Dr
Rachid LEMRANI
(CEA/DAPNIA/SPP)
7/27/07, 2:00 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Parallel Talk
Evidences for Dark Matter existence have been increasingly compeling. Current and
future direct and indirect searches and results from LHC will provide a wealth of new
constraints on the nature of Dark Matter. A web page initiated by the ILIAS network
has been set-up to provide the community with a developping tool to evaluate the
sensitivities and complementarities of different...
Mr
Chung-Lin Shan
(Physikalisches Inst. der Univ. Bonn)
7/27/07, 2:20 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Parallel Talk
Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates
for Dark Matter. Currently, the most promising method to detect many different
WIMP candidates is the direct detection of the recoil energy deposited in a low-
background laboratory detector due to elastic WIMP-nucleus scattering. So far
the usual procedure has been to predict the event rate of direct...
Ms
Astrid Chantelauze
(Institut für Kernphysik - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
7/27/07, 2:40 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Parallel Talk
The Edelweiss programme is dedicated to the direct search for Dark Matter as massive
weakly interacting particles (WIMPs) with Germanium cryogenic detectors operated in
the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in the French Alps at a depth of 4800 mwe.
After the initial phase Edelweiss I, which involved a total mass of 1 kg, the second
step of the programme, Edelweiss II, currently involves 9...
Prof.
Daniel McKinsey
(Yale University)
7/27/07, 3:00 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Parallel Talk
The XENON10 experiment is a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
(WIMPs), a leading candidate for the dark matter content of the Universe. The
XENON10 detector uses the simultaneous measurement of ionization and scintillation
in liquid xenon to distinguish between nuclear recoils and background electronic
interactions. Ionization electrons are extracted into the xenon vapor...
Prof.
Mani Tripathi
(UC Davis)
7/27/07, 3:20 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Parallel Talk
LUX is a new collaboration which has proposed a 100 Kg (fiducial) Liquid Xenon
two-phase TPC detector for WIMP search. I will describe the detector, present
simulations and comment on the sensitivity that can be achieved. Critical pieces of
the detector are under construction and we will have an engineering run (above
ground) in the Fall of 2007. The full detector, expected to be the...
Kathrin Valerius
(Institut für Kernphysik, WWU Münster)
7/27/07, 3:40 PM
Cosmology and Astrophysics
Parallel Talk
Despite the results of neutrino oscillation experiments providing compelling evidence for non-zero neutrino masses,
the absolute mass scale still remains undetermined.
This question, which has a strong impact on both particle physics and cosmology,
can be addressed in several, complementary ways, either via astrophysical observations or by laboratory experiments.
The direct...
