A direct dark matter search experiment, XMASS, uses 800kg of liquid xenon and
its fiducial mass is 100kg. It uses newly developed background PMTs and
makes use of self-sheilding mathod to reduce external backgrounds. The
backgroud rate in the signal region is expected to be 10^-4 /kg/keV/day and it
will achieve the experimental sensitivity of 10^-45 cm^2 for the spin
independet interactions for the dark matter mass of around 100GeV. The new
underground cavity to house the experiment has completed in February this
year and the construction of the XMASS experiment will finish by summer,
2009.
We will discuss the status of the XMASS experiment. |