Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

2015/09/30 by DAMIC Collaboration, A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo, Aguilar-Arevalo, A. +59
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1510.00044

Abstract

The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold ∼50 eV_ee, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and suppress radioactive backgrounds, having an unrivaled sensitivity to WIMPs with masses

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