Events on Friday, 15. January 2016
- 2016-01-15T16:00:00+01:00
- 2016-01-15T17:00:00+01:00
- DESY, Zeuthen, Platanenallee 6, seminar room 3
15.01.2016 - Silvia Scorza (KIT, IEKP): EDELWEISS-III Direct Dark Matter Search Experiment: Status and First Low WIMP Mass Results
Time: 16:00
DESY, Zeuthen, Platanenallee 6, seminar room 3
Abstract: The EDELWEISS-III collaboration is operating an experiment for the direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMPs) dark matter in the low radioactivity environment of the Modane Underground Laboratory. It consists of 24 advanced FID germanium detectors operating at 18 mK in a dilution refrigerator in order to identify eventual rare nuclear recoils induced by elastic scattering of WIMPs from our Galactic halo. The current EDELWEISS-III program, including improvements of the background, data-acquisition and the current installation will be detailed. Sources of background along with the rejection method with the FID detectors will be discussed. Detector performances and a first low WIMP mass BDT-based analysis of data acquired in a long-term campaign will be presented as well. The FID detector technology is not limited to EDELWEISS-III but can be further employed in the next generation of cryogenic detector experiments.