Conveners
Plenary 6: Dark Matter | Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
- Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)
Prof.
Kaixuan Ni
(UC San Diego)
5/31/18, 10:10 AM
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...
Tongyan Lin
(UCSD)
5/31/18, 10:45 AM
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...
Prof.
Kate Scholberg
(Duke University)
5/31/18, 11:20 AM
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...
Prof.
Francis Halzen
(WIPAC, UW-Madison)
5/31/18, 11:55 AM
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...
