CIPANP2015-Aguilar-Arevalo December 9, 2015
arXiv:1510.00044v2 [physics.ins-det] 8 Dec 2015
Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment A. Aguilar-Arevaloa∗ , D. Amideib , X. Bertouc , D. Bouleb , M. Butnerd,j , ˜ eda Va ´ zqueza , A.E. Chavarr´ıae , G. Cancelod , A. Castan f e J.R.T. de Melo Neto , S. Dixon , J.C. D’Olivoa , J. Estradad , ´ ndez Torresa , F. Izraelevitchd , G. Fernandez Moronid , K.P. Herna ´ pezi , J. Molinai , A. Kavnerb , B. Kilminsterg , I. Lawsonh , J. Liaog , M. Lo a e e G. Moreno-Granados , J. Pena , P. Privitera , Y. Sarkisa , V. Scarpined , T. Schwartzb , M. Sofo Haroc , J. Tiffenbergd , D. Torres Machadof , F. Trillauda , X. Youf , and J. Zhoue a
Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, D.F., M´exico, University of Michigan, Department of Physics, Ann Arbor, MI, United States c Centro At´omico Bariloche - Instituto Balseiro, CNEA/CONICET, Argentina d Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, United States e Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States f Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de F´ısica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil g Universit¨at Z¨ urich Physik Institut, Zurich, Switzerland h SNOLAB, Lively, ON, Canada i Facultad de Ingenier´ıa - Universidad Nacional de Asunci´on, Paraguay j Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States E-mail:
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The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold ∼50 eVee , 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
