Speaker
Marc Schumann
(U Bern)
Description
Ultra-sensitive detectors using the noble gas xenon in liquid form (LXe) as dark matter target have currently reached the highest sensitivity to WIMP-nucleon interactions. Larger detectors, with target masses above 1t and with an even lower radioactive background, will come online in the next year, aiming at increasing the sensitivity by another factor of 100. Marc will discuss recent results of LXe-based detectors, such as XENON, LUX, and XMASS, the developments towards the next generation detectors, and the physics reach of multi-ton LXe dark matter detectors.