TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.12.024
TI  - Status and future prospects of the NEWS-G experiment
PY  - 2023/07/03
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysProc.12.024
JF  - SciPost Physics Proceedings
JA  - SciPost Phys. Proc.
VL  - 
IS  - 12
SP  - 024
A1  - Knights, Patrick
AB  - The NEWS-G collaboration is searching for light dark matter using spherical proportional counters. Access to the mass range from 50 MeV to 10 GeV is enabled by the combination of low energy threshold, light gaseous targets (H, He, Ne), and highly radio-pure detector construction. Several of the recent developments that have paved the way for the operation of a new 140 cm in diameter, spherical proportional counter are presented. Constructed and commissioned at LSM using 4N copper with a 500$\mu$xm electroplated inner layer, the detector is now installed in SNOLAB, where it has begun data taking. Building on the electroplating of the current detector, the collaboration construct its next detector directly in the underground laboratory, using ultra-pure copper electroforming. The design and construction of ECUME, a 140 cm in diameter spherical proportional counter fully electroformed underground is discussed, along with the potential to achieve sensitivity reaching the neutrino floor in light Dark Matter searches with a next-generation detector.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.12.024,
	title={{Status and future prospects of the NEWS-G experiment}},
	author={P. Knights on behalf of the NEWS-G Collaboration},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Proc.},
	pages={024},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.12.024},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysProc.12.024},
}