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Recent results from DEAP-3600

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Published 23 February 2023 © 2023 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation M. Lai and on behalf of DEAP-3600 collaboration 2023 JINST 18 C02046 DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/18/02/C02046

1748-0221/18/02/C02046

Abstract

DEAP-3600 is the largest running dark matter detector filled with liquid argon, set at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Canada, 2 km underground. The experiment holds the most stringent exclusion limit in argon for WIMPs above 20 GeV/c2. In the most recent published analysis, the background events due to α-induced scintillation in the neck of the detector limited the sensitivity. The sensitivity of the detector in the next WIMP search will be improved thanks to the decrease in backgrounds achieved by hardware upgrades and applying multivariate analyses. Moreover, the WIMP analysis has been revisited in terms of a non-relativistic effective field theory framework, and the impact of possible substructures in the galactic dark matter halo was explored. This analysis was motivated by the latest results from Gaia and the Sloan Sky Digital Survey. Here DEAP-3600 set the world's best exclusion limit for xenon-phobic dark matter scenarios. Finally, a custom-developed analysis has recently pointed out the extraordinary sensitivity to ultra-heavy, multi-scattering dark matter candidates, resulting in world-leading exclusion limits on two composite dark matter candidates up to Planck scale masses. These proceedings, after a quick overview of the dark matter detection in DEAP-3600, outline the detector upgrades and the dark matter search results from the collaboration of the last three years.

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10.1088/1748-0221/18/02/C02046