Conveners
Session I
- Roberto Santorelli (CIEMAT)
The XENONnT detector, located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, in Italy, utilizes 5.9 tonnes of instrumented liquid xenon in the direct search for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. Having achieved unprecedented levels of target purity in both electronegative contaminants and intrinsic radioisotopes, it is sensitive to a plethora of signals beyond WIMPs, such as...
LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) is a dark matter direct detection experiment nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, South Dakota, USA. LZ employs a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with 7 tonnes of active volume and a multi-component veto system for sensitive detection of particles such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a highly motivated...
The DarkSide-20k experiment represents the present goal of the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration program. Bringing together the success of the DarkSide-50 detector and the experience gained on large volume membrane cryostats developed within the DUNE program, the community is now building a dual-phase LAr-TPC equipped with SiPM matrices for light readout. The main goal of the experiment...
DEAP-3600 is the largest running dark matter detector filled with liquid argon, set at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Canada, 2 km underground. The experiment holds the most stringent exclusion limit in non-Xe target for WIMPs above 10 GeV/c$^2$.
In the published analysis the main background reducing the sensitivity were events induced by alpha particles in some surfaces and in suspended dust. I will...
