PROSPECTS IN LOW MASS DARK MATTER

Session

Session A

30 Nov 2015, 13:30

Auditorium (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München)

Conveners

Session A

• Allen Caldwell (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

25. Welcome

30/11/2015, 13:30

20. Dark Matter: the Big Picture

Prof. Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam and GRAPPA)

30/11/2015, 13:45

I will review the status of dark matter searches, and discuss present and upcoming efforts to identify the nature of this mysterious component of the Universe.

18. Dark matter at the LHC, models and interpretations

Dr David Salek (GRAPPA)

30/11/2015, 14:30

The LHC results on dark matter from Run-1 were mostly interpreted in the framework of effective filed theories. Simplified models involve new mediators between the Standard Model and the Dark Sector and allow for richer phenomenology and more complex interpretations. Complementarity of the collider, direct and indirect dark matter searches will be discussed and possible search strategies at...

15. LOW MASS WIMP SEARCH WITH THE CDMS LOW IONIZATION THRESHOLD EXPERIMENT

Prof. Wolfgang Rau (Queen’s University, Kingston)

30/11/2015, 15:15

SuperCDMS employs cryogenic germanium detectors to search for interactions of Weakly Interacting Massive dark matter Particles (WIMPs) with ordinary matter. In standard operating mode phonon and ionization signals are measured for each event for an effective discrimination between background electron recoils and dark matter candidate nuclear recoil events down to a few keV, giving sensitivity...