Physics meets winter sports at the Lake Louise Winter Institute, a particle physics conference held annually in the beautiful Canadian Rockies. On February 12, 2019, Evan Shockley from University of Chicago presented at the conference on behalf of the XENON collaboration. The talk focused on the latest, world-leading WIMP results, and included a status update on XENON1T and its imminent upgrade, XENONnT. The talk is available here.
XENONnT will feature a larger detector and even lower background than XENON1T, making it ~10 times more sensitive to interactions from dark matter and other rare processes. With installation coming later this year, it’s an exciting time for the XENON collaboration and the field of dark matter research!
