Conveners
M2-7 Cosmic frontier: Dark matter I (PPD-DTP) / Frontière cosmique: matière sombre I (PPD-DPT)
- Kevin Graham (Carleton University)
Yanou Cui
(Perimeter Institute)
6/15/15, 3:45 PM
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
The existence of dark matter is a prominent puzzle in model physics, and it strongly motivates new particle physics beyond the standard model.I will review theoretical candidates for dark matter as proposed in the literature, and their status in light of recent experimental searches. I will also discuss new possibilities of dark matter theories and related research avenues.
Dr
Bei Cai
(Queen's University)
6/15/15, 4:15 PM
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
The DEAP-3600 experiment uses 3.6 tons of liquid argon for a sensitive dark matter search, with a target sensitivity to the spin-independent WIMP-nucleon cross-section of 10^{-46} cm^2 at 100 GeV WIMP mass. This high sensitivity is achievable due to the large target mass and the very low backgrounds in the spherical acrylic detector design as well as at the unique SNOLAB facility....
Fred Sage
(University of Saskatchewan)
6/15/15, 4:45 PM
Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
There has recently been a renewed interest in minimal Higgs-portal dark matter models, which are some of the simplest and most phenomenologically interesting particle physics explanations of the observed dark matter abundance. In this talk, we present a brief overview of scalar and vector Higgs-portal singlet dark matter, and discuss the nuclear recoil cross sections of the models. We show...
Pitam Mitra
(University of Alberta)
6/15/15, 5:00 PM
Particle Physics / Physique des particules (PPD)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The PICO collaboration (formerly PICASSO and COUPP) uses bubble chambers for the search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter. Such bubble chambers are scalable, can have large target masses and can be operated at regimes where they are insensitive to backgrounds such as beta and gamma radiation.
The PICO-60 experiment is a bubble chamber that has been developed and...
