Annual Modulation Search with the COSINE-100 NaI(Tl) Dark Mater Experiment
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Abstract
COSINE-100 is a dark matter direct detection experiment with low-background NaI(Tl) crystals to test the DAMA collaboration's claimed detection of the dark matter annual modulation. The COSINE-100 experiment is situated at the Yangyang Underground Laboratory in South Korea and consists of eight NaI(Tl) crystals with a total mass of 106 kg and 2000 liters of liquid scintillator as an active veto. The physics run of the experiment began in September 2016 with a background rate of ~3 counts/kg/keV/day in the energy region between 2 and 6 keV. In this talk, recent results from the annual modulation search with COSINE-100 will be presented.
*This work is supported by PHY-1151795, PHY-1457995, and DGE-1122492, Yale University, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and the Institute for Basic Science under project code IBS-R016-A1.
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Presenters
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Jay Hyun Jo
- Yale University