Conveners
R2-3 Dark Matter III (PPD/DNP/DTP) | Matière sombre III (PPD/DPN/DPT)
- Steven Robertson
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment is preparing for its next phase to be deployed at SNOLAB. Cryogenic detectors with their excellent resolution and potentially very low energy threshold are particularly suited to search for dark matter particles with masses below about 10 GeV/c2. After a reminder of the basic ideas behind the SuperCDMS detector technology, this...
The nature of the dark matter thought to make up most of the matter in the universe is unknown. It may consist of new particles from beyond the standard model. For close to two decades, the DAMA experiment has claimed to have detected such particles. This claim is controversial, in particular because there is no accepted model for the background radioactivity in DAMA. One major unknown is...
DEAP-3600 is a liquid argon based dark matter experiment located 2km underground in VALE’s Creighton mine, Lively, Ontario. In 2016, DEAP-3600 completed its commissioning phase and began collecting data for the objective physics search; the direct detection of spin-independent dark matter through pulse shape discrimination. In order to achieve the unprecedented levels of sensitivity required...
