COFI: Low threshold liquid-noble bubble chambers for Dark Matter and neutrino detection

Name: COFI: Low threshold liquid-noble bubble chambers for Dark Matter and neutrino detection
Start: 2017-07-13T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-07-13T11:00:00+02:00
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Thursday 13 Jul 2017, 09:00 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

- 09:00 → 10:00
  
  Low threshold liquid-noble bubble chambers 1h
  
  Our group at Northwestern recently demonstrated the world's first scintillating bubble chamber, observing simultaneous scintillation and bubble nucleation by nuclear recoils in superheated liquid xenon (arXiv:1702.08861). These detectors already promise unmatched background rejection in searches for canonical WIMP dark matter, and wemare beginning to explore the low-threshold (<=1 keV recoil) capabilities of these devices. Or goal is to establish sensitivity to GeV-mass WIMPs and to coherent elastic scattering of reactor neutrinos. I'll describe the current state of our R&D program and plans for the coming year.
  
  Speaker: C Eric Dahl (Northwestern University)
  
  Dahl_COFItalk_13July2017.pdf
  
  Dahl_COFItalk_13July2017.pptx

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COFI: Low threshold liquid-noble bubble chambers for Dark Matter and neutrino detection