DARWIN(DARk matter WImp search with Noble liquids)是一项研发和设计研究,旨在实现欧洲的多吨级暗物质搜索设施,基于液态氩和液态氙时间投影室技术。DARWIN于2009年底获得ASPERA的批准,汇集了几个欧洲和美国的团队,致力于现有的ArDM,XENON和WARP实验,目标是在2013年初为该设施提供技术设计报告。DARWIN将被设计用于探测10- 47 cm ^2以下的自旋无关的WIMP-核子截面区域,并在其间的几年中探测到阳性的情况下提供WIMP相互作用的高统计测量。在简要介绍之后,将介绍DARWIN的目标、组成部分以及预期的物理范围。
英文摘要:
DARWIN (DARk matter WImp search with Noble liquids) is an R&D and design study towards the realization of a multi-ton scale dark matter search facility in Europe, based on the liquid argon and liquid xenon time projection chamber techniques. Approved by ASPERA in late 2009, DARWIN brings together several European and US groups working on the existing ArDM, XENON and WARP experiments with the goal of providing a technical design report for the facility by early 2013. DARWIN will be designed to probe the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross section region below 10-47cm^2 and to provide a high-statistics measurement of WIMP interactions in case of a positive detection in the intervening years. After a brief introduction, the DARWIN goals, components, as well as its expected physics reach will be presented.
DARWIN: dark matter WIMP search with noble liquids
DARWIN(用惰性液体进行暗物质弱相互作用探测)是欧洲下一代多吨级暗物质探测器的设计研究。液态氩和/或液态氙是直接探测大质量弱相互作用粒子(WIMP)形式的暗物质候选者的目标介质。通过时间投影室技术观察由活性检测器体积中的粒子相互作用产生的光和电荷信号。DARWIN将探测1 e-48 cm 2以下与自旋无关的WIMP-核子截面,并测量具有高统计数据的WIMP诱导核反冲谱,如果它们被现有或不久的将来的实验发现的话。在一个简短的介绍之后,我将描述项目,选择的研发主题,预期的背景和物理范围。
Detectors based upon the noble elements, especially liquid xenon as well as liquid argon, as both single- and dual-phase types, require reconstruction of the energies of interacting particles, both in the field of direct detection of dark matter (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles or WIMPs, axions, etc.) and in neutrino physics. Experimentalists, as well as theorists who reanalyze/reinterpret experimental data, have used a few different techniques over the past few decades. In this paper, we review techniques based on solely the primary scintillation channel, the ionization or secondary chan…