diff --git a/projects/xenon.yaml b/projects/xenon.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5a40f8cde --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/xenon.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Department: Physics +Description: The XENON Dark Matter Experiment located at the Gran Sasso Laboratories + (INFN, Italy), is currently the leader world project searching for the so called + Dark Matter, something which is completely different from ordinary matter. This + Dark Matter is not (as the name hints) visible, but it should pervade the entire + Universe. Its presence has been confirmed by different experimental evidences, however + its intrinsic nature is one of the big puzzle of Modern Physics. The XENON Experiment + could reveal the nature of the DM looking at the possible interactions of the DM + with ordinary matter, for instance with the Xenon, a noble gas been liquified at + very low temperature. The study of the background signal, from the environment and + from the materials that make up the new detector containing the Xenon, is essential + to understand the detector's behavior and its implications on its performances. +FieldOfScience: Astrophysics +Organization: University of Chicago +PIName: Luca Grandi + +