Conveners
direct search for DM and underground experiments
- Mario De Vincenzi (ROMA3)
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Dr Ran Budnik (Columbia university)05/09/2018, 16:40
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Paolo Gorla (LNGS)05/09/2018, 17:00OralThe CRESST-III (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) experiment, located in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS, Italy), aims at the direct detection of dark matter (DM) particles. Scintillating CaWO$_4$ crystals operated as cryogenic detectors at mK temperatures are used as target material for elastic DM-nucleus scattering. The simultaneous measurement of...Go to contribution page
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Giovanni De Lellis (NA)05/09/2018, 17:20OralDirect Dark Matter searches are nowadays one of the most fervid research topics with many experimental efforts devoted to the search for nuclear recoils induced by the scattering of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs). Detectors able to reconstruct the direction of the nucleus recoiling against the scattering WIMP are opening a new frontier to possibly extend Dark Matter searches...Go to contribution page
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Carlo Gustavino (ROMA1)05/09/2018, 17:40OralThe evolution of all the celestial bodies is regulated by gravitation and thermonuclear reaction rates, while the Big Bang nucleosynthesis is the result of nuclear processes in a rapidly expanding Universe. The LUNA Collaboration has shown that, by exploiting the ultra low background achievable deep underground, it is possible to study the relevant nuclear processes down to the nucleosynthesis...Go to contribution page
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Dr Simone Sanfilippo (ROMA3)05/09/2018, 18:00OralDirectional sensitivity to nuclear recoils would provide a smoking gun for a possible discovery of dark matter in the form of WIMPs. A hint of directional dependence of the response of a dual-phase liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) was found in the SCENE experiment. Given the potential importance of such a capability in the framework of dark matter searches, a new dedicated...Go to contribution page