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SUMMARY:Illuminating the dark: direct searches for cold dark matter in the
  Milky Way
DTSTART:20170522T161500
DTEND:20170522T171500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Laura Baudis\, University of Zürich\nBio : Laura Baudis
  arrived at UZH in August 2007. She is dedicating her research to answer f
 undamental questions in particle astrophysics and cosmology. Before moving
  to Zurich\, she spent one year as a professor at the RWTH Aachen Universi
 ty\, two years as an assistant professor at the University of Florida\, an
 d three years at Stanford University. She is mainly involved in direct sea
 rches for particle dark matter with liquid xenon and cryogenic (mK) Ge and
  Si detectors\, and in the search for the neutrinoless double beta decay i
 n 76-Ge. Prior to moving to California\, she spent four years at the Max P
 lanck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In Heidelberg\, she was
  involved in the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment\, which had the goal to meas
 ure the neutrino mass by detecting a very rare nuclear decay in 76-Ge\, an
 d in the Heidelberg Dark Matter Search experiment.\nCosmological observati
 ons and the dynamics of the Milky Way provide strong evidence for an invis
 ible and dominant mass component\, that so far reveals its presence only b
 y its gravitational interaction. If the dark matter is made of Weakly Inte
 racting Massive Particles (WIMPs)\, it can be directly detected via elasti
 c scattering from nuclei in ultra-low background\, deep-underground detect
 ors. WIMPs arise naturally in beyond standard model theories\, a popular e
 xample being the neutralino\, or the lightest supersymmetric particle.\n\n
 After an introduction to the direct dark matter detection method\, I will 
 review the current experimental techniques to search for these hypothetica
 l particles. The focus will be on recent results\, and on the most promisi
 ng techniques for the future.
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