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SUMMARY:Detection of the missing Universe with xenon. - Auke-Pieter Colijn
  (UvA Amsterdam &amp\; NIKHEF)
DTSTART:20151201T150000Z
DTEND:20151201T160000Z
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CONTACT:Rolf Oldeman
DESCRIPTION:Since several decades we know that most of the matter in the U
 niverse does not consist of the ordinary atoms that we all know. For every
  gram of ordinary matter there is about five grams of an as yet unknown su
 bstance that we call Dark Matter. In this talk I will describe the astroph
 ysical evidence that makes us believe that Dark Matter exists.  Then I wil
 l focus on the strategies that we employ to discover new elementary partic
 les that could be Dark Matter. \n\nEspecially the next few years are an ex
 iting time for Dark Matter hunters\, since a new generation of experiments
  will be constructed that aim at a first ever \ndetection of the Dark Matt
 er particle. The most promising of the new generation detectors are dual p
 hase xenon time projection chambers: the XENON100 detector currently appro
 aching the end of its lifetime\, the LUX detector that started last year\,
  and the XENON1T detector that will become operational in 2015.
LOCATION:Rutherford Seminar Room B
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