Special colloquium: Thursday May 4 at 14:30 in 238 TB (Tory Building)
Note ** special time **.
Speaker: Masayuki Wada, Princeton University
Title: DarkSide-50: A Liquid Argon Detector for WIMP Searches
Abstract:
DarkSide-50 is a liquid argon based experiment searching for Weakly Interacting Particles (WIMPs), a well-motivated candidate for Dark Matter. DarkSide-50 is designed to be a background-free WIMP search using a two-phase argon TPC that is operated inside an active veto at the LNGS underground laboratory in Italy. A blind analysis of more than one year of DarkSide-50 data is currently underway. I will describe the DarkSide-50 detector and discuss in detail event reconstruction methods and their impact on our understanding of the background for the blind analysis.
Posted on: Monday, May 1, 2017