31 July 2019 to 2 August 2019
Stockholm university
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Blinding Strategies for Dark Matter Searches

31 Jul 2019, 15:00
30m
Stockholm university

Stockholm university

AlbaNova University Center Roslagstullsbacken 21 10691 Stockholm

Speaker

Dr Ben Loer (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Description

A variety of data blinding strategies have been adopted by different experiments searching for dark matter. I will present a brief overview of the relative strengths and weaknesses of some of the most common strategies, and describe the reasoning for and implementation of these methods by some leading dark matter experiments.

Primary author

Dr Ben Loer (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Presentation materials