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GERDA has reported its final results on the search for the neutrinoless double-beta (0νββ) decay of 76Ge in the recent issue of Physical Review Letters.
Every year in November - during an event organised by our department - we present with posters and flyers our research topics to prospective bachelor and master students.
During this month, the DARWIN experiment has received considerable attention from the media. Two articles have appeared, one in the Nature News and the other in the German magazine Spektrum, describing the DARWIN project and its huge effort to give the WIMPs the last chance to be detected. We want to congratulate the whole DARWIN Collaboration and recommend to everybody the interesting reading.
In a search for solar axions, bosonic dark matter, and an enhanced neutrino magnetic moment, the XENON1T collaboration found an excess of events in the low-energy electronic recoil region.
Our DARWIN team is making progress towards the commissioning of the full-length DARWIN demonstrator, under construction here at the University of Zurich.
The DARWIN Collaboration Meeting was held from September 9 to 11, 2020.
The DARWIN Collaboration has recently published the projected sensitivity of the DARWIN observatory to the neutrinoless double beta decay of 136Xe.
Our student Livio Redard-Jacot recently completed their Bachelor thesis as part of the group.
The XXIX International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2020) was organized by Fermilab and held online from June 22 to July 2, 2020.
We congratulate our group member Dr. Junting Huang for having been awarded the Forschungskredit Postdoc Fellowship 2020 for his project "Lepton and Baryon Number Violation Searches with High Purity Germanium Detectors". Junting is a member of the GERDA and LEGEND collaborations, which operate ultra-pure germanium crystals in a large liquid argon cryostat to search for neutrinoless double beta decay and other rare interactions.
Today we announced that data from our XENON1T detector, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment, show a surprising excess of events.
We have built the first dual-phase xenon TPC (Xurich II) with a SiPM top array.
Postdoc Neil McFadden was awarded the Physics Department Chair's Award for Best Dissertation from the University of New Mexico, where he defended his thesis. His thesis defense, titled "Studying Properties Of Xenon Doped Argon and Developing Optical Simulation Techniques for the LEGEND collaboration, a Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment ", granted him the honor of graduating with Distinction.
We are very happy to announce that our former bachelor student (now master) Stefan Hochrein was honoured with the Semester Award Autumn-2019 for his outstanding scholarly work. He conducted his bachelor thesis on Kr-83m calibration of the first dual-phase xenon time projection chamber with silicon photomultiplier readout in our group and was supervised by our phd student Kevin Thieme with the help of our postdoc Patricia Sanchez. We wish him all the best for his promising future.
The installation of the XENONnT Time Projection Chamber (TPC) was successfully completed at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS).
Two new members recently joined the group working on XENON, DARWIN and LEGEND. Alexander Bismark, from Freiburg University is a new PhD student working on XENONnT and the future DARWIN. Neil McFadden, a postdoc who completed his PhD at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, is working on the DARWIN demonstrator and on the LEGEND project. We are happy to welcome them in our group!
We would like to congratulate three students who successfully worked with us in the second half of 2019.
