With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new
physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader …

This report provides an extensive review of the experimental programme of direct detection
searches of particle dark matter. It focuses mostly on European efforts, both current and …

Axions and other very light axion-like particles appear in many extensions of the Standard
Model, and are leading candidates to compose part or all of the missing matter of the …

Searches for dark matter–induced recoils have made impressive advances in the last few
years. Yet the field is confronted by several outstanding problems. First, the inevitable …

The recently discovered S1 stream passes through the Solar neighborhood on a low
inclination, counterrotating orbit. The progenitor of S1 is a dwarf galaxy with a total mass …

Now that conventional weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter searches are
approaching the neutrino floor, there has been a resurgence of interest in detectors with …

Dark matter particles populating our galactic halo could be directly detected by measuring
their scattering off target nuclei or electrons in a suitable detector. As this interaction is …

Abstract The Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) is a robust high-gain gas-avalanche
electron multiplier–a building block of a variety of radiation detectors. It can be manufactured …

We propose a method to identify the direction of an incident weakly interacting massive
particle (WIMP) via induced nuclear recoil. Our method is based on spectroscopic …

The neutrino floor is a barrier in the parameter space of weakly interacting massive particles
(WIMPs) below which discovery is impeded due to an almost irreducible background of …