# PoS(ICHEP2016)215

NEWAGE direction-sensitve direct dark matter search

K. Miuchi, R. Yakabe, T. Hashimoto, T. Ikeda, R. Taishaku, M. Nakazawa, Y. Yamaguchi, T. Inada, K. Nakamura, T. Tanimori, H. Kubo, A. Takada, H. Sekiya, A. Takeda

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Abstract

NEWAGE is a direction-sensitive direct dark matter search experiment. NEWAGE uses a micro time-projection chamber with a detection volume of $\rm 31 \times 31 \times 41 cm^3$, which is read by a macro-petterned gaseous detectors, $\rm \mu$-PIC. Underground measurements with the current detector, NEWAGE-0.3b’, have been performed since 2013. After the first direction-sensitive limits drived from 31.6 live-days of NEWAGE-0.3b' data were published, measurements were continued and the preliminary results from an addtional 170 days of results are reported here. In order to improve the sensitivity, low $\alpha$-particle emission $\rm \mu-PICs$ are being developed. Studies on negative-ion gases are also on-going. These recent activities that aim to improve the sensitivity are also presented here.