Direct detection of dark matter—APPEC committee report

J Billard, M Boulay, S Cebrián, L Covi… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This report provides an extensive review of the experimental programme of direct detection
searches of particle dark matter. It focuses mostly on European efforts, both current and …

Report of the topical group on particle dark matter for snowmass 2021

J Cooley, T Lin, WH Lippincott, TR Slatyer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This report summarizes the findings of the CF1 Topical Subgroup to Snowmass 2021, which
was focused on particle dark matter. One of the most important scientific goals of the next …

Searching for low-mass dark matter via the Migdal effect in COSINE-100

G Adhikari, N Carlin, JJ Choi, S Choi, AC Ezeribe… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We report on the search for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter
candidates in the galactic halo that interact with sodium and iodine nuclei in the COSINE …

Yemilab, a new underground laboratory in Korea

Y Kim, HS Lee - AAPPS Bulletin, 2024 - Springer
Abstract In September 2022, Yemilab, a new underground laboratory, was finally completed
in Jeongseon, Gangwon Province, South Korea. Situated at a depth of 1000 m, it boasts an …

ANAIS–112 three years data: a sensitive model independent negative test of the DAMA/LIBRA dark matter signal

I Coarasa, J Amaré, J Apilluelo, S Cebrián… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are well-motivated candidates for dark matter.
One signature of galactic WIMPs is the annual modulation expected in a detector's …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering using reactor electron antineutrinos in the NEON experiment

JJ Choi, EJ Jeon, JY Kim, KW Kim, SH Kim… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
Neutrino elastic scattering observation with NaI (NEON) is an experiment designed to detect
neutrino-nucleus coherent scattering using reactor electron antineutrinos. NEON is based …

Snowmass2021 cosmic frontier white paper: Puzzling excesses in dark matter searches and how to resolve them

RK Leane, S Shin, L Yang, G Adhikari… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Intriguing signals with excesses over expected backgrounds have been observed in many
astrophysical and terrestrial settings, which could potentially have a dark matter origin …

Development of highly radiopure NaI (Tl) scintillator for PICOLON dark matter search project

K Fushimi, Y Kanemitsu, S Hirata… - … of Theoretical and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Highly radiopure NaI (Tl) was developed to search for particle candidates of dark
matter. Optimized methods were combined to reduce various radioactive impurities. K was …

New strategies to improve the sensitivity of the ANAIS-112 experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory

D Cintas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.07339, 2023 - arxiv.org
The goal of the ANAIS-112 experiment, which operates at LSC, is to test in a model
independent way the DAMA/LIBRA positive signal using the same target (NaI (Tl) crystals) …

Improving the light collection using a new NaI (Tl) crystal encapsulation

JJ Choi, BJ Park, C Ha, KW Kim, SK Kim… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
NaI (Tl) crystals are used as particle detectors in a variety of rare-event search experiments
because of their superb light-emission quality. The crystal light yield is generally high, above …