EURECA - The Future of Cryogenic Dark Matter Detection in Europe

H. Kraus , E. Armengaud (1) , M. Bauer , I. Bavykina , Alain Benoit (2) , A. Bento , J. Blümer , L. Bornschein , A. Broniatowski (3) , G. Burghart , Philippe Camus (4) , A. Chantelauze , M. Chapellier (5) , G. Chardin (3) , C. Ciemniak , C. Coppi , N. Coron (6) , O. Crauste (3) , F.A. Danevich , M. de Jésus (7) , P. de Marcillac (6) , E. Daw , X. Defay (3) , G. Deuter , J. Domange (1) , P. Di Stefano (7) , G. Drexlin , L. Dumoulin (3) , K. Eitel , F. von Feilitzsch , D. Filosofov , Philippe Gandit (2) , E. Garcia , J. Gascon (7) , G. Gerbier (1) , J. Gironnet (6) , Henri Godfrin (8) , S. Grohmann , M. Gros (1) , M. Hannewald (1) , D. Hauff , F. Haug , S. Henry , P. Huff , J. Imber , S. Ingleby , C. Isaila , J. Jochum , A. Juillard (3) , M. Kiefer , M. Kimmerle , H. Kluck , V.V. Kobychev , V. Kozlov , V.M. Kudovbenko , V.A. Kudryavtsev , T. Lachenmaier , J.-C. Lanfranchi , R.F. Lang , P. Loaiza (9) , A. Lubashevsky , M. Malek , S. Marnieros (3) , R. Mcgowan , V. Mikhailik , Alessandro Monfardini (2) , X.-F. Navick (1) , T. Niinikoski , A.S. Nikolaiko , L. Oberauer , E. Olivieri (3) , Y. Ortigoza , E. Pantic , P. Pari (5) , B. Paul (1) , G. Perinic , F. Petricca , S. Pfister , C. Pobes , D.V. Poda , R.B. Podviyanuk , O.G. Polischuk , W. Potzel , F. Pröbst , J. Puimedon , M. Robinson , S. Roth , K. Rottler , S. Rozov , C. Sailer , A. Salinas , V. Sanglard (7) , M.L. Sarsa , K. Schäffner , S. Scholl , S. Scorza (7) , A. Smolnikov , W. Seidel , S. Semikh , M. Stern (7) , L. Stodolsky , M. Teshima , V. Tomasello , A. Torrento , V.I. Tretyak , J.A. Villar , M.-A. Verdier (7) , I. Usherov , J. Wolf , E. Yakushev , L. Torres (10)

1 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
2 NEEL - HELFA - Hélium : du fondamental aux applications
3 CSNSM - Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse
4 NEEL - Cryo - Cryogénie
5 IRAMIS - Institut Rayonnement Matière de Saclay (DRF)
6 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
7 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
8 NEEL - UBT - Ultra-basses températures
9 LSM - UMR 6417 - Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane
10 University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza]

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).

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

H. Kraus, E. Armengaud, M. Bauer, I. Bavykina, Alain Benoit, et al.. EURECA - The Future of Cryogenic Dark Matter Detection in Europe. Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories, 2008, Lyon, France. pp.249-255, ⟨10.1051/eas/0936035⟩. ⟨in2p3-00408920⟩