PRELIMINARY RESULT FROM ANITA EXPERIMENT

Modern Physics Letters A World Scientific Publishing 23:17n20 (2008) 1419-1430

Authors:

JIWOO NAM, PW Gorham, SW Barwick, JJ Beatty, DZ Besson, WR Binns, C Chen, P Chen, JM Clem, A Connolly, PF Dowkontt, MA DuVernois, RC Field, DJ Goldstein, A Goodhue, C Hast, CL Hebert, S Hoover, MH Israel, A Javaid, J Kowalski, JG Learned, KM Liewer, JT Link, E Lusczek, S Matsuno, BC Mercurio, C Miki, P Miočinović, CJ Naudet, J Ng, RJ Nichol, KJ Palladino, K Reil, A Romero-Wolf, M Rosen, D Saltzberg, D Seckel, GS Varner, D Walz, F Wu

Measurement of the superconducting transition temperature of Dural and titanium 6Al-4V alloys

Superconductor Science and Technology 21:6 (2008)

Authors:

U Divakar, S Henry, H Kraus, AJB Tolhurst

Abstract:

We have measured the superconducting transition temperatures of commercial alloys Dural and titanium 6Al-4V, to assess their suitability for use in the cryoEDM neutron electric dipole moment experiment. Our sample of aluminium alloy Dural became a superconductor at 0.84 0.07K but the titanium alloy did not show any superconducting behaviour down to the experimental limit of 0.17 0.11K. © IOP Publishing Ltd.

In situ radioglaciological measurements near Taylor Dome, Antarctica and implications for ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrino astronomy

Astroparticle Physics Elsevier 29:2 (2008) 130-157

Authors:

DZ Besson, J Jenkins, S Matsuno, J Nam, M Smith, SW Barwick, JJ Beatty, WR Binns, C Chen, P Chen, JM Clem, A Connolly, PF Dowkontt, MA DuVernois, RC Field, D Goldstein, PW Gorham, A Goodhue, C Hast, CL Hebert, S Hoover, MH Israel, J Kowalski, JG Learned, KM Liewer, JT Link, E Lusczek, B Mercurio, C Miki, P Miočinović, CJ Naudet, J Ng, R Nichol, K Palladino, K Reil, A Romero-Wolf, M Rosen, L Ruckman, D Saltzberg, D Seckel, GS Varner, D Walz, F Wu

EURECA - The future of cryogenic dark matter detection in Europe

Proceedings of Science (2008)

Authors:

H Kraus, E Armengaud, M Bauer, I Bavykina, A Benoit, A Bento, J Blümer, L Bornschein, A Broniatowski, G Burghart, P Camus, A Chantelauze, M Chapellier, G Chardin, C Ciemniak, C Coppi, N Coron, O Crauste, FA Danevich, M De Jésus, P Marcillac, E Daw, X Defay, G Deuter, J Domange, P Di Stefano, G Drexlin, L Dumoulin, K Eitel, F Von Feilitzsch, D Filosofov, P Gandit, E Garcia, J Gascon, G Gerbier, J Gironnet, H Godfrin, S Grohmann, M Gros, M Hannewald, D Hauff, F Haug, S Henry, P Huff, J Imber, S Ingleby, C Isaila, J Jochum, A Juillard, M Kiefer, M Kimmerle, H Kluck, VV Kobychev, V Kozlov, VA Kudryavtsev, T Lachenmaier, JC Lanfranchi, RF Lang, P Loaiza, A Lubashevsky, M Malek, S Marnieros, R McGowan, V Mikhailik, VM Mokina, A Monfardini, XF Navick, T Niinikoski, AS Nikolaiko, L Oberauer, E Olivieri, Y Ortigoza, E Pantic, P Pari, B Paul, G Perinic, F Petricca, S Pfister, C Pobes, DV Poda, RB Podviyanuk, OG Polischuk, W Potzel, F Pröbst, J Puimedon, M Robinson, S Roth, K Rottler, S Rozov, C Sailer, A Salinas, V Sanglard, ML Sarsa, K Schäffner, S Scholl, S Scorza, A Smolnikov, W Seidel, S Semikh, M Stern

Abstract:

European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array (EURECA) will be an astro-particle physics facility in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, aiming to directly detect galactic dark matter. The EURECA collaboration unites CRESST, EDELWEISS and the Spanish-French experiment ROSEBUD, thus concentrating and focussing effort on cryogenic detector research in Europe into a single facility. The aim is to explore WIMP - nucleon scalar cross sections in the 10-9 - 10-10 picobarn region with a target mass of up to one ton. A major advantage of EURECA is the planned use of more than just one target material (multi target experiment for WIMP identification).

Results of the CRESST commissioning run 2007

Proceedings of the 4th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2008 (2008) 95-98

Authors:

G Angloher, M Bauer, I Bavykina, A Bento, A Brown, C Bucci, C Ciemniak, C Coppi, G Deuter, F Von Feilitzsch, D Hauff, S Henry, P Huff, J Imber, S Ingleby, C Isaila, J Jochum, M Kiefer, M Kimmerle, H Kraus, JC Lanfranchi, RF Lang, B Majorovits, M Malek, R McGowan, VB Mikhailik, E Pantic, F Petricca, S Pfister, W Potzel, F Pröbst, W Rau, S Roth, K Rottler, C Sailer, K Schäffner, J Schmaler, S Scholl, W Seidel, L Stodolsky, AJB Tolhurst, I Usherov, W Westphal

Abstract:

CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) is a low temperature experiment dedicated to the direct dark matter detection via nuclear recoil. It is located in Hall A of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy. Scintillating CaWO4 crystals operated at a few mK are utilized as target forWIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), which are expected to scatter predominantly on the heavy tungsten nuclei. As for background rejection, CRESST uses the phonon-light technique, where two different quantities of an interaction are recorded: the heat production in the CaWO4crystal and the simultaneous emission of scintillation light, which is monitored by a second low-temperature detector, the light detector. The information provided by both detectors allows a powerful background discrimination on an event by event basis. After a major upgrade phase, CRESST-II has now successfully completed a commissioning run during 2007, the results of which are presented in this article.