Current Status of the XENON100 Dark Matter Experiment

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aps..aprw12001o&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, 2009 APS April Meeting, May 2-5, 2009, abstract #W12.001

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Non-baryonic Dark Matter makes up ˜85% of all matter in the universe. A plausible theoretical class of candidates are Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). XENON100, located at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, is a liquid/gas xenon time projection chamber for direct detection of WIMP-nucleon recoils. XENON100 is the successor of the highly successful XENON10 experiment, featuring 10 times greater sensitive mass (˜50 kg fiducial) and 100 times lower background. The expected sensitivity is ˜10-45 cm^2 for spin-independent interactions. XENON100 has been installed and has started operating. I will report on the present status of XENON100 and its expected physics reach.

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