Conveners
M2-9 Dark matter experiment and Channel of detection II (PPD) / Expérience sur la matière sombre et canal de détection II (PPD)
- Simon Viel (Carleton University)
In theories with extra dimensions, the standard QCD axion has excited states with higher mass. The axion of such theories, named the Kaluza-Klein (KK) axion, would have a significantly shorter decay time for higher mass states. This would allow for axion decays on Earth, even in the absence of a strong magnetic field. It would also mean that a fraction of heavier mass axions created in the Sun...
DEAP-3600 is a direct detection dark matter experiment with single-phase liquid argon as the target material to search for nuclear recoil signal from the interaction of WIMPs, one of the most widely accepted hypotheses for dark matter. Along with the occurrence of this elastic interaction of WIMP and target nuclei, theories also predict the dark matter signal could vary over the course of a...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN supports a plethora of experiments aimed at improving our understanding of the universe by attempting to solve the many answered questions in physics, such as: What is the nature of dark matter? Why is electric charge quantized? Why do the free parameters of the Standard Model (SM) have their particular values? To-date, the SM has been stringently...
For many years the SuperCDMS collaboration has been developing cryogenic
low-threshold silicon and germanium detectors for dark matter searches. The recently developed gram-scale high-voltage eV-resolution (HVeV) detectors are designed to be operated with a high voltage bias (on the order of 100 V) to take advantage of the Neganov-Trofimov-Luke amplification to resolve individual...
