CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

Session

Plenary 6

PLEN6

31 May 2018, 10:10

Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center

Conveners

Plenary 6: Dark Matter | Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics

• Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)

89. Recent Results from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments

Prof. Kaixuan Ni (UC San Diego)

31/05/2018, 10:10

DM

Plenary

The worldwide effort of direct dark matter detection has made tremendous progress towards the understanding of dark matter. New results were reported recently from several experiments using techniques across from noble liquids, bubble chambers, cryogenic bolometers, scintillating crystals and low-threshold detectors, covering a large dark matter mass range and constraining new parameter space...

104. New Directions in the Search for Light and Ultralight Dark Matter

Tongyan Lin (UCSD)

31/05/2018, 10:45

DM

Plenary

Dark matter candidates span the entire mass range from $\sim10^{-22}$ eV up to the weak scale and beyond. Recently, the scope of dark matter searches has significantly expanded to include a variety of motivated candidates over much of this mass range. I will discuss new ideas and prospects to directly detect "light" (sub-GeV) and "ultralight'' (sub-eV) dark matter, generalizing searches for...

83. Coherent Scattering and the Flavor Physics and Detection of Supernova Neutrinos

Prof. Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

31/05/2018, 11:20

PNA

Plenary

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a neutral-current process in which a neutrino scatters off an entire nucleus, depositing a tiny recoil energy. The process is important in core-collapse supernovae and also presents an opportunity for detection of a burst of core-collapse supernova neutrinos in low-threshold detectors designed for dark matter detection. This talk...

31. IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole

Prof. Francis Halzen (WIPAC, UW-Madison)

31/05/2018, 11:55

PNA

Plenary

The IceCube project has transformed a cubic kilometer of natural Antarctic ice into a neutrino detector. The instrument detects more than 100,000 neutrinos per year in the GeV to PeV energy range. Among those, we have isolated a flux of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. I will discuss the instrument, the analysis of the data, the significance of the discovery of cosmic neutrinos, and the recent...