We describe a pathfinder experiment named DEEPDISH (dark matter extended energy probe: dielectric infrared superconducting haloscope) to search unexplored regions of dark matter (DM) parameter space: first for dark photon DM and later for axion DM with the application of a magnetic field. The DM...
The XENON1T experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is the first WIMP dark matter detector operating with a liquid xenon target mass above the ton-scale. Out of its 3.2 t liquid xenon inventory, 2.0 t constitute the active target of the dual-phase time projection chamb...
We report the first results of DarkSide-50, a direct search for dark matter operating in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and searching for the rare nuclear recoils possibly induced by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The dark matter detector is a Liquid ...
Scientists from theUniversity of Nottingham’s School of Physicshave created a 3D-printed vacuum system that they will use in a new experiment to reduce the density of gas, then and add in ultra-cold lithium atoms to try to detect dark walls. The research has been published in the scientifi...
The CRESST experiment in its first phase is using sapphire detectors with tungsten phase transition thermometers to search for dark matter WIMPs. At present four 262 g detectors are performing first measurements under low background conditions. Detector performance as well as preliminary results from th...
First, let us introduce the concept of a “Paradigm for the Dark Matter Phenomenon”, i.e., a refined set of properties that the actual DM scenario must possess and that, in turn, reveals the nature itself of the dark particle. After the first “detections” of DM in the Universe, a...
TheLarge Underground Xenon dark-matter experiment(LUX), seated in a gold mine in South Dakota, has also been hunting for signs of WIMP and xenon interactions. But so far, the instrument hasn't revealed the mysterious matter. "Though a positive signal would have been welcome, nature was not...
which produces an even smaller effect. Very wide and deep surveys, such as KiDS, are needed to ensure that the very weak cosmic shear signal is strong enough to be measured and can be used by astronomers to map the distribution of gravitating matter. This study takes in the largest total ...
NEWAGE - Direction-sensitive Dark Matter Search Experimentdark matterdirectionalitygaseous detectorMPGDNEWAGE is a direction-sensitive WIMP search experiment using micro pixel chamber. After our first underground measurement at Kamioka in 2009, we constructed a new detector, which was designed to have a...
In Germany, scientists are trying to observe dark matter in a bold new way: by creating it. ALPS II, anexperimentat the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, consists of a 250-meter tunnel with an optical cavity. This cavity amplifies a laser that is exposed to an intense ma...