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Dark Matter Search in the EDELWEISS experiment

The EDELWEISS Dark Matter Search uses low-temperature Ge detectors with heat and ionisation read-out to identify nuclear recoils induced by elastic collisions with WIMPs from the galactic halo. Preliminary results obtained with 320g…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Juillard , A. Benoit , L. Berge , A. Bonnevaux , R. Bouvier , A. Broniatowski , B. Chambon , M. Chapellier , G. Chardin , P. Charvin , P. Cluzel , M. De Jesus , P. Di Stefano , D. Drain , L. Dumoulin , J. Gascon , G. Gerbier , C. Goldbach , M. Goyot , M. Gros , J. P. Hadjout , A. De Lesquen , M. Loidl , D. Loiseau , J. Mallet , S. Marnieros , O. Martineau , N. Mirabolfathi , L. Mosca , X-F. Navick , G. Nollez , P. Pari , C. Pastor , E. Simon , M. Stern , L. Vagneron

Search for low-mass dark matter with the DAMIC experiment

The DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment searches for the interactions of dark matter particles with the nuclei and the electrons in the silicon bulk of thick fully depleted charge-coupled devices (CCDs). Because of the low noise and low…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-02 Mariangela Settimo

Direct Dark Matter Search with the CRESST II Experiment

The quest for the particle nature of dark matter is one of the big open questions of modern physics. A well motivated candidate for dark matter is the so-called WIMP - a weakly interacting massive particle. Recently several theoretically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 J Schieck , G Angloher , A Bento , C Bucci , L Canonica , X Defay , A Erb , F v Feilitzsch , N Ferreiro Iachellini , P Gorla , A Guetlein , D Hauff , J Jochum , M Kiefer , H Kluck , H Kraus , J-C Lanfranchi , J Loebell , M Mancuso , A Muenster , C Pagliarone , F Petricca , W Potzel , F Pröbst , R Puig , F Reindl , K Schaeffner , S Schoenert , W Seidel , M Stahlberg , L Stodolsky , C Strandhagen , R Strauss , A Tanzke , H H Trinh Thi , C Turkoglu , M Uffinger , A Ulrich , I Usherov , S Wawoczny , M Willers , M Wueustrich , A Zoeller

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-15 The DarkSide Collaboration , P. Agnes , L. Agostino , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , K. Arisaka , H. O. Back , B. Baldin , K. Biery , G. Bonfini , M. Bossa , B. Bottino , A. Brigatti , J. Brodsky , F. Budano , S. Bussino , M. Cadeddu , L. Cadonati , M. Cadoni , F. Calaprice , N. Canci , A. Candela , H. Cao , M. Cariello , M. Carlini , S. Catalanotti , P. Cavalcante , A. Chepurnov , A. G. Cocco , G. Covone , L. Crippa , D. D'Angelo , M. D'Incecco , S. Davini , S. De Cecco , M. De Deo , M. De Vincenzi , A. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Eusanio , G. Di Pietro , E. Edkins , A. Empl , A. Fan , G. Fiorillo , K. Fomenko , G. Forster , D. Franco , F. Gabriele , C. Galbiati , C. Giganti , A. M. Goretti , F. Granato , L. Grandi , M. Gromov , M. Guan , Y. Guardincerri , B. R. Hackett , K. Herner , E. V. Hungerford , Al. Ianni , An. Ianni , I. James , C. Jollet , K. Keeter , C. L. Kendziora , V. Kobychev , G. Koh , D. Korablev , G. Korga , A. Kubankin , X. Li , M. Lissia , P. Lombardi , S. Luitz , Y. Ma , I. N. Machulin , A. Mandarano , S. M. Mari , J. Maricic , L. Marini , C. J. Martoff , A. Meregaglia , P. D. Meyers , T. Miletic , R. Milincic , D. Montanari , A. Monte , M. Montuschi , M. Monzani , P. Mosteiro , B. J. Mount , V. N. Muratova , P. Musico , J. Napolitano , A. Nelson , S. Odrowski , M. Orsini , F. Ortica , L. Pagani , M. Pallavicini , E. Pantic , S. Parmeggiano , K. Pelczar , N. Pelliccia , S. Perasso , A. Pocar , S. Pordes , D. A. Pugachev , H. Qian , K. Randle , G. Ranucci , A. Razeto , B. Reinhold , A. L. Renshaw , A. Romani , B. Rossi , N. Rossi , D. Rountree , D. Sablone , P. Saggese , R. Saldanha , W. Sands , S. Sangiorgio , C. Savarese , E. Segreto , D. A. Semenov , E. Shields , P. N. Singh , M. D. Skorokhvatov , M. Smallcomb , O. Smirnov , A. Sotnikov , C. Stanford , Y. Suvorov , R. Tartaglia , J. Tatarowicz , G. Testera , A. Tonazzo , P. Trinchese , E. V. Unzhakov , A. Vishneva , B. Vogelaar , M. Wada , S. Walker , H. Wang , Y. Wang , A. W. Watson , S. Westerdale , J. Wilhelmi , M. M. Wojcik , X. Xiang , J. Xu , C. Yang , J. Yoo , S. Zavatarelli , A. Zec , W. Zhong , C. Zhu , G. Zuzel

Identifying WIMP dark matter from particle and astroparticle data

One of the most promising strategies to identify the nature of dark matter consists in the search for new particles at accelerators and with so-called direct detection experiments. Working within the framework of simplified models, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-04 Gianfranco Bertone , Nassim Bozorgnia , Jong Soo Kim , Sebastian Liem , Christopher McCabe , Sydney Otten , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

The Dark Matter Search at Jaduguda Underground Science Laboratory

The first run for the dark matter direct search experiment at Jaduguda Underground Science Laboratory is presented in this article. The experiment named InDEx; the Indian Dark matter search Experiment has been initiated with superheated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-07 Vimal Kumar , Susmita Das , Mala Das

Dark Matter searches in Dwarf Galaxies with the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter density of the Universe, yet its true nature remains uncertain. Among dark matter theories, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a prominent candidate for dark matter because…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Micael Andrade , Aion Viana

Phenomenological Introduction to Direct Dark Matter Detection

The dark matter of our galactic halo may be constituted by elementary particles that interact weakly with ordinary matter (WIMPs). In spite of the very low counting rates expected for these dark matter particles to scatter off nuclei in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Gondolo

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-21 SHiP Collaboration , M. Anelli , S. Aoki , G. Arduini , J. J. Back , A. Bagulya , W. Baldini , A. Baranov , G. J. Barker , S. Barsuk , M. Battistin , J. Bauche , A. Bay , V. Bayliss , L. Bellagamba , G. Bencivenni , M. Bertani , O. Bezshyyko , D. Bick , N. Bingefors , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , A. Boyarsky , D. Bonacorsi , D. Bondarenko , W. Bonivento , J. Borburgh , T. Bradshaw , R. Brenner , D. Breton , N. Brook , M. Bruschi , A. Buonaura , S. Buontempo , S. Cadeddu , A. Calcaterra , M. Calviani , M. Campanelli , C. Capoccia , A. Cecchetti , A. Chatterjee , J. Chauveau , A. Chepurnov , M. Chernyavskiy , P. Ciambrone , C. Cicalo , G. Conti , K. Cornelis , M. Courthold , M. G. Dallavalle , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , L. Dedenko , A. Di Crescenzo , N. Di Marco , C. Dib , J. Dietrich , H. Dijkstra , D. Domenici , S. Donskov , D. Druzhkin , J. Ebert , U. Egede , A. Egorov , V. Egorychev , M. A. El Alaoui , T. Enik , A. Etenko , F. Fabbri , L. Fabbri , G. Fedorova , G. Felici , M. Ferro-Luzzi , R. A. Fini , M. Franke , M. Fraser , G. Galati , B. Giacobbe , B. Goddard , L. Golinka-Bezshyyko , D. Golubkov , A. Golutvin , D. Gorbunov , E. Graverini , J-L Grenard , A. M. Guler , C. Hagner , H. Hakobyan , J. C. Helo , E. van Herwijnen , D. Horvath , M. Iacovacci , G. Iaselli , R. Jacobsson , I. Kadenko , M. Kamiscioglu , C. Kamiscioglu , G. Khaustov , A. Khotjansev , B. Kilminster , V. Kim , N. Kitagawa , K. Kodama , A. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , M. Komatsu , N. Konovalova , S. Koretskiy , I. Korolko , A. Korzenev , S. Kovalenko , Y. Kudenko , E. Kuznetsova , H. Lacker , A. Lai , G. Lanfranchi , A. Lauria , H. Lebbolo , J. -M. Levy , L. Lista , P. Loverre , A. Lukiashin , V. E. Lyubovitskij , A. Malinin , M. Manfredi , A. Perillo-Marcone , A. Marrone , R. Matev , E. N. Messomo , P. Mermod , S. Mikado , Yu. Mikhaylov , J. Miller , D. Milstead , O. Mineev , R. Mingazheva , G. Mitselmakher , M. Miyanishi , P. Monacelli , A. Montanari , M. C. Montesi , G. Morello , K. Morishima , S. Movtchan , V. Murzin , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , N. Nurakhov , B. Obinyakov , K. Ocalan , S. Ogawa , V. Oreshkin , A. Orlov , J. Osborne , P. Pacholek , J. Panman , A. Paoloni , L. Paparella , A. Pastore , M. Patel , K. Petridis , M. Petrushin , M. Poli-Lener , N. Polukhina , V. Polyakov , M. Prokudin , G. Puddu , F. Pupilli , F. Rademakers , A. Rakai , T. Rawlings , F. Redi , S. Ricciardi , R. Rinaldesi , T. Roganova , A. Rogozhnikov , H. Rokujo , A. Romaniouk , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , T. Rovelli , O. Ruchayskiy , T. Ruf , G. Saitta , V. Samoylenko , V. Samsonov , A. Sanz Ull , A. Saputi , O. Sato , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , N. Serra , S. Sgobba , M. Shaposhnikov , P. Shatalov , A. Shaykhiev , L. Shchutska , V. Shevchenko , H. Shibuya , Y. Shitov , S. Silverstein , S. Simone , M. Skorokhvatov , S. Smirnov , E. Solodko , V. Sosnovtsev , R. Spighi , M. Spinetti , N. Starkov , B. Storaci , C. Strabel , P. Strolin , S. Takahashi , P. Teterin , V. Tioukov , D. Tommasini , D. Treille , R. Tsenov , T. Tshchedrina , A. Ustyuzhanin , F. Vannucci , V. Venturi , M. Villa , Heinz Vincke , Helmut Vincke , M. Vladymyrov , S. Xella , M. Yalvac , N. Yershov , D. Yilmaz , A. U. Yilmazer , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. Zaitsev , A. Zoccoli

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

Studies of a three-stage dark matter and neutrino observatory based on multi-ton combinations of liquid xenon and liquid argon detectors

We study a three stage dark matter and neutrino observatory based on multi-ton two-phase liquid Xe and Ar detectors with sufficiently low backgrounds to be sensitive to WIMP dark matter interaction cross sections down to 10E-47 cm^2, and to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Arisaka , P. Beltrame , C. W. Lam , P. F. Smith , C. Ghag , D. B. Cline , K. Lung , Y. Meng , E. Pantic , P. R. Scovell , A. Teymourian , H. Wang

Large-Mass Ultra-Low Noise Germanium Detectors: Performance and Applications in Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics

A new type of radiation detector, a p-type modified electrode germanium diode, is presented. The prototype displays, for the first time, a combination of features (mass, energy threshold and background expectation) required for a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-12 P. S. Barbeau , J. I. Collar , O. Tench

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

Probing low-mass WIMP candidates of dark matter with tetrafluoroethane superheated liquid detectors

Probing low mass (sub-GeV -- few GeV) Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) candidates of dark matter through WIMP-induced nuclear recoils in direct detection experiments requires use of detector materials consisting of low mass target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-13 Susnata Seth , Sunita Sahoo , Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Mala Das

The XENON100 Detector

XENON100 is a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber built to search for rare collisions of hypothetical, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Operated in a low-background shield at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-29 P. R. Scovell , XENON100 Collaboration

Indirect Detection of Dark Matter with gamma rays

The details of what constitutes the majority of the mass that makes up dark matter in the Universe remains one of the prime puzzles of cosmology and particle physics today - eighty years after the first observational indications. Today, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Stefan Funk

Searching for low-mass dark matter particles with a massive Ge bolometer operated above-ground

The EDELWEISS collaboration has performed a search for dark matter particles with masses below the GeV-scale with a 33.4-g germanium cryogenic detector operated in a surface lab. The energy deposits were measured using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 E. Armengaud , C. Augier , A. Benoît , A. Benoit , L. Bergé , J. Billard , A. Broniatowski , P. Camus , A. Cazes , M. Chapelier , F. Charlieux , D. Ducimetière , L. Dumoulin , K. Eitel , D. Filosofov , J. Gascon , A. Giuliani , M. Gros , M. De Jésus , Y. Jin , A. Juillard , M. Kleifges , R. Maisonobe , S. Marnieros , D. Misiak , X. -F. Navick , C. Nones , E. Olivieri , C. Oriol , P. Pari , B. Paul , D. Poda , E. Queguiner , S. Rozov , V. Sanglard , B. Siebenborn , L. Vagneron , M. Weber , E. Yakushev , A. Zolotarova , B. J. Kavanagh

Low-mass dark matter search results from full exposure of PandaX-I experiment

We report the results of a weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter search using the full 80.1\;live-day exposure of the first stage of the PandaX experiment (PandaX-I) located in the China Jin-Ping Underground Laboratory. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-23 PandaX Collaboration , Xiang Xiao , Xun Chen , Andi Tan , Yunhua Chen , Xiangyi Cui , Deqing Fang , Changbo Fu , Karl L. Giboni , Haowei Gong , Guodong Guo , Ming He , Xiangdong Ji , Yonglin Ju , Siao Lei , Shaoli Li , Qing Lin , Huaxuan Liu , Jianglai Liu , Xiang Liu , Wolfgang Lorenzon , Yugang Ma , Yajun Mao , Kaixuan Ni , Kirill Pushkin , Xiangxiang Ren , Michael Schubnell , Manbin Shen , Yuji Shi , Scott Stephenson , Hongwei Wang , Jiming Wang , Meng Wang , Siguang Wang , Xuming Wang , Zhou Wang , Shiyong Wu , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan , Yinghui You , Xionghui Zeng , Tao Zhang , Li Zhao , Xiaopeng Zhou , Zhonghua Zhu

First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (Lead, South Dakota), was cooled and filled in February 2013. We report results of the first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-12 LUX Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , H. M. Araujo , X. Bai , A. J. Bailey , J. Balajthy , S. Bedikian , E. Bernard , A. Bernstein , A. Bolozdynya , A. Bradley , D. Byram , S. B. Cahn , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. J. Chapman , A. A. Chiller , C. Chiller , K. Clark , T. Coffey , A. Currie , A. Curioni , S. Dazeley , L. de Viveiros , A. Dobi , J. Dobson , E. M. Dragowsky , 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 , M. Hanhardt , S. A. Hertel , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , M. Ihm , R. G. Jacobsen , L. Kastens , K. Kazkaz , R. Knoche , S. Kyre , R. Lander , N. A. Larsen , C. Lee , D. S. Leonard , K. T. Lesko , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Lyashenko , D. C. Malling , R. Mannino , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , J. Mock , M. Moongweluwan , J. Morad , M. Morii , A. St. J. Murphy , C. Nehrkorn , H. Nelson , F. Neves , J. A. Nikkel , R. A. Ott , M. Pangilinan , P. D. Parker , E. K. Pease , K. Pech , P. Phelps , L. Reichhart , T. Shutt , C. Silva , W. Skulski , C. J. Sofka , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , T. Stiegler , K. O`Sullivan , T. J. Sumner , R. Svoboda , M. Sweany , M. Szydagis , D. Taylor , B. Tennyson , D. R. Tiedt , M. Tripathi , S. Uvarov , J. R. Verbus , N. Walsh , R. Webb , J. T. White , D. White , M. S. Witherell , M. Wlasenko , F. L. H. Wolfs , M. Woods , C. Zhang

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