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Review of direct detection of dark matter: review talks I
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Review of direct detection of dark matter: review talks II
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Review of direct detection of dark matter: talks by Spanish groups
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Review of direct detection of dark matter: discussion
- Sergio Pastor (IFIC Valencia)
- Mario Martinez-Perez (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES))
Description
Chaired by M. Martines, S. Pastor
I will review WIMPs and axions from a theoretical perspective in the context of direct searches for dark matter and other related experimental activities.
A review on dark matter axion search experiments will be given. The exisiting haloscope experiments based on tunable cavities will be discussed. Novel approaches, like the dielectric haloscope concept that potentially could extend the sensitivity reach of dark matter axion searches towards higher masses will be introduced. The status of exisitng R&D efforts will be presented.
In 2015 the CIEMAT Dark Matter group was one of the original proponents of the DarkSide-20k Collaboration, which plans to build a 20 ton liquid argon dual-phase TPC at LNGS with data taking starting in 2021. The new collaboration gathers now most of the groups previously involved in the ArDM, DarkSide-50 and DEAP-3600 project, creating a new unified effort in the DM direct searches field with...
Detecting the elusive WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) proposed to explain the dark matter has shown to be a very challenging effort. The study of distinctive features in the WIMP signal allowing disentangling it from other backgrounds is an important asset in this search. The motion of the Earth around the Sun will produce a modulation in the dark matter interaction rate along the...
The standard WIMP Dark Matter (DM) paradigm, based on the “WIMP miracle”, is now severely constrained by the negative results from direct DM experiments and the LHC. But WIMPs of particularly low masses (below 10 GeV) would produce nuclear recoils of energies below typical experimental thresholds, and so would have evaded detection so far. This type of WIMPs are still viable in the remaining...
Dark matter (DM) in the sub-GeV mass range is a theoretically motivated but largely unexplored paradigm, complementing the high mass search. Such light masses are out of reach for conventional nuclear recoil direct detection experiments, but may be detected through the small ionisation signals caused by dark matter-electron scattering. Investigating Light DM is an important and natural...
