COSINUS - Progressing towards shedding light on the DAMA/LIBRA claim

by Dr Karoline Schäffner (MPI München)

Tuesday 25 Oct 2022, 16:15 → 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Main/0-174 - Auditorium (Main)

For a fully model-independent investigation of the nature of the DAMA/LIBRA signal claim, experiments which use the same material  are mandatory.

COSINUS will use crystals of NaI, however not operating them as mere scintillation detectors, but as cryogenic scintillating calorimeters cooled to milli-Kelvin temperatures. COSINUS detectors provide a simultaneous and independent measurement of both the temperature signal and the scintillation light signal caused by a particle interaction. Since the amount of produced light depends on the particle type, this detection technique yields particle identification on an event-by-event basis.

Here results from latest generation prototypes utilizing the so-called "remoTES“ readout concept and the status of the experimental setup installation presently ongoing at the Gran Sasso underground lab will be presented.