Speaker
Erin Barillier
Description
Dual-phase xenon Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) have been the leading technology in dark matter direct detection for the last several decades. Many questions remain regarding the responses from interactions within the liquid xenon (LXe). The Michigan Xenon experiment (MiX) is a 10 kg LXe TPC designed to study the microphysics of LXe, including measuring the W-value, or the mean energy required to produce observable quanta in LXe. Over the last several years, there has been tension between different W-value measurements. Here, I present the initial results of the MiX experiment in our effort to achieve a definitive measurement of the LXe W-value in order to aid dark matter detection experiments.
Author
Erin Barillier
Co-authors
Prof.
Bjoern Penning
Dr
Greg Rischbieter
Prof.
Wolfgang Lorenzon
