PRISMA+ Colloquium
June 6, 2018 at 1 p.m. in Lorentz-Raum 05-127, Staudingerweg 7Prof. Dr. Tobias Hurth
Institut für Physik, THEP
hurth@uni-mainz.de
The XENON1T detector, located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in central Italy, is the largest and most sensitive dual phase xenon Time Projection Chamber searching for Dark Matter (DM). New results on the direct detection of Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs), a well-motivated particle DM candidate, have been recently published, based on an exposure of 1.0 tonne x year (fiducial mass of 1.3 tonne, 278.8 days data taking). In this talk I discuss the experimental apparatus, the ultra-low background conditions achieved, and the recent results, which set the most stringent limit on the WIMP-nucleon spin-independent elastic scattering cross-section for WIMP masses above 6 GeV/c².