20–26 Feb 2022
Chateau Lake Louise
Canada/Mountain timezone

DARWIN

21 Feb 2022, 19:30
15m
Victoria (Chateau Lake Louise)

Victoria

Chateau Lake Louise

Speaker

Daniel Baur (Universität Freiburg)

Description

The primary goal of the proposed DARWIN observatory is to explore the entire experimentally accessible WIMP dark matter parameter space down to irreducible neutrino backgrounds. With its 40t active liquid xenon target, low-energy threshold, and ultra-low background conditions, DARWIN will have unprecedented sensitivity to spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-sections down to ~10⁻⁴⁹ cm² at WIMP masses of 30 GeV/c². DARWIN will also be sensitive to other rare interactions, such as the neutrinoless double beta decay of ¹³⁶Xe, and will allow measuring low-energy solar neutrinos with great precision via elastic neutrino-electron-scattering. We report on the challenging DARWIN detector concept, its science channels, and the ongoing R&D efforts.

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