2019 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2019

Session

T1-4 Direct Detection of Dark Matter (PPD) | Détection directe de la matière sombre (PPD)

T1-4

4 Jun 2019, 08:30

Simon Fraser University

Conveners

T1-4 Direct Detection of Dark Matter (PPD) | Détection directe de la matière sombre (PPD)

• David Morrissey (TRIUMF)

2428. Overview of Dark Matter Direct Detection

Joseph Bramante (Queen's University)

04/06/2019, 08:45

Symposia Day - Dark Matter

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

An overview of dark matter detection in the Milky Way galactic halo will be presented, including constraints and cutting-edge searches for dark matter's interactions with nuclei and electrons. The theory of non-relativistic dark matter interactions, connections with early universe cosmology, and the status of underground dark matter experiments will be addressed, along with some new detection...

2444. Dark matter search results from DEAP-3600 at SNOLAB

Simon Viel (Carleton University)

04/06/2019, 09:15

Symposia Day - Dark Matter

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Dark matter search results and a detailed background model for DEAP-3600 will be presented. DEAP-3600 is searching for dark matter interactions with a target of liquid argon, shielded from cosmic rays by more than 2 km of rock at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. The spherical detector consists of 3.3 tonnes of liquid argon in a large ultralow-background acrylic cryostat instrumented with 255...

2554. SuperCDMS SNOLAB: the search for low-mass dark matter particles

Dr Silvia Scorza (SNOLAB)

04/06/2019, 09:35

Symposia Day - Dark Matter

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Cosmological and astrophysical observations indicate that the vast majority of the universe’s matter content is made out of dark matter.
Over the past decades, the physics community has largely focused on searching for dark matter within the 10 GeV-1 TeV mass range (WIMPs).
The absence of a discovery has motivated us to broaden our experimental search program and to look for lighter dark...

2799. The PICO Experiment

Ken Clark (Queen's University)

04/06/2019, 09:55

Symposia Day - Dark Matter

Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e))

The PICO collaboration uses bubble chambers to search for dark matter with results leading the world in sensitivity to the direct detection of WIMPs with spin-dependent coupling to protons. PICO recently operated a 32 litre bubble chamber (PICO-60) at the SNOLAB underground laboratory and the next generation experiment is currently taking commissioning data. This new device (PICO-40L) will...

2817. questions