DAMIC-M experiment: Thick, silicon CCDs to search for light dark matter

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A90107%2F20%3A00344127" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:90107/20:00344127 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.162933" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.162933</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.162933" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.nima.2019.162933</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

DAMIC-M experiment: Thick, silicon CCDs to search for light dark matter

Original language description

This report presents an overview of the unconventional use of charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for Dark Matter (DM). The DArk Matter in CCDs (DAMIC Experiment) employs the bulk silicon of thick, fully-depleted CCDs as a target for ionization signals produced by interations of particle dark matter from the galactic halo. The DAMIC collaboration has engaged in an extensive campaign of characterization efforts to understand the response of these CCDs to low-energy nuclear recoils and their unique capabilities, including the use of high spatial resolution for both the rejection and study of backgrounds. The preliminary results of DAMIC prove the performance of the detector, provide measurements of the background contamination and demonstrate the potentiality for DM searches, with only similar to 40 grams of detector mass. The next phase of the experiment, DAMIC-M (DArk Matter in CCDs at Modane), will consist of a kg-sized detector, implementing the most massive CCDs ever built. These CCDs will feature sub-electron noise and will be deployed in a low-radioactivity environment at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in France.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10304 - Nuclear physics

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

ISSN

0168-9002

e-ISSN

1872-9576

Volume of the periodical

958

Issue of the periodical within the volume

162933

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

1-4

UT code for WoS article

000514843900026

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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