Speaker
Daniel Baxter
(University of Chicago)
Description
The DAMIC-M detector will use fully-depleted silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for low mass dark matter. The detector will combine the excellent understanding of CCD backgrounds from DAMIC at SNOLAB with ongoing developments in the single electron resolution of skipper amplifiers to provide unprecedented sensitivity to light dark matter particles. The DAMIC-M program takes advantage of the unparalleled capability to reject events from radioactivity in the CCDs by exploiting spatial coincidences within a decay chain over timescales as long as months. This, combined with aggressive controls over detector design and material selection, will allow DAMIC-M to probe new models of light dark matter.
Primary author
Daniel Baxter
(University of Chicago)
