Silicon for Direct Detection of Dark Matter in DarkSide

Unveiling the nature of dark matter (DM) is one of the fundamental open questions in Physics today. A big-bang relic population of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) is among the most favoured candidates.

Earth-based direct detection experiments aim to detect the low-energy recoils induced by WIMP-nucleus scattering in an instrumented target.

Searching for WIMPs down to neutrino floor is among the highest priorities of the astroparticle physics community for the next decade, but no evidence of this process has been unambiguously reported so far.

The null results of current searches for a DM particle at the electroweak scale may be interpreted as a need for a change of paradigm. There is increasing interest in alternative models for DM, and a rich phenomenology, most notably at low masses (