Preliminary experimental results from the ICARUS test facility at INFN-LNL

Varanini, F.

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.10.093

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“…The viability of the LArTPC technology has been tested by the extensive R&D program, developed by the ICARUS collaboration. Currently, the largest LArTPC ever built, is the ICARUS T600 module [57][58][59] with a mass of 600 t. Based on this technique, a very massive next-generation 100 kt detector (GLACIER) [43,48,60] has been proposed under LAGUNA [61]. The LBNE physics program in United States is also considering a 34 kt LArTPC as a possible detector candidate for DUSEL [51,62].…”

Section: Liquid Argon Time Projection Chambermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since this technology is still in its R&D phase, many uncertainties regarding its performance at very large mass scale exist. Thus, the detector characteristics that we consider here, are essentially based on the performance of the ICARUS T600 detector [57][58][59] and on the ongoing estimates of the LAGUNA [61] and LBNE [62,63] collaborations.…”

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Neutrino probes of the nature of light dark matter

Agarwalla

Blennow

Fernández‐Martínez

et al. 2011

J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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Dark matter particles gravitationally trapped inside the Sun may annihilate into Standard Model particles, producing a flux of neutrinos. The prospects of detecting these neutrinos in future multi-kt neutrino detectors designed for other physics searches are explored here. We study the capabilities of a 34/100 kt liquid argon detector and a 100 kt magnetized iron calorimeter detector.These detectors are expected to determine the energy and the direction of the incoming neutrino with unprecedented precision allowing for tests of the dark matter nature at very low dark matter masses, in the range of 10 − 25 GeV. By suppressing the atmospheric background with angular cuts, these techniques would be sensitive to dark matter -nucleon spin-dependent cross sections at the fb level, reaching down to a few ab for the most favorable annihilation channels and detector technology.

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