Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search results obtained using a target of low-radioactivity argon. DarkSide-50 is a dark matter detector, using a two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The underground argon is shown to contain Ar39 at a level reduced by a factor (1.4±0.2)×103 relative to atmospheric argon. We report a background-free null result from (2616±43) kg d of data, accumulated over 70.9 live days. When combined with our previous search using an atmospheric argon, the 90% C.L. upper limit on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section, based on zero events found in the WIMP search regions, is 2.0×10-44 cm2 (8.6×10-44 cm2, 8.0×10-43 cm2) for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c2 (1 TeV/c2, 10 TeV/c2).

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search / Agnes, P., Agostino, L., Albuquerque, I.F.M., Alexander, T., Alton, A.K., Arisaka, K., Back, H.O., Baldin, B., Biery, K., Bonfini, G., Bossa, M., Bottino, B., Brigatti, A., Brodsky, J., Budano, F., Bussino, S., Cadeddu, M., Cadonati, L., Cadoni, M., Calaprice, F., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D. - ISSN 2470-0010. - 93:8(2016), pp. 1-7. [10.1103/PhysRevD.93.081101]

Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

Cariello M.;Cavalcante P.;Crippa L.;De Cecco S.;Grandi L.;Ranucci G.;Sangiorgio S.;Wada M.;Xu J.;
2016

Abstract

Liquid argon is a bright scintillator with potent particle identification properties, making it an attractive target for direct-detection dark matter searches. The DarkSide-50 dark matter search here reports the first WIMP search results obtained using a target of low-radioactivity argon. DarkSide-50 is a dark matter detector, using a two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The underground argon is shown to contain Ar39 at a level reduced by a factor (1.4±0.2)×103 relative to atmospheric argon. We report a background-free null result from (2616±43) kg d of data, accumulated over 70.9 live days. When combined with our previous search using an atmospheric argon, the 90% C.L. upper limit on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent cross section, based on zero events found in the WIMP search regions, is 2.0×10-44 cm2 (8.6×10-44 cm2, 8.0×10-43 cm2) for a WIMP mass of 100 GeV/c2 (1 TeV/c2, 10 TeV/c2).
2016
liquid argon; scintillator; direct-detection; DarkSide-50; dark matter search
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Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search / Agnes, P., Agostino, L., Albuquerque, I.F.M., Alexander, T., Alton, A.K., Arisaka, K., Back, H.O., Baldin, B., Biery, K., Bonfini, G., Bossa, M., Bottino, B., Brigatti, A., Brodsky, J., Budano, F., Bussino, S., Cadeddu, M., Cadonati, L., Cadoni, M., Calaprice, F., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D. - ISSN 2470-0010. - 93:8(2016), pp. 1-7. [10.1103/PhysRevD.93.081101]
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