EPJ Web of Conferences 121, 06010 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612106010

The DarkSide Program

¹ Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
² APC, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75205, France
³ Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
⁴ Physics and Astronomy Department, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD 57197, USA
⁵ Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
⁶ Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
⁷ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
⁸ Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (AQ) 67010, Italy
⁹ Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila 67100, Italy
¹⁰ Physics Department, Università degli Studi and INFN, Milano 20133, Italy
¹¹ Physics Department, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and INFN, Roma 00146, Italy
¹² Physics Department, Università degli Studi and INFN, Genova 16146, Italy
¹³ Kavli Institute, Enrico Fermi Institute and Dept. of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
¹⁴ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
¹⁵ Physics Department, Università degli Studi Federico II and INFN, Napoli 80126, Italy
¹⁶ Saint Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina 188350, Russia
¹⁷ Physics Department, Università degli Studi and INFN, Cagliari 09042, Italy
¹⁸ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
¹⁹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna 141980, Russia
²⁰ Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, China
²¹ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
²² National Research Nuclear University Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, 115409 Moscow, Russia
²³ Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
²⁴ Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology Department, Università degli Studi and INFN, Perugia 06123, Italy
²⁵ Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
²⁶ Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow 30059, Poland

^a e-mail: rossib@princeton.edu

Published online: 6 July 2016

Abstract

DarkSide-50 at Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS), Italy, is a direct dark matter search experiment based on a liquid argon TPC. DS-50 has completed its first dark matter run using atmospheric argon as target. The detector performances and the results of the first physics run are presented in this proceeding.