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Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search

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Summary:Agradecimentos: The DarkSide-50 Collaboration would like to thank LNGS and its staff for invaluable technical and logistical support. This report is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grants No. PHY-0919363, No. PHY-1004072, No. PHY-1004054, No. PHY-1242585, No. PHY-1314483, No. PHY-1314507 and associated collaborative grants, No. PHY-1211308 and No. PHY-1455351), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the U.S. Department of Energy (Contracts No. DE-FG02-91ER40671, No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, and No. DE-AC05-76RL01830), and the Polish NCN (Grant No. UMO-2012/05/E/ST2/02333). We thank staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, particularly Dr. C. E. Aalseth, Mr. M. E. Panisko, and Dr. R. M. Williams, for their help in the processing of the underground argon. We thank the staff of the Fermilab Particle Physics, Scientific and Core Computing Divisions for their support. We acknowledge the financial support from the UnivEarthS Labex program of Sorbonne Paris Cité (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02) and from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Main Authors:Segreto, Ettore, 1973-
Subject:Argônio líquido Matéria escura (Astronomia) Detectores Liquid argon Dark matter (Astronomy) Detectors Artigo original
Year:2016
Country:Brazil
Document type:article
Access type:open access
Associated institution:IBICT
Language:English
Origin:Oasisbr
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Summary:Agradecimentos: The DarkSide-50 Collaboration would like to thank LNGS and its staff for invaluable technical and logistical support. This report is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grants No. PHY-0919363, No. PHY-1004072, No. PHY-1004054, No. PHY-1242585, No. PHY-1314483, No. PHY-1314507 and associated collaborative grants, No. PHY-1211308 and No. PHY-1455351), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the U.S. Department of Energy (Contracts No. DE-FG02-91ER40671, No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, and No. DE-AC05-76RL01830), and the Polish NCN (Grant No. UMO-2012/05/E/ST2/02333). We thank staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, particularly Dr. C. E. Aalseth, Mr. M. E. Panisko, and Dr. R. M. Williams, for their help in the processing of the underground argon. We thank the staff of the Fermilab Particle Physics, Scientific and Core Computing Divisions for their support. We acknowledge the financial support from the UnivEarthS Labex program of Sorbonne Paris Cité (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02) and from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

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