The DarkSide program at LNGS aims to perform background-free WIMP searches using two phase liquid argon time projection chambers, with the ultimate goal of covering all parameters down to the so-called neutrino floor. One of the distinct features of the program is the use of underground argon with has a reduced content of the radioactive 39Ar compared to atmospheric argon. The DarkSide Collaboration is currently operating the DarkSide-50 experiment, the first such WIMP detector using underground argon. Operations with underground argon indicate a suppression of 39Ar by a factor (1.4 ± 0.2) ×103 relative to atmospheric argon. The new results obtained with DarkSide-50 and the plans for the next steps of the DarkSide program, the 20t fiducial mass DarkSide-20k detector and the 200 t fiducial Argo, are reviewed in this proceedings.

Davini, S., Agnes, P., Agostino, L., M. Albuquerque, I.F., Alexander, T., Alton, A.K., et al. (2016). The DarkSide awakens. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES, 718(4), 042016 [10.1088/1742-6596/718/4/042016].

The DarkSide awakens

BUDANO, FEDERICO;BUSSINO, Severino Angelo Maria;DE VINCENZI, Mario;JAMES, IRINA;MARI, Stefano Maria;
2016-01-01

Abstract

The DarkSide program at LNGS aims to perform background-free WIMP searches using two phase liquid argon time projection chambers, with the ultimate goal of covering all parameters down to the so-called neutrino floor. One of the distinct features of the program is the use of underground argon with has a reduced content of the radioactive 39Ar compared to atmospheric argon. The DarkSide Collaboration is currently operating the DarkSide-50 experiment, the first such WIMP detector using underground argon. Operations with underground argon indicate a suppression of 39Ar by a factor (1.4 ± 0.2) ×103 relative to atmospheric argon. The new results obtained with DarkSide-50 and the plans for the next steps of the DarkSide program, the 20t fiducial mass DarkSide-20k detector and the 200 t fiducial Argo, are reviewed in this proceedings.
2016
Davini, S., Agnes, P., Agostino, L., M. Albuquerque, I.F., Alexander, T., Alton, A.K., et al. (2016). The DarkSide awakens. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES, 718(4), 042016 [10.1088/1742-6596/718/4/042016].
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