Participation in EDELWEISS-II exploitation
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The nature of the dark matter in the Universe is of scientific and general public interest. Understanding what the majority of the matter density is would advance mankind's knowledge and satisfy everyone's desire for understanding the world around us. This grant will allow UK researchers to participate in the exploitation phase of the EDELWEISS experiment, a dark matter search located in the Modane underground laboratory in a road tunnel between France and Italy.
Organisations
Publications
Armengaud E
(2017)
Performance of the EDELWEISS-III experiment for direct dark matter searches
in Journal of Instrumentation
Armengaud E
(2017)
Measurement of the cosmogenic activation of germanium detectors in EDELWEISS-III
in Astroparticle Physics
| Description | This was a small travel grant which allowed us to participate in the exploitation of the EDELWEISS-II dark mater search experiment. Several papers have been published which limited the model parameters fr WIMP dark matter. |
| Exploitation Route | Data analysis and simulations for low-background dark matter experiment. |
| Sectors | Other |