Filippo Resnati
(ETH Zurich)
30/07/2010 08:40
Dark Matter Direct Searches
Talk
The Argon Dark Matter (ArDM) experiment is based on a ton-scale double-phase liquid argon detector, currently in the commissioning phase at CERN. The scientific goal is the direct search of WIMP Dark Matter through detection of nuclear recoils induced by WIMP scattering on an Ar nucleus.
The active mass is 850 kg of liquid argon. An array of 14 8'' cryogenic photomultiplier tubes immersed in...
Prof.
Hans Kraus
(University of Oxford)
30/07/2010 09:00
Talk
EURECA (European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array) is the European tonne-scale, cryogenic dark matter search. It is based on cryogenic technology with powerful event type recognition through phonon-ionisation (EDELWEISS) and phonon-scintillation (CRESST / ROSEBUD) detection. The aim is to explore scalar cross sections down to the 10E-10 pico-barn region. A major advantage of EURECA is...
Prof.
Marc Boulay
(Queen’s University)
30/07/2010 09:20
Dark Matter Direct Searches
Talk
The DEAP-3600 experiment will search for dark matter particle interactions on liquid argon at SNOLAB, located 2 km underground in Sudbury, Ontario. A first generation prototype detector (DEAP-1) with a 7-kg liquid argon target mass is currently operating in the underground facility. It has demonstrated a pulse-shape discrimination (PSD) of 6x10-8 for reducing beta/gamma backgrounds, and is...
