Projected sensitivity to light WIMP-like particles of the BULLKID-DM experiment
physics.ins-det
/ Authors
Matteo Folcarelli, A. Acevedo-Rentería, L. E. Ardila-Perez, L. Bandiera, M. Calvo, M. Cappelli, R. Caravita, F. Carillo, U. Chowdhury, D. Crovo
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A. Cruciani, A. D'Addabbo, D. Delicato, M. De Lucia, G. Del Castello, M. del Gallo Roccagiovine, F. Ferraro, S. Fu, R. Gartmann, M. Grassi, V. Guidi, D. Helis, T. Lari, L. Malagutti, A. Mazzolari, A. Monfardini, T. Muscheid, D. Nicolò, F. Paolucci, D. Pasciuto, L. Pesce, C. Puglia, D. Quaranta, C. M. A. Roda
/ Abstract
BULLKID-DM is an experiment designed for the direct searches of particle dark matter candidates with mass around 1 GeV, or below, and cross-section with nucleons smaller than $10^{-40}$ cm$^2$. The detector consists of a stack of diced silicon wafers, acting as arrays of particle absorbers, sensed by multiplexed Kinetic Inductance Detectors. The target will amount to 800 g subdivided in more than 2000 silicon dice, with the aim of controlling the background from natural radioactivity by creating a fully active structure and by applying fiducialization techniques. In this work we present the projected sensitivity of BULLKID-DM to light WIMP-like particles considering also the other future experiments in the field.