Down-to-earth searches for cosmological dark matter Carter Hall, University of Maryland October 19, 2016
Astrophysical evidence for dark matter Galaxy cluster collisions Rotation curves Ω
380,000 years after the big bang 13.9 billion years Today Credit: Andrey Kravtsov, KICP, U. Chicago 1970 s - 1980 s: Cold dark matter is needed to seed the formation of galaxy clusters 3
Temperature and density fluctuations are 1 part in 10 5. The cosmic microwave background anisotropy imaged Planck (2014). 4
CMB multipole expansion - measured by Planck (2014) ~ 1 Prominent 3 rd peak indicates presence of matter which did not rebound. ~ 1/2 ~ 1/3 5
Neutrinos? not heavy enough generalize Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
The thermal hypothesis: Was the dark matter an interacting component in the very early universe? Early universe plasma Dark matter annihilation Dark matter Normal matter? Age of universe ~ 1 nanosecond; Temperature ~ 100 GeV Dark matter Dark matter creation Normal matter
The thermal hypothesis: Was the dark matter an interacting component in the very early universe? Small annihilation cross section Typical weak nuclear force cross sections Correct dark matter abundance Large annihilation cross section J. Feng, Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 2010. 48:495 545
The Milky Way s dark matter halo Typical orbital vel. = 230 km/sec ~ 0.1% speed of light Density: ~ 300 m proton / liter WIMPs (~100 GeV): 3 per liter debroglie wavelength: WIMPs: larger than a nucleus. Coherent scalar scattering on ordinary nuclear matter, σ ~ A 2 Production: WIMPs: thermal
Dark matter annihilation Dark matter Normal matter? Dark matter Normal matter Dark matter creation
HAWC projected five-year sensitivity (start 2015)
Direct detection Dark matter Normal matter? Dark matter Normal matter
Direct Detection WIMP nuclear recoil signal γ,β electron recoil background
The parameter space of direct detection & XENONNT
Nuclear recoil energy spectra A 2 dependence From: arxiv:1107.1295
Calibration of LUX: Beta spectrum of Carbon-14 Carbon-14 beta decay Detector threshold = 1.3 kev Xenon-131 Gamma line (164 kev) 1-8 kev: x-ray region
Detection modes for ionizing radiation Nuclear recoils vs. electron recoils "Division of energy "Timing "Stopping power Two-phase noble liquids (PandaX, XENON, LUX) Ionization Target WIMP Cryogenic semiconductors (CDMS) Phonons/heat 100% energy slowest cryogenics Single-Phase noble liquids (XMASS, DEAP/CLEAN) Light WIMP scintillating bolometers (CRESST) 20
Typical Event in LUX S1 S2 22
Strong background rejection from kinematics ~ kev deposition must cross full volume without interacting again ~ MeV γ forward scattering 23
Simulation of self-shielding in liquid xenon Volume cut rejects most gamma backgrounds. 24
Particle ID: recoil discrimination in LUX Charge/Light Electron recoils (background) Charge/Light Nuclear recoils (signal) Charge/Light Difference Electron recoil rejection factor: 200-500 Light 25
LUX assembly 2010-2011 370 kg of liquid xenon 26
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Sanford Underground Research Facility Davis Cavern 1480 m (4200 mwe) LUX Water Tank South Dakota USA 28
Davis Cavern @ SURF, March 2011 29
Davis Campus dedication, May 30, 2012 Davis Campus water tank, home of LUX Ana Davis, widow of Ray Davis 30
On top of the water shield, Sept. 2012 31
LUX installed underground, Sept. 2012 32
LUX recoil bands and energy scales electron recoil band less charge recombination nuclear recoil band more charge recombination 33
2.6 2.4 LUX WIMP search data (2013) 1.3 kev ee 1.8 160 events observed 85.3 days 118.3 kg = 10,090 kgdays Charge Light log 10 (S2 b /S1) x,y,z corrected 2.2 2 1.8 1.6 1.4 3.5 4.6 5.9 7.1 1.2 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 kevnr 1 0 10 20 30 40 50 S1 x,y,z corrected (phe) Light 2013 initial results (Run 3): Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 091303. 2015 re-analysis of Run 3: Phys.Rev.Lett. 116 (2016) 161301. 34
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Calibration: external gamma sources ( 137 Cs) Calibration source guide tubes Self-shielding makes external gamma sources mostly ineffectual
Tritium: an ideal electron-recoil band calibration source Tritium Beta Spectrum (Q=18.6 kev, T1/2=12.3 years) 2 Counts/keV/day/100000 atoms 1.5 1 0.5 WIMP search range H H C T H 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Electron Kinetic Energy [kev] 37
Injection and removal of tritium from LUX, August 2013 10 0 10 1 Fiducial S1 count <150 [Phe]. rate Fiducial for S1 Volume < 150 PE Rate τ 1 =6.0 ±0.5Hours τ 2 =6.4 ±0.1 Hours August 8, 2013 Rate (Hz) 10 2 Success 10 3 10 4 10/21/16 300 200 100 0 100 200 300 400 500 Time (hours) 38
Tritium event locations in LUX August 2013 y (cm) 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 20 25 20 10 0 10 20 x (cm) drift time (µs) 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 radius squared (cm 2 ) 39
Charge vs Light from tritium in LUX at 170 V/cm 10/21/16 178,000 fiducial tritium events 40
Tritium combined-energy spectrum 178,000 fiducial tritium events 41
Light yield of liquid xenon LUX tritium (100 & 180 V/cm)
Nuclear-recoil calibration w/mono-energetic neutrons D + D n + 3 He E n = 2.45 MeV
Nuclear-recoil calibration of LUX Neutron scattering with a neutron generator
LUX final WIMP search results Run 3 & 4 combined, 2013-2016 LUX Run 3 & 4 (2016): arxiv:1608.07648
LUX -> LZ (2020) Scale up LUX fiducial mass by x40 LZ: Total Xe - 10 Ton Ac5ve Xe 7 Ton Fiducial Xe 5.6 Ton LUX LUX 46
The LZ Experiment coming in 2020 Xe TPC existing LUX water shield 50 kv high voltage Gd-doped liquid scintillator outer detector 47
LZ Sensitivity (5.6 Tonnes, 1000 live days) 2.5 10-48 cm 2 48
History of WIMP sensitivity @ 50 GeV Ge, NaI no discrimination Ge, w/discrim. ZEPLIN XENON100 LXe, w/discrim. LUX (2013) LUX & PandaX-II (2016) LZ XENON 1T
Uranium-238 decay chain start Thorium-232 decay chain start gamma sources end end 51
Ordinary radioactive decay here on earth K-40 Bi-214 (U-238) Tl-208 (Th-232) WIMP scattering ββ0ν Q values: Ge-76 Xe-136 Te-130 52
Two problems from particle physics 1) Why is the weak scale so light? è New weak physics? è WIMPs 2) Why no CP violation in QCD? è Peccei-Quinn symmetry?è Axions
Electron-recoil and nuclear-recoil calibration data 54
Is LUX a success?
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