The DarkSide Multiton Detector for the Direct Dark Matter Search

Aalseth, Craig E.; Agnes, P.; Alton, A.; Arisaka, K.; Asner, David M.; Back, Henning O.; Baldin, B.; Biery, K.; Bonfini, G.; Bossa, M.; Brigatti, A.; Brodsky, J.; Budano, F.; Cadonati, L.; Cadoni, M.; Calaprice, F.; Canci, N.; Candela, A.; Cao, H.; Cariello, M.; Cavalcante, P.; Chepurnov, A.; Cocco, A. G.; Condon, C.; Crippa, L.; D'Angelo, D.; D'Incecco, M.; Davini, S.; De Deo, M.; Derbin, A.; Devoto, A.; Di Eusanio, F.; Edkins, E.; Empl, Anton; Fan, A.; Fiorillo, G.; Fomenko, K.; Forster, G.; Foxe, Michael P.; Franco, D.; Gabriele, F.; Galbiati, C.; Goretti, A.; Grandi, L.; Gromov, M.; Guan, M. Y.; Guardincerri, Y.; Hackett, B.; Herner, K.; Hime, Andrew; Humble, Paul H.; Hungerford, Edward; Ianni, Al.; Ianni, An.; Jaffe, D.; Jollet, C.; Keeter, K.; Kendziora, C.; Kidner, S.; Kobychev, V.; Koh, G.; Korablev, D.; Korga, G.; Kurlej, A.; Li, P. X.; Lissia, M.; Lombardi, P.; Ludhova, L.; Luitz, S.; Lukyachenko, G.; Ma, Y. Q.; Machulin, I.; Mandarano, A.; Mari, S. M.; Maricic, J.; Marini, L.; Markov, D.; Martoff, J.; Meregaglia, A.; Meroni, E.; Meyers, P. D.; Miletic, T.; Milincic, R.; Montuschi, M.; Monzani, M. E.; Mosteiro, P.; Mount, B.; Muratova, V.; Musico, P.; Montanari, D.; Nelson, A.; Odrowski, S.; Odrzywolek, A.; Orrell, John L.; Orsini, M.; Ortica, F.; Pagani, L.; Pallavicini, Maria; Pantic, E.; Parmeggiano, S.; Parsells, B.; Pelczar, K.; Pelliccia, N.; Perasso, S.; Perasso, L.; Pocar, A.; Pordes, S.; Pugachev, D.; Qian, H.; Randle, K.; Ranucci, G.; Razeto, A.; Recine, P.; Reinhold, B.; Renshaw, A.; Romani, A.; Rossi, N.; Rossi, B.; Rountree, S. D.; Sablone, D.; Saggese, P.; Saldanha, R.; Sands, W.; Sangiorgio, Samuele; Segreto, E.; Semenov, D.; Shields, E.; Skorokhvatov, Mikhail; Smallcomb, Matthew; Smirnov, Oleg; Sotnikov, Albert; Suvurov, Yury; Tartaglia, Roberto; Tatarowicz, John; Testera, Gemma; Tonazzo, Alessandra; Unzhakov, Eugenii; Vogelaar, R. B.; Wada, Masayuki; Walker, Susan E.; Wang, H.; Wang, Y.; Watson, A. W.; Westerdale, S.; Williams, Richard M.; Wojcik, M.; Xu, Jingke; Yang, C. G.; Yoo, J.; Yu, Bo; Zavatarelli, Sandra; Zhong, W. L.; Zuzel, G.

doi:10.1155/2015/541362

Title: The DarkSide Multiton Detector for the Direct Dark Matter Search

Journal Article · Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Advances in High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/541362· OSTI ID:1290408

Aalseth, Craig E.; Agnes, P.; Alton, A.; Arisaka, K.; Asner, David M.; Back, Henning O.; Baldin, B.; Biery, K.; Bonfini, G.; Bossa, M.; Brigatti, A.; Brodsky, J.; Budano, F.; Cadonati, L.; Cadoni, M.; Calaprice, F.; Canci, N.; Candela, A.; Cao, H.; Cariello, M. more »

A wide range of astronomical evidence implies the existence of Dark Matter, but as yet the nature of this major component of the Universe is completely unknown. A leading candidate explanation is that Dark Matter is composed of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) formed in the early universe and gravitationally clustered together with the standard baryonic matter. Such WIMPs could in principle be detected through their collisions with ordinary nuclei in a sensitive target, producing observable low-energy (<100 keV) nuclear recoils. The predicted collision rates are very low and require ultra-low background detectors with large (0.1 { 10 tons) target masses, located in deep underground sites to reduce the background produced by neutrons from cosmic ray muons [1{4].

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1290408

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-102086

Journal Information:: Advances in High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015; ISSN 1687-7365

Publisher:: Hindawi

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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