Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search results obtained using a target of low-radioactivity argon. DarkSide-50 is a dark matter detector, using a two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The underground argon is shown to contain Ar-39 at a level reduced by a factor (1.4 +/- 0.2) x 10(3) relative to atmospheric argon. We report a background-free null result from (2616 +/- 43) kg d of data, accumulated over 70.9 live days. When combined with our previous search using an atmospheric argon, the 90% C.L. upper limit on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section, based on zero events found in the WIMP search regions, is 2.0 x 10(-4)4 cm(2) (8.6 x 10(-44) cm(2), 8.0 x 10(-43) cm(2)) for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c(2) (1 TeV/c(2), 10 TeV/c(2)).
Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search / Agnes, P., Agostino, L., Albuquerque, I.F.M., Alexander, T., Alton, A.K., Arisaka, K., Back, H.O., Baldin, B., Biery, K., Bonfini, G., Bossa, M., Bottino, B., Brigatti, A., Brodsky, J., Budano, F., Bussino, S., Cadeddu, M., Cadonati, L., Cadoni, M., Calaprice, F., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D. - ISSN 2470-0010. - 93:8(2016). [10.1103/PhysRevD.93.081101]
Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search
CATALANOTTI, SERGIO;COVONE, GIOVANNI;FIORILLO, GIULIANA;Suvorov, Y.;
2016
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Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search results obtained using a target of low-radioactivity argon. DarkSide-50 is a dark matter detector, using a two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The underground argon is shown to contain Ar-39 at a level reduced by a factor (1.4 +/- 0.2) x 10(3) relative to atmospheric argon. We report a background-free null result from (2616 +/- 43) kg d of data, accumulated over 70.9 live days. When combined with our previous search using an atmospheric argon, the 90% C.L. upper limit on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section, based on zero events found in the WIMP search regions, is 2.0 x 10(-4)4 cm(2) (8.6 x 10(-44) cm(2), 8.0 x 10(-43) cm(2)) for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c(2) (1 TeV/c(2), 10 TeV/c(2)).| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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