Seminario del CAPA: “Low Mass Dark Matter Searches: Experimental Constraints and prospects”.- Jueves 19 de marzo
El jueves 19 de marzo de 2026 a las 12:00 h se celebrará un nuevo seminario del CAPA (Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías). Máximo David Ave Pernas (Gran Sasso Science Institute, GSSI) impartirá la conferencia de título “Low Mass Dark Matter Searches: Experimental Constraints and prospects”. Tendrá lugar en el Seminario de Física Nuclear, ubicado en la planta calle del Edificio A (Físicas). También podrá seguirse a través del enlace https://meet.google.com/xak-ucgt-qqu.
Resumen (en inglés):
The existence of Dark Matter (DM) is supported by a wide range of astrophysical evidences. Many extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) provides DM candidates in the 10 [GeV]-1 [TeV] mass range, that also address other SM puzzles. These models are nowadays severely constrained. This is leading to contemplate other theoretical possibilities, the dark sector models: a generic feature of those models is that DM belongs to a secluded Dark Sector with a rich phenomenology that couples to SM particles through a portal sector. These models predict dark matter masses in the 1 MeV to a few GeV range. In this talk, I describe first the status of DM searches in the 1-10 [GeV] mass range and discuss the prospects at lower masses, with special focus on the Argon target.
