DARWIN dark matter WIMP search with noble liquids

By L. Baudis. 2010

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DARWIN (dark matter wimp search with noble liquids) is a design study for a next-generation, multi-ton dark matter detector in Europe. Liquid argon and/or liquid xenon are the target media for the direct detection of dark matter candidates in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Light and charge signals created by particle interactions in the active detector volume are observed via the time projection chamber technique. DARWIN is to probe the spin-independent, WIMP-nucleon cross section down l0−48cm2 and to measure WIMP-induced nuclear recoil spectra with high-statistics, should they be discovered by an existing or near-future experiment. After a brief introduction, I will describe the project, selected R&D topics, expected backgrounds and the physics reach.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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6. M. Kaplinghat
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Citations in the corpus

• Liquid noble gas detectors for low energy particle physics (2012, methodology): “The light readout for PANDA-1T might feature gaseous photomultipliers instead of conventional PMTs. Finally, we mention briefly DARWIN (DARk matter WImp search with Noble liquids), a design study for a next-generation, multi-tonne detector in Europe [381].”
• Cosmological simulations with self-interacting dark matter – II. Halo shapes versus observations (2012, background): “…their sensitivity to interesting neutralino parameter space (Geringer-Sameth & Koushiappas 2011; Ackermann et al. 2011; Cotta et al. 2012; Fox et al. 2011; Bertone et al. 2012; Atlas Collaboration 2012; Koay 2012; Baudis 2012; Baer, Barger & Mustafayev 2012; XENON100 Collaboration et al. 2012).”
• Direct dark matter detection: the next decade (2012, background): “DARWIN (Dark matter WIMP search with noble liquids) [80, 81] is a European design study for 20 t (10 t) LXe and/or LAr TPCs operated in large water Cherenkov shields either at LNGS, or in the planned LSM extension.”