Conveners
Session E
- Josef Jochum (Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics - University Tübingen)
Prof.
Jules Gascon
(IPNL Universite Lyon 1 and CNRS/IN2P3)
01/12/2015, 11:00
The EDELWEISS-III experiment is a direct search for WIMP dark matter that uses an array of twenty-four 800 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic detectors fully covered with interleaved electrodes for the rejection of near-surface events.
An 8-month search has been recently concluded. Detector performances and in particular the improvement of experimental resolutions relative to the previous phase...
Prof.
Henry Wong
(Academia Sinica)
01/12/2015, 11:30
Germanium detectors with sub-keV sensitivities offer a unique opportunity to study neutrino interactions and properties as well as to search for light WIMP Dark Matter. The TEXONO and CDEX Collaborations has been pursuing this research program at the Kuo-Sheng Neutrino Laboratory (KSNL) in Taiwan and in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) in China. We will present highlights of the...
Dr
Johannes Treis
(MPG Semiconductor Laboratory)
01/12/2015, 12:00
The use of scientific grade CCD detectors in the scope of the DAMIC experiment has demonstrated the usefulness of solid state detectors for the search for WIMP interactions with matter. The bulk material of the detector (here: silicon) serves as both interaction medium and detector at the same time. The low readout noise, in combination with the low mass of the silicon nucleus, makes the...
Dr
Marco CIRELLI
(LPTHE Jussieu CNRS)
01/12/2015, 12:15
Indirect detection of Dark Matter (i.e. the search for cosmic rays produced by DM annihilations or decays in the galactic halo, or beyond) is usually considered as a promising approach, rightly so. However, when DM is relatively light, say in the sub-WIMP regime, the technique faces some challenges, essentially because astrophysics gets too much in the way. I will give a general overview of DM...
