Cosinus: A NaI-based cryogenic calorimeter for direct dark matter search
Journal article, 2019
For two decades, extraordinary effort has been devoted to clarifying the controversial results in direct dark matter detection. The claim of DAMA/LIBRA for a dark matter annual modulation signal is in apparent contradiction with most of the results of the other direct detection experiments, but a material-independent check of this signal can still be decisive. For this reason, COSINUS aims to develop a sodium iodide-based cryogenic scintillating calorimeter, whose two-channel readout of light and phonon allows an event-by-event discrimination of the dominant β/γ-background from the sought-for nuclear recoils.
Author
Vanessa Zema
Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics
Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI)
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
E. Tatananni
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
A. Rotilio
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
A. Corsi
Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
B. Romualdi
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
20374909 (ISSN) 18269885 (eISSN)
Vol. 42 5 228Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Accelerator Physics and Instrumentation
Subatomic Physics
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
DOI
10.1393/ncc/i2019-19228-1