Speaker
Melisa Luca
(Uni Claude Bernard Lyon)
Description
EDELWEISS is a direct dark matter search looking for Weakly Interacting
Massive Particles (WIMPs). In order to measure the low energies of nuclear
recoils coming from the scattering of WIMPs from the galactic halo,
EDELWEISS uses very sensitive Ge cryogenic detectors in a low radioactivity
environment. During its first stage, up to 3 Ge 320 g detectors have been
used simultaneously. The second stage, started in January 2006 with an
increased detection mass and improved detectors, aims to gain two orders of
magnitude in sensitivity.
Author
Melisa Luca
(Uni Claude Bernard Lyon)
