The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter
© Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The GAPS experiment is designed to carry out a sensitive dark matter search by measuring low-energy cosmic ray antideuterons and antiproto...
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| author | Ong, Rene Aramaki, Tsuguo Bird, Ralph Boezio, Mirko Boggs, Steve E. Carr, Rachel Craig, William Von Doetinchem, Philip Fabris, Lorenzo Gahbauer, Florian Gerrity, Cory Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles Kato, Chihiro Kawachi, Akiko Kozai, Masayoshi Mognet, Samuel Isaac Munakata, K. Okazaki, Shun Osteria, Giuseppe Perez, Kerstin Re, Valerio Rogers, Field Saffold, Nate Shimizu, Yuki Yoshida, Atsumasa Yoshida, Tetsuya Zampa, Gianluigi Zweerink, Jeff |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Ong, Rene Aramaki, Tsuguo Bird, Ralph Boezio, Mirko Boggs, Steve E. Carr, Rachel Craig, William Von Doetinchem, Philip Fabris, Lorenzo Gahbauer, Florian Gerrity, Cory Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles Kato, Chihiro Kawachi, Akiko Kozai, Masayoshi Mognet, Samuel Isaac Munakata, K. Okazaki, Shun Osteria, Giuseppe Perez, Kerstin Re, Valerio Rogers, Field Saffold, Nate Shimizu, Yuki Yoshida, Atsumasa Yoshida, Tetsuya Zampa, Gianluigi Zweerink, Jeff |
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| description | © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The GAPS experiment is designed to carry out a sensitive dark matter search by measuring low-energy cosmic ray antideuterons and antiprotons. GAPS will provide a new avenue to access a wide range of dark matter models and masses that is complementary to direct detection techniques, collider experiments and other indirect detection techniques. Well-motivated theories beyond the Standard Model contain viable dark matter candidates which could lead to a detectable signal of antideuterons resulting from the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. The dark matter contribution to the antideuteron flux is believed to be especially large at low energies (E < 1 GeV), where the predicted flux from conventional astrophysical sources (i.e. from secondary interactions of cosmic rays) is very low. The GAPS low-energy antiproton search will provide stringent constraints on less than 10 GeV dark matter, will provide the best limits on primordial black hole evaporation on Galactic length scales, and will explore new discovery space in cosmic ray physics. Unlike other antimatter search experiments such as BESS and AMS that use magnetic spectrometers, GAPS detects antideuterons and antiprotons using an exotic atom technique. This technique, and its unique event topology, will give GAPS a nearly background-free detection capability that is critical in a rare-event search. GAPS is designed to carry out its science program using long-duration balloon flights in Antarctica. A prototype instrument was successfully flown from Taiki, Japan in 2012. GAPS has now been approved by NASA to proceed towards the full science instrument, with the possibility of a first long-duration balloon flight in late 2020. This presentation will motivate low-energy cosmic ray antimatter searches and it will discuss the current status of the GAPS experiment and the design of the payload. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1372752023-04-11T20:04:53Z The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter Ong, Rene Aramaki, Tsuguo Bird, Ralph Boezio, Mirko Boggs, Steve E. Carr, Rachel Craig, William Von Doetinchem, Philip Fabris, Lorenzo Gahbauer, Florian Gerrity, Cory Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles Kato, Chihiro Kawachi, Akiko Kozai, Masayoshi Mognet, Samuel Isaac Munakata, K. Okazaki, Shun Osteria, Giuseppe Perez, Kerstin Re, Valerio Rogers, Field Saffold, Nate Shimizu, Yuki Yoshida, Atsumasa Yoshida, Tetsuya Zampa, Gianluigi Zweerink, Jeff Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The GAPS experiment is designed to carry out a sensitive dark matter search by measuring low-energy cosmic ray antideuterons and antiprotons. GAPS will provide a new avenue to access a wide range of dark matter models and masses that is complementary to direct detection techniques, collider experiments and other indirect detection techniques. Well-motivated theories beyond the Standard Model contain viable dark matter candidates which could lead to a detectable signal of antideuterons resulting from the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. The dark matter contribution to the antideuteron flux is believed to be especially large at low energies (E < 1 GeV), where the predicted flux from conventional astrophysical sources (i.e. from secondary interactions of cosmic rays) is very low. The GAPS low-energy antiproton search will provide stringent constraints on less than 10 GeV dark matter, will provide the best limits on primordial black hole evaporation on Galactic length scales, and will explore new discovery space in cosmic ray physics. Unlike other antimatter search experiments such as BESS and AMS that use magnetic spectrometers, GAPS detects antideuterons and antiprotons using an exotic atom technique. This technique, and its unique event topology, will give GAPS a nearly background-free detection capability that is critical in a rare-event search. GAPS is designed to carry out its science program using long-duration balloon flights in Antarctica. A prototype instrument was successfully flown from Taiki, Japan in 2012. GAPS has now been approved by NASA to proceed towards the full science instrument, with the possibility of a first long-duration balloon flight in late 2020. This presentation will motivate low-energy cosmic ray antimatter searches and it will discuss the current status of the GAPS experiment and the design of the payload. 2021-11-03T18:00:36Z 2021-11-03T18:00:36Z 2017-08-16 2019-04-29T20:09:26Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137275 Ong, Rene, Aramaki, Tsuguo, Bird, Ralph, Boezio, Mirko, Boggs, Steve E. et al. 2017. "The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter." en 10.22323/1.301.0914 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Sissa Medialab Proceedings of Science |
| spellingShingle | Ong, Rene Aramaki, Tsuguo Bird, Ralph Boezio, Mirko Boggs, Steve E. Carr, Rachel Craig, William Von Doetinchem, Philip Fabris, Lorenzo Gahbauer, Florian Gerrity, Cory Fuke, Hideyuki Hailey, Charles Kato, Chihiro Kawachi, Akiko Kozai, Masayoshi Mognet, Samuel Isaac Munakata, K. Okazaki, Shun Osteria, Giuseppe Perez, Kerstin Re, Valerio Rogers, Field Saffold, Nate Shimizu, Yuki Yoshida, Atsumasa Yoshida, Tetsuya Zampa, Gianluigi Zweerink, Jeff The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter |
| title | The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter |
| title_full | The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter |
| title_fullStr | The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter |
| title_full_unstemmed | The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter |
| title_short | The GAPS experiment to search for dark matter using low-energy antimatter |
| title_sort | gaps experiment to search for dark matter using low energy antimatter |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137275 |
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