EURECA - THE FUTURE OF CRYOGENIC DARK MATTER DETECTION IN EUROPE

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EURECA (European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array) is an astro-particle physics facility aiming to directly detect galactic dark matter. The Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane has been selected as host laboratory. The EURECA collaboration unites CRESST, EDELWEISS and the Spanish-French experiment ROSEBUD, thus concentrating and focussing effort on cryogenic detector research in Europe into a single facility. EURECA will use a target mass of up to one ton, enough to explore WIMP - nucleon scalar scattering cross sections in the region of 10-9 - 10-10 picobarn. A major advantage of EURECA is the planned use of more than just one target material (multi target experiment for WIMP identification). © EAS, EDP Sciences 2009.

Authors: Kraus, H; Armengaud, E; Bauer, M; Bavykina, I; Benoit, A

• Publication status: Published
• Host title: CRAL-IPNL: DARK ENERGY AND DARK MATTER: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS AND THEORIES
• Volume: 36
• Pages: 249-255
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1051/eas/0936035
• EISSN: 1638-1963
• ISSN: 1633-4760
• ISBN: 9782759804399