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DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector

DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN (DARWIN) will be an experiment for the direct detection of dark matter using a multi-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core. Its primary goal will be to explore the experimentally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-02 J. Aalbers , F. Agostini , M. Alfonsi , F. D. Amaro , C. Amsler , E. Aprile , L. Arazi , F. Arneodo , P. Barrow , L. Baudis , M. L. Benabderrahmane , T. Berger , B. Beskers , A. Breskin , P. A. Breur , A. Brown , E. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , L. Buetikofer , J. Calven , J. M. R. Cardoso , D. Cichon , D. Coderre , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. P. Cussonneau , M. P. Decowski , S. Diglio , G. Drexlin , E. Duchovni , E. Erdal , G. Eurin , A. Ferella , A. Fieguth , W. Fulgione , A. Gallo Rosso , P. Di Gangi , A. Di Giovanni , M. Galloway , M. Garbini , C. Geis , F. Glueck , L. Grandi , Z. Greene , C. Grignon , C. Hasterok , V. Hannen , E. Hogenbirk , J. Howlett , D. Hilk , C. Hils , A. James , B. Kaminsky , S. Kazama , B. Kilminster , A. Kish , L. M. Krauss , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , Q. Lin , F. L. Linde , S. Lindemann , M. Lindner , J. A. M. Lopes , T. Marrodan Undagoitia , J. Masbou , F. V. Massoli , D. Mayani , M. Messina , K. Micheneau , A. Molinario , K. D. Mora , E. Morteau , M. Murra , J. Naganoma , J. L. Newstead , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , P. Pakarha , B. Pelssers , P. de Perio , R. Persiani , F. Piastra , M. C. Piro , G. Plante , L. Rauch , S. Reichard , A. Rizzo , N. Rupp , J. M. F. Dos Santos , G. Sartorelli , M. Scheibelhut , S. Schindler , M. Schumann , J. Schreiner , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , P. Shagin , M. C. Silva , H. Simgen , P. Sissol , M. von Sivers , D. Thers , J. Thurn , A. Tiseni , R. Trotta , C. D. Tunnell , K. Valerius , M. A. Vargas , H. Wang , Y. Wei , C. Weinheimer , T. Wester , J. Wulf , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , K. Zuber

Direct Detection of Nonbaryonic Dark Matter

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are leading candidates for the dominant part of the mass density of the Universe. Here we will review direct WIMP detection techniques by giving examples of currently running experiments, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Baudis , H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Prospects of cold dark matter searches with an ultra-low-energy germanium detector

The report describes the research program on the development of ultra-low-energy germanium detectors, with emphasis on WIMP dark matter searches. A threshold of 100 eV is achieved with a 20 g detector array, providing a unique probe to the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 H. T. Wong

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

Update on the MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

The direct search for dark matter is entering a period of increased sensitivity to the hypothetical Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). One such technology that is being examined is a scintillation only noble liquid experiment,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-20 K. Rielage , M. Akashi-Ronquest , M. Bodmer , R. Bourque , B. Buck , A. Butcher , T. Caldwell , Y. Chen , K. Coakley , E. Flores , J. A. Formaggio , D. Gastler , F. Giuliani , M. Gold , E. Grace , J. Griego , N. Guerrero , V. Guiseppe , R. Henning , A. Hime , S. Jaditz , C. Kachulis , E. Kearns , J. Kelsey , J. R. Klein , A. Latorre , I. Lawson , S. Linden , F. Lopez , D. N. McKinsey , S. MacMullin , A. Mastbaum , D. -M. Mei , J. Monroe , J. A. Nikkel , J. Oertel , G. D. Orebi Gann , K. Palladino , G. Perumpilly , L. Rodriguez , R. Schnee , S. Seibert , J. Walding , B. Wang , J. Wang , C. Zhang

The Waning of the WIMP: Endgame?

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) continue to be considered some of the best-motivated Dark Matter (DM) candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Giorgio Arcadi , David Cabo-Almeida , Maíra Dutra , Pradipta Ghosh , Manfred Lindner , Yann Mambrini , Jacinto P. Neto , Mathias Pierre , Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

The Direct and Indirect Detection of Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Particles

An ever-increasing body of evidence suggests that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) constitute the bulk of the matter in the Universe. Experimental data, dimensional analysis and Standard Model particle physics are sufficient to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Halzen

DarkSide-20k sensitivity to light dark matter particles

The dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber is presently one of the leading technologies to search for dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV/c$^2$. This was demonstrated by the DarkSide-50 experiment with approximately 50…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-07 20k Collaboration , F. Acerbi , P. Adhikari , P. Agnes , I. Ahmad , S. Albergo , I. F. M. Albuquerque , T. Alexander , A. K. Alton , P. Amaudruz , M. Angiolilli , E. Aprile , R. Ardito , M. Atzori Corona , D. J. Auty , M. Ave , I. C. Avetisov , O. Azzolini , H. O. Back , Z. Balmforth , A. Barrado Olmedo , P. Barrillon , G. Batignani , P. Bhowmick , S. Blua , V. Bocci , W. Bonivento , B. Bottino , M. G. Boulay , A. Buchowicz , S. Bussino , J. Busto , M. Cadeddu , M. Cadoni , R. Calabrese , V. Camillo , A. Caminata , N. Canci , A. Capra , M. Caravati , M. Cárdenas-Montes , N. Cargioli , M. Carlini , A. Castellani , P. Castello , P. Cavalcante , S. Cebrian , J. M. Cela Ruiz , S. Chashin , A. Chepurnov , L. Cifarelli , D. Cintas , M. Citterio , B. Cleveland , Y. Coadou , V. Cocco , D. Colaiuda , E. Conde Vilda , L. Consiglio , B. S. Costa , M. Czubak , M. D'Aniello , S. D'Auria , M. D. Da Rocha Rolo , G. Darbo , S. Davini , S. De Cecco , G. De Guido , G. Dellacasa , A. V. Derbin , A. Devoto , F. Di Capua , A. Di Ludovico , L. Di Noto , P. Di Stefano , L. K. Dias , D. Díaz Mairena , X. Ding , C. Dionisi , G. Dolganov , F. Dordei , V. Dronik , A. Elersich , E. Ellingwood , T. Erjavec , M. Fernandez Diaz , A. Ficorella , G. Fiorillo , P. Franchini , D. Franco , H. Frandini Gatti , E. Frolov , F. Gabriele , D. Gahan , C. Galbiati , G. Galiński , G. Gallina , G. Gallus , M. Garbini , P. Garcia Abia , A. Gawdzik , A. Gendotti , A. Ghisi , G. K. Giovanetti , V. Goicoechea Casanueva , A. Gola , L. Grandi , G. Grauso , G. Grilli di Cortona , A. Grobov , M. Gromov , M. Guerzoni , M. Gulino , C. Guo , B. R. Hackett , A. Hallin , A. Hamer , M. Haranczyk , B. Harrop , T. Hessel , S. Hill , S. Horikawa , J. Hu , F. Hubaut , J. Hucker , T. Hugues , E. V. Hungerford , A. Ianni , V. Ippolito , A. Jamil , C. Jillings , S. Jois , P. Kachru , R. Keloth , N. Kemmerich , A. Kemp , C. L. Kendziora , M. Kimura , K. Kondo , G. Korga , L. Kotsiopoulou , S. Koulosousas , A. Kubankin , P. Kunzé , M. Kuss , M. Kuźniak , M. Kuzwa , M. La Commara , M. Lai , E. Le Guirriec , E. Leason , A. Leoni , L. Lidey , M. Lissia , L. Luzzi , O. Lychagina , O. Macfadyen , I. N. Machulin , S. Manecki , I. Manthos , L. Mapelli , A. Marasciulli , S. M. Mari , C. Mariani , J. Maricic , M. Martinez , C. J. Martoff , G. Matteucci , K. Mavrokoridis , A. B. McDonald , J. Mclaughlin , S. Merzi , A. Messina , R. Milincic , S. Minutoli , A. Mitra , S. Moioli , J. Monroe , E. Moretti , M. Morrocchi , T. Mroz , V. N. Muratova , M. Murphy , M. Murra , C. Muscas , P. Musico , R. Nania , M. Nessi , G. Nieradka , K. Nikolopoulos , E. Nikoloudaki , J. Nowak , K. Olchanski , A. Oleinik , V. Oleynikov , P. Organtini , A. Ortiz de Solórzano , M. Pallavicini , L. Pandola , E. Pantic , E. Paoloni , D. Papi , G. Pastuszak , G. Paternoster , A. Peck , P. A. Pegoraro , K. Pelczar , L. A. Pellegrini , R. Perez , F. Perotti , V. Pesudo , S. Piacentini , N. Pino , G. Plante , A. Pocar , M. Poehlmann , S. Pordes , P. Pralavorio , D. Price , S. Puglia , M. Queiroga Bazetto , F. Ragusa , Y. Ramachers , A. Ramirez , S. Ravinthiran , M. Razeti , A. L. Renshaw , M. Rescigno , F. Retiere , L. P. Rignanese , A. Rivetti , A. Roberts , C. Roberts , G. Rogers , L. Romero , M. Rossi , A. Rubbia , D. Rudik , M. Sabia , P. Salomone , O. Samoylov , E. Sandford , S. Sanfilippo , D. Santone , R. Santorelli , E. M. Santos , C. Savarese , E. Scapparone , G. Schillaci , F. G. Schuckman , G. Scioli , D. A. Semenov , V. Shalamova , A. Sheshukov , M. Simeone , P. Skensved , M. D. Skorokhvatov , O. Smirnov , T. Smirnova , B. Smith , A. Sotnikov , F. Spadoni , M. Spangenberg , R. Stefanizzi , A. Steri , V. Stornelli , S. Stracka , S. Sulis , A. Sung , C. Sunny , Y. Suvorov , A. M. Szelc , O. Taborda , R. Tartaglia , A. Taylor , J. Taylor , S. Tedesco , G. Testera , K. Thieme , A. Thompson , A. Tonazzo , S. Torres-Lara , A. Tricomi , E. V. Unzhakov , T. J. Vallivilayil , M. Van Uffelen , L. Velazquez-Fernandez , T. Viant , S. Viel , A. Vishneva , R. B. Vogelaar , J. Vossebeld , B. Vyas , M. B. Walczak , Y. Wang , H. Wang , S. Westerdale , L. Williams , R. Wojaczyński , M. Wojcik , M. M. Wojcik , T. Wright , Y. Xie , C. Yang , J. Yin , A. Zabihi , P. Zakhary , A. Zani , Y. Zhang , T. Zhu , A. Zichichi , G. Zuzel , M. P. Zykova

TREX-DM: a low background Micromegas-based TPC for low-mass WIMP detection

Dark Matter experiments are recently focusing their detection techniques in low-mass WIMPs, which requires the use of light elements and low energy threshold. In this context, we describe the TREX-DM experiment, a low background…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-22 F. J. Iguaz , J. G. Garza , F. Aznar , J. F. Castel , S. Cebrian , T. Dafni , J. A. Garcia , I. G. Irastorza , A. Lagraba , G. Luzon , A. Peiro

WIMP Searches at the International Linear Collider

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs, $\chi$) are candidates for Dark Matter. WIMP searches at lepton colliders are complementary to searches at hadron colliders and direct and indirect detection, since they directly probe the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-20 Moritz Habermehl , Keisuke Fujii , Jenny List , Shigeki Matsumoto , Tomohiko Tanabe

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 simulation of the DarkSide-20k calibration

DarkSide-20k will be the next liquid argon TPC built to perform direct search for dark matter under the form of WIMPs. Its calibration to both signal and backgrounds is key as very few events are expected in WIMPs search. In the following…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-15 Marie van Uffelen

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

ALETHEIA: Hunting for Low-mass Dark Matter with Liquid Helium TPCs

Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most critical questions to be understood and answered in fundamental physics today. Observations with varied astronomical and cosmological technologies strongly indicated that DM exists in the Universe, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Junhui Liao , Yuanning Gao , Zhen Jiang , Zhuo Liang , Zebang OuYang , Zhaohua Peng , Fengshou Zhang , Lei hang , Jiangfeng Zhou

The Direct and Indirect Detection of Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Particles

An ever-increasing body of evidence suggests that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) constitute the bulk of the matter in the Universe. We illustrate how experimental data, dimensional analysis and Standard Model particle physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Halzen

The TREX-DM experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory

TREX-DM (TPC Rare Event eXperiment for Dark Matter) is intended to look for low mass WIMPs in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC) in Spain, using light elements (Ne, Ar) as target in a high pressure TPC equipped with Micromegas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-20 J Castel , S Cebrián , T Dafni , J Galán , IG Irastorza , G Luzón , C Margalejo , H Mirallas , A Ortiz de Solórzano , A Peiró , E Ruiz-Chóliz

Cryogenic Composite Detectors for the Dark Matter Experiments CRESST and EURECA

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are candidates for non-baryonic Dark Matter. WIMPs are supposed to interact with baryonic matter via scattering off nuclei producing a nuclear recoil with energies up to a few 10 keV with a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-03 S. Roth , C. Ciemniak , C. Coppi , F. v. Feilitzsch , A. Guetlein , C. Isaila , J. -C. Lanfranchi , S. Pfister , W. Potzel , W. Westphal

MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment

The MiniCLEAN dark matter experiment will exploit a single-phase liquid-argon detector instrumented with 92 photomultiplier tubes placed in the cryogen temperature with 4-$\pi$ coverage of a 500 kg (150 kg) target (fiducial) mass. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-08 JuiJen , Wang

DARWIN

DARWIN is a design-study for a next-to-next generation experiment to directly detect WIMP dark matter in a detector based on a liquid xenon/liquid argon two-phase time projection chamber. This article describes the project, its goals and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-29 Marc Schumann

Search for dark matter at colliders

Multiple astrophysical and cosmological observations show that the majority of the matter in the universe is non-luminous. It is not made of known particles, and it is called dark matter. This is one of the few pieces of concrete…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-01 Oliver Buchmueller , Caterina Doglioni , Lian-Tao Wang