“The search for Dark Matter with the Amazing Liquid Xenon”

In the lecture, Elena Aprile, Professor of Physics at Columbia University, outlines the fundamentals and recent advances in the direct search for dark matter using liquid xenon detectors. She discusses the experimental challenges and technological innovations required to detect WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), a promising dark matter candidate. Aprile presents the most significant results obtained from underground experiments, highlights current sensitivity limits, and explains how the liquid xenon approach has proven to be one of the most promising methods for capturing extremely faint signals from both the sky and the laboratory.

This lecture, delivered in October 2015, is part of the astrophysics series ‘The Science of the Cosmos, the Science in the Cosmos’. This lecture series tackles the fundamental questions in contemporary astrophysics.The fourth edition consi

In the lecture, Elena Aprile, Professor of Physics at Columbia University, outlines the fundamentals and recent advances in the direct search for dark matter using liquid xenon detectors. She discusses the experimental challenges and technological innovations required to detect WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), a promising dark matter candidate. Aprile presents the most significant results obtained from underground experiments, highlights current sensitivity limits, and explains how the liquid xenon approach has proven to be one of the most promising methods for capturing extremely faint signals from both the sky and the laboratory.

This lecture, delivered in October 2015, is part of the astrophysics series ‘The Science of the Cosmos, the Science in the Cosmos’. This lecture series tackles the fundamental questions in contemporary astrophysics.The fourth edition considers the enigmatic nature of dark matter and the most recent attempts to detect it with large underground instruments, the expansion of the universe, as well as recent research with particle accelerators.