The DarkSide project

DarkSide is a graded experimental project based on radiopure argon, and is now, and will be, used in direct dark matter searches. The present DarkSide-50 detector, operating at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, is a dual-phase, 50 kg, liquid argon time-projection-chamber surrounded by an active liquid scintillator veto. It is designed to be background free in 3 years of operation. DS-50 performances, when filled with atmospheric argon, are reported. However DS-50 filled with underground argon, shows impressive reduction of the 39Ar isotope. The application of this powerful technology in a future generation of the DarkSide program is discussed.

K. Arisaka | J. Napolitano | K. Herner | L. Cadonati | P. Musico | Y. Wang | S. Cecco | A. Alton | B. Baldin | Chris Stanford | W. Sands | K. Biery | M. Pallavicini | G. Covone | M. Lissia | F. Ortica | D. Franco | M. Gromov | A. Renshaw | S. Bussino | F. Calaprice | D. D’Angelo | S. Davini | A. Derbin | K. Fomenko | C. Galbiati | A. Goretti | V. Kobychev | G. Korga | P. Lombardi | I. Machulin | D. Montanari | V. Muratova | S. Perasso | A. Pocar | G. Ranucci | A. Romani | D. Rountree | R. Saldanha | M. Skorokhvatov | O. Smirnov | A. Sotnikov | Y. Suvorov | R. Tartaglia | G. Testera | M. Wójcik | J. Xu | S. Zavatarelli | G. Zuzel | B. Rossi | A. Tonazzo | C. Jollet | J. Maricic | A. Meregaglia | T. Miletić | R. Milincic | B. Reinhold | D. Semenov | P. Meyers | C. Giganti | J. Wilhelmi | W. Zhong | A. Cocco | S. Pordes | E. Segreto | K. Pelczar | S. Luitz | S. Odrowski | S. Catalanotti | K. Keeter | G. Bonfini | P. Cavalcante | A. Chepurnov | L. Grandi | D. Korablev | P. Mosteiro | N. Rossi | S. Mari | C. Martoff | I. Albuquerque | A. Kubankin | M. Monzani | B. Vogelaar | A. Fan | B. Mount | H. Back | L. Pagani | E. Pantic | H. Wang | A. Watson | C. Savarese | S. Westerdale | G. Fiorillo | C. Kendziora | A. Empl | A. Brigatti | M. Montuschi | S. Parmeggiano | N. Pelliccia | P. Saggese | Y. Guardincerri | J. Yoo | G. Forster | X. Li | N. Canci | M. Wada | E. Hungerford | L. Agostino | T. Alexander | M. Bossa | B. Bottino | J. Brodsky | F. Budano | M. Cadeddu | M. Cadoni | A. Candela | H. Cao | M. Cariello | M. Carlini | L. Crippa | M. D’Incecco | M. Deo | A. Devoto | F. D. Eusanio | G. D. Pietro | E. Edkins | F. Gabriele | F. Granato | M. Guan | B. Hackett | A. Ianni | A. Ianni | I. James | G. Koh | A. Mandarano | L. Marini | A. Monte | A. Nelson | M. Orsini | D. Pugachev | H. Qian | K. Randle | A. Razeto | D. Sablone | S. Sangiorgio | E. Shields | P. Singh | J. Tatarowicz | P. Trinchese | E. Unzhakov | A. Vishneva | S. Walker | X. Xiang | A. Zec | C. Zhu | P. Agnes | Yanhui Ma | Christopher Yang | M. Vincenzi | P. Singh | Y. Wang | C. Zhu

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