SIMPLE (dark matter experiment)

Short description: Experimental search for dark matter

SIMPLE (Superheated Instrument for Massive ParticLe Experiments) is an experiment search for direct evidence of dark matter. It is located in a 61 m3 cavern at the 500 level of the Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit (LSBB) near Apt in southern France . The experiment is predominantly sensitive to spin-dependent interactions of weakly interacting massive particles (or WIMPs).

SIMPLE is an international collaboration with members from Portugal, France , and the United States .

## Contents

* 1 Design
* 2 Results
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Design

The SIMPLE detector is based on superheated droplet detectors (SDDs), a suspension of 1–2% superheated liquid C2ClF5 droplets (~30 μm radius) in a viscoelastic 900 ml gel matrix, which undergo transitions to the gas phase upon energy deposition by incident radiation. The refrigerant, freon, is used as the active mass.

In effect, each droplet behaves as a miniature bubble chamber. Once a nucleation has occurred, the acoustic shock wave is picked up by microphones. Each acquired signal is then fully discriminated in terms of acoustic external noise, gel-associated noise and most recently particle discrimination. The detectors are typically operated at ~200 kPa and ~280 K. Due to the construction technique, SSDs are almost insensitive to background radiation, and their sensitivity can be adjusted by controlling the temperature and pressure of each device.

## Results

The final phase II analysis was published in Physical Review Letters in 2012.[1] Spin-dependeant cross section limits were set for light WIMPs.

## References

1. ↑ Felizardo, M.; Girard, T. A.; Morlat, T.; Fernandes, A. C.; Ramos, A. R.; Marques, J. G.; Kling, A.; Puibasset, J. et al. (18 May 2012). "Final Analysis and Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search". Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (20): 201302. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.201302. PMID 23003137. Bibcode: 2012PhRvL.108t1302F.

* The SIMPLE Phase II dark matter search (2014)
* Fabrication and response of high concentration SIMPLE superheated droplet detectors with different liquids (2013)
* Final Analysis and Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search (2012)
* Reply to Comment on First Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search (2012)
* Comment on First Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search (2012)
* First Results of the Phase II SIMPLE Dark Matter Search (2010)
* SIMPLE dark matter search results (2005)

## External links

* SIMPLE experiment website

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Dark matter

Forms of dark matter|

* Baryonic dark matter
* Cold dark matter
* Hot dark matter
* Light dark matter
* Mixed dark matter
* Warm dark matter
* Self-interacting dark matter
* Scalar field dark matter
* Primordial black holes

Hypothetical particles|

* Axino
* Axion
* Dark photon
* Holeum
* LSP
* Minicharged particle
* Neutralino
* Sterile neutrino
* SIMP
* WIMP

Theories and objects|

* Cuspy halo problem
* Dark fluid
* Dark galaxy
* Dark globular cluster
* Dark matter halo
* Dark radiation
* Dark star
* Dwarf galaxy problem
* Halo mass function
* Mass dimension one fermions
* Massive compact halo object
* Mirror matter
* Navarro–Frenk–White profile
* Scalar field dark matter

Search experiments|

| Direct detection|

* ADMX
* ANAIS
* ArDM
* CDEX
* CDMS
* CLEAN
* CoGeNT
* COSINE
* COUPP
* CRESST
* CUORE
* D3
* DAMA/LIBRA
* DAMA/NaI
* DAMIC
* DarkSide
* DARWIN
* DEAP
* DM-Ice
* DMTPC
* DRIFT
* EDELWEISS
* EURECA
* KIMS
* LUX
* LZ
* MACRO
* MIMAC
* NAIAD
* NEWAGE
* NEWS-G
* PandaX
* PICASSO
* PICO
* ROSEBUD
* SABRE
* SIMPLE
* TREX-DM
* UKDMC
* WARP
* XENON
* XMASS
* ZEPLIN

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Indirect detection|

* AMS-02
* ANTARES
* ATIC
* CALET
* CAST
* DAMPE
* Fermi
* HAWC
* HESS
* IceCube
* MAGIC
* MOA
* OGLE
* PAMELA
* VERITAS

Other projects|

* MultiDark
* PVLAS

Potential dark galaxies|

* HE0450-2958
* HVC 127-41-330
* Smith's Cloud
* VIRGOHI21

Related|

* Antimatter
* Dark energy
* Exotic matter
* Galaxy formation and evolution
* Illustris project
* Imaginary mass
* Negative mass
* UniverseMachine

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