Low-background underground facilities for the direct detection of dark matter
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Center for Particle Astrophysics, Berkeley, CA (United States); and others
This is the report of a working group formed to discuss the requirements of an underground facility for experiments trying to detect directly dark matter particles. There is a brief discussion of the general properties of underground facilities, focusing on the levels of muon induced backgrounds that are tolerable. Then the authors review the scientific motivation of the search for dark matter particles, and the existing experimental limits. There is a short description of the shielding necessary to reach the desired background levels. Finally, they report the results of their preliminary study of muon induced backgrounds in dark matter experiments, and the implications for the required depth of the facilities for such experiments.
- OSTI ID:
- 33384
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9006267-; ISBN 981-02-0931-2; TRN: IM9518%%204
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1990 summer study on high energy physics, Snowmass, CO (United States), 25 Jun - 13 Jul 1990; Other Information: PBD: 1992; Related Information: Is Part Of Research directions for the decade: Proceedings of the 1990 summer study on high energy physics; Berger, E.L. [ed.]; PB: 825 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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