The DarkSide Multiton Detector for the Direct Dark Matter Search

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doi:10.1155/2015/541362

Although the existence of dark matter is supported by many evidences, based on astrophysical measurements, its nature is still completely unknown. One major candidate is represented by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which could in principle be detected through their collisionswith ordinary nuclei in a sensitive target, producing observable low-energy (<100 keV) nuclear recoils.The DarkSide program aims at the WIPMs detection using a liquid argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC). In this paperwe quickly reviewtheDarkSide programfocusing in particular on the next generation experimentDarkSide-G2, a 3.6-ton LAr-TPC.Thedifferent detector components are described aswell as the improvements needed to scale the detector fromDarkSide-50 (50 kg LAr-TPC) up to DarkSide-G2. Finally, the preliminary results on background suppression and expected sensitivity are presented.