Speaker
Mr
Ludwig Rauch
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
Description
The XENON100 experiment was designed to test the particle nature of dark matter by directly detecting their interactions with a target nuclei. The detector is a dual-phase time projection chamber, containing a total mass of 161kg liquid-xenon. It is located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy and optimized to search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). To this date, there is no conclusive evidence for a direct detection of dark matter. In this talk, the highlights of the science results derived by the XENON100 detector will be presented. In addition to the WIMP search results, bounds on galactic as well as solar axions will be presented. Finally, the construction status of the next generation detector XENON1T will be briefly reviewed and its scientific
potential summarized.
Primary author
Mr
Ludwig Rauch
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
