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Journal Club

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

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

Building 2a (basement), IT seminar room 005

DESY Hamburg

Description
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]