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FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 412-437Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-013-0349-1
Keywords
China Dark matter EXperiment (CDEX); dark matter; poit-contact germanium detector; China Jinping underground Laboratory (CJPL)
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC)
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOSTC)
- Ministry of Education of China
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It is believed that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are candidates for dark matter (DM) in our universe which come from outer space and might interact with the standard model (SM) matter of our detectors on the earth. Many collaborations in the world are carrying out various experiments to directly detect DM particles. China Jinping underground Laboratory (CJPL) is the deepest underground laboratory in the world and provides a very promising environment for DM search. China Dark matter EXperiment (CDEX) is going to directly detect the WIMP flux with high sensitivity in the low WIMP-mass region. Both CJPL and CDEX have achieved a remarkable progress in recent three years. CDEX employs a point-contact germanium (PCGe) semi-conductor detector whose energy threshold is less than 300 eV. In this report we present the measurement results of muon flux, monitoring of radioactivity and radon concentration carried out in CJPL, as well describing the structure and performance of the 1 kg-PCGe detector in CDEX-1 and 10 kg-PCGe detector array in CDEX-10 including the detectors, electronics, shielding and cooling systems. Finally we discuss the physics goals of CDEX-1, CDEX-10 and the future CDEX-1T experiments.
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