Speaker
Tiffany Luce
Description
As liquid xenon (LXe) dark matter detectors grow in size with each experiment, larger components come with larger challenges that new designs might solve. The Xenon Based Research Apparatus (XeBRA) is a small test platform in Freiburg where new components and configurations are explored. The test platform is now being setup to test a new kind of photosensor, a digital silicon photomultiplier, aiming to greatly reduce the natural radioactivity of photosensors, the major issue of currently widely used photomultiplier tubes.
