The SABRE project and the SABRE proof-of-principle

M Antonello; E Barberio; T Baroncelli; J Benziger; LJ Bignell; I Bolognino; F Calaprice; S Copello; D D’angelo; G D’imperio; I Dafinei; G Dicarlo; M Diemoz; A Di Ludovico; W Dix; AR Duffy; F Froborg; GK Giovanetti; E Hoppe; A Ianni; L Ioannucci; S Krishnan; GJ Lane; I Mahmood; A Mariani; M Mastrodicasa; P Montini; J Mould; F Nuti; D Orlandi; M Paris; V Pettinacci; L Pietrofaccia; D Prokopovic; S Rahatlou; N Rossi; A Sarbutt; E Shields; MJ Souza; AE Stuchbery; B Suerfu; C Tomei; V Toso; P Urquijo; C Vignoli; M Wada; A Wallner; AG Williams; J Xu

Journal article

The SABRE project and the SABRE proof-of-principle

M Antonello, E Barberio, T Baroncelli, J Benziger, LJ Bignell, I Bolognino, F Calaprice, S Copello, D D’angelo, G D’imperio, I Dafinei, G Dicarlo, M Diemoz, A Di Ludovico, W Dix, AR Duffy, F Froborg, GK Giovanetti, E Hoppe, A Ianni Show all

European Physical Journal C | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6860-y

Abstract

SABRE aims to directly measure the annual modulation of the dark matter interaction rate with NaI(Tl) crystals. A modulation compatible with the standard hypothesis, in which our Galaxy is immersed in a dark matter halo, has been measured by the DAMA experiment in the same target material. Other direct detection experiments, using different target materials, seem to exclude the interpretation of such modulation in the simplest scenario of WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering. The SABRE experiment aims to carry out an independent search with sufficient sensitivity to confirm or refute the DAMA claim. The goal of the SABRE experiment is to achieve the lowest background rate for a NaI(Tl) experiment..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Elisabetta Barberio Author

Phillip Urquijo Author

Anthony Williams Author

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Grants

Awarded by National Science Foundation

Funding Acknowledgements

The SABRE program is supported by funding from INFN (Italy), NSF (USA), and ARC (Australia Grants: LE170100162, LE16010080, DP170101675, LP150100075). F. Froborg has received funding from the European Union'sHorizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 703650. We acknowledge the generous hospitality and constant support of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy).