EURECA
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Oxford Physics
Abstract
Recent cosmological models suggest that ~23% of the Universe is dark matter. Underground direct search experiments are continuously improving their sensitivity to dark matter / nucleon interactions, with EURECA being one of the planned tonne-scale experiments exploring the most interesting cross section range down to levels of 10E-10pb. This proposal aims to identify a readout system that can be scaled by a factor of ~100 in a cost-effective way and investigate new ways of single photon detection to improve the discrimination ability of cryogenic phonon - scintillation detectors.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Hans Kraus (Principal Investigator) | |
| Samuel Henry (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Angloher G
(2014)
EURECA Conceptual Design Report
in Physics of the Dark Universe
Danevich F
(2014)
Optimization of light collection from crystal scintillators for cryogenic experiments
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Danevich F
(2014)
Impact of geometry on light collection efficiency of scintillation detectors for cryogenic rare event searches
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Danevich F
(2009)
MgWO4-A new crystal scintillator
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Kraus H
(2010)
First test of a cryogenic scintillation module with a CaWO4 scintillator and a low-temperature photomultiplier down to 6K
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Lang R
(2010)
Discrimination of recoil backgrounds in scintillating calorimeters
in Astroparticle Physics
Münster A
(2014)
Radiopurity of CaWO 4 crystals for direct dark matter search with CRESST and EURECA
in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Roth S
(2010)
Direct dark matter search with CRESST and EURECA
in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics