Date Jan 16, 2019, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Location Jadwin 303 Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Speaker Andy Tan Affiliation University of Maryland Presentation "Status and Prospects of the PandaX Experiment" Details Event Description The Particle and astrophysical Xenon (PandaX) project is a series of xenon-based ultra-low background experiments in the China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL) targeting the unknown physics of dark matter and neutrinos. The first and second stage experiments (PandaX-I and II) both utilize dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) to carry out direct search for the dark matter particles. PandaX-II, a half-ton scale experiment, is currently under operation, and produced leading limits on dark matter-nucleon spin independent and spin dependent scattering cross sections in 2016 and 2017. I will present an overview of the project, discuss recent results from PandaX-II, and give an outlook into the future. Recording of Andy Tan's Talk: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/qaxy3