Development of bubble chambers with sensitivity to WIMPs

Bond, Leonard J.; Collar, J. I.; Ely, James H.; Flake, Matthew; Hall, Jonathan; Jordan, David V.; Nakazawa, D.; Raskin, Aza; Sonnenschein, A.; O’Sullivan, K.

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.11.016

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“…New high profile projected activity includes XENON/Xe [33], XMASS/Xe [34], EUREKA (CRESST-II+EDELWEISS-II) [30], COUPP/CF 3 I [16], CLEAN/N e [20], DRIFT/CS 2 [35], ArDM/Ar [46], DEAP/Ar [47] and MIMAC/He [12]. It is not our point to review in detail these efforts: descriptions exist as indicated and elsewhere [6,24].…”

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On the direct search for spin-dependent WIMP interactions

Girard

Giuliani

2007

Phys. Rev. D

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We examine the current directions in the search for spin-dependent dark matter. We discover that, with few exceptions, the search activity is concentrated towards constraints on the WIMPneutron spin coupling, with significantly less impact in the WIMP-proton sector. We review the situation of those experiments with WIMP-proton spin sensitivity, toward identifying those capable of reestablishing the balance.

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“…The COUPP technique however requires a significant extension of the metastability lifetime of the refrigerant beyond previous bubble chamber technology. This has apparently been addressed with some success [16], but a first result is still lacking.…”

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On the direct search for spin-dependent WIMP interactions

Girard

Giuliani

2007

Phys. Rev. D

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“…While the new LXe AT detectors are not BCs, large BCs are in fact being employed as dark matter detectors (Refs. [59][60][61]). Likewise as noted earlier, gel-based BCs have been developed and are in use as dosimeters and particle detectors, including as dark-matter detectors (Refs.…”

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History of the bubble chamber and related active- and internal-target nuclear tracking detectors

Becchetti¹

2015

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:

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“…Experiments such as CLEAN [16] and DEAP [17] define fiducial regions well away from the container walls in order to reject the short-range alphas, but a sufficiently high rate of alphas will render nonnegligible the probability of misreconstructing such events into the fiducial region. For COUPP [18,19], movement of the parent nucleus from the surface into the bulk may produce a background, and too high a surface alpha event rate would cause significant dead time. Finally, for many experiments (e.g.…”

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“…Fly-wires crimped to the ends of the copper tubes were then attached to the PCBs, thereby establishing electrical connections from the MWPC wires to coaxial cabling (soldered directly to pads on the PCBs). The coaxial cabling used is Ag-coated Cu with Kapton insulation (Accu-Glass Products model TYP32-15 [18]). Cabling of similar construction has been measured to be radiopure [19].…”

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Final Report for DUSEL R&D: BetaCage: A Screener of Ultra-Low-Level Radioactive Surface Contamination

Golwala¹

2013

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Underground physics experiments include studies of solar neutrinos, searches for neutrinoless ββ decay, and efforts to detect a new subatomic particle candidate for the dark matter pervading the Universe. These experiments must be built from low-radioactivity components. Existing screening facilities are insufficiently sensitive to meet all the needs of planned experiments, in particular testing for low-energy electron emitters and alpha-decaying isotopes [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. With this grant, we developed a prototype of such a detector, the BetaCage [6, 7, 8, 9]. The eventual full-size, radiopure BetaCage will be a low-background, atmospheric-pressure neon drift chamber with unprecedented sensitivity to emitters of low-energy electrons and alpha particles. We expect that the prototype BetaCage already developed will be an excellent screener of alpha particles. Both the prototype and final BetaCage will provide new infrastructure for rare-event science as well as for a wider community that makes use of radioactive screening for areas such as archeology, biology, climatology, environmental science, geology, integrated-circuit quality control, and planetary science.

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Development of bubble chambers with sensitivity to WIMPs

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

On the direct search for spin-dependent WIMP interactions

On the direct search for spin-dependent WIMP interactions

History of the bubble chamber and related active- and internal-target nuclear tracking detectors

Final Report for DUSEL R&D: BetaCage: A Screener of Ultra-Low-Level Radioactive Surface Contamination

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