Dark matter searches in the 2020s - At the crossroads of the WIMP

Session

11 Nov 2019, 14:45

The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa Campus

Conveners

DM Direct Detection

• Shigetaka Moriyama (ICRR)

Contribution list Timetable

76. DM searches with LXe

Prof. Masaki Yamashita (ICRR, The University of Tokyo)

11/11/2019, 14:45

Invited talk

Direct dark matter searches have been conducted for more than 30 years in the underground laboratories to look for signals via dark matter-nucleus elastic scattering of its target materials. Weakly interacting massive particles as dark matter candidates arise naturally in various theories, such as Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions. WIMPs interact through the weak interaction and can...

67. DM searches with LAr

Prof. Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)

11/11/2019, 15:15

Invited talk

Experimenters from four different argon dark matter searches have joined their forces in the the “Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration” to carry out a unified program for dark matter direct detection.
The next step at the scale of a few tens of tonnes is the DarkSide-20k experiment, a 20-tonne fiducial volume dual-phase TPC to be operated at LNGS with an underground argon fill, designed to...

79. Particle and halo model uncertainties in direct dark matter detection

Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

11/11/2019, 15:45

Invited talk

After briefly reviewing the WIMP status as dark matter (DM) candidate, I will mention how the impact of the neutrino floor on the direct detection (DD) reach depends on the type of WIMP-nucleus interaction and mass, and then how a DD signal would translate into properties of the DM local velocity distribution, allowing to compare different DD data sets through these predictions (in a...