DAMIC: a novel dark matter experiment

(10) Centro At\'omico Bariloche - CONICET/IB; (11) Instituto de Ingenier\'ia - Univesidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico); (2) Centro At\'omico Bariloche - CNEA/CONICET; (3) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; (4) University of Chicago - Enrico Fermi Institute & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics; (5) Universidad Nacional del Sur; (6) University of Zurich; (7) SNOLAB; (8) Facultad de Ingenieria - Universidad Nacional de Asuncion; (9) University of Michigan

arxiv: 1310.6688 · v1 · pith:MHGGBLUUnew · submitted 2013-10-24 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · physics.ins-det

DAMIC: a novel dark matter experiment

The DAMIC Collaboration: Alexis A. Aguilar-Arevalo (1) , Xavier Bertou (2) , Melissa J. Butner (3) , Gustavo Cancelo (3) , Alvaro Chavarria (4) , Juan Carlos D'Olivo (1) , Juan Cruz Estrada Vigil (3) , Guillermo Fernandez Moroni (5)

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Federico Izraelevitch (3) Ben Kilminster (6) Ian T. Lawson (7) Fernando Marsal (8) Jorge Molina (8) Paolo Privitera (4) Tom Schwarz (9) Miguel Sofo Haro (10) Javier Tiffenberg (3) Frederic Trillaud (11) Jing Zhou (4) ((1) Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares - Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico (2) Centro At\'omico Bariloche - CNEA/CONICET (3) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (4) University of Chicago - Enrico Fermi Institute & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (5) Universidad Nacional del Sur (6) University of Zurich (7) SNOLAB (8) Facultad de Ingenieria - Universidad Nacional de Asuncion (9) University of Michigan (10) Centro At\'omico Bariloche - CONICET/IB (11) Instituto de Ingenier\'ia - Univesidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico)

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DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) is a novel dark matter experiment that has unique sensitivity to dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV. Due to its low electronic readout noise (R.M.S. ~3 e-) this instrument is able to reach a detection threshold below 0.5 keV nuclear recoil energy, making the search for dark matter particles with low masses possible. We report on early results and experience gained from a detector that has been running at SNOLAB from Dec 2012. We also discuss the measured and expected backgrounds and present the plan for future detectors to be installed in 2014.

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