24–27 Mar 2025
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425
US/Pacific timezone

Status of CRESST

26 Mar 2025, 11:15
15m
UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

475 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 darkmatter@physics.ucla.edu

Speaker

Josef Jochum (Universitaet Tuebingen)

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 CaWO4 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.

Authors

Belina Von Krosigk (Heidelberg University (DE)) Federica Petricca (Max Planck Society (DE)) Jochen Schieck (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)) Josef Jochum (Universitaet Tuebingen) Dr Paolo Gorla (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso - INFN) Prof. Pavel Povinec (Comenius University) Stefan Schoenert

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