Rafael Lang (Purdue University)

Status of Direct Dark Matter Detection

Dark matter from the Galactic halo may directly interact with a laboratory target. In this talk, the basics of this bustling area of research will be briefly reviewed. Running experiments such as SuperCDMS and XENON1T will be presented, among others. The sensitivity of liquid xenon-based experiments in particular improves faster than expected from Moore's law, covering the most promising WIMP parameter space within the next years. In the process, these experiments now even reach sensitivity to signals from solar neutrinos as well as coherent neutrino-nucleus interactions from Galactic supernova events.

  Mar 1 at 4:00 pm in Geo/Phys 407

  Link to slides.