Conveners
Dark matter: I
- Thomas Gehrmann (Univ. Zurich)
Dark matter: II
- Nicola Serra (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
Dark matter: III
- Florencia Canelli (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))
Dark matter: IV
- Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)
I will review cosmological probes of dark matter physics, focusing in particular on the most recent results relating to dark-matter--baryon elastic scattering.
The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) is currently taking data with sensitivity towards discovery of the axion that simultaneously solves the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and accounts for the dark matter of the universe. Details will be given of the microwave cavity haloscope technique and recent published results demonstrating sensitivity in the axion coupling to two...
The origin and observed abundance of Dark Matter can be explained elegantly by the thermal freeze-out mechanism, leading to a preferred mass range for Dark Matter particles in the MeV-TeV region. The GeV-TeV mass range is being explored intensively by a variety of experiments searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. The sub-GeV region, however, in which the masses of most of the...
The NA62 fixed target experiment, which operates on a very high intensity, 400 GeV/c primary proton beam supplied from the CERN SPS accelerator facility has a great potential to search for new particles at MeV-GeV scale. Very weak coupling with the SM sector is assumed. New Physics models such are heavy neutral leptons, axion-like particles, dark photons and scalars are being studied at NA62....
This talk will give an overview of searches for WIMP Dark Matter exploiting signatures of large missing transverse energy (MET) at both ATLAS and CMS. The so-called MET+X searches are performed for various objects X and cover a broad range of DM scenarios. The talk will focus on recent results using 13 TeV data sets, new techniques that are employed and new models that are tested.
This talk presents results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments on searches for dark matter mediator particles. First, searches targeting new vector bosons decaying into dijet final states are described. Techniques for studying low-mass resonances below the typical threshold for conventional dijet resonance searches are emphasized, including the use of data scouting, online bottom quark tagging,...
