Solid Xenon Project

Crystals like Germaniumand Silicon need to be grown in specialized facilities which is time and money costly. It takes many runs to test the detector once it’s manufactured and mishaps are very probable. It is of a great challenge to grow big germaniumcrystals and that’s why stacking them up in a tower is the only way at the moment to increase testing mass. Liquid Noble gasexperiments experiencing contamination problems, their predicted energy resolution at 10 keV and lower energy range is not as good as predicted. Every experiment is targeting one specific purpose, looking for one thing. Why not to design an experiment that is diverse and build a detector that can search for Dark Matter, Solar Axions, Neutrinoless Double Beta decay, etc. Solid Xenondetector is such detector. We designed a simple Xenoncrystal growing chamber that was put together at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The first phase of this experiment was to demonstrate that a good, crack free Xenoncrystal can be grown (regardle...