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W. Seidel M. Bravin M. Bruckmayer C. Bucci S. Cooper P. DiStefano F. V. Feilitzsch T. Frank J. Jochum R. Keeling H. Kraus M. Loidl J. Marchese O. Meier P. Meunier U. Nagel D. Pergolesi F. Pröbst Y. Ramachers J. Schnagl I. Sergeyev M. Sisti L. Stodolsky S. Uchaikin L. Zerle 《Physics of Atomic Nuclei》2000,63(7):1242-1248
We discuss the short-and long-term perspectives of the CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search using Superconducting Thermometers) project and present the current status of the experiment and new results concerning detector development. In the search for elementary particle dark matter, CRESST is presently the most advanced deep underground, low-background, cryogenic facility. The basic technique involved is to search for WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) by the measurement of nonthermal phonons, as created by WIMP-induced nuclear recoils. Combined with our newly developed method for the simultaneous measurement of scintillation light, strong background discrimination is possible, resulting in a substantial increase in WIMP detection sensitivity. This will allow a test of the reported positive evidence for a WIMP signal by the DAMA Collaboration in the near future. In the long term, the present CRESST setup permits the installation of a detector mass up to 100 kg. In contrast to other projects, CRESST technology allows the employment of a large variety of detection materials. This offers a powerful tool in establishing a WIMP signal and in investigating WIMP properties in the event of a positive signal. 相似文献
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G. Gerbier A. Benoît L. Bergé A. Broniatowski L. Chabert B. Chambon B. Chardin M. Chapellier P. Charvin M. De Jésus H. Deschamps P. Di Stefano D. Drain L. Dumoulin S. Fiorucci J. Gascon E. Gerlic C. Goldbach M. Goyot M. Gros J. P. Hadjout S. Hervé A. Juillard A. de Lesquen J. Mallet S. Marnieros O. Martineau L. Mosca X. -F. Navick G. Nollez P. Pari C. Riccio V. Sanglard L. Schoeffel M. Stern L. Vagneron 《Physics of Atomic Nuclei》2004,67(11):2027-2031
The latest results obtained by the EDELWEISS WIMP (weakly interacting massive particles) direct detection experiment using three heat-and-ionization 320-g germanium bolometers are given. Presently the most sensitive WIMP direct detection experiment for WIMP mass >30 GeV, EDELWEISSI is testing a first region of SUSY models compatible with accelerator constraints. The status and main characteristics of EDELWEISS-II, involving in a first stage 28 germanium bolometers and able to accommodate up to 120 detectors, are briefly presented, together with neutron background estimates. 相似文献
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Weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) is well known to be a good candidate for dark matter, and it is also predicted by many new physics models beyond the standard model at the TeV scale. We found that, if the WIMP is a vector particle (spin-one particle) which is associated with some gauge symmetry broken at the TeV scale, the Higgs mass is often predicted to be 120–125 GeV, which is very consistent with the result of Higgs searches recently reported by ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider experiment. In this Letter, we consider the vector WIMP using a non-linear sigma model in order to confirm this result as general as possible in a bottom-up approach. Near-future prospects to detect the vector WIMP at both direct and indirect detection experiments of dark matter are also discussed. 相似文献
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Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the main candidates for the relic dark matter (DM). The idea of the
direct DM detection relies on elastic spin-dependent (SD) and spin-independent (SI) interaction of WIMPs with target nuclei.
In this review paper the relevant formulae for WIMP event rate calculations are collected. For estimations of the WIMP-proton
and WIMP-neutron SD and SI cross sections the effective low-energy minimal supersymmetric standard model is used. The traditional
one-coupling-dominance approach for evaluation of the exclusion curves is described. Further, the mixed spin-scalar coupling
approach is discussed. It is demonstrated, taking the high-spin 73Ge dark matter experiment HDMS as an example, how one can drastically improve the sensitivity of the exclusion curves within
the mixed spin-scalar coupling approach, as well as due to a new procedure of background subtraction from the measured spectrum.
A general discussion on the information obtained from exclusion curves is given. The necessity of clear WIMP direct detection
signatures for a solution of the dark matter problem, is pointed out. 相似文献
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J.D.Vergados 《理论物理通讯》2012,57(3):504-514
The differential event rate for direct detection of dark matter,both the time averaged and the modulated one due to the motion of the Earth,are discussed.The calculations focus on relatively light cold dark matter candidates (WIMP) and low energy transfers.It is shown that for sufficiently light WIMPs the extraction of relatively large nucleon cross sections is possible.Furthermore for some WIMP masses the modulation amplitude may change sign,meaning that,in such a case,the maximum rate may occur six months later than naively expected.This effect can be exploited to yield information about the mass of the dark matter candidate,if and when the observation of the modulation of the event rate is established. 相似文献
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A weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) is perhaps the most promising candidate for the dark matter in the Galactic halo. The WIMP detection rate in laboratory searches is fixed by the cross section for elastic WIMP-nucleus scattering. Here we calculate the contribution to this cross section from two-nucleon currents from pion exchange in the nucleus and show that it may, in some cases, be comparable to the one-nucleon current that has been considered in prior work and perhaps help resolve the discrepancies between the various direct dark-matter search experiments. We provide simple expressions that allow these new contributions to be included in current calculations. 相似文献
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RUPAK MAHAPATRA 《Pramana》2012,79(5):1045-1057
Matter, as we know it, makes up less than 5% of the Universe. Various astrophysical observations have confirmed that one quarter of the Universe and most of the matter content in the Universe is made up of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is yet to be discovered and is one of the biggest questions in physics. Particle physics combined with astrophysical measurements of the abundance gives rise to a dark matter candidate called weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). The low density of WIMPs in the galaxies and the extremely weak nature of the interaction with ordinary matter make detection of the WIMP an extraordinarily challenging task, with abundant fakes from various radioactive and cosmogenic backgrounds with much stronger electromagnetic interaction. The extremely weak nature of the WIMP interaction dictates detectors that have extremely low naturally occurring radioactive background, a large active volume (mass) of sensitive detector material to maximize statistics, a highly efficient detector-based rejection mechanism for the dominant electromagnetic background and sophisticated analysis techniques to reject any residual background. This paper reviews currently available major technologies being pursued by various collaborations, with special emphasis on the cryogenic Ge detector technology used by the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Collaboration (CDMS). 相似文献
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Marc Schumann 《Brazilian Journal of Physics》2014,44(5):483-493
This article reviews the status of the exciting and fastly evolving field of dark matter research as of summer 2013, when it was discussed at the International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC) 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. It focuses on the three main avenues to detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter: direct detection, indirect detection, and collider searches. The article is based on the dark matter rapporteur talk summarizing the presentations given at the conference, filling some gaps for completeness. 相似文献
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E. A. Yakushev V. B. Brudanin A. V. Lubashevskii S. V. Rozov S. S. Semikh D. V. Filosofov 《Russian Physics Journal》2010,53(6):611-615
The EDELWEISS-II experiment is aimed at direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) considered as main
candidates for the role of nonbarion dark matter. In the experiment, a search for rare WIMP-Ge scattering events is performed
using HPGe-detectors-bolometers at a temperature of 20 mK. Because of different ionization losses of recoil nuclei and electrons,
the use of detectors allowing simultaneous measurement of phonon and ionization signals enables background events to be suppressed
very efficiently. To suppress actively the remained source of events simulating the WIMP signature, namely, the surface events
with incomplete charge collection, detectors with coplanar ring electrodes have been developed for the EDELWEISS-II facility.
The experimental coefficient of suppression of all EDELWEISS-II background components with the help of calibration measurements
allows 3500 kg⋅day statistics to be accumulated with the expected zero level of the background events in the region of search
for the WIMP. This enables the spinindependent WIMP-nucleon scattering events to be registered given that their cross section
is greater than 10-45 cm2 (10-9 pb) predicted by a wide class of the SUSY models. 相似文献
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Collar JI Puibasset J Girard TA Limagne D Miley HS Waysand G 《Physical review letters》2000,85(15):3083-3086
We report on the fabrication aspects and calibration of the first large active mass ( approximately 15 g) modules of SIMPLE, a search for particle dark matter using superheated droplet detectors (SDDs). While still limited by the statistical uncertainty of the small data sample on hand, the first weeks of operation in the new underground laboratory of Rustrel-Pays d'Apt already provide a sensitivity to axially coupled weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) competitive with leading experiments, confirming SDDs as a convenient, low-cost alternative for WIMP detection. 相似文献
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We show that self-annihilating weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter accreted onto neutron stars may provide a mechanism to seed compact objects with long-lived lumps of strange quark matter, or strangelets, for WIMP masses above a few GeV. This effect may trigger a conversion of most of the star into a strange star. We use an energy estimate for the long-lived strangelet based on the Fermi-gas model combined with the MIT bag model to set a new limit on the possible values of the WIMP mass that can be especially relevant for subdominant species of massive neutralinos. 相似文献
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Directional detection of Galactic Dark Matter is a promising search strategy for discriminating WIMP events from background. Technical progress on gaseous detectors and read-outs has permitted the design and construction of competitive experiments. However, to take full advantage of this powerful detection method, one need to be able to extract information from an observed recoil map to identify a WIMP signal. We present a comprehensive formalism, using a map-based likelihood method allowing to recover the main incoming direction of the signal and its significance, thus proving its Galactic origin. This is a blind analysis intended to be used on any directional data. Constraints are deduced in the (σn,mχ) plane and systematic studies are presented in order to show that, using this analysis tool, unambiguous Dark Matter detection can be achieved on a large range of exposures and background levels. 相似文献
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Kim SC Bhang H Choi JH Kang WG Kim BH Kim HJ Kim KW Kim SK Kim YD Lee J Lee JH Lee JK Lee MJ Lee SJ Li J Li J Li XR Li YJ Myung SS Olsen SL Ryu S Seong IS So JH Yue Q;KIMS Collaboration 《Physical review letters》2012,108(18):181301
New limits are presented on the cross section for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) nucleon scattering in the KIMS CsI(T?) detector array at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory. The exposure used for these results is 24?524.3 kg·days. Nuclei recoiling from WIMP interactions are identified by a pulse shape discrimination method. A low energy background due to alpha emitters on the crystal surfaces is identified and taken into account in the analysis. The detected numbers of nuclear recoils are consistent with zero and 90% confidence level upper limits on the WIMP interaction rates are set for electron equivalent energies from 3 to 11 keV. The 90% upper limit of the nuclear recoil event rate for 3.6-5.8 keV corresponding to 2-4 keV in NaI(T?) is 0.0098 counts/kg/keV/day, which is below the annual modulation amplitude reported by DAMA. This is incompatible with interpretations that enhance the modulation amplitude such as inelastic dark matter models. We establish the most stringent cross section limits on spin-dependent WIMP-proton elastic scattering for the WIMP masses greater than 20 GeV/c2. 相似文献
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We study the prospects for detecting weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in a number of phenomenological scenarios, with a detector composed of a target simultaneously sensitive to both spin-dependent and spin-independent couplings, as is the case of COUPP (Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics). First, we show that sensitivity to both couplings optimizes chances of initial WIMP detection. Second, we demonstrate that, in case of detection, a comparison of the signal on two complementary targets, such as in COUPP CF3I and C4F10 bubble chambers, allows a significantly more precise determination of the dark matter axial and scalar couplings. This strategy would provide crucial information on the nature of the WIMPs and possibly allow discrimination between neutralino and Kaluza-Klein dark matter. 相似文献
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Akerib DS Alvaro-Dean J Armel-Funkhouser MS Attisha MJ Baudis L Bauer DA Beaty J Brink PL Bunker R Burke SP Cabrera B Caldwell DO Callahan D Castle JP Chang CL Choate R Crisler MB Cushman P Dixon R Dragowsky MR Driscoll DD Duong L Emes J Ferril R Filippini J Gaitskell RJ Haldeman M Hale D Holmgren D Huber ME Johnson B Johnson W Kamat S Kozlovsky M Kula L Kyre S Lambin B Lu A Mahapatra R Manalaysay AG Mandic V May J McDonald R Merkel B Meunier P Mirabolfathi N Morrison S Nelson H Nelson R 《Physical review letters》2004,93(21):211301
We report the first results from a search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Four Ge and two Si detectors were operated for 52.6 live days, providing 19.4 kg d of Ge net exposure after cuts for recoil energies between 10 and 100 keV. A blind analysis was performed using only calibration data to define the energy threshold and selection criteria for nuclear-recoil candidates. Using the standard dark-matter halo and nuclear-physics WIMP model, these data set the world's lowest exclusion limits on the coherent WIMP-nucleon scalar cross section for all WIMP masses above 15 GeV/c2, ruling out a significant range of neutralino supersymmetric models. The minimum of this limit curve at the 90% C.L. is 4 x 10(-43) cm2 at a WIMP mass of 60 GeV/c2. 相似文献
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杨丽桃 李浩斌 岳骞 康克军 程建平 李元景 王子敬 M.Agartioglu 安海鹏 常建平 陈景瀚 陈云华 邓智 杜强 宫辉 何力 胡津纬 胡庆东 黄瀚雄 贾历平 江灏 李红 李荐民 李金 李霞 李学潜 李玉兰 林枫凯 林兴德 刘书魁 刘仲智 马豪 马菁露 潘辉 任杰 阮锡超 B.Sevda Vivek Sharma 申满斌 Lakhwinder Singh Manoj Kumar Singh 唐昌建 唐维优 田阳 王继敏 王力 王青 王轶 吴世勇 吴玉成 幸浩洋 徐音 薛涛 杨松伟 易难 喻纯旭 于海军 岳剑峰 曾雄辉 曾鸣 曾志 张云华 赵明刚 赵伟 周济芳 周祖英 朱敬军 朱忠华 《中国物理C(英文版)》2018,(2)
We report results of a search for light weakly interacting massive particle(WIMP) dark matter from the CDEX-1 experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory(CJPL). Constraints on WIMP-nucleon spin-independent(SI) and spin-dependent(SD) couplings are derived with a physics threshold of 160 eVee, from an exposure of 737.1 kg-days. The SI and SD limits extend the lower reach of light WIMPs to 2 GeV and improve over our earlier bounds at WIMP mass less than 6 GeV. 相似文献
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The Sagittarius dwarf tidal stream may be showering dark matter onto the solar neighborhood, which can change the results and interpretation of direct detection searches for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Stars in the stream may already have been detected in the solar neighborhood, and the dark matter in the stream is (0.3-25)% of the local density. Experiments should see an annually modulated steplike feature in the energy recoil spectrum that would be a smoking gun for WIMP detection. The total count rate in detectors is not a cosine curve in time and peaks at a different time of year than the standard case. 相似文献
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The signals observed at the direct detection experiments DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST could be explained by light WIMPs with sizeable spin-independent cross sections with nucleons. The capture and subsequent annihilation of such particles in the Sun would induce neutrino signals in the GeV range which may be observed at Super-Kamiokande. We determine the rate of upward stopping muons and fully contained events at Super-Kamiokande for various possible WIMP annihilation channels. This allows us to provide strong constraints on the cross section of WIMPs with nucleons. We find that the DAMA and CoGeNT signals are inconsistent with standard thermal WIMPs annihilating dominantly into neutrino or tau pairs. We also provide limits for spin-dependent WIMP nucleus scattering for masses up to 80 GeV. These exclude the DAMA favored region if WIMPs annihilate even subdominantly into neutrinos, taus, bottoms or charms. 相似文献
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Lee HS Bhang HC Choi JH Dao H Hahn IS Hwang MJ Jung SW Kang WG Kim DW Kim HJ Kim SC Kim SK Kim YD Kwak JW Kwon YJ Lee J Lee JH Lee JI Lee MJ Lee SJ Li J Li X Li YJ Myung SS Ryu S So JH Yue Q Zhu JJ;KIMS Collaboration 《Physical review letters》2007,99(9):091301
The Korea Invisible Mass Search (KIMS) experiment presents new limits on the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon cross section using data from an exposure of 3409 kg.d taken with low-background CsI(Tl) crystals at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory. The most stringent limit on the spin-dependent interaction for a pure proton case is obtained. The DAMA signal region for both spin-independent and spin-dependent interactions for the WIMP masses greater than 20 GeV/c2 is excluded by the single experiment with crystal scintillators. 相似文献