Speaker
Dr
Fei Gao
(Columbia University)
Description
To date, dark matter has only been observed through its gravitational interaction. A new detector in the XENON family, XENONnT, is being constructed at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, featuring a $6$ tonnes of liquid xenon target contained in a larger time projection chamber. The large target mass and approximately 10 times lower background than its predecessor XENON1T, will increase its sensitivity to WIMPs by one order of magnitude with a WIMPs-nucleon cross section down to $2 \times 10^{-48} \mathrm{cm}^2$. This talk will introduce the XENONnT experiment, explain its background budget, and present its WIMPs discovery potential.
Author
Dr
Fei Gao
(Columbia University)
