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Research objectives and content
The CRESST ( Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) experiment, settled in the underground laboratory of Gran Sasso ( Abruzzi, Italy), looks for low-mass WIMPs as the 'dark matter' of our Galaxy using cryogenic calorimeters with superconducting phase transition thermometers developed at the Max-Planck Institute of Physics and the Technical University of Munich. In the first stage, four 262 g sapphire detectors with threshold of 0.5 keV and resolution of 0.2 keV at 1 keV will be used. This will provide sensitivity to WlMP masses below 10 GeV. My fellowship work for CRESST will concern the optimisation and test of the 262 g detectors.
Training content (objective, benefit and expected impact)
The cryogenic calorimeters technique is a field that involves investigating problems of different areas ( cosmology, solid state physics, thin film technology, radioactivity measurement) and dealing with sophisticated experimental apparatus ( UHV systems, dilution refrigerators). Therefore working on the CRESST experiment will help me to enlarge my experience as a physicist, both from scientific and technological points of view.
Links with industry / industrial relevance (22)
Dark matter search is a pure research field, not strongly linked to industry. However the technological development of cryogenic detectors can be of interest also for industrial applications.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
CORDIS klassifiziert Projekte mit EuroSciVoc, einer mehrsprachigen Taxonomie der Wissenschaftsbereiche, durch einen halbautomatischen Prozess, der auf Verfahren der Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache beruht.
CORDIS klassifiziert Projekte mit EuroSciVoc, einer mehrsprachigen Taxonomie der Wissenschaftsbereiche, durch einen halbautomatischen Prozess, der auf Verfahren der Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache beruht.
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyastrophysicsdark matter
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcoating and films
- natural sciencesphysical sciencescondensed matter physicssolid-state physics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyphysical cosmology
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicssuperconductivity
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