Conveners
Session 1 (morning): Dark matter searches underground
- Henrique Araujo
An overview of work underway to develop Boulby Underground Laboratory facilities to host future UK and international underground science project.
DarkSide-20k is a next-generation direct dark matter search experiment under construction at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy. The core of the detector is a two-phase liquid argon time projection chamber designed to probe WIMP interactions down to the neutrino floor, with an exposure goal of ~200 tonne-years in expectation of a WIMP-nucleon cross section of 10^-47 cm2 for a...
COSINE-100 is a NaI dark matter detection experiment located at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory in South Korea, designed with the main goal of testing the controversial, positive dark matter signal from the DAMA experiments using the same target material. COSINE-100 has been operational for almost six years and in that time has been the first NaI experiment to exclude the DAMA signal in...
The NEWS-G collaboration is searching for light dark matter using spherical proportional counters. Access to the mass range from 50 MeV to 10 GeV is enabled by the combination of low energy threshold, light gaseous targets (H, He, Ne), and highly radio-pure detector construction. The NEWS-G collaboration has constructed a new, 140 cm in diameter, spherical proportional counter at LSM using 4N...
