Conveners
DM Direct Detection
- Bradley Kavanagh
DM Direct Detection
- Bradley Kavanagh
DM Direct Detection
- Jose Maria Diego Rodriguez (IFCA)
Cosmological and astronomical observations give a consistent evidence for the existence of dark matter. New particles, that could account for this non-luminous matter, appear in several theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. Although several hypothetical particle candidates have been proposed, so far dark matter has eluded detection. Direct detection is a promising method to...
Cold dark matter is one of the major constituents of the leading cosmological model for our Universe, with many ongoing experimental efforts at directly detecting interactions of the hypothetical particle with terrestrial detectors.
SuperCDMS SNOLAB is a Generation-2 dark matter experiment under construction at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The experiment will employ two types of state of the...
The DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB uses thick, fully-depleted, scientific grade charge-coupled devices(CCDs) to search for the interactions between proposed dark matter particles in the galactic halo with silicon atoms in the detector. DAMIC CCDs operate with an extremely low instrumental noise and dark current,making them particularly sensitive to ionization signals expected from low-mass dark...
The SABRE experiments aim to detect an annual rate modulation from dark matter interactions in ultra-high purity NaI(Tl) crystals. The SABRE South experiment is located at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL), Australia, the first deep underground laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere, due to be completed in late 2021. SABRE South is designed to disentangle seasonal or...
ANAIS-112 is a dark matter direct detection experiment that operates 112 kg of NaI(Tl) scintillators at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory. Its main goal is to do a model independent test of the DAMA/LIBRA observation of an annual modulation in the detection rate compatible with that expected for dark matter. This signal is in strong tension with the negative results of other experiments....
Innovative experimental techniques are needed to further search for dark matter. TPCs with optical readout are very promising candidates thanks to the 3D event reconstruction capability and the high sensitivity and granularity of sCMOS light sensors. The Cygno experiment is developing a TPC operated with He:CF4 at atmospheric pressure equipped with a GEM amplification stage that produces...
