Status of the DAMIC Direct Dark Matter Search Experiment
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OSTI ID:1250479
The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $$\sim$$50 eV$$_{ee}$$, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and suppress radioactive backgrounds, having an unrivaled sensitivity to WIMPs with masses $$<$$6 GeV/$c^2$. Early results motivated the construction of a 100 g detector, DAMIC100, currently being installed at SNOLAB. This contribution discusses the installation progress, new calibration efforts near the threshold, a preliminary result with 2014 data, and the prospects for physics results after one year of data taking.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- DAMIC
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1250479
- Report Number(s):
- CIPANP2015-AGUILAR-AREVALO; FERMILAB-CONF-15-527-AE-PPD; arXiv:1510.00044; 1395655
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 12th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vail, Colorado, USA, 05/19-05/24/2015
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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