Titolo:
From Dark Matter to Neutrinos: The Reach of Dual-Phase Xenon TPCs
Abstract:
Dual-phase xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) have been at the forefront of direct dark matter detection for the last two decades. Originally designed to search for weakly interacting massive particles scattering off xenon nuclei, continued improvements in radioactive background reduction, increases in active mass, and signal reconstruction have expanded their physics program beyond dark matter searches. These detectors can now probe several rare-event processes, such as double electron capture, double beta decay, and other second-order weak decays of xenon isotopes.
In this talk I will review the developments that have established dual-phase xenon TPCs as powerful detectors for both dark matter and neutrino physics, and discuss the prospects for next-generation experiments.