High Energy Physics Seminar

Friday 4 Apr 2025, 11:30 → 13:00 Europe/Warsaw

Room: B2.38 (Wydział Fizyki UW)

Aleksander Żarnecki (University of Warsaw (PL)), Katarzyna Grzelak (IFD UW)

11:30 → 13:00 Developments towards light Dark Matter Detection and Medical Applications

Abstract:

Dark matter candidates with masses below 10 GeV/c² hold promise, and a new detector, DarkSide-LowMass, is proposed based on the DarkSide-50 detector and progress towards the DarkSide-20k. DarkSide-LowMass is optimized for low-threshold electron-counting measurements, and sensitivity to light dark matter is explored for various potential energy thresholds and background rates. I will present the developments towards low mass dark matter searches with a new detector as well as sensitivity with DarkSide-20k, which is under construction.

I also discuss the activity for the medical application, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner, using the same technologies as dark matter searches.

Serdecznie zapraszamy

dr hab. Katarzyna Grzelak
prof. dr hab. Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

Speaker: Prof. Masayuki Wada (Astrocent/CAMK PAN)

Wada_talk_at_UW.pdf