UCLA Dark Matter 2018

Session

Session 17

23 Feb 2018, 17:30

UCLA Faculty Center

Conveners

Session 17: Direct Dark Matter Detection: Next Generation Experiments

• Daniel Snowden-Ifft

144. Giuliana Fiorillo (U. di Napoli, INFN): Darkside-20k and the future Liquid Argon Dark Matter program

Giuliana Fiorillo (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))

23/02/2018, 17:30

Talk

The next stage of the Darkside program for direct dark matter searches will involve a global collaboration from all the current Argon based experiments. DarkSide-20k has been recently approved and is based on a 20-tonne fiducial mass TPC with SiPM based photosensors and filled with Argon from an underground source. It is designed to have a background well below that from coherent scattering of...

143. Jim Dobson (CERN): Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment

James Edward Young Dobson

23/02/2018, 17:45

Talk

The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a Generation 2 multi-tonne dark matter direct detection experiment that will operate 4850 feet underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. It will use a liquid xenon TPC with an active mass of 7 tonnes to search for the low energy signatures from interactions with WIMP dark matter in our galactic halo and other rare physics...

194. Luca Grandi (U. Chicago): XENONnT on the horizon

Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago)

23/02/2018, 18:00

Talk

The XENON1T experiment is a search for dark matter, operating at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso since about one year and sensitive to possible rare interactions of dark matter particles with ordinary matter. The XENON1T experimental setup and infrastructure were designed to allow for a fast upgrade of its central detector, a two-phase xenon Time Projection Chamber (TPC). The XENONnT...

193. Ben M Loer (PNNL): Prospects for Low Mass WIMP Searches with SuperCDMS

Ben Loer (PNNL)

23/02/2018, 18:15

Talk

SuperCDMS is the premiere experimental search for low mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter in the O(1 GeV) mass range. In this talk I will begin with a brief preview of new results on the way from the third and final run of high voltage detectors at Soudan laboratory. The majority of this talk will focus on the upcoming SuperCDMS SNOLAB and will describe the overall...

198. Manfred Lindner(MPI for Nuclear Phys. Heidelberg): DARWIN - towards the ultimate dark matter detector

Manfred Lindner (Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

23/02/2018, 18:30

Talk

The DARWIN project aims at a 50 ton ultimate liquid xenon dark matter detector and this talk will cover R&D efforts as well as the physics potential. DARWIN will search WIMPs in a wide mass-range until neutrino interactions become an irreducible background. It can search in addition for axions and for neutrinoless double-beta decay of 136-Xe. It can also measure the low-energy solar neutrino...

199. Sven Vahsen (U. of Hawaii): Status of the CYGNUS Directional Dark Matter Detector Project

Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))

23/02/2018, 18:45

Talk

With WIMP-nucleon scattering limits approaching the neutrino floor, and coherent neutrino-nucleon scattering experimentally established, there is renewed interest in directional detectors as a means to penetrate the neutrino floor. The CYGNUS collaboration aims to deploy multiple gas Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) to accomplish this. I will review recent work carried out by the collaboration,...