Conveners
T1-4 Direct Detection of Dark Matter (PPD) | Détection directe de la matière sombre (PPD)
- David Morrissey (TRIUMF)
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Joseph Bramante (Queen's University)04/06/2019, 08:45Symposia Day - Dark MatterInvited 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...
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Simon Viel (Carleton University)04/06/2019, 09:15Symposia Day - Dark MatterInvited 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...
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Dr Silvia Scorza (SNOLAB)04/06/2019, 09:35Symposia Day - Dark MatterInvited 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.
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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... -
Ken Clark (Queen's University)04/06/2019, 09:55Symposia Day - Dark MatterOral (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...
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