Speaker
Mr
Guillaume Plante
(Columbia University)
Description
The XENON1T experiment, currently under construction at the Laboratori
Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, aims at detecting dark matter weakly
interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with a dual-phase time projection chamber filled with 3300 kg of liquid xenon. The new experiment will be sensitive to a spin-independent WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section of 2 x 10^-47 cm^2 (40 GeV/c^2), nearly two orders of magnitude better than current limits. In this talk I will present the experiment, describe its various subsystems, and report on the current status of the construction.
Collaboration
XENON1T
Primary author
Mr
Guillaume Plante
(Columbia University)
