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arxiv: 1510.00044 · v2 · submitted 2015-09-30 · ⚛️ physics.ins-det · astro-ph.IM· hep-ex

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Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

DAMIC Collaboration: A. Aguilar-Arevalo , D. Amidei , X. Bertou , D. Boule , M. Butner , G. Cancelo , A. Casta\~neda V\'azquez , A. E. Chavarr\'ia
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J. R. T. de Melo Neto S. Dixon J. C. D'Olivo J. Estrada G. Fernandez Moroni K. P. Hern\'andez Torres F. Izraelevitch A. Kavner B. Kilminster I. Lawson J. Liao M. L\'opez J. Molina G. Moreno-Granados J. Pena P. Privitera Y. Sarkis V. Scarpine T. Schwartz M. Sofo Haro J. Tiffenberg D. Torres Machado F. Trillaud X. You J. Zhou
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The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $\sim$50 eV$_{ee}$, and excellent energy and spatial resolutions, the DAMIC CCDs are well-suited to identify and suppress radioactive backgrounds, having an unrivaled sensitivity to WIMPs with masses $<$6 GeV/$c^2$. Early results motivated the construction of a 100 g detector, DAMIC100, currently being installed at SNOLAB. This contribution discusses the installation progress, new calibration efforts near the threshold, a preliminary result with 2014 data, and the prospects for physics results after one year of data taking.

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