Searching for Dark Matter with a Bubble Chamber

The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) recently reported first Physics results from an engineering prototype dark matter detector consisting of a 1 liter, room temperature, heavy liquid bubble chamber. These results close the last open window in low mass spin dependent...

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Published in:Proceedings of the 1st Symposium 2009-12, Vol.1259, p.38-44
Main Author: Cooper, Peter S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bubble chambers
Dark matter
Detectors
Liquids
Modulation
Observatories
Particle physics
Particle spin
Prototypes
Scattering
Searching
Underground
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Summary:The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP) recently reported first Physics results from an engineering prototype dark matter detector consisting of a 1 liter, room temperature, heavy liquid bubble chamber. These results close the last open window in low mass spin dependent WIMP scattering for a conventional WIMP interpretation of the DAMA annual modulation signal. I will discuss these results and the detector techniques which enabled them.
ISSN:0094-243X