Direct dark matter detection within the Darkside program

• Grant number: 17/26238-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Maximo David Ave Pernas
• Grantee: Maximo David Ave Pernas
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Ivone Freire da Mota e Albuquerque
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/12485-2 - Direct dark matter detection within the Darkside program, BP.JP

Abstract

We propose a research program focused in Dark Matter (DM) searches using Argon Double Phased Time Projection Chambers withinthe Darkside Collaboration. The research plan covers the high ($M_{DM}>$10~GeV) and low mass ($M_{DM <$10~GeV) range using two different techniques. Contributions are envisaged both in data analysis and Monte Carlo simulations. Additionally, we plan to participate in the RED experiment that aims to provide important neutron recoil calibration data for the Darkside program. Feasibility studies of other applications of Argon detectors will be done: measurement of Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering in nuclear reactor, and Supernova detection with DS-20K and Argo. During the last year of this project we plan to accompany the selection and design of the first experiment to be deployed in ANDES, the first South American Underground laboratory. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

AGNES, P.; ALBERGO, S.; ALBUQUERQUE, I; ARBA, M.; AVE, M.; BOIANO, A.; BONIVENTO, W. M.; BOTTINO, B.; BUSSINO, S.; CADEDDU, M.; et al. Performance of the ReD TPC, a novel double-phase LAr detector with silicon photomultiplier readout. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, v. 81, n. 11, NOV 2021. (18/01534-2, 17/26238-4)

AARON, E.; AGNES, P.; AHMAD, I.; ALBERGO, S.; ALBUQUERQUE, I. F. M.; ALEXANDER, T.; ALTON, A. K.; AMAUDRUZ, P.; ATZORI CORONA, M.; AVE, M.; et al. Measurement of isotopic separation of argon with the prototype of the cryogenic distillation plant Aria for dark matter searches. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, v. 83, n. 5, p. 13-pg., 2023-05-31. (17/26238-4)

AGNES, P.; ALBERGO, S.; ALBUQUERQUE, I. F. M.; ALEXANDER, T.; ALICI, A.; ALTON, A. K.; AMAUDRUZ, P.; ARBA, M.; ARPAIA, P.; ARCELLI, S.; et al. Separating 39Ar from 40Ar by cryogenic distillation with Aria for dark-matter searches. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, v. 81, n. 4, APR 2021. (17/26238-4)

ELERSICH, A.; AGNES, P.; AHMAD, I; ALBERGO, S.; ALBUQUERQUE, I. F. M.; ALEXANDER, T.; ALTON, A. K.; AMAUDRUZ, P.; CORONA, M. ATZORI; AVE, M.; et al. Study of cosmogenic activation above ground for the DarkSide-20k experiment. Astroparticle Physics, v. 152, p. 12-pg., 2023-10-01. (17/26238-4)

AGNES, P.; ALBERGO, S.; ALBUQUERQUE, I. F. M.; ALEXANDER, T.; ALICI, A.; ALTON, A. K.; AMAUDRUZ, P.; ARCELLI, S.; AVE, M.; AVETISSOV, I. CH; et al. Sensitivity of future liquid argon dark matter search experiments to core-collapse supernova neutrinos. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, n. 3, MAR 2021. (17/26238-4)