Speaker
Prof.
C Eric Dahl
(Northwestern University)
Description
Our group at Northwestern recently demonstrated the world's first
scintillating bubble chamber, observing simultaneous scintillation and
bubble nucleation by nuclear recoils in superheated liquid xenon
(arXiv:1702.08861). These detectors already promise unmatched
background rejection in searches for canonical WIMP dark matter, and we
are beginning to explore the low-threshold (<=1 keV recoil) capabilities
of these devices. Our goal is to establish sensitivity to GeV-mass WIMPs
and to coherent elastic scattering of reactor neutrinos. I'll describe
the current state of our R&D program and plans for the coming year.
Primary authors
Prof.
C Eric Dahl
(Northwestern University)
Dr
Jianjie Zhang
(Northwestern University)
