Dark Matter Searches Using NaI(Tl) at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory: Past, Present and Future

Amaré, Julio (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Cebrián, Susana (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Cintas, David (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Coarasa, Ivan (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Cuesta, Clara ; García, Eduardo (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Martínez, María (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Morales, Angel ; Morales, Julio ; Oliván, Miguel Angel ; Ortigoza, Ysrael (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Ortiz de Solorzano, Alfonso (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Pardo, Tamara (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Pobes, Carlos ; Puimedon, Jorge (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Salinas, Ana (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Sarsa, Maria Luisa (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Villar, Jose Angel ; Villar, Patricia (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Sodium Iodide Thallium doped (NaI(Tl)) scintillation detectors have been applied to the direct searches for dark matter since the 1980s and have produced one of the most challenging results in the field-the observation by the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration of an annual modulation in the detection rate for more than twenty cycles. This result is very difficult to reconcile with negative results derived from other experiments using a large variety of target materials and detection techniques. However, it has been neither confirmed nor refuted in a model independent way up to the present. Such a model independent test of the DAMA/LIBRA result is the goal of the ANAIS-112 experiment, presently in the data taking phase at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in Spain. ANAIS-112 design and operation leans on the expertise acquired at the University of Zaragoza in direct searches for Dark Matter particles using different targets and techniques and in particular using NaI(Tl) scintillation detectors for about thirty years, which are reviewed in the first section of this manuscript. In addition to presenting the status and more recent results of the ANAIS-112 experiment, open research lines, continuing this effort, will be presented.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/universe8020075

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Universe 8, 2 (2022), 75 [20 pp]
ISSN: 2218-1997

Factor impacto JCR: 2.9 (2022)

Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS rank: 14 / 29 = 0.483 (2022) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS rank: 30 / 69 = 0.435 (2022) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 3.6 - Physics and Astronomy (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.796 - Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (Q1)

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Tipo y forma: Review (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Técnica. Lab. y Talleres (Dpto. Física Teórica)
Área (Departamento): Área Teoría Señal y Comunicac. (Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com.)
Área (Departamento): Área Óptica (Dpto. Física Aplicada)
Área (Departamento): Área Física Atóm.Molec.y Nucl. (Dpto. Física Teórica)