Seminario Departamento de Física Teórica/CAPA "Search fo Light dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters".- Jueves 25 de febrero
El Seminario Departamento de Física Teórica/CAPA , titulado "Search fo Light dark matter with Spherical Proportional Counters" e impartido por I. Katsioulas (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), tendrá lugar el jueves 25 de febrero de 2021 a las 12 horas.
Lugar: https://rediris.zoom.us/j/85134053268
Abstract:
Compelling astrophysical evidence collected in the last 80 years suggests that cold, non-baryonic, weakly interacting Dark Matter (DM) particles make up ~85% of the mass of the Universe. In the 1980s a generic class of DM candidates, the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with masses in the 10 GeV/c2 - 1 TeV/c2 range, was proposed that could explain the observed relic abundance of DM. As WIMPs remain elusive, new theoretical approaches such as the asymmetric dark model and dark sector predict DM candidates have been proposed, that require novel experimental techniques. The University of Birmingham joined this effort through NEWS-G, an experiment that aims to extend DM sensitivity to the mass range from 0.05 GeV/c2, using a spherical proportional counter. The current results, status, and future plans of the experiment will be presented, along with a discussion of a new collaboration initiated with the Boulby Underground Laboratory.
