Speaker
Description
The DARWIN experiment is a proposed next-generation dual-phase time projection chamber which will operate 50 tonnes of natural xenon and whose primary goal will be to explore the entire experimentally accessible parameter space for WIMPs. Besides its unprecedented sensitivity to WIMPS above a mass of 5 GeV/c2, such a large detector, with its low-energy threshold and ultra low background level, will be sensitive to other rare interactions as well. DARWIN will measure low energy solar neutrinos with a high precision, observe the coherent neutrino-nucleus interaction and detect galactic supernovae. In addition it will search for axions, axion-like particles and the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe. We discuss here the concept of DARWIN, the ongoing R&D and the sensitivity for the different physics channels.
| Author's Name | Patricia Sanchez-Lucas |
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| Author's Institute | Universität Zürich |
| Author's e-mail | psanchez@physik.uzh.ch |
| Abstract Title | DARWIN: the ultimate dark matter detector |
| Subject | Astro/Cosmo |
