R. Stainforth

TL;DR: The DarkSide-20k detector as discussed by the authors is a direct WIMP search detector using a two-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LAr TPC) with an active mass of 23 t (20 t).

TL;DR: The first results of a direct dark matter search with the DEAP-3600 single-phase liquid argon (LAr) detector are reported, which results in the leading limit on weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)-nucleon spin-independent cross section on argon.

TL;DR: The Dark Matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shape discrimination (DEAP) has been designed for a direct detection search for particle dark matter using a single-phase liquid argon target as mentioned in this paper, and the projected cross section sensitivity for DEAP-3600 to the spin-independent scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) on nucleons is 10−46cm2 for a 100 GeV/c2 WIMP mass with a fiducial exposure of 3 tonne-years.

TL;DR: The Hamamatsu R5912-HQE photomultiplier-tube (PMT) was used in the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector and is of significant interest for future dark matter and neutrino experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrated two alternative techniques of the optical readout of two-phase argon detectors, in the visible and NIR range, using a silicon photomultiplier matrix and electroluminescence due to either neutral bremsstrahlung or avalanche scintillation.