May 14 – 17, 2024
SD Mines
US/Mountain timezone

The search for light dark matter with DAMIC-M

May 15, 2024, 5:20 PM
20m
CB 204 E (SD Mines)

CB 204 E

SD Mines

Oral Dark Matter Dark Matter

Speaker

Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)

Description

The DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment will use skipper CCDs to search for low mass (sub-GeV) dark matter underground at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane (LSM). With a kg-scale silicon target mass and sub-electron energy resolution, the detector will surpass the exposure and threshold of previous experiments. Thus, DAMIC-M will have world-leading sensitivity to a variety of “hidden sector” candidates. In this talk, we will report on science results from a prototype detector and the status of the detector construction.

Primary author

Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)

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