| Seminar Date: | Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
| Time: | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
| Location: | Sycamore |
| Abstract: | Results from 85.3 days of data collected by the LUX experiment. The LUX detector is a two-phase xenon time-projection chamber designed to search for the scattering of WIMP dark matter in liquid xenon. LUX has been operating underground at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD, since February 2013, and WIMP search data was collected between April and August 2013. I will review the unblinded analysis of our initial dataset and discuss the results from our WIMP search." |
| Speaker: | Karen Gibson - Case Western Reserve Univ.
 The speaker is a postdoctoral researcher at Case Western Reserve University
working in dark matter direct detection on the LUX experiment since
2009. Before she began working on dark matter, she studied B hadron
physics on the CDF experiment at FNAL, contributing to the first
flavor-tagged measurement of CP violation in Bs to Jpsi phi decays and
several semileptonic Bc meson measurements. She is particularly
interested in applying likelihood techniques to the analysis of dark
matter search data.
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