T. Emken - Detecting low-mass Dark Matter after Scatterings in the Earth and Sun

by Timon Emken (Chalmers University of Technology)

Thursday 31 Oct 2019, 14:30 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Room "B. Pontecorvo" (LNGS)

Direct detection experiments are looking for rare interactions between dark matter (DM) particles from the galactic halo and atoms of a detector. For larger cross sections, such scatterings can occur even before the DM particle enters the laboratory. I will discuss the phenomenological implications of “pre-detection” scatterings inside the Earth and Sun, and how they can both extend and reduce the sensitivity of terrestrial DM searches.
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Timon Emken
Department of Physics
Chalmers University of Technology
https://timonemken.com

LNGS_Seminar_2019_Emken.pdf