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Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment · arXivDesk

1510.00044Sep 30, 2015Talk presented CIPANP2015. 9 pages, PDFLaTeX, 11 PDF figures, econfmacros LaTeX file

Status of the DAMIC direct dark matter search experiment

DAMIC Collaboration, A. Aguilar-Arevalo, D. Amidei, X. Bertou, D. Boule, M. Butner, G. Cancelo, A. Castañeda Vázquez +26

Instrumentation and Detectors Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Experiment

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The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold $\sim$ 50 eV $_{ee}$ , 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 $<$ 6 GeV/ $c^2$

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The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles. With an energy threshold ∼50 eV_ee, 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 <6 GeV/c².

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The DAMIC experiment uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles.

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Author comment: Talk presented CIPANP2015. 9 pages, PDFLaTeX, 11 PDF figures, econfmacros LaTeX file