Dark Matter

Titre: Instrumentation in Particle and Astroparticle Physics. Dark Matter Detection

Professor Elena Aprile, Columbia University, age@astro.columbia.edu

Monday May 22, Tuesday May 23 and Thursday May 25, 2023

From 10:00  to 12:30 in salle des seminaires at LPNHE, 1222 RC/SB 08

TRAINING CODE = ED-SPU-22

 2 points

INSTRUMENTATION

Basic Radiation Types and Their Origin
Passage of Charged Radiation through Matter

Ionization Detectors

Scintillation Detectors
Noble Liquids Detectors

Photomultipliers & Alternative Photodetectors
Semiconductors Detectors

DARK MATTER

Dark Matter Direct Detection
• Signal and Backgrounds
• Review of DM searches with various detectors
Dark Matter Searches with Noble Liquids
• LXe Experiments: XENON, LZ, PandaX
Dark Matter Searches with Noble Liquids
• LAr Experiments: DEAP and DarkSide