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| Description | HE Seminar Speaker: Scott Stephenson Title: Searching for dark matter with the PandaX experiment Host: Mani Tripathi Room: 432 Abstract: Much evidence has amassed for the existence of a large nonbaryonic component of matter in the universe, termed dark matter (DM). The dark matter content of our own Milky Way galaxy allows for the possibility of direct detection of DM particles using sensitive earth-borne detectors. In search of DM, the PandaX collaboration has operated a low background, high sensitivity liquid xenon detector at China JinPing Laboratory in the Sichuan province of south-west China. The location of PandaX-I in the world's deepest underground lab protects the detector from cosmic radiation while the target of scintillating liquid xenon probes the existence of a large class of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates. I will discuss the first dark matter search result from the PandaX-I detector, achieved during 17.4 live days operation with a target of 37 kg fiducial mass, and compare it with existing world-data. |
| Date | Tue, January 13, 2015 |
| Time | 8:00am-9:00am PST |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Access | Public |
| Created by | High-Energy Seminars |
| Updated | Tue, January 13, 2015 2:36am PST |
