Mr
Christopher Wallace
(IPPP, Durham)
18/10/2012, 11:35
We examine the production of low mass dark matter particles at the fixed target on the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. Such particles can rescatter in the MINOS near detector producing neutral current-like events. In particular, we bound the couplings of GeV scale Dirac fermion WIMPs for the case that the WIMP-quark interaction is mediated by a (pseudo-)scalar or (axial-)vector which is lighter...
Prof.
Rouven Essig
(Stony Brook University)
18/10/2012, 12:10
Direct dark matter (DM) detection experiments almost always focus on Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which have a mass in the 1--1000 GeV range. However, what if DM is not a WIMP? In this talk, new direct detection strategies for DM particles with MeV to GeV mass will be presented. In this largely unexplored mass range, DM can scatter with electrons, causing ionization of atoms...
Dr
Norraphat Srimanobhas
(Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
18/10/2012, 12:45
In astrophysical observations, the dark matter is a hypothetical matter which constitutes most of the mass in our universe, but its nature remains unknown. Searches for the dark matter can be divided into three categorized. The first method is to search for the scattered dark matter particles off atomic nuclei within a detector, this method is called the direct detection. The second method is...
Yousuke Kataoka
(University of Tokio)
18/10/2012, 13:20
Despite the absence of experimental evidence, weak scale supersymmetry remains one of the best motivated and studied Standard Model extensions. Numerous models of R-parity conserving supersymmetry feature dark matter candidates in form of the lightest neutralino. The ATLAS experiment searches for signs of R-parity conserving supersymmetry in a large variety of signatures involving events with...
