Conveners
Dark Matter
- Salvatore Capozziello (NA)
Dark Matter
- Yann Mambrini (LPT Orsay)
Dark Matter
- Anatoly Petrukhin (NRNU MEPhI)
Piero Ullio
(SISSA - INFN TS)
20/05/2014, 09:25
The identification of the nature of the dark matter component of the Universe remains one of the most fundamental open issues in science today. Recent results from direct and indirect dark matter searches will be reviewed, considering their impact on some of the competing theoretical frameworks. Future perspectives and the connections with searches at the LHC will also be discussed.
Massimo Pietroni
(INFN-Padova and University of Parma)
20/05/2014, 09:50
After the tremendous success of the CMB measurements, the next frontier of precision cosmology is the study of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, by means of present and future large galaxy surveys. I will discuss the potential of these observations for the extraction of information relevant for fundamental physics, such as the properties of Dark Energy and of neutrinos. Compared to...
David G. Cerdeno
(Instituto de Fisica Teorica)
20/05/2014, 10:15
The SuperCDMS experiment attempts direct detection of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) through their elastic scattering on an array of cryogenic interleaved germanium detectors (iZIP).
These detectors are instrumented with ionization and phonon sensors that provide position sensitivity and the capability to discriminate nuclear recoils over other sources of background.
In this...
Rita Bernabei
(Physics dept. . Rome Tor Vergata University)
20/05/2014, 11:00
The final model independent results from the DAMA/LIBRA-phase1 experiment, recently released, will be discussed. Implications and comparisons will be addressed. Other results as well as DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 will be introduced.
Victor Gehman
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
20/05/2014, 11:25
The search for dark matter reaches back generations and remains one of the most compelling endeavors in the hunt for physics beyond the Standard Model. Experiments attempting to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter have made remarkable progress in increasing their sensitivity to the elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei. The Large Underground Xenon (LUX)...
Marcello Messina
(Columbia University)
20/05/2014, 11:50
The XENON collaboration is presently running its second detector, XENON100, which led the field of direct dark matter search for many years. Recently the collaboration published many new results, such as exclusion limits on spin dependent and spin independent cross section interaction of WIMPs with ordinary matter. Very competitive results were also published on the search of Axion-like...
Andrea Albert
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
20/05/2014, 12:15
There is overwhelming evidence that non-baryonic dark matter constitutes ~27% of the energy density of the universe. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are promising dark matter candidates that may produce gamma rays via annihilation or decay detectable by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). A detection of WIMPs would also indicate the existence of physics beyond the...
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Euclid space mission: a challenge devoted to the study of Cosmological Dark Energy & Dark Matter
Roberto Scaramella Roberto
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
20/05/2014, 12:40
Euclid is the next ESA mission devoted to Cosmology. The mission is expected to be launched in year 2020 and to last six years. The on board instruments have wide field capabilities and are provided by the Euclid Consortium. The payload is hosting a visible and a near infrared camera which cover a joint field of view of half square degree.
The main scientific aim is the study of Dark...
German Arturo Gomez Vargas
(Universidad Catolica de Chile - INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
20/05/2014, 17:00
There is overwhelming evidence that non-baryonic dark matter constitutes ~27% of the energy density of the universe. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are promising dark matter candidates that may produce gamma rays via annihilation or decay detectable by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). Cosmological N-body simulations predict the central part of a galaxy to enclose the...
Nicola Menci
(INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
20/05/2014, 17:25
I will review the present astronomical evidences for Dark Matter, enlightening their implications for the nature of the Dark Matter components. In particular I will review some critical aspects of the current Cold Dark Matter model concerning the formation and evolution of cosmic structures, and show the impact of assuming lighter Dark Matter particles (Warm Dark Matter) on the statistical...
Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
(Caltech)
20/05/2014, 17:50
Recent indirect dark matter searches with gamma rays have yielded several tantalizing hints of dark matter signals from the Inner Galaxy, however a confident detection remains elusive. I will discuss these recent results and possible alternatives to the dark matter interpretation of the claimed signals, as well as new approaches and prospects for robustly identifying a dark matter signal from...
Christian Farnier
(Oskar Klein Centre - Stockholm University)
20/05/2014, 18:15
Dark matter searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Christian Farnier (Oskar Klein Centre - Stokckholm University) for the CTA Consortium
The current paradigm of the Universe states that more than 80% of its mass content consists of dark matter of unknown origin. Since its discovery more than eighty years ago, the quest for dark matter identification is one of the most important...
Antonino Pullia
(MIB)
20/05/2014, 18:35
The MOSCAB experiment (Materia OSCura A Bolle) uses a new technique for dark matter search. The Geyser technique was applied to the construction of a prototype detector of a mass of 0.5 kg and the encouraging results are reported in the talk; an accent is placed on a big detector of 40 kg in construction at the University and I.N.F.N. of Milano-Bicocca.
