Orateur
Dr
Marc Schumann
(Physik Insitut, University of Zurich)
Description
The XENON100 dark matter experiment, installed in the Laboratory Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS, Italy), is searching for WIMP dark matter particles scattering off a 62 kg liquid xenon target in a dual phase (liquid/gas)
time projection chamber. Careful material selection, a novel detector design, and an upgrade of the passive shield, together with capitalizing the self-shielding power of liquid xenon, are crucial in order to achieve a background of less than 0.01 events/kg/keV/day in the fiducial volume. This background, which has been verified experimentally, is lower than in any other dark matter experiment
In this talk, I will present the experiment and its status, details about the detector calibration, and focus on recent analyses and results.
Author
Dr
Marc Schumann
(Physik Insitut, University of Zurich)
