Conveners
DM10: Low Mass Dark Matter II
- Shigetaka Moriyama (ICRR, The University of Tokyo)
Clint Wiseman
(University of Washington)
9/10/19, 4:10 PM
Dark matter
Oral presentation in parallel session
The Majorana Demonstrator is sensitive to rare events near its energy threshold, including bosonic dark matter, solar axions, and lightly ionizing particles.
It is an array of ultra-low background, P-type point contact (PPC) high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors, whose surface exposure time was carefully limited to minimize the activation of cosmogenic backgrounds.
Significant progress has...
Dr
Ioannis Katsioulas
(University of Birmingham)
9/10/19, 4:30 PM
Dark matter
Oral presentation in parallel session
NEWS-G (New Experiments With Spheres-Gas) is an innovative experiment aiming to shine a light on the dark matter conundrum with a novel gaseous detector, the spherical proportional counter. It uses light gases, such as hydrogen, helium, and neon, as targets, to expand dark matter searches to the sub-GeV/c${}^{2}$ mass region. First results obtained with neon target by NEWS-G with a 60 cm...
Dr
Tony Noble
(Queen's University: For the PICO Collaboration)
9/10/19, 4:50 PM
Dark matter
Oral presentation in parallel session
The PICO collaboration has been developing ever larger detectors for the direct detection of dark matter using the superheated bubble chamber technology. The use of C3F8 has led to world leading results for spin-dependent dark matter interactions on the proton. The next generation detector, PICO 500, will have an order of magnitude larger active mass and significantly reduced backgrounds. In...
Prof.
Paolo Privitera
(University of Chicago)
9/10/19, 5:10 PM
Dark matter
Oral presentation in parallel session
The DAMIC-M experiment –— to be installed at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane in France — features a kg-size silicon target consisting of ultra low-noise charge-coupled devices (CCDs). DAMIC-M will probe a broad range of low-mass dark matter particles, particularly from the hidden-sector, with sensitivity improvements of several orders of magnitude beyond
current experiments. The CCDs'...
