The Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection (SABRE) project attempts to test the controversial DAMA/LIBRA positive and model-independent dark matter claim by exploiting two nearly twin detectors in the northern hemisphere at LNGS (SABRE-North) and the southern hemisphere at SUPL (SABRE-South). The SABRE two locations represent a unique feature and the possibility of reducing systematic...
To the date, the only positive signal of presence of dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo by direct observation of its interaction with a detector comes from the DAMA/LIBRA experiment in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS). For more than 20 years it has observed an annual modulation in the low energy counting rate compatible with that expected due to the rotation of the Earth around...
For a fully model-independent investigation of the nature of the DAMA/LIBRA signal, experiments which use the same material as DAMA/LIBRA are mandatory.
COSINUS will use crystals of NaI, however not operating them as mere scintillation detectors, but as so-called cryogenic scintillating calorimeters cooled to milli-Kelvin temperatures. COSINUS detectors provide a simultaneous and independent...
COSINE-100 is a direct detection dark matter search experiment that uses Thallium-doped Sodium Iodide, NaI(Tl) as its target detector material. The detector has been collecting data since September 2016 with continuous stable operation. It consists of ~106 kg of low background NaI(Tl) detectors submerged in a 2 tons liquid scintillator veto counter. The basic goal of the experiment is to test...
Since the DAMA collaboration first made their claim for detection of dark matter in the late ‘90s, there have been many speculations as to sources of their annual modulation signal. Since then, many of the hypotheses have been ruled out. In addition, direct detection dark matter experiments using various target medium, including those that use the same target of NaI(Tl), have ruled out dark...
CDEX experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) is a germanium detector experiment locate at Sichuan of China, which target for Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) dark matter search and neutrinoless double beta decay search. In this report, we will describe current status and future plans of CDEX experiment. In partucular we will present various results based on...
