Abstract

The XENON collaboration has developed the liquid xenon time-projection chamber technology into the leading technology for searching for WIMP dark matter. The recent upgrade of XENON1T has completed and resulted in the XENONnT experiment. I briefly introduce the working principle of liquid xenon time-projection chamber before diving into details about how the data acquisition system works. This is the system responsible for the readout of the signals coming for the time-projection chamber. The focus of the talk will be teaching students about the required steps to go from PMT signals to processed data ready for analysis, and how they were designed.

Abstract

XENON1T is the most sensitive dark matter detector built to date, but its senstivity has opened up a range of other scientific searches and discoveries. I will tell the story of one such search and the evidence we have for solar axions, a neutrino magnetic moment, or tritium. This result gained substaintial interest in the field with nearly 300 citations in the last year. I will also explain why each explaination is slightly unsettling, where XENONnT (our upgrade) should help clarify this situation.