Conveners
Dark Matter Detection: 1
- Young-Im Kim (Institute for Basic Science)
Dark Matter Detection: 2
- Aaron Chou (Fermilab)
Dark Matter Detection: 3
- Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Dark Matter Detection: 4
- William Wester
Dark Matter Detection: 5
- Prisca Cushman
Dark Matter Detection: 6
- Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University)
Dr
Jaime Ruz Armendariz
(LLNL),
Maurizio Giannotti
(Barry University), Dr
Maurizio Giannotti
04/08/2016, 14:30
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a proposed next-generation axion helioscope with the primary physics research goal to search for solar axions via their Primakoff conversion into photons in a strong magnetic field.
IAXO consists of a 20 m long superconducting 8-coil toroidal magnet optimized for axion research. Each one of the eight 60-cm-diameter magnet bores is equipped with...
Dr
Chung Woohyun
(CAPP/IBS)
04/08/2016, 14:50
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The axion is an excellent dark matter candidate motivated by the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong-CP problem. The IBS Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP) in Korea will explore the dark matter axion using a method suggested by P. Sikivie, converting axions into microwave photons in a resonant cavity permeated by a strong magnetic field. CAPPโs first microwave axion...
Ian Stern
(University of Florida)
04/08/2016, 15:10
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
Nearly all astrophysical and cosmological data point convincingly to a large component of cold dark matter (CDM) in the Universe. The axion particle, first theorized as a solution to the strong charge-parity problem of quantum chromodynamics, has been established as a prominent CDM candidate. Cosmic observation and particle physics experiments have bracketed the unknown mass of CDM axions...
Dr
Aaron Chou
(Fermilab)
04/08/2016, 15:50
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
High quantum efficiency, qubit-based single microwave photon detectors are being developed for the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX). This cross-disciplinary research aims to transfer the already mature qubit readout technology used in quantum computing and bring it to bear on particle physics applications. Because dark noise from thermal photons is exponentially suppressed in low...
Maria Simanovskaia
(University of California, Berkeley)
04/08/2016, 16:10
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
Axions are a leading dark matter candidate, and may be detected by their resonant conversion to a monochromatic RF signal in a tunable microwave cavity permeated by a strong magnetic field. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment โ High Frequency (ADMX-HF) serves both as a innovation platform for cavity and amplifier technologies for the microwave cavity axion experiment, and as a pathfinder for a...
Aristeidis Tsaris
(Fermilab)
04/08/2016, 17:00
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The NOvA collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution and relatively low-energy neutrino thresholds, was designed to observe electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, but it also has unique capabilities...
Francesca Curciarello
04/08/2016, 17:20
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
During the last years several Dark Sector Models have been proposed in order to address striking astrophysical observations which fail standard intepretations.
In the minimal case a new vector particle, the so called dark photon or U-boson, is introduced, with small coupling with Standard Model particles. Also, the existence of a dark Higgs boson h' is postulated, in analogy with the Standard...
Dr
Greg Kalicy
(ODU/JLab)
04/08/2016, 17:40
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The Heavy Photon Search (HPS) experiment at Jefferson Lab is searching for potential particle carriers of a dark force called โheavy photonsโ that mix with ordinary photons through kinetic mixing. If the coupling to normal matter is weak, then heavy photons can travel a detectable distances before decaying to e+eโ. HPS uses a PWO Electromagnetic Calorimeter for fast triggering and...
Mauro Raggi
(LNF INFN),
Paolo Valente
(Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
04/08/2016, 18:00
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The long standing problem of reconciling the cosmological evidence of the existence of dark matter with the lack of any clear experimental observation of it, has recently revived the idea that the new particles are not directly connected with the Standard Model gauge fields, but only through mediator fields or โportalsโ, connecting our world with new โsecludedโ or โhiddenโ sectors. One of the...
Dr
Carol Scarlett
(Florida A&M University)
04/08/2016, 18:20
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
ABSTRACT: The search for Axions, a particle theorized to explain the lack of CP violation in strong physics and suspected to contribute if not explain galactic dark matter, has lead to ever-sensitive techniques to study induced vacuum birefringence. What remains an issue: many of the measurable parameters that could give evidence for this illusive particle scale with the square of the...
Paolo Spagnolo
(Universita di Pisa & INFN (IT))
04/08/2016, 18:40
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
We propose a new improved detection scheme for axion-like particles search based on a Light-Shining- Through-Wall (LSW) experiment in a photon frequency domain never explored before. We expect to extend the present exclusion limits on the axion-photon coupling constant, Gaฮณฮณ, by at least four orders of magnitude with respect to the present limits from similar configuration experiments, as we...
Enrico Rinaldi
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
05/08/2016, 09:20
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
Models of composite dark matter, originating from a new strongly coupled dark sector, have a very interesting phenomenology. To make robust predictions in these models one often need to investigate non-perturbative effects due to the strong self interactions. Lattice field theory methods and numerical simulations are well suited for this task and contribute to a solid uncertainty...
Bjoern Penning
(Imperial College Sci., Tech. & Med. (GB))
05/08/2016, 09:45
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
Dark Matter (DM) is a long standing puzzle in fundamental physics and goal of a diverse research program. Underground and astrophysical searches and particle colliders probe different parts of the parameter space with complementary strengths. We present phenomenological comparisons of recent LHC searches with direct and indirect detection experiments using simplified models. In particular we...
Evan Johnson
(The Ohio State University)
05/08/2016, 10:10
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The first so-called โSommerfeld enhancementโ of neutral wino dark matter annihilation occurs when the wino mass is tuned so there is a charged wino pair bound state at the neutral wino pair threshold. For larger wino mass, the charged wino pair bound state can be formed by a radiative transition in which a pair of photons is emitted. The bound state production rate is calculated in an...
pyungwon ko
(Korea Inst. for Advanced Study (KIAS))
05/08/2016, 10:35
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
Direct detection of and LHC search for the singlet fermion dark matter (SFDM) model with Higgs portal interaction are considered in a renormalizable model where the full Standard Model (SM) gauge symmetry is imposed by introducing a singlet scalar messenger. In this model, direct detection is described by an effective operator m_q \bar{q} q \bar{\chi} \chi as usual, but the full amplitude for...
Carsten Krauss
(University of Alberta)
05/08/2016, 11:30
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
PICO employs the unique sensitivity of fluorine based refrigerants such as C3F8 to axial-vector couplings with WIMPS. Currently the PICO collaboration is operating two bubble chambers filled with C3F8 at SNOLAB. A small bubble chamber, PICO 2L, is used to study effects of contamination of the superheated active liquid. The PICO 60, a large bubble...
Katsuki Hiraide
(the University of Tokyo)
05/08/2016, 11:55
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The XMASS program is a multi-purpose experiment with a large volume liquid xenon
scintillator detector located 1,000m underground at Kamioka in Japan.
The first generation detector, XMASS-I, employs ~830 kg of liquid xenon
in an active volume.
We started the first data-taking in December 2010,
and the data provided various dark matter searches such as light WIMPs,
inelastic WIMP-129Xe...
Pietro Giampa
05/08/2016, 12:20
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
DEAP-3600 is a single phase liquid argon (LAr) dark matter experiment, located 2 km underground at SNOLAB, in Sudbury, Ontario. The detector has 1 tonne fiducial mass of LAr. The target sensitivity to spin-independent scattering of 100 GeV WIMPs is 10$^{-46}$ cm$^{2}$. The DEAP-3600 background target is $<$ 1 background events in the WIMP region of interest in 3 tonne-years. The...
Prof.
Kentaro Miuchi
(Kobe University)
05/08/2016, 12:45
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
NEWAGE is a direction-sensitive direct dark matter search experiment. NEWAGE uses a micro-TPC with a detection volume of 30 by 30 by 30 cm^3 read by one of the MPGD variations, \mu-PIC. We have been performing underground measurement since 2013 with a new detector NEWAGE-0.3bโ. We published the best direction-sensitive limits in PTEP (2015) 043F01s with 30 daysโ live time data. We continued...
Alvine Kamaha
(Queen's University)
05/08/2016, 13:10
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
A novel experiment NEWS-SNO (News Experiment With Spheres in SNOLAB) is setting up to probe low mass Dark Matter particles using a spherical gaseous detector and very light target nuclei such as H, He and Ne. Preliminary results obtained from a 60 cm diameter prototype operated with neon gas in LSM (Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane) will be given. The obtained performance paves the way...
Jochen Schieck
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
06/08/2016, 14:00
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The quest for the particle nature of Dark Matter is one of the big open questions of modern physics. A well motivated candidate for Dark Matter is the so-called WIMP - a weakly interactive massive particle. Recently several theoretically well-motivated models with Dark Matter candidates in a mass region below theย WIMP mass-scale gained also a lot of interest,theoretically and experimentally....
Alan Robinson
(Fermilab)
06/08/2016, 14:25
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The CDMS and SuperCDMS experiments have completed operations at the Soudan Mine after more than a decade at the forefront of the search for dark matter. The most recent results from SuperCDMS Soudan will be presented. These include world's-best limits on the existence of low-mass WIMP dark matter. These limits anticipate future low-mass sensitivity improvements with SuperCDMS SNOLAB.
Prof.
Ethan Brown
(XENON Collaboration)
06/08/2016, 14:50
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
XENON1T, the latest phase of the XENON program, consists of a 1 m dual phase xenon TPC containing a 1 ton fiducial target. Using this largest liquid xenon detector built to date, combined with an unprecedentedly low background, the most sensitive dark matter search will be conducted, pushing the sensitivity to the coherent WIMP-nucleon cross section down to
$1.6 \times 10^{-47}~cm^2$ for a 50...
Prof.
Matthew Szydagis
(University at Albany, State University of New York)
06/08/2016, 15:15
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The LUX collaboration has recently re-analyzed its initial 90 live-day WIMP search data. The new results advance the search for dark matter candidate particles in the 4 GeV/c^2 and higher mass range, with a maximal spin-independent sensitivity of 6 x 10^-46 cm^2 cross-section for a mass of 33 GeV/c^2 now established. LUX has performed multiple advanced *in situ* neutron and beta/gamma...
Dr
Lauren Hsu
(Fermilab)
06/08/2016, 16:15
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
There is an overwhelming body of astrophysical data that confirms the existence of dark matter. This makes direct searches for dark matter one of the most promising ways to discover new particles and fields. For over a decade, the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search has pioneered the use of athermal phonon and ionization sensors to achieve world-leading sensitivity to a theoretically-favored dark...
juan estrada
(fermilab)
06/08/2016, 16:35
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The DAMIC detector, currently taking data at Snolab, is a Dark Matter search experiment that employs scientific grade CCDs made of silicon as target material. The low readout noise of the CCDs yield to a ionization energy threshold below 60 eVee and provides optimal sensitivity for low mass WIMPs (< 20 GeV). The pixelization (15 microns) and superb energy resolution of the detectors allow for...
Chang Hyon Ha
(IBS)
06/08/2016, 16:55
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The KIMS group searches for dark-matter interactions using an array of scintillating NaI(Tl) crystals that serve both as a WIMP-interaction target and detector in the low-background environment of the Yangyang underground laboratory. The group has made significant progress to develop low-background, high light-yield, NaI(Tl) crystals for such a WIMP dark-matter search. The goal of this NaI(Tl)...
Prof.
Yong Yang
(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
06/08/2016, 17:15
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
The PandaX dark matter experiment searches WIMP-nucleon scattering signals in China JinPing Underground Laboratory (CJPL) with a rock burden of 2400 m, employing the dual-phase xenon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) technology. After the completion of PandaX-I, the upgraded experiment, PandaX-II, has been equipped with a 580 kg active xenon target, with a major change on the detector itself,...
Yann Guardincerri
(Fermilab)
06/08/2016, 17:35
Dark Matter Detection
Oral Presentation
DarkSide-50 is a direct dark matter search experiment operating underground at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. It is based on a Time Projection Chamber that contains 50 kg of active argon and it is placed inside an active neutron veto based on a boron-loaded organic scintillator, which is in turn installed inside a water Cherenkov muon veto.
The experiment started acquiring data in Nov...
