Search of light Dark Matter with the CRESST-III detector

by Antonello D'Addabbo , Paolo Gorla

Friday 12 Jul 2019, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Rome

Aula 3 (Dipartimento di Fisica ed. E.Fermi )

The CRESST-III (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with
Superconducting Thermometers) experiment, located at Laboratori
Nazionali del Gran Sasso, aims at the direct detection of dark matter
(DM) particles. Scintillating CaWO4 crystals operated as cryogenic
detectors at 14 mK are used as target material for elastic DM-nucleus
scattering.
In 2018 data, CRESST-III reached nuclear recoil thresholds as low as
30 eV, allowing for the first time to probe dark matter masses as low
as 160MeV/c2. New results of CRESST-III will be presented accompanied
by a brief status update on the ongoing CRESST-III measurement
campaign started in May 2018.