The DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB

Abstract

The DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment at the SNOLAB underground laboratory uses fully depleted, high resistivity CCDs to search for dark matter particles with masses below 10 GeV/c${}^2$. An upgrade of the detector using an array of seven 16-Mpixel CCDs (40 g of mass) started operation in February 2017. The new results, obtained with the current detector configuration, will be presented. Future plans for DAMIC-M, with a total mass of 1kg and a ionization threshold of 2 electrons, will be discussed.

4 pages, 8 figures, proceeding at the "Rencontres de Moriond" 2018, La Thuile, 17-24 March 2018, Cosmology session

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