Coloquio del 03/09/2020

Directly detecting dark matter

Kimberly Palladino

Oxford University

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Fecha y hora:

Jueves 03/09/2020, 12:30 p.m. (GMT-5)

Astrophysical evidence informs us that the universe has a significant component of dark matter (five times more than regular matter!), but does not tell us what this dark matter is. One longstanding popular candidate for dark matter is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). We will discuss the requirements and amazing diversity in current technologies to directly detect WIMPs via nuclear scattering within a detector target, before an overview of the current global effort for direct detection. We will conclude with a focus on the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) detector and prospects for the future. (Click aquí para ver el afiche.)

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