Conference on Science at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

Session

Plenary: Dark Matter

May 15, 2024, 10:30 AM

CB 204 E&W (SD Mines)

Conveners

Plenary: Dark Matter

• Richard Schnee (South Dakota Mines)

Description

Zoom: https://sdsmt.zoom.us/j/93762102151?pwd=Nm9MWm91b0ZxN2YycUg4b251MU9TQT09

88. Theory of Dark Matter

Joshua Berger (Colorado State University)

5/15/24, 10:30 AM

Dark Matter

Oral

Neutrino experiments will have leading sensitivity to several dark matter and dark sector models. I discuss signals from a range of different dark sector models, from induced nucleon decay in mesogenesis models to production, scattering, and decay of dark sector states in neutrino beams. I present simulation tools for boosted dark matter and induced nucleon decay signals. I discuss some...

75. Dark Matter Searches with Noble Liquids

Dr Jingke Xu (LLNL)

5/15/24, 11:00 AM

Dark Matter

Oral

Dark matter experiments using liquid xenon and liquid argon targets have demonstrated exceptional sensitivities to medium- to high-mass dark matter candidates. Therefore, these two technologies are strong contenders for the G3 dark matter project and may explore WIMP parameter spaces down to the irreducible neutrino background. Meanwhile, new developments in noble liquid detector design and...

78. Light dark matter: wimpier than the WIMP

Dr Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)

5/15/24, 11:30 AM

Dark Matter

Oral

We know dark matter exists and we have been trying to directly detect it for almost 40 years. Experiments searching for the heavily-favored candidate, the GeV-scale WIMP, have thus far yielded null results. Recently, the field has pushed towards a new class of “hidden sector” particles, with masses below the proton. To observe this type of “light” dark matter, new, extremely sensitive...