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Dark Matter
With the technical complexity required by ongoing dark matter direct detection experiments, as well as requiring more refined background rejection techniques, some direct detection experiments have the ability to investigate neutrinos as well. One such detector in recent years involves the liquid argon based DEAP-3600 experiment. The detector assembly allows for nearly 3600 kg of liquid argon...
Liquid argon has proven to be a powerful medium for detecting GeV‑scale dark matter, as demonstrated by the DEAP‑3600 and DarkSide‑50 experiments. Building on these successes, DarkSide‑20k is now under construction at LNGS as the first flagship detector of the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration. With a 50‑tonne ultra‑pure argon target and exceptionally low backgrounds, DarkSide‑20k, in...
The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC), formed to unite liquid argon–based dark matter experiments, is currently constructing its next-generation experiment DarkSide-20k. Located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), DarkSide-20k builds upon the success of previous argon experiments, including its predecessor, DarkSide-50, to continue the search for weakly interacting...
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration combines historic bubble chamber technologies with the scintillation properties of liquid nobles to create a detector uniquely suited to low threshold rare event searches. The collaboration has built two nearly identical assemblies; SBC-LAr10 is being used for calibration studies at Fermilab and planned future coherent elastic...
The latest results from the DEAP-3600 experiment in the search for dark matter will be presented. DEAP-3600 is a direct detection experiment that uses 3.3 tonnes of liquid argon as its target material. Located over 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada, the detector is designed to observe scintillation light from nuclear recoils induced by dark matter interactions. Pulse-shape...
