Blois 2017: 29th Rencontres de Blois on "Particle Physics and Cosmology"

Session

Dark Matter

Jun 1, 2017, 2:00 PM

Gaston d'Orléans

Conveners

Dark Matter

• Jodi Cooley (SMU)

36. Direct detection dark matter experiments

Harry Nelson (UC Santa Barbara)

6/1/17, 2:00 PM

34. Axion dark matter search experiments

Gianpaolo Carosi (LLNL, Livermore)

6/1/17, 2:30 PM

35. Indirect searches for dark matter

Tracy Slatyer (MIT)

6/1/17, 3:00 PM

77. Axion Dark Matter Search Experiments

Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Oral

The nature of dark matter is one of the great mysteries of modern physics and may be the result of new particles beyond the standard model. The Axion, originally conceived as a solution to the strong-CP problem in nuclear physics, is one well-motivated candidate. In 1983 Pierre Sikivie proposed an experimental search technique, known as an axion haloscope, that relies on a large microwave...