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LBECA: A Low Background Electron Counting Apparatus for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detection
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1468(1)
Subject
physics.ins-det
hep-ex
Atomic
Molecular
Nuclear
Particle and Plasma Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Other Physical Sciences
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Abstract
Two-phase noble liquid detectors, with large target masses and effective background reduction, are currently leading the dark matter direct detection for WIMP masses above a few GeV. Due to their sensitivity to single ionized electron signals, these detectors were shown to also have strong constraints for sub-GeV dark matter via their scattering on electrons. In fact, the most stringent direct detection constraints for sub-GeV dark matter down to as low as 5 MeV come from noble liquid detectors, namely XENON10, DarkSide-50, XENON100 and XENON1T, although these experiments still suffer from high background at single or a few electron level. LBECA is a planned 100-kg scale liquid xenon detector with significant reduction of the single and a few electron background. The experiment will improve the sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter by three orders of magnitude compared to the current best constraints.