Date and Time: Friday, 27 April 2018, at 11:00 AM

Venue: Conference Hall, Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems

Seminar topic: «Latest results of dark matter search with the DarkSide-50 experiment»

Speaker: A.S. Sheshukov

Abstract:

The DarkSide-50 is an experiment located in the Laboratori Nazionale del Gran Sasso (LNGS), searching for the dark matter interactions in the low radiactive argon target. The detector features a dual-phase liquid argon time projection chamber, which allows to detect primary scintillation (S1) and secondary ionization (S2) signals from the dark matter interaction candidates.

We report recent results for DarkSide-50 dark matter searches using 532 days of data taking.The limits on cross-section for WIMP-nucleon scattering for high (100 GeV/c) and low (below 20 GeV/c) WIMP masses are reported, as well as constraint on sub-GeV particles scattering off electrons.