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Title: The darkside multiton detector for the direct dark matter search

Journal Article · · Advances in High Energy Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/541362· OSTI ID:1195545
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  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  2. Univ. Paris Diderot, Paris (France)
  3. Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD (United States)
  4. Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  5. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
  6. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
  7. Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (Italy)
  8. Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila (Italy)
  9. Univ. degli Studi and INFN, Milano (Italy)
  10. Univ. degli Studi Roma Tre and INFN, Roma (Italy)
  11. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
  12. Univ. degli Studi and INFN, Cagliari (Italy)
  13. Univ. degli Studi and INFN, Genova (Italy)
  14. Moscow State Univ., Moscow (Russian Federation)
  15. Univ. degli Studi Federico II and INFN, Napoli (Italy)
  16. Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX (United States)
  17. Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Inst., Gatchina (Russia)
  18. Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
  19. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia)
  20. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
  21. Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing (China)
  22. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  23. Univ. de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France)
  24. Black Hills State Univ., Spearfish, SD (United States)
  25. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  26. National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, Kiev (Ukraine)
  27. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  28. National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, Moscow (Russia)
  29. Temple Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  30. Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina (Russia)
  31. Lab. Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assegi (Italy)
  32. Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow (Poland)
  33. Univ. degli Studi and INFN, Perugia (Italy)
  34. Univ. of California, Los Angeles and Davis, CA (United States)
  35. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States); Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II and INFN (Italy)
  36. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  37. Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SC (United States)
  38. Univ. dego Studi and INFN, Genova (Italy)
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Although the existence of dark matter is supported by many evidences, based on astrophysical measurements, its nature is still completely unknown. One major candidate is represented by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which could in principle be detected through their collisions with ordinary nuclei in a sensitive target, producing observable low-energy (<100 keV) nuclear recoils. The DarkSide program aims at the WIPMs detection using a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC). In this paper we quickly review the DarkSide program focusing in particular on the next generation experiment DarkSide-G2, a 3.6-ton LAr-TPC. The different detector components are described as well as the improvements needed to scale the detector from DarkSide-50 (50 kg LAr-TPC) up to DarkSide-G2. Finally, the preliminary results on background suppression and expected sensitivity are presented.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1195545
Journal Information:
Advances in High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, Issue 1; ISSN 1687-7357
Publisher:
HindawiCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 24 works
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Cosmological constraints on Dark Matter models for collider searches preprint January 2016
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