Wednesday 18 January 2012

Speaker: Pawel Majewski (RAL,PPD)

Title: “Results from the ZEPLIN-III Second Science Run”


Abstract:

The ZEPLIN-III experiment searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) 
operated in the Palmer Laboratory 1070 m underground at the Boulby mine between 2006 
and 2011. After ZEPLIN-I and ZEPLIN-II running between 2001 and 2006, ZEPLIN-III was 
the third generation of liquid xenon experiments deployed at Boulby. After its first 
science run in 2008 it was upgraded with: an array of low background photomultipliers, 
a new anti-coincidence detector system with plastic scintillator and an improved 
calibration system. After 319 days of data taking the second science run ended in 
May 2011. In my presentation I will describe the instrument performance and summarise 
the final science results.