Direct search for dark matter with DarkSide

Agnes, P.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/650/1/012006

Title: Direct search for dark matter with DarkSide

Abstract

Here, the DarkSide experiment is designed for the direct detection of Dark Matter with a double phase liquid Argon TPC operating underground at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The TPC is placed inside a 30 tons liquid organic scintillator sphere, acting as a neutron veto, which is in turn installed inside a 1 kt water Cherenkov detector. The current detector is running since November 2013 with a 50 kg atmospheric Argon fill and we report here the first null results of a Dark Matter search for a (1422 ± 67) kg.d exposure. This result correspond to a 90% CL upper limit on the WIMP-nucleon cross section of 6.1 × 10^-44 cm² (for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c²) and it's currently the most sensitive limit obtained with an Argon target.

Authors:

Agnes, P. ^[1]

Univ. Paris Diderot, Paris (France). et al.

Publication Date:: Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Org.:: DarkSide

OSTI Identifier:: 1250509

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-CONF-15-557-PPD
Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588; 1405580

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Physics. Conference Series

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 650; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: 7th Symposium on large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection, Paris (France), 15-17 Dec 2014; Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588

Publisher:: IOP Publishing

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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