E. Shields

TL;DR: The first results of a direct search for dark matter operating in the underground Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) and searching for the rare nuclear recoils possibly induced by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) were reported in this paper.

TL;DR: The SABRE project as mentioned in this paper measured the WIMP interaction rate with NaI(Tl) crystals and achieved a background rate of 0.1 cpd/kg/keVee in the energy region of interest by operating high-purity crystals inside a liquid scintillator veto.

TL;DR: The DarkSide-50 detector as discussed by the authors is a two-phase time projection chamber (TPC) with liquid argon as the target material for the scattering of dark matter particles, achieving a sensitivity to dark matter spin-independent scattering cross section of 10−45 cm2 within 3 years of operation.

TL;DR: The SABRE experiment as discussed by the authors aims to achieve the lowest background rate for a NaI(Tl) experiment (order of 0.1 cpd/kg/keVee in the energy region of interest for dark matter) by operating high-purity crystals inside a liquid scintillator veto for active background rejection.

TL;DR: In this article, a boron-loaded liquid scintillator detector within a water Cherenkov detector was used to suppress and measure the rate of neutron-induced background events.