Speaker
Marie van Uffelen
(CPPM, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3)
Description
DarkSide-20k, currently under construction at LNGS, is a liquid argon double-phase Time Projection Chamber designed for the direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with masses exceeding 10 GeV/c². In addition to its primary goal, DarkSide-20k has a significant potential for discovering light dark matter particles. Building on the success of its predecessor, DarkSide-50, which set world-best limits on WIMPs in the 1.2 to 3.6 GeV/c² mass range with ~1,000 times smaller target mass, DarkSide-20k presents unprecedented sensitivity prospects for low mass (1-10 GeV/c²) WIMPs and other light dark matter candidates.
Primary author
Marie van Uffelen
(CPPM, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3)
