel , K. Graham , A. Grobov , A. L. Hallin , M. Hamstra , S. Haskins , J. Hu , J. Hucker , D. Huff , T. Hugues , A. Ilyasov , B. Jigmeddorj , C. J. Jillings , A. Joy , G. Kaur , A. Kemp , M. Khoshraftar Yazdi , M. Kuźniak , F. La Zia , M. Lai , S. Langrock , B. Lehnert , J. LePage-Bourbonnais , M. Lissia , L. Luzzi , I. Machulin , P. Majewski , A. Maru , J. Mason , A. B. McDonald , T. McElroy , J. B. McLaughlin , C. Mielnichuk , L. Mirasola , A. Moharana , J. Monroe , A. Murray , M. Needs , C. Ng , G. Oliviéro , M. Olszewski , S. Pal , D. Papi , B. Park , M. Perry , V. Pesudo , T. R. Pollmann , F. Rad , C. Rethmeier , F. Retière , I. Rodríguez García , L. Roszkowski , R. Santorelli , F. G. Schuckman , N. Seeburn , S. Seth , V. Shalamova , P. Skensved , T. Smirnova , N. J. T. Smith , K. Sobotkiewich , T. Sonley , J. Sosiak , J. Soukup , R. Stainforth , M. Stringer , J. Tang , P. Taylor , R. Turcotte-Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , G. Vera Díaz , S. Viel , B. Vyas , M. Walczak , J. Walding , M. Ward , S. Westerdale , R. Wormington , A. Zuñiga-Reyes

First direction sensitive search for dark matter with a nuclear emulsion detector at a surface site

Fine-grained nuclear emulsion films have been developed as a tracking detector with nanometric spatial resolution to be used in direction-sensitive dark matter searches, thanks to novel readout technologies capable of exploiting this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-24 Atsuhiro Umemoto , Tatsuhiro Naka , Takuya Shiraishi , Osamu Sato , Takashi Asada , Giovanni De Lellis , Ryuta Kobayashi , Andrey Alexandrov , Valeri Tioukov , Nicola D Ambrosio , Giovanni Rosa

Direct Dark Matter Detection - A spin 3/2 WIMP candidate

We consider a Dark Matter candidate particle of spin 3/2 with neutrino-like Standard Model strength interactions. In the Majorana case, the particle can account for all of the Dark Matter for a range of masses between 70-160 GeV, depending…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Konstantin G. Savvidy , J. D. Vergados

Dark Matter Search Results from the Complete Exposure of the PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ Bubble Chamber

Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 C$_3$F$_8$ dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of C$_3$F$_8$ located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. The chamber was operated at thermodynamic thresholds as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 C. Amole , M. Ardid , I. J. Arnquist , D. M. Asner , D. Baxter , E. Behnke , M. Bressler , B. Broerman , G. Cao , C. J. Chen , U. Chowdhury , K. Clark , J. I. Collar , P. S. Cooper , C. B. Coutu , C. Cowles , M. Crisler , G. Crowder , N. A. Cruz-Venegas , C. E. Dahl , M. Das , S. Fallows , J. Farine , I. Felis , R. Filgas , F. Girard , G. Giroux , J. Hall , C. Hardy , O. Harris , T. Hillier , E. W. Hoppe , C. M. Jackson , M. Jin , L. Klopfenstein , C. B. Krauss , M. Laurin , I. Lawson , A. Leblanc , I. Levine , C. Licciardi , W. H. Lippincott , B. Loer , F. Mamedov , P. Mitra , C. Moore , T. Nania , R. Neilson , A. J. Noble , P. Oedekerk , A. Ortega , M. -C. Piro , A. Plante , R. Podviyanuk , S. Priya , A. E. Robinson , S. Sahoo , O. Scallon , S. Seth , A. Sonnenschein , N. Starinski , I. Štekl , T. Sullivan , F. Tardif , E. Vázquez-Jáuregui , N. Walkowski , E. Weima , U. Wichoski , K. Wierman , Y. Yan , V. Zacek , J. Zhang

Direct Dark Matter Search with XENON100

The XENON100 experiment is the second phase of the XENON program for the direct detection of the dark matter in the universe. The XENON100 detector is a two-phase Time Projection Chamber filled with 161 kg of ultra pure liquid xenon. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 S. E. A. Orrigo

First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment

We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a $\sim$2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy and the first ton-scale detector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 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 , 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 , R. Gardner , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , 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. Mariş , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , A. Molinario , K. Morå , 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 , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , S. Rosendahl , N. Rupp , R. Saldanha , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , M. v. Sivers , A. Stein , S. Thapa , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , M. Vargas , N. Upole , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu

First results from the NEWS-G direct dark matter search experiment at the LSM

New Experiments With Spheres-Gas (NEWS-G) is a direct dark matter detection experiment using Spherical Proportional Counters (SPCs) with light noble gases to search for low-mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). We report the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 G Collaboration , Q. Arnaud , D. Asner , J. -P. Bard , A. Brossard , B. Cai , M. Chapellier , M. Clark , E. C. Corcoran , T. Dandl , A. Dastgheibi-Fard , K. Dering , P. Di Stefano , D. Durnford , G. Gerbier , I. Giomataris , P. Gorel , M. Gros , O. Guillaudin , E. W. Hoppe , A. Kamaha , I. Katsioulas , D. G. Kelly , R. D. Martin , J. McDonald , J. -F. Muraz , J. -P. Mols , X. -F. Navick , T. Papaevangelou , F. Piquemal , S. Roth , D. Santos , I. Savvidis , A. Ulrich , F. Vazquez de Sola Fernandez , M. Zampaolo

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

Results of Dark Matter Search using the Full PandaX-II Exposure

We report the dark matter search results obtained using the full 132 ton$\cdot$day exposure of the PandaX-II experiment, including all data from March 2016 to August 2018. No significant excess of events is identified above the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Qiuhong Wang , Abdusalam Abdukerim , Wei Chen , Xun Chen , Yunhua Chen , Chen Cheng , Xiangyi Cui , Yingjie Fan , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Mengting Fu , Lisheng Geng , Karl Giboni , Linhui Gu , Xuyuan Guo , Ke Han , Changda He , Di Huang , Yan Huang , Yanlin Huang , Zhou Huang , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Shuaijie Li , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Wenbo Ma , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Yue Meng , Kaixiang Ni , Jinhua Ning , Xuyang Ning , Xiangxiang Ren , Changsong Shang , Lin Si , Guofang Shen , Andi Tan , Anqing Wang , Hongwei Wang , Meng Wang , Siguang Wang , Wei Wang , Xiuli Wang , Zhou Wang , Mengmeng Wu , Shiyong Wu , Weihao Wu , Jingkai Xia , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Jijun Yang , Yong Yang , Chunxu Yu , Jumin Yuan , Ying Yuan , Xinning Zeng , Dan Zhang , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Qibin Zheng , Jifang Zhou , Ning Zhou , Xiaopeng Zhou

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

The DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment

The DEAP-3600 experiment uses 3.6 tons of liquid argon for a sensitive dark matter search, with a sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section of $10^{-46}$ cm$^2$ at 100 GeV WIMP mass. This high sensitivity is achievable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Bei Cai

Recent Progress on D$^3$ -- The Directional Dark Matter Detector

Direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches may help overcome the challenges faced by direct dark matter detection experiments. In particular, directional detectors should be able to clearly differentiate a dark matter signal from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-04 Steven Ross

First results from a Dark Matter search with liquid Argon at 87 K in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory

A new method of searching for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) has been developed with the direct detection of the low energy nuclear recoils observed in a massive target (ultimately many tons) of ultra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Benetti , R. Acciarri , F. Adamo , B. Baibussinov , M. Baldo-Ceolin , M. Belluco , F. Calaprice , E. Calligarich , M. Cambiaghi , F. Carbonara , F. Cavanna , S. Centro , A. G. Cocco , F. Di Pompeo , N. Ferrari , G. Fiorillo , C. Galbiati , V. Gallo , L. Grandi , A. Ianni , G. Mangano , G. Meng , C. Montanari , O. Palamara , L. Pandola , F. Pietropaolo , G. L. Raselli , M. Rossella , C. Rubbia , A. M. Szelc , S. Ventura , C. Vignoli

XENON100 Dark Matter Results from a Combination of 477 Live Days

We report on WIMP search results of the XENON100 experiment, combining three runs summing up to 477 live days from January 2010 to January 2014. Data from the first two runs were already published. A blind analysis was applied to the last…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-13 XENON100 Collaboration , 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 , E. Duchovni , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , D. Franco , 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 , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , D. Lellouch , L. Levinson , M. Le Calloch , C. Levy , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Manfredini , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , Y. Meng , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , B. Miguez , A. Molinario , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , 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. D. Tunnell , R. Wall , H. Wang , M. Weber , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , Y. Zhang

Discovery prospects for heavy dark matter in KAGRA

We discuss the discovery prospects for kg-scale dark matter with a Yukawa-like long-range interaction in Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA). We consider the interaction range to be in the order of kilometers, thus the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-07 Chun-Hao Lee , Reinard Primulando , Martin Spinrath

Low Energy Investigations at Kamioka Observatory

At Kamioka Observatory many activities for low energy rare event search are ongoing. Super-Kamiokande(SK), the largest water Cherenkov neutrino detector, currently continues data taking as the fourth phase of the experiment (SK-IV). In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 Hiroyuki Sekiya

Search for low-mass dark matter WIMPs with 12 ton-day exposure of DarkSide-50

We report on the search for dark matter WIMPs in the mass range below 10 GeV/c$^2$, from the analysis of the entire dataset acquired with a low-radioactivity argon target by the DarkSide-50 experiment at LNGS. The new analysis benefits from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-18 50 Collaboration , P. Agnes , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , M. Ave , H. O. Back , G. Batignani , K. Biery , V. Bocci , W. M. Bonivento , B. Bottino , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , A. Caminata , N. Canci , M. Caravati , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , M. Carpinelli , V. Cataudella , P. Cavalcante , S. Cavuoti , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , C. Cicalò , G. Covone , D. D'Angelo , S. Davini , A. De Candia , S. De Cecco , G. De Filippis , G. De Rosa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , M. D'Incecco , C. Dionisi , F. Dordei , M. Downing , D. D'Urso , G. Fiorillo , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , C. Ghiano , C. Giganti , G. K. Giovanetti , A. M. Goretti , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guan , M. Gulino , B. R. Hackett , K. Herner , T. Hessel , B. Hosseini , F. Hubaut , E. V. Hungerford , An. Ianni , V. Ippolito , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , M. Kimura , I. Kochanek , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , M. Kuss , M. La Commara , M. Lai , X. Li , M. Lissia , G. Longo , O. Lychagina , I. N. Machulin , L. P. Mapelli , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , A. Messina , R. Milincic , J. Monroe , M. Morrocchi , X. Mougeot , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , A. O. Nozdrina , A. Oleinik , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , S. Piacentini , S. Piacentini , E. Picciau , A. Pocar , D. M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , S. S. Poudel , P. Pralavorio , D. D. Price , F. Ragusa , M. Razeti , A. Razeto , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , J. Rode , A. Romani , D. Sablone , O. Samoylov , W. Sands , S. Sanfilippo , E. Sanford , C. Savarese , B. Schlitzer , D. A. Semenov , A. Shchagin , A. Sheshukov , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , S. Stracka , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , E. V. Unzhakov , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , H. Wang , Y. Wang , S. Westerdale , M. M. Wojcik , X. Xiao , C. Yang , G. Zuzel

Dark Matter Search with Direction Sensitive Scintillators

We have carried out the dark matter search with a 116g direction-sensitive stilbene crystal in Kamioka Observatory. With the crystal fixed to the earth, we searched the modulation of thelight output. No modulation signal was found due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 H. Sekiya , M. Mionwa , Y. Shimizu , W. Suganuma , Y. Inoue

Recent results from the CDMS-II experiment

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS) employs low-temperature Ge and Si detectors to detect WIMPs via their elastic scattering interaction with the target nuclei. The current analysis of 397.8 kg-days Ge exposure resulted in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 T. Bruch