Speaker
Dr
Alvine Kamaha
(Queen's University)
Description
Modern precision astronomy strongly suggests the presence of Dark Matter particles whose hunt is among the forefront activities in particle physics nowadays. The NEWS-SNO project (News Experiment With Spheres in SNOLAB) is setting up to probe very low mass Dark Matter particles using a large spherical gaseous detector and very light target nuclei such as H, He and Ne. A 60 cm diameter prototype filled with neon gas was installed and operated in Modane (Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane) with a very low threshold which allowed to investigate less than 10 GeV WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) Dark Matter. The analysis of the collected data to extract a Dark Matter signal will be presented and discussed. The attained performance paves the way forward for the larger scale detector to be installed at SNOLAB.
Author
Dr
Alvine Kamaha
(Queen's University)
