Dark matter direct-detection experiments

TM Undagoitia, L Rauch - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent decades, several detector technologies have been developed with the quest to
directly detect dark matter interactions and to test one of the most important unsolved …

Dark matter candidates from particle physics and methods of detection

JL Feng - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The identity of dark matter is a question of central importance in both astrophysics and
particle physics. In the past, the leading particle candidates were cold and collisionless, and …

Dark matter search results from the PICO-60 bubble chamber

C Amole, M Ardid, DM Asner, D Baxter, E Behnke… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
New data are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble
chamber filled with 36.8 kg of CF 3 I and located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory …

micrOMEGAs_3: A program for calculating dark matter observables

G Bélanger, F Boudjema, A Pukhov… - Computer Physics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract micrOMEGAs is a code to compute dark matter observables in generic extensions
of the standard model. This new version of micrOMEGAs is a major update which includes a …

Axions and the strong problem

JE Kim, G Carosi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Current upper bounds on the neutron electric dipole moment constrain the physically
observable quantum chromodynamic (QCD) vacuum angle| θ¯|≲ 10− 11. Since QCD …

The Tevatron at the frontier of dark matter direct detection

Y Bai, PJ Fox, R Harnik - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
Direct detection of dark matter (DM) requires an interaction of dark matter particles with
nucleons. The same interaction can lead to dark matter pair production at a hadron collider …

First dark matter search results from a 4-kg bubble chamber <?format ?>operated in a deep underground site

E Behnke, J Behnke, SJ Brice, D Broemmelsiek… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
New data are reported from the operation of a 4.0-kg CF 3 I bubble chamber in the 6800-foot-
deep SNOLAB underground laboratory. The effectiveness of ultrasound analysis in …

Compatibility of DAMA/LIBRA dark matter detection with other searches

C Savage, G Gelmini, P Gondolo… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation data, which may be
interpreted as a signal for the existence of weakly interacting dark matter (WIMPs) in our …

The XENON100 dark matter experiment

E Aprile, K Arisaka, F Arneodo, A Askin, L Baudis… - Astroparticle …, 2012 - Elsevier
The XENON100 dark matter experiment uses liquid xenon (LXe) in a time projection
chamber (TPC) to search for xenon nuclear recoils resulting from the scattering of dark …

Final analysis and results of the phase II SIMPLE dark matter search

M Felizardo, TA Girard, T Morlat, AC Fernandes… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We report the final results of the Phase II SIMPLE measurements, comprising two run stages
of 15 superheated droplet detectors each, with the second stage including an improved …