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SUMMARY:Hunting for Dark Matter in a gold mine - Dr. Pawel Majewski\, STFC
  Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
DTSTART:20160914T180000Z
DTEND:20160914T193000Z
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CONTACT:Andrew Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Particle dark matter is thought to be the overwhelming majorit
 y of all the matter in the Universe. Its gravitational force impacts on th
 e ordinary matter that we\, the earth and the stars\, are composed of. Its
  presence has been confirmed by many astronomical observations. However\, 
 we still have no convincing direct evidence for the existence of particle 
 dark matter. We hope that this may soon change...\n\nThis talk will discus
 s dark matter searches with a focus on the LUX-ZEPLIN which is a second ge
 neration dark matter experiment to be installed one mile underground in th
 e former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota. For particle detection it us
 es liquid xenon and with a mass of about 10 tonnes it will be the most sen
 sitive detector in the word for the direct detection of Weakly Interactive
  Massive Particles. I will discuss the LZ design and its construction\, wi
 th emphasis on the UK contribution. \n\n*Dr. Pawel A. Majewski* is in the 
 STFC/Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at the Department of Particle Physics 
 and leads a Dark Matter group. For the last 15 years his research has been
  focused on Dark Matter searches with the projects like ZEPLIN-II and –I
 II at Boulby mine in the North Yorkshire (UK) \, DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB (Cana
 da) and LUX-ZEPLIN a second generation dark matter experiment in South Dak
 ota (US). His main responsibility in the LZ is the design and fabrication 
 of an ultra radio-pure titanium cryostat.    \n
LOCATION:Schlumberger Cambridge Research\, High Cross\, Madingley Road\, C
 B3 0EL
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