Dark Matter @ LHC 2018 (#DMLHC2018)

Diffractive Production of Missing Mass in Cosmic Ray Air Showers above 10 PeV

5 Apr 2018, 15:00

15m

Lecture room #2 (HS 2) (U. Heidelberg / KIP)

Default track Open Session B)

Speaker

Paul Doll (KIT-Karlsruhe)

Description

Besides for the LHC, also for modelling of the development of the
Cosmic Ray (CR) Air Showers, diffractive processes need to be studied.
Dark Matter (DM) is assumed to be produced in hadronic interaction.
In the transverse shower plane on ground the incoming muons from Air
Showers add to zero 3-momentum. A large area Muon Detector, located
within the KASCADE-Grande Air Shower experiment, has been built with
the aim to identify muons and their directions in Air Showers from 1-15
PeV. Muon pseudorapidity distributions for the first interaction of
the Cosmic Ray particles above 10000 m are studied and compared to Monte
Carlo simulations. Un-balanced 3-momentum of muons in the shower plane
on ground is observed for Air Showers above 10 PeV.

Presentation materials

Doll-dark-matter-talk-5-4-2018-3.pdf