Direction-Sensitive Dark Matter Search in a Deep Underground Laboratory with a Low Background Tracking Detector

• Project/Area Number: 19684005
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: MIUCHI Kentaro Kyoto University, 大学院・理学研究科, 助教 (80362440)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2009
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
• Budget Amount: ¥24,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥19,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,700,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥16,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,720,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
• Keywords: 暗黒物質 / 宇宙線 / 素粒子実験 / 大深度地下 / 測定技術 / 宇宙物理 / 放射線、X線、粒子線

Research Abstract

We performed a direction-sensitive dark matter search experiment with a three-dimensional gaseous tracking device "micro-TPC". We installed our detector in a underground laboratory and performed a dark matter search experiment. We obtained a limit five times better than the one we got in a surface laboratory (published as Physics Letters B 686(2010)11). Then we upgraded the detector to improve the sensitivity by one order of magnitude.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] First underground results with NEWAGE-0.3a direction-sensitive dark matter detector (2010)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi, Hironobu Nishimura, Kaori Hattori, Naoki Higashi, Chihiro Ida, Satoshi Iwaki, Shigeto Kabuki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Kiseki Nakamura, Joseph Parker, Tatsuya Sawano, Michiaki Takahashi, Toru Tanimori, Kojiro Taniue, Kazuki Ueno, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi Takeda, Ken'ichi Tsuchiya
  • Journal Title: Atsushi Takada Phys.Lett.B 686 Pages: 11-17
• [Journal Article] THE CASE FOR A DIRECTIONAL DARK MATTER DETECTOR AND THE STATUS OF CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS (2010)
  • Author(s): S.Ahlen, et.al. Kentaro Miuchi(112人中62番目)
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Modern Physics A Vol.25, No.1 Pages: 1-51
• [Journal Article] First underground results with NEWAGE-0.3a direction-sensitive dark matter detector (2010)
  • Author(s): K.Miuchi, 他20名
  • Journal Title: Physics Letters B Volume: 686 Pages: 11-17
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] THE CASE FOR A DIRECTIONAL DARK MATTER DETECTOR AND THE STATUS OF CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS (2010)
  • Author(s): S.Ahlen, 他112人中6番目
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Modern Physics Volume: 25 Pages: 1-51
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Performance of the micro-PIC gaseous area detector in small-angle X-ray scattering experiments (2009)
  • Author(s): Kaori Hattori, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Kazuki Ito, Yoko Okada, Kotaro Fujii, Hidetoshi Kubo, Kentaro Miuchi, Masaki Takata, Toru Tanimori, Hidehiro Uekusa
  • Journal Title: J.Synchrotron Rad. 16 Pages: 231-236
• [Journal Article] A Direction-Sensitive Dark Matter Search Experiment (NEWAGE) (2009)
  • Author(s): Hironobu Nishimura, Kaori Hattori, Chihiro Ida, Satoru Iwaki, Shigeto Kabuki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Kentaro Miuchi, Atsushi Takada, Toru Tanimori, Kazuki Ueno
  • Journal Title: J.Phys.Soc.Jpn. 78 Pages: 218-220
• [Journal Article] Tracking performance of the NEWAGE-0.3a direction-sensitive dark matter detetemator (2009)
  • Author(s): Hironobu Nishimura, Kentaro Miuchi, Kaori Hattori, Satoru Iwaki, Chihiro Ida, Shigeto Kabuki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi Takada, Michiaki Takahashi, Atsushi Takeda, Toru Tanimori, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Kazuki Ueno
  • Journal Title: Astroparticle Physics. 31 Pages: 185-191
• [Journal Article] Tracking performance of the NEWAGE-0.3a direction-sensitive dark matter detector (2009)
  • Author(s): H.Nishimura, K.Miuchi, 他13名
  • Journal Title: Astroparticle Physics Volume: 31 Pages: 185-191
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Tracking performance of the NEWAGE-0.3a direction-sensitive dark matter detector (2009)
  • Author(s): H.Nishimura, K.Miuchi (15人中2番目), 他
  • Journal Title: AstroparticlePhysics 31 Pages: 185-191
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A Direction-Sensitive Dark Matter Search Experiment (NEWAGE) (2009)
  • Author(s): H Nishimura, …, K Miuchi (13人中8番目), 他
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Supplements (in press, 掲載決定)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] NEWAGE (2008)
  • Author(s): H Nishimura, …, K Miuchi (11人中8番目), 他
  • Journal Title: Journal of Physics : Conference Seires 120 Pages: 42025-3
• [Journal Article] A Direction-Sensitive Dark Matter Search Experiment (NEWAGE) (2008)
  • Author(s): H Nishimura ,…, K Miuchi (11人中8番目), 他
  • Journal Title: PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENCE IDM2008 Pages: 9-4
• [Journal Article] Direction-sensitive dark matter search results in a surface laboratory (2007)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi, Kaori Hattori, Shigeto Kabuki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Hironobu Nishimura, Yoko Okada, Atsushi Takada, Toru Tanimori, Ken'ichi Tsuchiya, Kazuki Ueno, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi
  • Journal Title: Takeda Phys.Lett. B654 Pages: 58-64
• [Journal Article] Response of a Micro Pixel Chamber to heavy ions with the energy of several hundreds of MeV/n (2007)
  • Author(s): Tsutomu Nagayoshi, Tadayoshi Doke, Yasunobu Fujita, Kaori Hattori, Koji Ishida, Jun Kikuchi, Hisashi Kitamura, Tatsuto Komiyama, Hidetoshi Kubo, Haruhisa Matsumoto, Kentaro Miuchi, Hironobu Nishimura, Kiwamu Saito, Shin-ichi Sasaki, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi Takada, Toru Tanimori, Kazuhiro Terasawa, d, Hiroko Tawara, Yukio Uchihori, Kazuki Ueno
  • Journal Title: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Vol 5811-5812 Pages: 110-114
• [Journal Article] Development and applications of a μ-PIC (2007)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi, Kaori Hattori, Shigeto Kabuki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Hironobu Nishimura, Yoko Okada, Atsushi Takada, Toru Tanimori, Ken'ichi Tsuchiya, Kazuki Ueno, Hiroyuki Sekiya, Atsushi Takeda.
  • Journal Title: "Radiation Detector and Their uses"Proceedings of the 21th Workshop on Raditaion Detector and Their uses, KEK-proceedings Pages: 49-55
• [Journal Article] Performance of a Time-Projection-Chamber with a Large-Area Micro-Pixel-Chamber Readout (2007)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi, Kaori Hattori, Shigeto Kabuki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Hironobu Nishimura, Atsushi Takada, Ken'ichi Tsuchiya, Yoko Okada, Toru Tanimori, Kazuki Ueno
  • Journal Title: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 576 Pages: 43-46
• [Journal Article] Development of Gaseous Tracking Devices for WIMPs Search (2007)
  • Author(s): A.Takada, K.Hattori, S.Kabuki, H.Kubo, K.Miuchi, T.Nagayoshi, H.Nishimura, Y.Okada, R.Orito, H.Sekiya, A.Takeda, T.Tanimori, K.Ueno
  • Journal Title: The 7th International Workshops on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD7, Liverpool, England) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 573 573 Pages: 195-199
• [Journal Article] Development of Gaseous Tracking Devices for WIMPs Search (2007)
  • Author(s): H.Sekiya, K.Hattori, S.Kabuki, H.Kubo, K.Miuchi, T.Nagayoshi, H.Nishimura, Y.Okada, R.Orito, A.Takada, A.Takeda, T.Tanimori, K.Ueno
  • Journal Title: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A The 7th International Workshops on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD7, Liverpool, England) 573 Pages: 204-207
• [Journal Article] Direction-sensitive dark matter search results in a surface laboratory (2007)
  • Author(s): K. Miuchi, 他12名
  • Journal Title: Physics Letters B 654 Pages: 58-64
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Response of a Micro Pixel Chamber to heavy ions with the energy of several hundreds of MeV/n (2007)
  • Author(s): T. Nagayoshi …K. Miuchi (21人中11番目) …
  • Journal Title: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A581 Pages: 110-114
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Development and applications of a μ-PIC (2007)
  • Author(s): K. Miuchi, 他12名
  • Journal Title: Radiation Detector and Their uses (KEK-proceedings) 21 Pages: 49-55
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Detector Performance of the NEWAGE experiment (2007)
  • Author(s): K. Miuchi, 他12名
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter 6 Pages: 308-313
• [Journal Article] Detection of neutron-induced events and neutron/γ-ray discrimination with an imaging capability of a P-channel X-ray CCD
  • Author(s): Makoto Sawada, Hironori Matsumoto, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Kentaro Miuchi, Shigeto Kabuki
  • Journal Title: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A In Press
• [Presentation] μPICであれもこれも (2011)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第17回ICEPPシンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 白馬
  • Year and Date: 2011-02-22
• [Presentation] QPIX (2010)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第7回MPGD研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 山形大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-11-26
• [Presentation] 方向に感度を持った暗黒物質探索実験 (2010)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: NEWAGECRC将来計画シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学柏キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-16
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験18:2010年地下実験報告 (2010)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2010年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 九州工業大学戸畑キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-12
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験17:ダークマター検出器の低圧ガスでの動作パラメータの最適化 (2010)
  • Author(s): 中村輝石
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2010年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 九州工業大学戸畑キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2010-09-12
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験16:原子核反跳飛跡の前後判定可能性 (2010)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会 第65回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 岡山大学津山キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2010-03-23
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験15:ガスの低圧化によるダークマター検出器の高感度化" (2010)
  • Author(s): 中村輝石
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会第65回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 岡山大学津山キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2010-03-23
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験16:原子核反跳飛跡の前後判定可能性 (2010)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会第65回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 岡山大学津山キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2010-03-23
• [Presentation] 方向に感度を持った暗黒物質探索実験:NEWAGE (2010)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第16回ICEPPシンポジウム
  • Year and Date: 2010-02-15
• [Presentation] ガス飛跡検出器による暗黒物質探索実験 (2009)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 2009度宇宙線研究所共同利用研究成果発表研究会(東京大学宇宙線研究所)
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-19
• [Presentation] QPIX (2009)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第6回MPGD研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-12-12
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験14: 地下実験報告5 (2009)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2009年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 甲南大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-11
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験14:地下実験報告5 (2009)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2009年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 甲南大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-11
• [Presentation] NEWAGE (2009)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: CYGNUS2009
  • Place of Presentation: マサチューセッツ工科大学(USA)
  • Year and Date: 2009-06-12
• [Presentation] NEWAGE 12神岡地下実験活動報告4 (2009)
  • Author(s): 西村広展
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会 第64回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 立教大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-27
• [Presentation] Direction-sensitive direct dark matter search with micro-TPC (NEWAGE) (2009)
  • Author(s): H Nishimura
  • Organizer: The 1st international conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics
  • Place of Presentation: つくば市・つくば国際会議場
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-13
• [Presentation] NEWAGE -Direction-sensitive direct dark matter search (2009)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi
  • Organizer: XXIX PHYSICS IN COLLISION-Kobe
  • Place of Presentation: Japan
• [Presentation] NEWAGE electronics upgrade & QPIX (2009)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi
  • Organizer: Cygnus 2009 MIT
  • Place of Presentation: Boston, USA
• [Presentation] NEWAGE (2009)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi
  • Organizer: Cygnus 2009 MIT
  • Place of Presentation: Boston, USA
• [Presentation] ガス検出器による暗黒物質探索実験 (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 東京大学宇宙線研究所共同利用研究会(東京大学宇宙線研究所)
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-20
• [Presentation] ガス検出器による暗黒物質探索実験 (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 東京大学宇宙線研究所共同利用研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学宇宙線研究所
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-20
• [Presentation] マイクロTPCの短飛跡角度分解能の測定 (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第5回Micro Pattern Gas Detector研究会
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-12
• [Presentation] QPIXプロジェクト (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 集積回路及び関連技術ワークショップ
  • Year and Date: 2008-11-20
• [Presentation] 方向に感度を持つ暗黒物質探索実験:NEWAGE (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第一回「アインシュタインの物理」でリンクする研究教育拠点研究会
  • Year and Date: 2008-10-10
• [Presentation] 方向に感度を持つ暗黒物質探索実験:NEWAGE (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第一回「アインシュタインの物理」でリンクする研究教育拠点 研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪市立大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-10-10
• [Presentation] NEWAGE実験11:高感度化へ向けてのR&D (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会2008年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 山形大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-20
• [Presentation] NEWAGE10神岡地下実験活動報告3 (2008)
  • Author(s): 西村広展
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会 2008年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 山形大学小白川キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-20
• [Presentation] NEWAGE11高感度化のためのR&D (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会 2008年秋季大会
  • Place of Presentation: 山形大学小白川キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2008-09-20
• [Presentation] Direction-sensitive direct dark matter search ; NEWAGE Direction-sensitive direct dark matter search ; NEWAGE (2008)
  • Author(s): H Nishimura
  • Organizer: Identification of dark matter 2008
  • Place of Presentation: スウェーデン・ストックホルム
  • Year and Date: 2008-08-20
• [Presentation] Direction-sensitive Dark Matter Search-NEWAGE- (2008)
  • Author(s): K.Miuchi
  • Organizer: Dark Energy and Dark Matter 2008
  • Place of Presentation: フランス・リヨン
  • Year and Date: 2008-07-10
• [Presentation] NEWAGE～方向に感度を持った暗黒物質探索実験～ (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第二回学術会議シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-01
• [Presentation] NEWAGE9 (2008)
  • Author(s): 西村広展
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会 第63回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 近畿大学本部キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2008-03-23
• [Presentation] Direction-sensitive Dark Matter Search-NEWAGE- (2008)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi
  • Organizer: Dark Energy and Dark Matter
  • Place of Presentation: Lyon, France
• [Presentation] NEWAGE～方向に感度を持った暗黒物質探索実験～ (2008)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 第二回学術会議シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学小柴ホール
• [Presentation] ガス飛跡検出器による暗黒物質探索実験 (2007)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 東京大学宇宙線研究所共同利用研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京大学宇宙線研究所
  • Year and Date: 2007-12-14
• [Presentation] 方向に感度のあるWIMP直接探索実験:NEWAGE (2007)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 暗黒物質と銀河構造
  • Place of Presentation: ウェルサンピア伊勢
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-28
• [Presentation] NEWAGE8神岡地下実験活動報告 (2007)
  • Author(s): 西村広展
  • Organizer: 日本物理学会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-23
• [Presentation] The NEWAGE experiment (2007)
  • Author(s): H. Nishimura
  • Organizer: TAUP2007
  • Place of Presentation: 仙台
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-12
• [Presentation] NEWAGE-fisrt experiment with a micro-patterned gaseous detector- (2007)
  • Author(s): K. Miuchi
  • Organizer: Cygnus 2007
  • Place of Presentation: 英国・ブールビー
  • Year and Date: 2007-07-23
• [Presentation] NEWAGE-A direction-sensitive dark matter search- (2007)
  • Author(s): K. Miuchi
  • Organizer: Supersymmetry in 2010s
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌
  • Year and Date: 2007-06-22
• [Presentation] NEWAGE-A direction-sensitive dark matter search- (2007)
  • Author(s): K. Miuchi
  • Organizer: Double Beta Decay and Neutrinos 07
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪
  • Year and Date: 2007-06-11
• [Presentation] 方向に感度のあるWIMP直接探索実験:NEWAGE (2007)
  • Author(s): 身内賢太朗
  • Organizer: 暗黒物質と銀河構造(ウェルサンピア伊勢)
• [Presentation] NEWAGE-fisrt experiment with a micro-patterned gaseous detector- (2007)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi
  • Organizer: Cygnus
  • Place of Presentation: Boulby, UK
• [Presentation] NEWAGE -A direction-sensitive dark matter search (2007)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi
  • Organizer: Supersymmetry in 2010s
  • Place of Presentation: Sapporo, Japan
• [Presentation] NEWAGE-A direction-sensitive dark matter search (2007)
  • Author(s): Kentaro Miuchi
  • Organizer: Double Beta Decay and Neutrinos 07
  • Place of Presentation: Osaka, Japan
• [Remarks] ホームページ
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