Conveners
Upcoming WIMP-like Experiments
- Gianluca Cavoto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
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Daniele Delicato (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)11/05/2026, 14:50
BULLKID-DM is a new experiment designed to search for low-mass WIMP-like dark matter particles (1 GeV/c or below) with nucleon cross-sections below 10 cm. The device consists of an 800 g array of over 2000 silicon dice, each acting as a particle absorber instrumented with multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs). Background rejection is achieved through a fully active structure,...
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Antoine Armatol11/05/2026, 15:15
The TESSERACT (Transition Edge Sensors with Sub-eV Resolution And Cryogenic Targets) experiment is an international collaboration between the USA, France, and Switzerland that aims to search for light dark matter over a wide range of masses (from the proton mass down to a few meV) at the Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM). To achieve this goal, it will utilize different cryogenic detector...
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Brooke Russell11/05/2026, 15:40
Previously proposed dark matter absorption searches using crystalline targets face a fundamental limitation: momentum conservation in a perfect crystal restricts absorption to occur only when the dark matter mass is resonant with one of a small number of optical phonon frequencies. For a dark matter mass hypothesis that doesn't coincide with these narrow resonances, absorption must proceed...
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Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano11/05/2026, 16:05
Low-mass dark matter is now a central focus in direct-detection research. Decades without a WIMP signal have driven the community to broaden theoretical models and explore new mass ranges. The next frontier is detecting dark-matter interactions at eV scales and below. The SuperCDMS-derived HVeV R&D devices have shown resolution below 1 eV, and advances in quantum sensing have opened pathways...
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