Experimental HEP Seminar

Sharpening tools for direct detection of low mass WIMPs at SNOLAB

Gilles Gerbier

Queen's University

Following -so far- lack of evidence of SUSY Dark Matter particles at LHC, experimental direct search for WIMPs has somewhat broadened its scope. I will describe the two main experimental projects I will participate at SNOLAB to search for light and very light Dark Matter particles. This needs indeed pushing the instrumental limits of detectors to new frontiers. The two projects I will report on are SuperCDMS together with its European counterpart EURECA, operating cryogenic detectors and NEWS_SNO operating spherical gaseous detectors.