11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

A New Approach to Low-Mass Dark Matter Detection

15 Dec 2022, 17:30
1h 30m
Exhibition Halls F & G (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Exhibition Halls F & G

Adelaide Convention Centre

Poster AIP: Nuclear and Particle Physics Poster session

Speaker

Glen Harris (University of Queensland)

Description

Ultra-low mass WIMP's are viable dark matter candidates. However, the resulting low-energy excitations are extraordinarily difficult to detect. I will outline a new experimental platform that translates the capabilities of optomechanics to enable detection of ~1ueV excitations in superfluid helium.

Primary authors

Glen Harris (University of Queensland) Dr Peter Cox (The University of Melbourne) Prof. Matthew Dolan (University of Melbourne) Dr Maxim Goryachev (University of Western Australia) Dr Christopher Baker (University of Queensland) Warwick Bowen (The University of Queensland)

Presentation materials