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Cryogenic Dark Matter Searches
Franz Pröbst (MPI Munich)
Seminar Room 3, 15:00
Despite persuasive indirect evidence for the existence of dark matter in the
universe and in galaxies, the direct detection of dark matter remains one of
the outstanding experimental challenges of present-day physics and cosmology.
A plausible candidate for the dark matter is the weakly interacting massive
particle (WIMP) for which supersymmetry provides a well motivated realization.
Significant progress has been obtained in recent years by an increasing
number of direct searches for WIMP dark matter. The presentation will give a
general overview of the field, introducing the different detector techniques
being developed and the current state of the art, with some emphasis on the
CRESST dark matter search with scintillating cryogenic calorimeters.
