First data from DM-Ice17
Abstract
We report the first analysis of background data from DM-Ice17, a direct-detection dark matter experiment consisting of 17 kg of NaI(Tl) target material. It was codeployed with IceCube 2457 m deep in the South Pole glacial ice in December 2010 and is the first such detector operating in the Southern Hemisphere. The background rate in the 6.5–8.0 keVee region is measured to be 7.9 ± 0.4 counts/day/keV/kg. This is consistent with the expected background from the detector assemblies with negligible contributions from the surrounding ice. The successful deployment and operation of DM-Ice17 establishes the South Pole ice as a viable location for future underground, low-background experiments in the Southern Hemisphere. Furthermore, the detector assembly and deployment are described here, as well as the analysis of the DM-Ice17 backgrounds based on data from the first two years of operation after commissioning, July 2011–June 2013.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
- Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield (United Kingdom)
- STFC Boulby Undergroung Science Facility, Cleveland (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin - Fox Valley, Menasha, WI (United States)
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Contributing Org.:
- DM–Ice Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1156499
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1180633
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-14-045-AE-PPD; arXiv:1401.4804
Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998; PRVDAQ; 1278157
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 90; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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Cherwinka, J., Grant, D., Halzen, F., Heeger, K. M., Hsu, L., Hubbard, A. J. F., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Macdonald, C., Maruyama, Reina H., Paling, S., Pettus, W., Pierpoint, Z. P., Reilly, B. N., Robinson, M., Sandstrom, P., Spooner, N. J. C., Telfer, S., and Yang, L. First data from DM-Ice17. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.092005.
Cherwinka, J., Grant, D., Halzen, F., Heeger, K. M., Hsu, L., Hubbard, A. J. F., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Macdonald, C., Maruyama, Reina H., Paling, S., Pettus, W., Pierpoint, Z. P., Reilly, B. N., Robinson, M., Sandstrom, P., Spooner, N. J. C., Telfer, S., & Yang, L. First data from DM-Ice17. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.092005
Cherwinka, J., Grant, D., Halzen, F., Heeger, K. M., Hsu, L., Hubbard, A. J. F., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Kudryavtsev, V. A., Macdonald, C., Maruyama, Reina H., Paling, S., Pettus, W., Pierpoint, Z. P., Reilly, B. N., Robinson, M., Sandstrom, P., Spooner, N. J. C., Telfer, S., and Yang, L. Mon .
"First data from DM-Ice17". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.092005. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1156499.
@article{osti_1156499,
title = {First data from DM-Ice17},
author = {Cherwinka, J. and Grant, D. and Halzen, F. and Heeger, K. M. and Hsu, L. and Hubbard, A. J. F. and Karle, A. and Kauer, M. and Kudryavtsev, V. A. and Macdonald, C. and Maruyama, Reina H. and Paling, S. and Pettus, W. and Pierpoint, Z. P. and Reilly, B. N. and Robinson, M. and Sandstrom, P. and Spooner, N. J. C. and Telfer, S. and Yang, L.},
abstractNote = {We report the first analysis of background data from DM-Ice17, a direct-detection dark matter experiment consisting of 17 kg of NaI(Tl) target material. It was codeployed with IceCube 2457 m deep in the South Pole glacial ice in December 2010 and is the first such detector operating in the Southern Hemisphere. The background rate in the 6.5–8.0 keVee region is measured to be 7.9 ± 0.4 counts/day/keV/kg. This is consistent with the expected background from the detector assemblies with negligible contributions from the surrounding ice. The successful deployment and operation of DM-Ice17 establishes the South Pole ice as a viable location for future underground, low-background experiments in the Southern Hemisphere. Furthermore, the detector assembly and deployment are described here, as well as the analysis of the DM-Ice17 backgrounds based on data from the first two years of operation after commissioning, July 2011–June 2013.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.90.092005},
journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
number = 9,
volume = 90,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}
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