Conveners
Dark Sector(s) I
- Gianluca Inguglia (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
Dark Sector(s) I
- Valentyna Mokina (HEPHY)
Dark Sector(s) I
- Valentyna Mokina (HEPHY)
Dark Sector(s) I
- Gianluca Inguglia (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
The constituents of dark matter are still unknown, and the viable possibilities span a very large mass range. The scenario where dark matter originates from thermal contact with familiar matter in the early Universe requires the DM mass to lie within about an MeV to 100 TeV. Considerable experimental attention has been given to exploring Weakly Interacting Massive Particles in the upper end of...
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is actively collecting physics data in the search for WIMP dark matter and other novel physics interactions nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. LZ presents an unprecedented sensitivity for discovering WIMP-nucleon interactions by employing a 7-tonne liquid xenon time-projection chamber surrounded by a three-component veto...
XENONnT is a dual-phase time projection chamber with 5.9 tons of liquid Xenon (LXe) at INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Italy) which aims at the direct detection of dark matter particles. XENONnT features a larger target mass with respect to previous detectors of the XENON project and it also benefits of some key upgrades which improve its sensitivity: a LXe purification system, a...
Dark matter is one of the largest unsolved mysteries in particle-astrophysics. Its existence is evident through the gravitational impact it has on astronomical observations and it makes up 26% of the mass-energy content of the universe. Over the past twenty-five years the DAMA/LIBRA (formerly DAMA/NaI) experiment has observed an annual modulation signal that is consistent with a dark matter...
