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SUMMARY:New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection with Polar Crystals\, Dirac Mat
 erials\, and Superfluid Helium
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180430
DTSTAMP:20260531T211919Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Kathryn Zurek (LBL\, Berkeley)\nSearches for massive dark matt
 er have largely focused on a mass window near the weak scale\, the so-call
 ed “WIMP window".  This window is\, however\, becoming increasingly clo
 sed by both the LHC and the unprecedented sensitivity of direct detection 
 experiments.  At the same time\, theoretical work in recent years has sho
 wn lighter dark matter candidates in a hidden sector are theoretically wel
 l-motivated\, natural and arise generically in many theories beyond the st
 andard model.  New ideas are needed to search for dark matter with mass b
 elow a GeV and as light as the warm dark matter limit of a keV.  We propo
 se new ideas to search for such light dark matter with superconductors\, D
 irac materials\, superfluid helium\, and polar crystals.  We show that th
 ese same experiments\, through inelastic processes\, may also be sensitive
  to dark matter with masses in the meV to keV mass window\, broadening the
  mass reach to light dark matter by many orders of magnitude.
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