EURECA – setting the scene for scintillators

Abstract

EURECA (European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array) will be an astro-particle physics facility aiming to directly detect galactic dark matter. The Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane has been selected as host laboratory. The EURECA collaboration concentrates effort on cryogenic detector research in Europe into a single facility by bringing together colleagues from CRESST, EDELWEISS, ROSEBUD and additional new member institutes. EURECA will use a target mass of up to one ton for exploring WIMP-nucleon scalar scattering cross sections in the region of 10_s13_s178722_s199 – 10_s13_s178722_s1910 picobarn. A major advantage of EURECA is the planned use of more than just one target material (multi target experiment for WIMP identification).