KamLAND-PICO Dark Mater Search Project

K. Fushimi; Y. Awatani; H. Ejiri; R. Hazama; H. Ikeda; K. Imagawa; K. Inoue; A. Kozlov; R. Orito; T. Shima; R. Sugawara; K. Yasuda

doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.012

KamLAND-PICO Dark Mater Search Project

K. Fushimi, Y. Awatani, H. Ejiri, R. Hazama, H. Ikeda, K. Imagawa, K. Inoue, A. Kozlov, R. Orito, T. Shima, R. Sugawara, K. Yasuda

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Dark matter search project KamLAND-PICO is proposed. The first phase of the project aims to verifying the annual modulation signal which has been reported by DAMA/LIBRA. The last phase of the project aims to determining the type of interaction between WIMPs and nucleus. The thin and wide area NaI(Tl) detector PICO-LON has been developed to determine the type of WIMPs interaction. The good performance of PICO-LON detector was obtained. The energy threshold was as low as 2 keVee and the the energy resolution was as small as 25% at 60 keV_ee. The highly pure NaI(Tl) crystal has been developed in collaboration with the Japanese developer. The purity of U and Th chain contaminants have been reduced to the order of a few tens of ppt. It should be remarked that the concentration of ²¹⁰Pb was reduced to about 60 μBq/kg. The sensitivity to spin-independent WIMPs are discussed by applying 170 modules of NaI(Tl) with the dimension of 5 inch _ρ× 5 inch.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	67-73
Number of pages	7
Journal	Physics Procedia
Volume	61
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.012
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2013 - , United States Duration: 2013 Sep 8 → 2013 Sep 13

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NaI(Tl)
WIMPs search

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