CDEX dark matter experiment: status and prospects

24 Jul 2017, 17:00
15m
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Contributed talk Dark Matter Dark Matter

Speaker

Prof. Hao Ma (Tsinghua University)

Description

The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX) aims at direct searches of light Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) with an overburden of about 2400m rock. Results from a prototype CDEX-1 994 g p-type Point Contact Germanium(pPCGe) detector are reported. Research programs are pursued to further reduce the physics threshold by improving hardware and data analysis. The CDEX-10 experiment with a pPCGe array of 10 kg target mass range is being tested. The evolution of CDEX program into "CDEX-1T Experiment" with ton-scale germanium detector arrays, aiming at both Dark Matter and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, will also be introduced in this study.

Primary authors

Prof. Hao Ma (Tsinghua University) Prof. Qian Yue (Tsinghua University) Prof. Zhi Zeng (Tsinghua University) Prof. Kejun Kang (Tsinghua University) Prof. Jianping Cheng (Tsinghua University) Prof. Yuanjing Li (Tsinghua University) Prof. Jianmin Li (Tsinghua University) Prof. Yulan Li (Tsinghua University) Dr Tao Xue (Tsinghua University)

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