Topic: A Moving Target: Direct Deteciton in the Light Dark Matter Landscape
Speaker: Robert McGehee
I will highlight recent significant improvements in the sensitivity of ongoing direct detection experiments, especially in the MeV to GeV mass range. I will interpret these results in the context of the light dark matter theoretical landscape and motivate the work theorists need to do as these experiments increasingly plumb the depths of direct detection parameter space.
Robert McGehee is the Bill Fine Postdoctoral Researcher in the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota. Prior, he received his Ph D from the University of California, Berkeley and was the Leinweber Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan. He's a particle theorist who constructs models of dark matter motivated by direct detection efforts, hints from small-scale structure problems, and the genesis of the baryon asymmetry.
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