Conveners
Session 4: Pure Materials
- Reina Maruyama
Dr
Jingke Xu
(Princeton University)
19/03/2015, 08:30
Invited
Presentation
The dark matter claim by DAMA/LIBRA is both significant and controversial. Several experiments have claimed to rule out DAMA/LIBRA, but the claims are made based on astrophysical and nuclear models that are unknown. Therefore, an unambiguous test of DAMA/LIBRA can only be made using NaI(Tl) crystals with lower residual background than that of DAMA/LIBRA, and the SABRE experiment is well...
Prof.
Hyun Su Lee
(Ewha Womans University)
19/03/2015, 08:50
Invited
Presentation
The Korea Invisible Mass Search (KIMS) collaboration has performed direct searches for WIMP-type dark matter using ultra-low-background CsI(Tl) crystal detectors, which are similar experimental devices to the NaI(Tl) crystal used in the DAMA experiment. The DAMA experiment has claimed an observation of dark matter with an annual modulation signature of WIMP-nucleon interaction. Recently the...
Dr
Denys Poda
(Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, CSNSM, 91405 Orsay, France and Institute for Nuclear Research, MSP 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine)
19/03/2015, 09:10
Contributed
Presentation
The main purpose of the LUMINEU project (Luminescent Underground Molybdenum Investigation for NEUtrino mass and nature) is to elaborate a technology suitable for realization of a next-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment to explore the inverted hierarchy region of the neutrino mass. This goal should be achieved through the development of low-temperature scintillating bolometers...
Prof.
HongJoo Kim
(Kyungpook National University)
19/03/2015, 09:30
Invited
Presentation
The AMoRE (Advanced Mo-based Rare process Experiment) collaboration will perform a search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Mo-100 using a cryogenic technique with Mo-100 enriched and Ca-48 depleted calcium molybdate (CaMoO4) crystal scintillators at the deep underground laboratory in Korea. CaMoO4 crystals show brightest scintillation light among variety of molybdate crystals at room...
Dr
Jay W. Grate
(Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
19/03/2015, 09:50
Contributed
Presentation
Ultra low-background radiation measurements are essential to several large scale physics investigations, including dark matter detection (e.g. SuperCDMS). To drive down background noise levels, radioactive contaminant species in the materials used to make and house radiation detectors must be minimized. Low background materials have been affirmed as an infrastructure requirement at recent...
