Conveners
Session 18: Facilities
- Hanguo Wang (UCLA)
Andrew Renshaw
(U. of Houston)
2/23/18, 7:00 PM
Talk
The DarkSide-50 two-phase liquid argon (LAr) detector has been searching for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter for more than three years, and during last two and a half years has been successfully operating the detector with argon that was extracted from underground CO$_2$ wells in Cortez, Colorado in the US. This source of argon has been long shielded from cosmic rays...