Journal Club: The unbearable lightness of being: CDMS versus XENON

Wednesday 3 Jul 2013, 12:00 → 12:30 Europe/Berlin

Building 2a (basement), IT seminar room 005 (DESY Hamburg)

Kai will explain what went wrong with the original XENON10 analysis and the implications of the revised bound, in particular with respect to the CDMS-II events. See

• Mads T. Frandsen, Felix Kahlhoefer, Christopher McCabe, Subir Sarkar, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg: The unbearable lightness of being: CDMS versus XENON, arXiv:1304.6066
• CDMS Collaboration: Dark Matter Search Results Using the Silicon Detectors of CDMS II, arXiv:1304.4279 [hep-ex]
• XENON10 Collaboration: A search for light dark matter in XENON10 data, arXiv:1104.3088v4 [astro-ph.CO]