Oscura 实验
天体物理仪器与方法
2022-02-25 v2
摘要
Oscura 实验将使用总曝光量 30 kg-yr、阈值为两个电子的新型硅电荷耦合器件（CCD）大型阵列，引领对低质量暗物质粒子的搜寻。该研发工作始于 2020 财年，目前进入设计阶段，目标是在 2024 年底准备就绪开始建设。Oscura 将对与电子相互作用的亚 GeV 暗物质粒子具有空前灵敏度，可探测质量低至 500 keV 的暗物质-电子散射，以及质量低至 1 eV 的被电子吸收的暗物质。Oscura 研发工作已在实验主要技术挑战上取得显著进展，其中最重要的是接洽新代工厂以制造 CCD 传感器、开发冷读出方案，以及理解实验本底。
引用
@article{arxiv.2202.10518,
title = {The Oscura Experiment},
author = {Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo and Fabricio Alcalde Bessia and Nicolas Avalos and Daniel Baxter and Xavier Bertou and Carla Bonifazi and Ana Botti and Mariano Cababie and Gustavo Cancelo and Brenda Aurea Cervantes-Vergara and Nuria Castello-Mor and Alvaro Chavarria and Claudio R. Chavez and Fernando Chierchie and Juan Manuel De Egea and Juan Carlos D`Olivo and Cyrus E. Dreyer and Alex Drlica-Wagner and Rouven Essig and Juan Estrada and Ezequiel Estrada and Erez Etzion and Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni and Marivi Fernandez-Serra and Steve Holland and Agustin Lantero Barreda and Andrew Lathrop and Jose Lipovetzky and Ben Loer and Edgar Marrufo Villalpando and Jorge Molina and Santiago Perez and Paolo Privitera and Dario Rodrigues and Richard Saldanha and Diego Santa Cruz and Aman Singal and Nathan Saffold and Leandro Stefanazzi and Miguel Sofo-Haro and Javier Tiffenberg and Christian Torres and Sho Uemura and Rocio Vilar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.10518},
year = {2022}
}