Speaker
Viktor Zacek
(University of Montreal)
Description
There is overwhelming and increasingly precise gravitational evidence for dark matter, however, no experiment has yet achieved an unambiguous detection at the particle level. Current searches are now entering a qualitatively new regime in detector scale, sensitivity and detection strategy. In this talk I shall focus in particular on the superheated liquid technique, pioneered by the PICASSO experiment at SNOLAB, and subsequently further developed by PICO, now a world leading experiment in the spin-dependent WIMP interaction sector. I will also discuss recent efforts to probe the dark sector in nuclear transitions, with particular emphasis on work by the Montreal X17 collaboration.
Author
Viktor Zacek
(University of Montreal)