PandaX: A deep underground dark matter search experiment in China using liquid xenon

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (30) ◽  
pp. 1830013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhao ◽  
Jianglai Liu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Underground Laboratory ◽  
Liquid Xenon ◽  
Detection Experiment ◽  
Dark Matter Search ◽  
The Future ◽  
Search Experiment ◽  
Deep Underground ◽  
Scientific Results

The nature of dark matter is one of the most fundamental scientific unknowns. Particle physicists have spent decades searching for evidence of dark matter particles. The PandaX project is a staged xenon-based dark matter direct detection experiment located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. In this paper, we give an overview of the PandaX experiment, discuss its recent scientific results, and outline the plan for the future.

scholarly journals SABRE and the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory Dark Matter Research at the Australian National University

2020 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 01002 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. Bignell ◽  
E. Barberio ◽  
M. B. Froehlich ◽  
G. J. Lane ◽  
O. Lennon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Liquid Scintillator ◽  
Detection Experiment ◽  
Physics Laboratory ◽  
Quenching Factor ◽  
National University ◽  
Deep Underground ◽  
Underground Physics ◽  
Under Construction

The direct detection of dark matter is a key problem in astroparticle physics that generally requires the use of deep-underground laboratories for a low-background environment where the rare signals from dark matter interactions can be observed. This work reports on the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory – currently under construction and the first such laboratory in the Southern Hemisphere – and the associated research program. A particular focus will be given to ANU’s contribution to SABRE, a NaI:Tl dark matter, direct detection experiment that aims to confirm or refute the long-standing DAMA result. Preliminary measurements of the NaI:Tl quenching factor and characterisation of the SABRE liquid scintillator veto are reported.

scholarly journals First results from dark matter search experiment with LiF bolometer at Kamioka underground laboratory

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Miuchi ◽  
M. Minowa ◽  
A. Takeda ◽  
H. Sekiya ◽  
Y. Shimizu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Underground Laboratory ◽  
Dark Matter Search ◽  
First Results ◽  
Search Experiment

scholarly journals A Review of Basic Energy Reconstruction Techniques in Liquid Xenon and Argon Detectors for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics Using NEST

Instruments ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Matthew Szydagis ◽  
Grant A. Block ◽  
Collin Farquhar ◽  
Alexander J. Flesher ◽  
Ekaterina S. Kozlova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Neutrino Physics ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Profile Likelihood ◽  
Liquid Argon ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Liquid Xenon ◽  
Nuclear Recoils ◽  
Available Information

Detectors based upon the noble elements, especially liquid xenon as well as liquid argon, as both single- and dual-phase types, require reconstruction of the energies of interacting particles, both in the field of direct detection of dark matter (weakly interacting massive particles WIMPs, axions, etc.) and in neutrino physics. Experimentalists, as well as theorists who reanalyze/reinterpret experimental data, have used a few different techniques over the past few decades. In this paper, we review techniques based on solely the primary scintillation channel, the ionization or secondary channel available at non-zero drift electric fields, and combined techniques that include a simple linear combination and weighted averages, with a brief discussion of the application of profile likelihood, maximum likelihood, and machine learning. Comparing results for electron recoils (beta and gamma interactions) and nuclear recoils (primarily from neutrons) from the Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST) simulation to available data, we confirm that combining all available information generates higher-precision means, lower widths (energy resolution), and more symmetric shapes (approximately Gaussian) especially at keV-scale energies, with the symmetry even greater when thresholding is addressed. Near thresholds, bias from upward fluctuations matters. For MeV-GeV scales, if only one channel is utilized, an ionization-only-based energy scale outperforms scintillation; channel combination remains beneficial. We discuss here what major collaborations use.

DARK MATTER SEARCH WITH GAMMA RAYS: THE EXPERIMENTS EGRET AND GLAST

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (12n13) ◽  
pp. 1829-1840 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALDO MORSELLI
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Supersymmetric Standard Model ◽  
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model ◽  
Gamma Rays ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Dark Matter Search

The direct detection of annihilation products in cosmic rays offers an alternative way to search for supersymmetric dark matter particles candidates. The study of the spectrum of gamma-rays, antiprotons and positrons offers good possibilities to perform this search in a significant portion of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model parameters space. In particular the EGRET team have seen a convincing signal for a strong excess of emission from the galactic center that have not easily explanation with standard processes. We will review the achievable limits with the experiment GLAST taking into accounts the LEP results and we will compare this method with the antiproton and positrons experiments, the direct underground detection and with future experiments at LHC.

The first results of PandaX-4T

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianglai Liu
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Liquid Xenon ◽  
Observable Universe ◽  
Fundamental Particle ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Visible Matter ◽  
First Results ◽  
New Type ◽  
Deep Underground

Dark matter, an invisible substance which constitutes 85% of the matter in the observable universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics and astronomy today. Dark matter can be made of a new type of fundamental particle, not yet observed due to its feeble interactions with visible matter. In this talk, we present the first results of PandaX-4T, a 4-ton-scale liquid xenon dark matter observatory, searching for these dark matter particles from deep underground. We will briefly summarize the performance of PandaX-4T, introduces details in the data analysis, and present the latest search results on dark matter-nucleon interactions.

scholarly journals Status of the 25 T, 100 mm Bore HTS Solenoid for an Axion Dark Matter Search Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Gupta ◽  
Michael Anerella ◽  
John Cozzolino ◽  
Piyush Joshi ◽  
Shresht Joshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Matter Search ◽  
Search Experiment

Liquid xenon detector for dark matter search at Gran Sasso

1993 ◽  
Vol 336 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 336-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Belli ◽  
R. Bernabei ◽  
C. Dai ◽  
A. Incicchitti ◽  
D. Prosperi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Liquid Xenon ◽  
Dark Matter Search
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