CRESST (Dark Matter Search)

The CRESST collaboration currently runs an array of cryogenic detectors in the underground laboratory of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory. The modular detectors used by CRESST facilitate discrimination of background radiation events by the simultaneous measurement of phonon and photon signals from scintillating calcium tungstate crystals. By cooling the detectors to temperatures of a few millikelvin, the excellent discrimination and energy resolution of the detectors allows identification of rare particle events.

The EURECA (Dark Matter Search) experiment is a planned successor to CRESST, ultimately aiming to run an array of detectors with a total mass of around 1 tonne.

See also

Cryogenic particle detectors

EURECA (Dark Matter Search)

External links

• CRESST Official Website
• CRESST Publication 2004
• Gran Sasso National Laboratory