Speaker
Mr
Michael Willers
(LBL)
Description
The CRESST-III (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) experiment
located in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory (LNGS, Italy) aims at the direct
detection of dark matter (DM) particles. The experiment employs
scintillating CaWO4 single-crystals as the target material for dark matter interactions
and aims to probe the low-mass parameter space of elastic dark-matter - nucleon scattering
with unprecedented sensitivity.
The key to achieve this sensitivity are specially optimised detector modules that
are operated at a temperature of ~10mK and consist of a ~25g CaWO4 target crystal
and a silicon-on-sapphire light detector. Using this approach, a nuclear recoil
energy threshold of less than 100eV is achieved.
Phase I of the CRESST-III experiment has been taking data since August of 2016 and
in this contribution recent results of the experiment will be presented
and the perspectives of future stages of the experiment will be discussed.
| Authorship annotation | for the CRESST collaboration |
|---|---|
| Session and Location | Wednesday Session, Poster Wall #131 (Hölderlin-Room) |
| Poster included in proceedings: | yes |
Primary author
Mr
Michael Willers
(LBL)
