DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector

By J. Aalbers, F. Agostini, M. Alfonsi, F. Amaro, C. Amsler, E. Aprile, L. Arazi, F. Arneodo, P. Barrow, L. Baudis and 109 more. 2016

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DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN (DARWIN) will be an experiment for the direct detection of dark matter using a multi-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core. Its primary goal will be to explore the experimentally accessible parameter space for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in a wide mass-range, until neutrino interactions with the target become an irreducible background. The prompt scintillation light and the charge signals induced by particle interactions in the xenon will be observed by VUV sensitive, ultra-low background photosensors. Besides its excellent sensitivity to WIMPs above a mass of 5 GeV/c2, such a detector with its large mass, low-energy threshold and ultra-low background level will also be sensitive to other rare interactions. It will search for solar axions, galactic axion-like particles and the neutrinoless double-beta decay of 136Xe, as well as measure the low-energy solar neutrino flux with < 1% precision, observe coherent neutrino-nucleus interactions, and detect galactic supernovae. We present the concept of the DARWIN detector and discuss its physics reach, the main sources of backgrounds and the ongoing detector design and R&D efforts.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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What can be learned from a future supernova neutrino detection (2017, background): “, the ∼ 7 tonnes XENONnT [348] and LZ [349] detectors, and the DARWIN consortium [350] is exploring 40 tonnes of instrumented xenon.”
Dark matter direct-detection experiments (2015, background): “ and XENONnT[172] are planned. The success of the liquid noble gas TPC technology has motivated proposals for even larger detectors like the DARWIN (dark matter wimp search with liquid xenon) facility[407] in Europe, consisting of a large liquid xenon detector. In the case of an evidence of a dark m”
Stellar recipes for axion hunters (2017, background): “(1)Current and future weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) direct detectection dark matter experiments, such as XENON100 [16] and DARWIN [17], respectively, can also measure solar axions through electron ionisation signals induced by the axion-electron coupling.”
Neutrino non-standard interactions: A status report (2019, methodology): “Proposed large-exposure experiments such as DARWIN [122], ARGO [123] or CRESST [124] intend to explore even further the WIMP parameter space.”
Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC (2018, background): “In the future, DARWIN [290] will probe the full parameter space, while colliders and indirect detection (only under the assumption of a cuspy dark matter halo profile) will be sensitive for relatively low masses and large or small , respectively.”
New experimental approaches in the search for axion-like particles (2018, background): “Next generation WIMP detectors, like DARWIN [536], could improve this limit by more than one order of magnitude.”
WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects (2017, background): “discussed in Section3.5. A further signicant improvement is expected from the currently running XENON1T, later from XENONnT [201], LZ [202], and eventually from planned xenon detectors, e.g., DARWIN [203], and for argon as a target material: DEAP3600 [204], ArDM [205] and DarkSide G2 [206]. In the l”
Neutrino Mass Ordering from Oscillations and Beyond: 2018 Status and Future Prospects (2018, methodology): “2 × 10−4 eV would require some amount of fine tuning in the Majorana phases.”