Recent PandaX-II Results on Dark Matter Search and PandaX-4T Upgrade Plan

14 Feb 2018, 10:00
30m
Building 3 1F, Seminar Hall (KEK)

Building 3 1F, Seminar Hall

KEK

1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan

Speaker

Ning Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Description

PandaX experiment, located at China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL), is a 500kg scale liquid xenon dark matter direct detection experiment. With the first 98.7-day data, PandaX-II experiment obtained stringent upper limits on the spin-independent (SI) and spin-dependent (SD) WIMP-nucleon elastic scattering cross sections. Alternative models of dark matter are also explored using this data. Meanwhile, PandaX collaboration has launched an upgrade plan to build PandaX-4T detector with 4-ton liquid xenon in the active volume. The PandaX-4T experiment will be relocated to CJPL-II and is expected to run after 2020. Detailed simulation indicates that the sensitivity on SI WIMP-nucleon scattering cross section could reach 10^{-47} cm^2 after two-year's running

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