Sensitivity of the XENONnT experiment

ORAL

Abstract

The XENONnT experiment is under construction and commissioning at the LNGS underground lab, Italy. It aims to detect dark matter particles scattering on a liquid xenon target, particularly weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The increased fiducial volume, increased self-shielding and new neutron veto subsystem will reduce both extrinsic and intrinsic background rates, reaching $0.04~\mathrm{ev}/\mathrm{ty}$ for the signal-like neutron background. The ultimate aim of the experiment will be to achieve a sensitivity of $2\times 10^{-48}~\mathrm{cm}^2$ at $30~\mathrm{GeV}$. In this talk I will present estimated backgrounds and sensitivities for the benchmark spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP searches.

Authors

  • Knut Mor\aa

    Columbia Univ, Columbia University