NorCC seminar

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 12:00 → 13:15 Europe/Zurich

Heidi Sandaker (University of Oslo (NO)), Nina Waage (University of Oslo (NO))

NorCC Seminar series
The seminar series at NorCC takes place the third Tuesday every month, usually at 12AM CET, and invites both external an internal speakers. Each seminar will be maximum one hour and is an arena to present and discuss a range of topics reflecting the different fields within the centre. 

What is NorCC?

The Norwegian Centre for CERN-related research is a national centre which aims to organize and finance the Norwegian participation in the large and long-term experiments at CERN. This translates into pioneering research in particle and nuclear physics, exploration of new technology and development of networks and opportunities. We will also focus on training the new generation of scientists and engineers and prepare them for the road ahead.

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12:00 → 13:00 Light Dark Matter at Accelerators

A compelling explanation for the origin and abundance of the dark matter in the Universe, is that it is a thermal relic from the early Universe, produced via freeze-out from a thermal equilibrium. On the one hand, this restricts the viable mass range of dark matter particle candidates, on the other hand, it implies a non-gravitational interaction between dark and ordinary matter, leading to a production mechanism at accelerators. Accelerator-based experiments are thus among the prime tools to search for light dark matter, i.e. dark matter particles with a mass in the range of MeV to GeV. This presentation will review possible signatures to look for, will give an overview of the current status of the field and an outlook on upcoming experiments to search for such sub-GeV dark matter at accelerators.

Speaker: Ruth Pottgen (Lund University (SE))