PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 364 - European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2019) - Dark Matter
DarkSide-50 Results and the Future Liquid Argon Dark Matter Program
A. Caminata
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Pre-published on: June 10, 2020
Published on: November 12, 2020
Abstract
DarkSide uses a dual-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) to search for WIMP dark matter. The paper will present the latest result on the search for low mass ($M_{WIMP}<20\,Gev/c^2$) and high mass ($M_{WIMP}>100\,Gev/c^2$) WIMPs from the current experiment, DarkSide-50, running since mid 2015 a 50-kg-active-mass TPC, filled with argon from an underground source. The next stage of the DarkSide program will be a new generation experiment involving a global collaboration from all the current Argon based experiments.
DarkSide-20k, is designed as a 20-tonne fiducial mass TPC with SiPM based photosensors, expected to be free of any background for an exposure of >100 ton x years. Like its predecessor DarkSide-20k will be housed at the Gran Sasso (LNGS) underground laboratory, and it is expected to attain a WIMP-nucleon cross section exclusion sensitivity of $10^{-47}\,cm^2$ for a WIMP mass of $1\,TeV/c^2$ in a 5 yr run.
A subsequent objective, towards the end of the next decade, will be the construction of the ultimate detector, ARGO, with a 300 t fiducial mass to push the sensitivity to the neutrino floor region for high mass WIMPs.
The combination of the three experiments, part of a single family, will cover completely the WIMP hypothesis from $1\,GeV/c^2$ to several hundreds of $TeV/c^2$ masses.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.364.0077
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