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First results of the ROSEBUD Dark Matter experiment

Rare Objects SEarch with Bolometers UndergrounD) is an experiment which attempts to detect low mass Weak Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) through their elastic scattering off Al and O nuclei. It consists of three small sapphire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 S. Cebrian , N. Coron , G. Dambier , E. Garcia , D. Gonzalez , I. G. Irastorza , J. Leblanc , P. de Marcillac , A. Morales , J. Morales , A. Ortiz de Solorzano , A. Peruzzi , J. Puimedon , M. L. Sarsa , S. Scopel , J. A. Villar

First Dark Matter Limits from the COUPP 4kg Bubble Chamber at a Deep Underground Site

The COUPP 4 kg bubble chamber employs 4.0 kg of CF$_3$I as a WIMP scattering target for use as a dark matter direct detection search. This thesis reports the first experimental results from operating this bubble chamber at the deep…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Drew Fustin

Background discrimination capabilities of a heat and ionization germanium cryogenic detector

The discrimination capabilities of a 70 g heat and ionization Ge bolometer are studied. This first prototype has been used by the EDELWEISS Dark Matter experiment, installed in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, for direct detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Di Stefano , L. Berge , B. Chambon , M. Chapellier , J. Chaumont , G. Chardin , P. Charvin , M. De Jesus , D. Drain , L. Dumoulin , P. Forget , P. Garoche , J. Gascon , C. Goldbach , D. L'Hote , J. Mallet , J. Mangin , S. Marnieros , L. Miramonti , L. Mosca , X. -F. Navick , G. Nollez , P. Pari , S. Pecourt , E. Simon , L. Stab , J. -P. Torre , R. Tourbot , D. Yvon

ArDM: first results from underground commissioning

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-17 A. Badertscher , F. Bay , N. Bourgeois , C. Cantini , A. Curioni , M. Daniel , U. Degunda , S. Di Luise , L. Epprecht , A. Gendotti , S. Horikawa , L. Knecht , D. Lussi , G. Maire , B. Montes , S. Murphy , G. Natterer , K. Nikolics , K. Nguyen , L. Periale , S. Ravat , F. Resnati , L. Romero , A. Rubbia , R. Santorelli , F. Sergiampietri , D. Sgalaberna , T. Viant , S. Wu

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

The XENON Dark Matter 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 Xenon nuclei. With a fiducial mass of 1000 kg of liquid xenon, a sufficiently low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 XENON Collaboration , Elena Aprile

XENON1T Dark Matter Data Analysis: Signal Reconstruction, Calibration and Event Selection

The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso is the most sensitive direct detection experiment for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting particles (WIMPs) with masses above $6\,$GeV/$c^2$ scattering off nuclei.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-06 E. Aprile , J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , L. Althueser , F. D. Amaro , V. C. Antochi , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , B. Bauermeister , L. Bellagamba , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , C. Capelli , J. M. R. Cardoso , 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 , A. Elykov , G. Eurin , J. Fei , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , M. Garbini , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , R. Itay , F. Joerg , S. Kazama , A. Kish , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , Q. Lin , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , F. Lombardi , J. A. M. Lopes , E. López Fune , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Manfredini , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , D. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , K. Miller , A. Molinario , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , K. Odgers , B. Pelssers , R. Peres , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , V. Pizzella , G. Plante , R. Podviianiuk , H. Qiu , D. Ramírez García , S. Reichard , B. Riedel , A. Rizzo , A. Rocchetti , N. Rupp , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , N. N. Šarčević , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , C. Therreau , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , N. Upole , M. Vargas , O. Wack , H. Wang , Z. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , J. Wulf , J. Ye , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , J. P. Zopounidis

First Dark Matter Search Results from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Experiment

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment is operating 1.5 km underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. In 2013, the experiment had a WIMP search exposure of 10,091 kg-days over a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-20 Carlos Faham

First Results from Dark Matter Search Experiment in the Nokogiriyama Underground Cell

An experiment to search for hypothetical particle dark matter using cryogenic thermal detector, or bolometer is ongoing. The bolometer consists of eight pieces of 21 g LiF absorbers and sensitive NTD germanium thermistors attached to them…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Ootani , M. Minowa , K. Miuchi , Y. Inoue , T. Watanabe , M. Yoshida , Y. Ito , Y. Ootuka

Direct Dark Matter Searches with CDMS and XENON

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) and XENON experiments aim to directly detect dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) via their elastic scattering on the target nuclei. The experiments use different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kaixuan Ni , Laura Baudis

In-situ Surface Contamination Removal and Cool-down Process of the DEAP-3600 Experiment

The DEAP-3600 experiment is a single-phase detector that uses 3600 Kg of liquid argon to search for Dark Matter at SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada, 6800 ft. underground. The projected sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-19 P. Giampa

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

A Detailed Look at the First Results from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Dark Matter Experiment

LUX, the world's largest dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber, with a fiducial target mass of 118 kg and 10,091 kg-days of exposure thus far, is currently the most sensitive direct dark matter search experiment. The initial null-result…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-02-26 M. Szydagis , D. S. Akerib , H. M. Araujo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , E. Bernard , A. Bernstein , A. Bradley , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. J. Chapman , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , T. Coffey , A. Currie , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. Dobson , E. Druszkiewicz , B. Edwards , C. H. Faham , S. Fiorucci , C. Flores , R. J. Gaitskell , V. M. Gehman , C. Ghag , K. R. Gibson , M. G. D. Gilchriese , C. Hall , S. A. Hertel , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , M. Ihm , R. G. Jacobsen , K. Kazkaz , R. Knoche , N. A. Larsen , C. Lee , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , D. C. Malling , R. Mannino , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , C. Nehrkorn , H. Nelson , F. Neves , R. A. Ott , M. Pangilinan , P. D. Parker , E. K. Pease , K. Pech , P. Phelps , L. Reichhart , T. Shutt , C. Silva , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , K. O'Sullivan , T. Sumner , D. Taylor , B. Tennyson , D. R. Tiedt , M. Tripathi , S. Uvarov , J. R. Verbus , N. Walsh , R. Webb , J. T. White , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , M. Woods , C. Zhang

Deep-underground dark matter search with a COSINUS detector prototype

Sodium iodide (NaI) based cryogenic scintillating calorimeters using quantum sensors for signal read out have shown promising first results towards a model-independent test of the annually modulating signal detected by the DAMA/LIBRA dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 The COSINUS Collaboration , G. Angloher , M. R. Bharadwaj , I. Dafinei , N. Di Marco , L. Einfalt , F. Ferroni , S. Fichtinger , A. Filipponi , T. Frank , M. Friedl , A. Fuss , Z. Ge , M. Heikinheimo , M. N. Hughes , K. Huitu , M. Kellermann , R. Maji , M. Mancuso , L. Pagnanini , F. Petricca , S. Pirro , F. Proebst , G. Profeta , A. Puiu , F. Reindl , K. Schaeffner , J. Schieck , D. Schmiedmayer , C. Schwertner , K. Shera , M. Stahlberg , A. Stendahl , M. Stukel , C. Tresca , F. Wagner , S. Yue , V. Zema , Y. Zhu

Twelve-crystal prototype of Li$_2$MoO$_4$ scintillating bolometers for CUPID and CROSS experiments

An array of twelve 0.28 kg lithium molybdate (LMO) low-temperature bolometers equipped with 16 bolometric Ge light detectors, aiming at optimization of detector structure for CROSS and CUPID double-beta decay experiments, was constructed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-05 CUPID , CROSS collaborations , : , K. Alfonso , A. Armatol , C. Augier , F. T. Avignone , O. Azzolini , M. Balata , I. C. Bandac , A. S. Barabash , G. Bari , A. Barresi , D. Baudin , F. Bellini , G. Benato , V. Berest , M. Beretta , M. Bettelli , M. Biassoni , J. Billard , V. Boldrini , A. Branca , C. Brofferio , C. Bucci , J. M. Calvo-Mozota , J. Camilleri , A. Campani , C. Capelli , S. Capelli , L. Cappelli , L. Cardani , P. Carniti , N. Casali , E. Celi , C. Chang , D. Chiesa , M. Clemenza , I. Colantoni , S. Copello , E. Craft , O. Cremonesi , R. J. Creswick , A. Cruciani , A. D'Addabbo , G. D'Imperio , S. Dabagov , I. Dafinei , F. A. Danevich , M. De Jesus , P. de Marcillac , S. Dell'Oro , S. Di Domizio , S. Di Lorenzo , T. Dixon , V. Dompé , A. Drobizhev , L. Dumoulin , G. Fantini , M. Faverzani , E. Ferri , F. Ferri , F. Ferroni , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , L. Foggetta , J. Formaggio , A. Franceschi , C. Fu , S. Fu , B. K. Fujikawa , A. Gallas , J. Gascon , S. Ghislandi , A. Giachero , A. Gianvecchio , M. Girola , L. Gironi , A. Giuliani , P. Gorla , C. Gotti , C. Grant , P. Gras , P. V. Guillaumon , T. D. Gutierrez , K. Han , E. V. Hansen , K. M. Heeger , D. L. Helis , H. Z. Huang , A. Ianni , L. Imbert , J. Johnston , A. Juillard , G. Karapetrov , G. Keppel , H. Khalife , V. V. Kobychev , Yu. G. Kolomensky , S. I. Konovalov , R. Kowalski , T. Langford , M. Lefevre , R. Liu , Y. Liu , P. Loaiza , L. Ma , M. Madhukuttan , F. Mancarella , C. A. Marrache-Kikuchi , L. Marini , S. Marnieros , M. Martinez , R. H. Maruyama , Ph. Mas , D. Mayer , G. Mazzitelli , Y. Mei , S. Milana , S. Morganti , T. Napolitano , M. Nastasi , J. Nikkel , S. Nisi , C. Nones , E. B. Norman , V. Novosad , I. Nutini , T. O'Donnell , E. Olivieri , M. Olmi , J. L. Ouellet , S. Pagan , C. Pagliarone , L. Pagnanini , L. Pattavina , M. Pavan , H. Peng , G. Pessina , V. Pettinacci , C. Pira , S. Pirro , D. V. Poda , O. G. Polischuk , I. Ponce , S. Pozzi , E. Previtali , A. Puiu , S. Quitadamo , A. Ressa , R. Rizzoli , C. Rosenfeld , P. Rosier , J. A. Scarpaci , B. Schmidt , V. Sharma , V. N. Shlegel , V. Singh , M. Sisti , P. Slocum , D. Speller , P. T. Surukuchi , L. Taffarello , C. Tomei , J. A. Torres , V. I. Tretyak , A. Tsymbaliuk , M. Velazquez , K. J. Vetter , S. L. Wagaarachchi , G. Wang , L. Wang , R. Wang , B. Welliver , J. Wilson , K. Wilson , L. A. Winslow , M. Xue , L. Yan , J. Yang , V. Yefremenko , V. I. Umatov , M. M. Zarytskyy , J. Zhang , A. Zolotarova , S. Zucchelli

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

First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment

The XENON100 experiment, in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, is designed to search for dark matter WIMPs scattering off 62 kg of liquid xenon in an ultra-low background dual-phase time projection chamber. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-03 The XENON100 Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Arisaka , F. Arneodo , A. Askin , L. Baudis , A. Behrens , E. Brown , J. M. R. Cardoso , B. Choi , D. B. Cline , S. Fattori , A. D. Ferella , K. -L. Giboni , K. Hugenberg , A. Kish , C. W. Lam , J. Lamblin , R. F. Lang , K. E. Lim , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , Y. Mei , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , E. Pantic , G. Plante , A. C. C. Ribeiro , R. Santorelli , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Schumann , P. Shagin , A. Teymourian , D. Thers , E. Tziaferi , H. Wang , C. Weinheimer

Recent status of the Dark Matter search with Edelweiss

The Edelweiss experiment uses Ge-bolometers with an improved background rejection (interleaved electrode design) to search for WIMP dark matter. The setup is located in the underground laboratory, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Y. Kozlov

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 using an array of ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detectors surrounded by an active scintillator veto to further reduce…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Giulia D'Imperio

Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $\sim$50 eV$_{ee}$, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 DAMIC Collaboration , A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , X. Bertou , D. Boule , M. Butner , G. Cancelo , A. Castañeda Vázquez , A. E. Chavarría , J. R. T. de Melo Neto , S. Dixon , J. C. D'Olivo , J. Estrada , G. Fernandez Moroni , K. P. Hernández Torres , F. Izraelevitch , A. Kavner , B. Kilminster , I. Lawson , J. Liao , M. López , J. Molina , G. Moreno-Granados , J. Pena , P. Privitera , Y. Sarkis , V. Scarpine , T. Schwartz , M. Sofo Haro , J. Tiffenberg , D. Torres Machado , F. Trillaud , X. You , J. Zhou