Karlsruhe 2011 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 87: Gammaastronomie I

T 87.4: Vortrag

Montag, 28. März 2011, 17:35–17:50, 30.41: 104

Direct Dark Matter Search with EURECA — •Jean-Côme Lanfranchi, Achim Gütlein, Sebastian Pfister, Sabine Roth, Raimund Strauss, Moritz von Sivers, Michael Willers, Andreas Zöller, Stefan Wawoczny, Franz von Feilitzsch, Walter Potzel, and Stefan Schönert — Physik-Department E15, TU München, James-Franck-Strasse, 85748 Garching

The CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) and EDELWEISS (Experience pour Detecter les WIMPs an Site Souterrain) experiments are the basis for the planned EURECA (European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array) ton-scale experiment aimed at the direct detection of Dark Matter. A well motivated candidate to account for Dark Matter are WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The expected WIMP signature consists in a nuclear recoil of a few keV measured in low-temperature detectors using target materials such as Ge, CaWO4 and ZnWO4. The presentation will discuss the unique potentials of the EURECA experiment, as well as technological challenges that have to be met to realize this future multi-material WIMP detector.