Speaker
Colin James Moore
(Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
Description
CRESST-III (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers), installed at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, is looking to directly detect dark matter particles scattering off CaWO$_4$ target nuclei in cryogenic detectors. Thanks to its energy threshold O(30 eV), CRESST-III is particularly suitable in probing sub-GeV DM masses. This contribution presents an overview of CRESST-III, reporting the latest DM results and plans for the future. Recent achievements are discussed on the Low Energy Excess (LEE), an unexplained rise of events at low energies (<200 eV). The most recent experimental campaign, using the Double-TES approach to identify the origin of LEE and reject this background, is also discussed.
| Primary Abstract Topic | Experiment: WIMPs |
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Author
Colin James Moore
(Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)