EURECA (European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array) is 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 unites CRESST, EDELWEISS
and the Spanish-French experiment ROSEBUD, thus concentrating and focussing effort on
cryogenic detector research in Europe into a single facility. EURECA will use a target mass of
up to one ton, enough to explore WIMP – nucleon scalar scattering cross sections in the region
of 10−9 – 10−10 picobarn. A major advantage of EURECA is the planned use of more than just
one target material (multi target experiment for WIMP identification).
EURECA (European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array) is 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 unites CRESST, EDELWEISS
and the Spanish-French experiment ROSEBUD, thus concentrating and focussing effort on
cryogenic detector research in Europe into a single facility. EURECA will use a target mass of
up to one ton, enough to explore WIMP – nucleon scalar scattering cross sections in the region
of 10−9 – 10−10 picobarn. A major advantage of EURECA is the planned use of more than just
one target material (multi target experiment for WIMP identification).