Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) is an attractive candidate for particle dark matter. Typical WIMP models predict the scattering process of dark matter off nuclei, and they can be probed by direct detection experiments such as the XENONnT. There are many direct detection experiments for more than a few decades, and there is no significant scattering signal. This implies that the...
The XENONnT is a direct dark matter search experiment using a time projection chamber with 8.5 tons of liquid xenon. The experiment has been conducted at located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), Italy, and taking the science data since 2021. In this talk, a summary of recent status/results of the XENONnT experiment, and its future project, the XLZD experiment, will be presented.
The NIT (Nano Imaging Tracker), developed and studied at Nagoya University since 2010, is a promising tool for searching for dark matter signals, which are expected to be observable only with several tens keV of recoiled atoms by it.
We have set up a manufacturing plant of NIT at the National Laboratory of Gran Sasso in Italy and have conducted joint research as a NEWSdm experiment. In...
