Conveners
Beyond the Standard Model / Dark Matter
- Giuliano Panico
Beyond the Standard Model / Dark Matter
- Michael Spira (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))
A variety of experiments have been developed over the past decades, aiming at the detection of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their scattering in an instrumented medium. The sensitivity of these experiments has improved with a tremendous speed, thanks to a constant development of detectors and analysis methods. Detectors capable of reconstructing the direction of...
The XENON1T experiment is the first tonne-scale double phase (liquid-gas) time projection chamber for direct search of dark matter, currently operational at the underground National Laboratory of Gran Sasso in Italy. XENON1T utilizes about 2000 kg of liquid xenon as target mass for interactions of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), candidate dark matter particles, with xenon nuclei....
