Speaker
Description
The DarkLight experiment being commissioned at TRIUMF will search for evidence of a new, fifth force carrier that is hypothesized to explain recent experimental anomalies and potentially couple to the dark sector. Collider experiments like DarkLight complement direct detection searches for weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) and axions by offering sensitivity to alternative models in which dark matter interacts with physics beyond the Standard Model. DarkLight will analyze fixed target collisions at the 50 MeV electron linac at TRIUMF to detect the production and leptonic decay of an axial-vector boson with a mass of $\text{17 MeV}/c^2$, which has been observed by recent experiments but challenged by contradictory results. I am currently involved in the reconstruction and analysis of data from the first commissioning run of the DarkLight experiment.
| dreiter@triumf.ca | |
| Affiliation | TRIUMF |
| Research Theme | Dark Matter |