FNAL-E-0961()
COUPP: The Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics
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- Proposed: Oct 19, 2006,
- Approved: Nov 6, 2006,
- Started: 2010,
- Completed: Nov, 2011
Successor Experiment:
COUPP Collaboration
We propose to construct and operate a 60-kg room temperature CF3I bubble chamber as a prototype dark matter (WIMP) detector. Operating in weakly-superheated mode, the chamber will be sensitive to WIMP induced nuclear recoils above 10 keV, while rejecting background electron recoils at a level approaching 1010. We would first commission and operate this chamber in the MINOS near detector hall with the goal to demonstrate stable operation and measure internal contamination and any other backgrounds. This chamber, or an improved version, would then be relocated to an appropriate deep underground site such as the Soudan Mine. This detector will have unique sensitivity to spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon couplings, and even in this early stage of development will attain competitive sensitivity to spin-independent couplings.
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#2
- Published in:•
- Phys.Rev.D 86 (2012) 5, 052001,
- Phys.Rev.D 90 (2014) 7, 079902 (erratum)
- e-Print:
- 1204.3094 [astro-ph.CO]
(Mar, 2012)
- e-Print:
- 2401.07384 [astro-ph.CO]
- Published in:•
- Nucl.Phys.B Proc.Suppl. 221 (2011) 379
- Contribution to:
- Contribution to:
- , 808-812
- NSS/MIC 2010 / RTSD 2010
- Published in:•
- Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 623 (2010) 454-456
- Published in:•
- Science 319 (2008) 933-936
- e-Print:
- 0804.2886 [astro-ph]