Speaker
Ziqing Hong
(Northwestern University)
Description
The Northwestern EXperimental Underground Site at Fermilab (NEXUS@FNAL) is an underground cryogenic facility that has 300 meter water equivalent shielding. A dilution refrigerator operating at 10 mK, a DD generator producing 2.5 MeV neutrons, and a suite of optical and X-ray calibration sources are being deployed at the facility. The expected background level at NEXUS is 100 events/keV/kg/day. We present the status of the NEXUS facility and the near future plan for operating SuperCDMS R&D detectors for dark matter searches and calibrations in this facility.
| Student (Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc.) | N |
|---|---|
| Less than 5 years of experience since completion of Ph.D | Y |
Primary authors
Ziqing Hong
(Northwestern University)
Dr
Lauren Hsu
(Fermilab)
Runze Ren
Prof.
E. Figueroa-Feliciano
(Northwestern University)
Dr
Noah Kurinsky
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Dr
Dan Bauer
(Fermilab)
Dr
Pat Lukens
(Fermilab)
