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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 26: Astroparticle Physics I

HK 26.1: Group Report

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 16:30–17:00, HZO 100

The XENON1T Dark Matter Search — •Daniel Coderre — University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

XENON1T is a dual phase time projection chamber operated at the Gran Sasso underground national laboratory. Over 3 tons of ultra-pure liquid xenon are used as a target to measure WIMP-nucleon interactions. The detector was commissioned in 2016 and operated through 2017 and has collected the largest exposure of any detector of its type, giving unprecedented sensitivity to potential dark matter interactions. An in situ upgrade to triple the target mass, XENONnT, is in the development stages and will start construction later in 2018, opening up even more parameter space in the search for WIMPs.

This talk will give an overview of the experiment and present the latest results.