TY - GEN
T1 - The gaps experiment
T2 - 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
AU - Perez, Kerstin
AU - Aramaki, Tsuguo
AU - Bando, Nobutaka
AU - Boggs, Steven
AU - Von Doetinchem, Philip
AU - Fuke, Hideyuki
AU - Gahbauer, Florian
AU - Hailey, Charles
AU - Koglin, Jason
AU - Madden, Norm
AU - Mognet, S. A.Isaac
AU - Mori, Kaya
AU - Okazaki, Shun
AU - Ong, Rene
AU - Tajiri, Gordon
AU - Yoshida, Tetsuya
AU - Zweerink, Jeffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgment: Funding for the pGAPS project has been provided by NASA grants in the US, by MEXT-KAKENHI grants in Japan, and by the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 1202958. Additionally, we would like to thank Dennis Stefanik, Paul Kaplan, Connor Hailey, Jane Hoberman, Brent Mochizuki, Katayun Kamdin, Mayra Lopez-Thibodeaux, and Tracy Zhang for their contributions to the project.
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment is an indirect dark matter search that aims to detect low-energy antideuterons resulting from dark matter annihilations in the galactic halo. This signature, which has negligible conventional astrophysical background, is predicted by many models of both supersymmetry and extra-dimensional theories. Until now, an optimized low-energy search experiment has been lacking. In this contribution, the scientific and experimental case for GAPS will be reviewed, and its complementarity with existing indirect and direct search experiments will be discussed. We will describe the design of GAPS, which consists of a time-of-flight system and layers of Si(Li) detectors in a tracking geometry designed specifically for low-energy antideuteron detection. The results of our successful prototype balloon flight (pGAPS), which flew from Japan in June 2012 and met 100% of its mission goals, as well as the path forward to a science flight of GAPS from Antarctica, will be presented.
AB - The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment is an indirect dark matter search that aims to detect low-energy antideuterons resulting from dark matter annihilations in the galactic halo. This signature, which has negligible conventional astrophysical background, is predicted by many models of both supersymmetry and extra-dimensional theories. Until now, an optimized low-energy search experiment has been lacking. In this contribution, the scientific and experimental case for GAPS will be reviewed, and its complementarity with existing indirect and direct search experiments will be discussed. We will describe the design of GAPS, which consists of a time-of-flight system and layers of Si(Li) detectors in a tracking geometry designed specifically for low-energy antideuteron detection. The results of our successful prototype balloon flight (pGAPS), which flew from Japan in June 2012 and met 100% of its mission goals, as well as the path forward to a science flight of GAPS from Antarctica, will be presented.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052381479
T3 - Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
BT - Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013
PB - Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica
Y2 - 2 July 2013 through 9 July 2013
ER -