Conveners
Direct Dark Matter detection: - 1
- Riccardo Cerulli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Direct Dark Matter detection: - 2
- Pierluigi Belli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
LUX-ZEPLIN(LZ) is a direct detection dark matter experiment located nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. Employing a dual-phase Time Projection Chamber (TPC) containing 7 tonnes of active xenon surrounded by veto systems, LZ offers world-leading sensitivity in detecting Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a highly...
The DarkSide program at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) aims to detect dark matter WIMP particles in dual phase Liquid Argon (LAr) Time Projection Chambers (TPC). Since 2015, DarkSide has run since a 50-kg-active-mass dual phase LAr TPC filled with low radioactivity argon from an underground source and produced results for both the low mass and high mass direct detection...
BULLKID-DM is a new experiment to search for hypothetical WIMP-like Dark-Matter particles with mass around 1 GeV and cross-section with nucleons smaller than 10^-41 cm^2.
The target will amount to 600 g subdivided in 2500 silicon dice sensed by phonon-mediated kinetic inductance detectors. With respect to other solid-state experiments in the field the aim is to control the backgrounds by...
The SABRE experiment aims to find Dark Matter through the annual modulation in NaI(Tl) crystals' rate. The project is conceived as a double-site experiment, with two similar detectors located respectively in the North hemisphere (LNGS, Italy) and in the South hemisphere (SUPL, Australia), in order to disentangle seasonal or site-related effects and verify the cosmic nature of an eventual...
The PandaX-4T experiment, located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, is a dual-phase xenon direct dark matter detection experiment utilizing 4 tons of liquid xenon as the target material in its sensitive volume. As of now, the total data exposure in PandaX-4T is approximately 1.6 ton-years, starting from 2020. Using the data, we have searched for multiple dark matter candidates and...
Several astrophysical and cosmological observations on different length scales indicate the presence of a massive, non-luminous and non-baryonic matter component which is commonly referred to as dark matter. Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) which arise from several beyond-Standard-model theories are among the candidates for dark matter. Over the last decade, the search for these...
The DAMA/LIBRA experiment (about 250 kg of highly radio-pure NaI(Tl)) at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) of the I.N.F.N. is presented. Its main aim is the investigation of Dark Matter (DM) particles in the Galactic halo by pursuing the model independent DM annual modulation signature. DAMA/LIBRA–phase2, with improved experimental configuration and lower software energy threshold with...
CRESST-III (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) installed at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, is looking to directly detect dark matter particles scattering off target nuclei in cryogenic detectors. Thanks to its energy thresholds lower than 100 eV, CRESST-III is among the leading experiments in probing sub-GeV DM masses. In this contribution, an overview of...
Previous studies have shown the effect of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) on the local speed distribution of the dark matter particles. Since it dominates the high speed tail of the distribution and the gravitational interaction also boosts the solar neighbourhood dark matter particles to higher velocities, such an effect has an impact on direct detection searches. In this talk, I will...
The development and use of low-background anisotropic scintillators can offer a unique way to study the Dark Matter (DM) particle component in the galactic halo, which is able to induce nuclear recoils through the directionality technique. This approach is based on studying the correlation between the arrival direction of DM candidates able to induce a nuclear recoil and the Earth’s motion in...
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB is a direct detection dark matter (DM) search experiment that is currently being constructed 2 kilometers underground at SNOLAB, Canada. The experiment will employ 24 cryogenic semiconductor detectors (18 germanium and 6 silicon) that are comprised of two different types. The first type is called a High Voltage (HV) detector operated at...
The presence of Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe is nowadays an established, yet still mysterious, paradigm: deciphering its essence is one of the most compelling tasks for fundamental physics today. While the majority of direct DM search experiment look for very low energy deposits by nuclear recoils induced by scattering with potential DM candidates, a much more robust signature is...
The muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_\mu=\frac{g-2}{2}$, is a low-energy observable which can be both measured and computed to high precision, making it a sensitive test of the Standard Model and a probe for new physics. The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab aims to measure $a_{\mu}$ with a final accuracy of 140 parts per billion (ppb). The experiment is based on the measurement of the muon...
