2018 European Nuclear Physics Conference

Session

Astroparticle Physics

3 Sept 2018, 14:30

Conveners

Astroparticle Physics: AULA 7

• Davide Franco (APC)
• Alexander Murphy (University of Edinburgh)

Description

Main auditorium

105. Breakthroughs in solar and neutrino physics from the Borexino experiment.

Gianpaolo Bellini (MI)

03/09/2018, 14:30

Borexino, with its very low background, due to an unprecedented radio-purity, is a unique experiment in studying the solar neutrinos since more than 11 years, producing important results in the solar and neutrino physics. The mechanism that produces 99% of solar energy, i.e. the pp cycle, has been entirely measured determining the rates of all its the reactions: pp, 7Be, pep, 8B. This...

121. KM3NeT and ANTARES status and results

Dr Federico Versari (University of Bologna, INFN section of Bologna)

03/09/2018, 14:55

ANTARES is the largest and longest operated neutrino telescope in the Northern hemisphere. It is located 40 km off-shore Toulon, France, at a depth of 2475 m on the Mediterranean seabed and has been continuously taking data since 2006. Its primary goal is the search for astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. Its location and excellent angular resolution makes ANTARES sensitive to...

116. The PTOLEMY experiment

Dr Alfredo Giuseppe Cocco (INFN)

03/09/2018, 15:11

The PTOLEMY project aims to develop a scalable design for a Cosmic Neutrino Telescope to detect the Big Bang relic neutrino. This will be the first of its kind and the only telescope conceived that can look directly at the image encoded in neutrino density fluctuations of the Universe in the first second after the Big Bang. The PTOLEMY prototype at Princeton has become the basis of a new...

99. Results from the CUORE experiment

Niccolo' Moggi (BO)

03/09/2018, 15:27

The Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) is the first bolometric experiment searching for neutrinoless double beta decay that has been able to reach the 1-ton scale. The detector consists of an array of 988 TeO2 crystals arranged in a cylindrical compact structure of 19 towers. The construction of the experiment and, in particular, the installation of all towers in the...

107. New Physics Searches with LUX and LZ

Prof. Alexander Murphy (University of Edinburgh)

03/09/2018, 15:42

The frontier of experimental particle physics research, and especially astroparticle physics research, frequently involves the detection of signals that are both rare, fewer than an event per year per kilogram of target, and small, with energy depositions at the keV scale. A prime example is the direct search for dark matter, although other signatures for new physics are also being sought,...

117. Darkside status and prospects

Dr Simone Sanfilippo (ROMA3)

03/09/2018, 15:57

DarkSide uses a dual-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber to search for WIMP dark matter. The current detector, DarkSide-50, is running since mid 2015 with a target of 50 kg of argon from an underground source. The talk will present the latest results of searches of WIMP-nucleus interactions, with WIMP masses in the GeV-TeV range, and of WIMP-electron interactions, in the sub-GeV...

125. Results of the WIMP search with XENON1T

Pietro Di Gangi (BO)

03/09/2018, 16:15

Astronomical and cosmological observations indicate that a large amount of the energy content of the Universe is made of dark matter. The most promising dark matter candidates are the so-called WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The XENON project, at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), consists of a double-phase time projection chamber (TPCs) using ultra-pure liquid Xenon...

106. Dark matter search with the SABRE experiment

Claudia Tomei (ROMA1)

03/09/2018, 16:31

The SABRE (Sodium Iodide with Active Background Rejection) experiment will search for an annually modulating signal from Dark Matter (DM) using an array of ultra-pure NaI(Tl) detectors surrounded by an active scintillator veto to further reduce the intrinsic background. The expected rate of interactions between DM particles and the detector in fact modulates due to Earth’s changing velocity...

373. Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab

Marzio De Napoli (CT)

03/09/2018, 16:45

The Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) is an electron-beam thick-target experiment aimed to investigate the existence of Light Dark Matter (LDM) particles in the MeV-GeV mass range. The experiment has been recently approved by JLab Program Advisory Committee with maximum scientific rate. BDX is expected to run in a dedicated underground facility located ~ 20 m downstream of the JLab-Hall A beam-...