Phone: (773) 702-7851
Location: LASR 224
Email: cdahlkicp.uchicago.edu

Research Interests: Particles from Space

Currently, my main interest is to continue working with large-scale dark matter detectors, and I am particularly interested in the COUPP experiment. Like the xenon TPCs, COUPP is designed to scale rapidly to large size, yet it faces an entirely different set of challenges. Even the dominant backgrounds are different, given COUPP's lack of energy information but enormous discrimination against electron recoils. I believe COUPP is the strongest competitor to the liquid noble element dark matter detectors.

Ongoing Scientific Projects:

• Chicagoland Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (COUPP)

• KICP Talk, EFI Colloquium: Eric Dahl, "The COUPP Dark Matter Search- Results from the First Year of Deep Underground Running at SNOLAB"
• KICP Postdocs Symposium, Spring 2011 Postdocs Symposium (organizer)
• KICP Postdocs Symposium, Winter 2011 Postdocs Symposium (organizer)
• KICP Postdocs Symposium, Fall 2010 Postdocs Symposium
• KICP Seminar, News from COUPP: New dark matter limits, acoustic alpha discrimination, and progress towards a deep site detector (or two)

2012 | 2011


Latest Journal Publications

1. "First dark matter search results from a 4-kg CF3I bubble chamber operated in a deep underground site", Physical Review D, vol. 86, Issue 5, id. 052001 (Sep 2012)
2. "Improved Limits on Spin-Dependent WIMP-Proton Interactions from a Two Liter CF3I Bubble Chamber", Physical Review Letters, vol. 106, Issue 2, id. 021303 (Jan 2011)

Past Visitors:

1. Gurtina Besla, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (2010)
2. Abigail Vieregg, University of California, Los Angeles (2010)