Previous News: |
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2007-12-24 |
DUSEL -
Dark Matter Working Group (Washington
Town Meeting) White Paper co-authored by Rick Gaitskell and Dan Akerib |
2007-12-10 |
XENON10 Spin-Independent Exclusion Limits were accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett. The article "First Results from the XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory" will appear in an upcoming issue in the section "Gravitation & Astrophysics." |
2007-08-xx |
XENON10 on the News
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2007-07-xx |
Brown University Alumni Magazine - Interview with Prof. Rick Gaitskell |
2007-06-05 |
P Sorensen's Talk from Dark Side of the Universe 2007 (Minneapolis, Mn). PDF |
2007-05-31 |
XENON10 Results Paper - Submitted to PRL ( PDF , arXiv ) |
2007-04-18 |
XENON10 News Coverage in Nature (link) . |
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2007-04-14 |
XENON10
Talks from APS Meeting (http://xenon.brown.edu) NEW DARK MATTER SENSITIVITY RESULT The XENON10 experiment is able to probe new SUSY WIMP models with a sensitivity better than the latest CDMS II limit by a factor 6 (for low WIMP masses), and a factor 3 (for high WIMP masses). Sensitivity Plot & Legend (see also http://dmtools.brown.edu) (Lower Red Curve) New XENON10 latest result (Dashed Red Curve) XENON10 result without background subtraction (Blue Curve) CDMS II Limit TALKS Aprile (Columbia), Results Talk, PDF Gaitskell (Brown), Comparison of Noble Liquid Detectors/XENON10, PDF de Viveiros (Brown), Background Identification, PDF Plante (Columbia), Analysis Cuts, PDF Dahl (Case Western), Discrimination, PDF Santorelli (Columbia) Position Reconstruction, PDF Ni (Yale), Activation Calibration, PDF Manalaysay (Florida), Background Discrimination, PDF Manzur (Yale), Neutron Calibration, PDF Gomez (Rice), Light Collection Models, PDF Angle (Florida), Backgrounds, PDF |
2007-04-01 |
XENON10 will be announcing latest results from 3 months WIMP search running (LNGS) at the American Physical Society Meeting, Florida, (April 2007). Results will be posted here. |
2007-03-01 |
From
Colliders to Cosmic Rays - Review Talk on Noble Liquid Detectors For
Dark Matter, Gaitskell [pdf] |
2006-10-30 |
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2006-06-10 |
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2006-05-01 |
PhD
Thesis [pdf] Michael Attisha , Graduate Student, Brown University, CDMS II Collaboration |
2006-04-21 |
Report
on WIMP Mass Determination following Future Dark Matter Detection [pdf]
David Jackson, Undergraduate, Brown University |
2006-04-03 |
SLAC
International Symposium on Detector Development for Particle, Astroparticle
and Synchrotron , The Science and Challenges for Future Detector
Development in Particle Astrophysics [pdf]
Gaitskell |
2006-02-10 |
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2006-02-05 |
ASPEN
WINTER SCHOOL ON HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS , Dark Matter Detectors [pdf]
Gaitskell |
2005-05-31 |
UK
High Energy Physics Meeting, Technical Review of Current Dark Matter
Experiments [pdf]
Gaitskell |
2005-06-22 |
Dan Silverman's Senior Thesis: "Study of Liquid Xenon Detector for WIMP Dark Matter" pdf |
2005-04-30 |
Colloquia, Dartmouth,
Dept of Physics, Dark Matter Review [pdf]
Gaitskell |
2005-04-22 |
Colloquia, Rutgers,
Dept of Physics, Dark Matter Review [pdf]
Gaitskell |
2005-04-18 |
Prof. Rick Gaitskell interviewed on radio WBSR [Listen
to the mp3 of archived show] In their words:
"An interview with astrophysicist Richard Gaitskell, who is on the hunt for dark
matter. Plus a little olde timey radio theater!" |
2005-04-07 |
Check out our recent article in the Physics Dept. Newsletter ! |
2005-03-28 |
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2005-03-28 |
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2004-09-15 |
Gaitskell
Talks at Identification of Dark Matter 2004 Conference Conference
Web Site Conference Summary PDF XENON Status PDF CDMS Monte Carlos PDF DUSEL US Underground Lab Status PDF |
2004-09-01 |
Gaitskell Review
Article for Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science - Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 54 (2004) 315-359 Local PDF (and link to Journal and paper therein - Requires authorization) |
2004-08-01 |
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2004-05-12 |
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| 2004-05-06 |
Mike Attisha Prelim Talk: Direct Detection of Dark Matter and the CDMS II Experiment Powerpoint |
| 2004-05-03 |
CDMS
II Announces new results
- leading WIMP sensitivity among worldwide experiments (CDMS
Website / Paper
PRL@arxiv / plots) |
| 2004-04-05 |
Physics
Colloquium by Rocky Kob, Fermilab/U Chicago, on Dark
Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation (Kolb) (PDF) |
| 2004-03-01 |
Physics
Colloquium by Rene Ong, UCLA, on Gamma Ray Astronomy (Ong) (PDF) |
| 2004-02-27 |
Presentation
to Technology Advisory Council at
Brown (Gaitskell) (PDF,Movie) |
| 2004-01-05 |
Journal
Club Talk on Braney Cosmology (Scott Watson, Graduate
Student, Prof Brandenberger) (PDF) |
| 2004-01-05 |
SLAC
Talk on Direct Detection of Dark Matter, (Gaitskell)
(PDF) |
| 2003-12-10 |
Academic
Computing at Brown (interviews with Faculty
-including Prof Gaitskell) (QuickTime mpg) |
| 2003-09-01 |
Discussion of High Energy (T>10 MeV) Neutrons at underground
labs, and how depth affects viability of direct
detection experiments |
| 2003-08-22 |
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| 2003-08-12 |
XENON collaboration meeting at Brown on Radioactive Backgrounds and Monte Carlos: external/internal link |
2003-08-01 |
Prof.
Gaitskell's talks on CDMS and XENON from the EPS High Energy Physics
Conference in Aachen, Germany are online and can be found here. |
2003-07-28 |
The DAMA collaboration have posted their latest results.
You can find the paper at: astro-ph0307403 or
an explanatory slideshow at: LNGS
seminar site |
2003-04-00 |
"Review
of Direct
Detection of SUSY Cold Dark Matter" Gaitskell
presentation at Columbia [pdf] |
2002-09-19 |
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2002-03-12 |
"Factors
affecting Detector Performance Goals and Alternative PhotoDetectors",
Gaitskell presentation to SAGENAP [ppt] |