Speaker
Hao Chen
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Description
We propose the crystalline xenon time projection chamber(TPC) as a promising novel technology for next-generation dark matter search. We expect it to exclude and tag radon-chain backgrounds while maintaining the instrumental benefits of liquid xenon TPC. We have built and successfully operated a crystalline/vapor dual-phase xenon TPC in Berkeley Lab. This talk will discuss its instrumental performance as well as recent results to demonstrate the radon exclusion power of crystalline xenon with respect to liquid xenon.
Primary authors
Hao Chen
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Peter Sorensen
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Ryan Gibbons
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley)
Scott Haselschwardt
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Scott Kravitz
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Shilo Qing Xia
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)