Direct Search for Dark Matter with DarkSide

  • P. Agnes
  • , T. Alexander
  • , A. Alton
  • , K. Arisaka
  • , H. O. Back
  • , B. Baldin
  • , K. Biery
  • , G. Bonfini
  • , M. Bossa
  • , A. Brigatti
  • , J. Brodsky
  • , F. Budano
  • , L. Cadonati
  • , F. Calaprice
  • , N. Canci
  • , A. Candela
  • , H. Cao
  • , M. Cariello
  • , P. Cavalcante
  • , A. Chavarria
  • A. Chepurnov, A. G. Cocco, L. Crippa, D. D'Angelo, M. D'Incecco, S. Davini, M. De Deo, A. Derbin, A. Devoto, F. Di Eusanio, G. Di Pietro, E. Edkins, A. Empl, A. Fan, G. Fiorillo, K. Fomenko, G. Forster, D. Franco, F. Gabriele, C. Galbiati, A. Goretti, L. Grandi, M. Gromov, M. Y. Guan, Y. Guardincerri, B. Hackett, K. Herner, E. V. Hungerford, Al Ianni, An Ianni, C. Jollet, K. Keeter, C. Kendziora, S. Kidner, V. Kobychev, G. Koh, D. Korablev, G. Korga, A. Kurlej, P. X. Li, B. Loer, P. Lombardi, C. Love, L. Ludhova, S. Luitz, Y. Q. Ma, I. Machulin, A. Mandarano, S. Mari, J. Maricic, L. Marini, C. J. Martoff, A. Meregaglia, E. Meroni, P. D. Meyers, R. Milincic, D. Montanari, M. Montuschi, M. E. Monzani, P. Mosteiro, B. Mount, V. Muratova, P. Musico, A. Nelson, S. Odrowski, M. Okounkova, M. Orsini, F. Ortica, L. Pagani, M. Pallavicini, E. Pantic, L. Papp, S. Parmeggiano, R. Parsells, K. Pelczar, N. Pelliccia, S. Perasso, A. Pocar, S. Pordes, D. Pugachev, H. Qian, K. Randle, G. Ranucci, A. Razeto, B. Reinhold, A. Renshaw, A. Romani, B. Rossi, N. Rossi, S. D. Rountree, D. Sablone, P. Saggese, R. Saldanha, W. Sands, S. Sangiorgio, E. Segreto, D. Semenov, E. Shields, M. Skorokhvatov, O. Smirnov, A. Sotnikov, C. Stanford, Y. Suvorov, R. Tartaglia, J. Tatarowicz, G. Testera, A. Tonazzo, E. Unzhakov, R. B. Vogelaar, M. Wada, S. Walker, H. Wang, Y. Wang, A. Watson, S. Westerdale, M. Wojcik, A. Wright, X. Xiang, J. Xu, C. G. Yang, J. Yoo, S. Zavatarelli, A. Zec, C. Zhu, G. Zuzel

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number012006
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume650
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 16 2015
Event7th International Symposium on Large TPCs for Low-Energy Rare Event Detection - Paris, France
Duration: Dec 15 2014Dec 17 2014

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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