The ANKOK project is a new dark matter search experiment in Japan using the double phase liquid argon detector which is specialized for the low mass (~10 GeV/c2) WIMP detection. We
are currently proceeding R&D efforts to establish its physics sensitivity, such as understanding of the liquid argon scintillation and ionization processes for very low energy deposition (~20 keV) and development of the new photo-sensor which has direct sensitivity for the 128 nm VUV light.
In the next few years, we are targeting to construct a detector with fiducial mass of several tens of
kg, and to collect the underground physics data to search for the low mass WIMP.
Volume 282 -
38th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP2016) -
Detector: R&D and Performance
Status of R&D of the ANKOK project: Low mass WIMP search using double phase argon detector
Full text:
pdf
Pre-published on:
February 06, 2017
Published on:
April 19, 2017
Abstract
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.282.0274
How to cite
Metadata are provided both in "article" format (very similar to INSPIRE) as this helps creating very compact bibliographies which can be beneficial to authors and readers, and in "proceeding" format which is more detailed and complete.
Open Access
Copyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Copyright owned by the author(s) under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.