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Spin-Dependent Limits from the DRIFT-IId Directional Dark Matter Detector

Data are presented from the DRIFT-IId detector housed in the Boulby mine in northeast England. A 0.8 m^3 fiducial volume, containing partial pressures of 30 Torr CS2 and 10 Torr CF4, was exposed for a duration of 47.4 live-time days with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-19 E. Daw , J. R. Fox , J. -L. Gauvreau , C. Ghag , L. J. Harmon , M. Gold , E. Lee , D. Loomba , E. Miller , A. StJ. Murphy , S. M. Paling , J. M. Landers , M. Pipe , K. Pushkin , M. Robinson , D. P. Snowden-Ifft , N. J. C. Spooner , D. Walker

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Reconstruction of the Velocity Distribution Function of Halo WIMPs

In our earlier work on the development of a model-independent data analysis method for reconstructing the (moments of the) time-averaged one-dimensional velocity distribution function of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Chung-Lin Shan

Dark matter sensitivity of multi-ton liquid xenon detectors

We study the sensitivity of multi ton-scale time projection chambers using a liquid xenon target, e.g., the proposed DARWIN instrument, to spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon scattering interactions. Taking into account…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-10-14 Marc Schumann , Laura Baudis , Lukas Bütikofer , Alexander Kish , Marco Selvi

Annual modulation sensitivity in cold dark matter searches

The sensitivity of experiments looking for annual modulated signals is discussed and analyzed. The choice of energy intervals for rate integration and enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio of the predicted WIMP signal is addressed. Special…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Hasenbalg

Evaluation of the neutron background in cryogenic Germanium target for WIMP direct detection when using a reactor neutrino detector as a neutron veto system

A direct WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) detector with a neutron veto system is designed to better reject neutrons. An experimental configuration is studied in the present paper: 984 Ge modules are placed inside a reactor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-11 Ye Xu , Jieqin Lan , Yin Bai , Weiwei Gao

A low-mass dark matter search using ionization signals in XENON100

We perform a low-mass dark matter search using an exposure of 30\,kg$\times$yr with the XENON100 detector. By dropping the requirement of a scintillation signal and using only the ionization signal to determine the interaction energy, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-20 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 , A. Buss , L. Bütikofer , 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 , E. Duchovni , A. D. Ferella , A. Fieguth , D. Franco , W. Fulgione , M. Galloway , M. Garbini , C. Geis , L. W. Goetzke , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , E. Gross , C. Hasterok , E. Hogenbirk , R. Itay , B. Kaminsky , G. Kessler , A. Kish , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , L. Levinson , M. Le Calloch , C. Levy , F. Linde , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , A. Lyashenko , A. Manfredini , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Masson , D. Mayani , A. J. Melgarejo Fernandez , Y. Meng , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , B. Miguez , A. Molinario , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , U. Oberlack , S. E. A. Orrigo , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , J. Pienaar , 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 , H. Simgen , A. Stein , D. Thers , A. Tiseni , G. Trinchero , C. D. Tunnell , M. von Sivers , R. Wall , H. Wang , M. Weber , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , J. Wulf , Y. Zhang

Discovery potential for directional Dark Matter detection with nuclear emulsions

Direct Dark Matter searches are nowadays one of the most fervid research topics with many experimental efforts devoted to the search for nuclear recoils induced by the scattering of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs). Detectors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 N. Agafonova , A. Aleksandrov , A. Anokhina , T. Asada , V. V. Ashikhmin , I. Bodnarchuk , A. Buonaura , M. Chernyavskii , A. Chukanov , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , A. Di Crescenzo , N. Di Marco , S. Dmitrievski , R. I. Enikeev , R. A. Fini , G. Galati , V. Gentile , S. Gorbunov , Y. Gornushkin , A. M. Guler , H. Ichiki , T. Katsuragawa , N. Konovalova , K. Kuge , A. Lauria , K. Y. Lee , L. Lista , A. S. Malgin , A. Managadze , P. Monacelli , M. C. Montesi , T. Naka , N. Okateva , B. D. Park , D. Podgrudkov , N. Polukhina , F. Pupilli , T. Roganova , A. Rogozhnikov , G. Rosa , O. G. Ryazhskaya , O. Sato , I. R. Shakiryanova , T. Shchedrina , C. Sirignano , J. Y. Sohn , A. Sotnikov , N. Starkov , P. Strolin , V. Tioukov , A. Umemoto , A. Ustyuzhanin , C. S. Yoon , M. Yoshimoto , S. Vasina

Directional detection of keV proton and carbon recoils with MIMAC

Directional detection is the dedicated strategy to demonstrate that DM-like signals measured by direct detectors are indeed produced by DM particles from the galactic halo. The experimental challenge of measuring the direction of DM-induced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-28 C. Beaufort , O. Guillaudin , D. Santos , N. Sauzet , E. Mobio , R. Babut , C. Tao

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Determinations of Ratios of WIMP-Nucleon Cross Sections

In our work on the development of model-independent data analysis methods for determining ratios between different couplings/cross sections of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using measured recoil energies from direct Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Chung-Lin Shan

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

Low-energy electronic recoil in xenon detectors by solar neutrinos

Low-energy electronic recoil caused by solar neutrinos in multi-ton xenon detectors is an important subject not only because it is a source of the irreducible background for direct searches of weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs),…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-11-22 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Hsin-Chang Chi , C. -P. Liu , Chih-Pan Wu

Directional Dependence and Diurnal Modulation in Dark Matter Detectors

In this paper we study the effect of the channeling of ions recoiling from collisions with weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in single crystal detectors. In particular we investigate the possibility that channeling may give rise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Richard J. Creswick , Shmuel Nussinov , Frank T. Avignone

Evaluation of the neutron background in CsI target for WIMP direct detection when using a reactor neutrino detector as a neutron veto system

A direct WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) detector with a neutron veto system is designed to better reject neutrons. An experimental configuration is studied in the present paper: a WIMP detectors with CsI(Na) target is placed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ye Xu , Xiangpan Ji , Haolin Li , Yulong Feng

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

Limits on WIMP dark matter using scintillating CaWO4 cryogenic detectors with active background suppression

We present first significant limits on WIMP dark matter by the phonon-light technique, where combined phonon and light signals from a scintillating cryogenic detector are used. Data from early 2004 with two 300 g CRESST-II prototype…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Angloher , C. Bucci , P. Christ , C. Cozzini , F. von Feilitzsch , D. Hauff , S. Henry , Th. Jagemann , J. Jochum , H. Kraus , B. Majorovits , J. Ninkovic , F. Petricca , W. Potzel , F. Pröbst , Y. Ramachers , M. Razeti , W. Rau , W. Seidel , M. Stark , L. Stodolsky , A. J. B. Tolhurst , W. Westphal , H. Wulandari

Discrimination of electronic recoils from nuclear recoils in two-phase xenon time projection chambers

We present a comprehensive analysis of electronic recoil vs. nuclear recoil discrimination in liquid/gas xenon time projection chambers, using calibration data from the 2013 and 2014-16 runs of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-11 LUX Collaboration , D. S. Akerib , S. Alsum , H. M. Araújo , X. Bai , J. Balajthy , A. Baxter , E. P. Bernard , A. Bernstein , T. P. Biesiadzinski , E. M. Boulton , B. Boxer , P. Brás , S. Burdin , D. Byram , M. C. Carmona-Benitez , C. Chan , J. E. Cutter , L. de Viveiros , E. Druszkiewicz , A. Fan , S. Fiorucci , R. J. Gaitskell , C. Ghag , M. G. D. Gilchriese , C. Gwilliam , C. R. Hall , S. J. Haselschwardt , S. A. Hertel , D. P. Hogan , M. Horn , D. Q. Huang , C. M. Ignarra , R. G. Jacobsen , O. Jahangir , W. Ji , K. Kamdin , K. Kazkaz , D. Khaitan , E. V. Korolkova , S. Kravitz , V. A. Kudryavtsev , E. Leason , B. G. Lenardo , K. T. Lesko , J. Liao , J. Lin , A. Lindote , M. I. Lopes , A. Manalaysay , R. L. Mannino , N. Marangou , D. N. McKinsey , D. -M. Mei , M. Moongweluwan , J. A. Morad , A. St. J. Murphy , A. Naylor , C. Nehrkorn , H. N. Nelson , F. Neves , A. Nilima , K. C. Oliver-Mallory , K. J. Palladino , E. K. Pease , Q. Riffard , G. R. C. Rischbieter , C. Rhyne , P. Rossiter , S. Shaw , T. A. Shutt , C. Silva , M. Solmaz , V. N. Solovov , P. Sorensen , T. J. Sumner , M. Szydagis , D. J. Taylor , R. Taylor , W. C. Taylor , B. P. Tennyson , P. A. Terman , D. R. Tiedt , W. H. To , L. Tvrznikova , U. Utku , S. Uvarov , A. Vacheret , V. Velan , R. C. Webb , J. T. White , T. J. Whitis , M. S. Witherell , F. L. H. Wolfs , D. Woodward , J. Xu , C. Zhang

Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos: Limitations for Direct Dark Matter Searches

In experiments for direct dark matter searches, neutrinos coherently scattering off nuclei can produce similar events as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). To reach sensitivities better than about 10^-10 pb for the elastic WIMP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-24 A. Gütlein , W. Potzel , C. Ciemniak , F. von Feilitzsch , N. Haag , M. Hofmann , C. Isaila , T. Lachenmaier , J. -C. Lanfranchi , L. Oberauer , S. Pfister , S. Roth , M. von Sivers , R. Strauß , A. Zöller

Neutron Background Studies for the CRESST Dark Matter Experiment

The new detection concept applied for the direct WIMP search experiment CRESST II, which enables a clear discrimination between electron recoils and nuclear recoils, will leave neutrons as the main background. This background will soon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Wulandari , J. Jochum , W. Rau , F. von Feilitzsch

Effects of Residue Background Events in Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments on the Determination of the WIMP Mass

In the earlier work on the development of a model-independent data analysis method for determining the mass of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) by using measured recoil energies from direct Dark Matter detection experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Yu-Ting Chou , Chung-Lin Shan

Identification of Dark Matter with directional detection

Directional detection is a promising search strategy to discover galactic Dark Matter. Taking advantage on the rotation of the Solar system around the Galactic center through the Dark Matter halo, it allows to show a direction dependence of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-29 J. Billard , F. Mayet , D. Santos