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Since dark matter is found in young and old galaxies, we know a few things about the particles that comprise it.
For instance, if dark matter had a mass the same as a proton, about a million dark matter particles would stream through a liter of water per second. But don't worry, we still have never observed any interaction between dark matter and matter ! (But we hope to !)
If dark matter is steaming through the earth, we need a very sensitive detector to measure its interactions.
The DAMIC experiment is designed to detect several potential types of dark matter spanning more than 7 orders of magnitude in mass.
DAMIC-M will probe, for the first time, several classes of predicted dark matter that have specific rates and masses.
What's so good about DAMIC-M ?
More information about DAMIC-M.
New ! ( July 2019 ) : Constraints on Light Dark Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons from DAMIC at SNOLAB
First Direct-Detection Constraints on eV-Scale Hidden-Photon Dark Matter with DAMIC at SNOLAB
Search for low-mass WIMPs in a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB
Direct Search for Low Mass Dark Matter Particles with CCDs
A Measurement of the Ionization Efficiency of Nuclear Recoils in Silicon
The DAMIC-100 dark matter detection experiment with CCDs at SNOLAB