Speaker
Description
The XENON100 experiment is designed to search for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by detecting WIMP-induced nuclear recoils (NRs) with a liquid xenon (LXe) time projection chamber. The modulation of the low energy (low-E), (2–6) keV event rate in the DAMA/LIBRA experiment is currently the only long-standing claim for a positive dark matter detection. One possible reasons of this modulation is due to electronic recoils (ERs) from WIMPs. The stable performance of XENON100 over a period of 4 years offers the opportunity to test this hypothesis with a different detector operated for the first time in the same underground site. In this talk I will report about the latest XENON100 results of the test of the periodic variations of the electronic recoil hypothesis.
| Presentation type | Parallel talk |
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