Speaker
Vicente Pesudo Fortes
(CIEMAT / LSC)
Description
The DarkSide-20k experiment has been designed to lead the search for heavy WIMPs. It will consist of a 50 tonne dual-phase Ar TPC, surrounded by a 40 tonne LAr scintillator veto, both filled with underground Ar, strongly depleted in 39Ar. The outermost layer will be a muon veto, with 650 tonnes of atmospheric Ar. The experiment is in construction phase at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), with the cryostat already installed and being instrumented as clean room for the last integration steps.
In this talk I will present the physics goals of the experiment, its current status and the plans towards commissioning.
| Main Contribution topic | Direct detection |
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| Secondary contribution topic | Instrumentation for Dark Matter |
Author
Vicente Pesudo Fortes
(CIEMAT / LSC)