10–16 Jul 2016
ICISE
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh timezone
XIIth Rencontres du Vietnam, ICISE, Quy Nhon, Vietnam

The dual light-emitting crystals detector for WIMPs direct searches

13 Jul 2016, 08:50
20m
ICISE

ICISE

Quy Nhon, Vietnam
Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Astroparticle Parallel III

Speaker

Mr Xuan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Description

The dual light-emitting crystals can reflect the different ranges of nuclear recoils and electron recoils by the ratio of the two different scintillation components. CsI(Na) crystals at temperatures of -160℃ have the best performance in several candidate crystals. An experiment called CINDMS is proposed for WIMPs direct searches based on the CsI(Na) crystals detector by IHEP. The 1T-scale experimental threshold is expected to be in the world advanced level through the background estimates. The initial stage of a 40 kg scale experiment was constructed at Daya Bay neutrino experiment underground laboratory for the accumulation of technology. 3 months of background data were collected at the temperature of -160℃, -120℃ and room temperature. CINDMS1T or more large-scale experiment may be located deep underground laboratory of Jinping Mountain in Sichuan, China. This location provides vastly improved shielding from cosmogenic events which will reduce interference of known backgrounds particles.

Primary author

Mr Xuan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Co-author

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