Search for Dark Matter with PICASSO

par Viktor Zacek (Université de Montréal)

lundi 26 oct. 2009, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre

PICASSO is direct dark matter search experiment installed at SNOLAB, Canada. It uses droplets of superheated C4F10 as the active detector medium and is designed to search for spin-dependent WIMP interactions. In this talk I shall discuss the superheated liquid detection technique and some recently discovered background discrimination features. I shall also present our latest results which restrict substantially interpretations of the DAMA/LIBRA annual modulations in terms of spin-dependent interactions.

Slides CPPM_PICASSO.pdf