29 June 2018 to 4 July 2018
IBS HQ, Daejeon, Korea
Asia/Seoul timezone
There will be Welcome Reception at 18:00 on June 28, 2018

Low-mass dark matter search with CRESST-III

30 Jun 2018, 09:30
30m
IBS HQ, Daejeon, Korea

IBS HQ, Daejeon, Korea

Speaker

Dr Raimund Strauss (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München)

Description

CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) is a direct dark matter search experiment located in the underground site of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. It uses scintillating CaWO4 crystals operated as cryogenic calorimeters at mK temperatures optimized for the detection of nuclear recoils of 100eV and below. The experiment in its current stage, CRESST-III phase 1, is leading the field of low-mass dark matter detection and has recently extended the sensitivity of nuclear-recoil based direct searches to dark matter masses of below 500MeV/c^2. In this contribution, we will review the experimental technique of CRESST-III and report in detail about the most recent dark matter results. We will conclude with a discussion on future challenges and prospects of this experimental approach

Primary author

Dr Raimund Strauss (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München)

Presentation materials