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SUMMARY:New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter
DTSTART:20180626T140000
DTSTAMP:20260930T215057Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Surjeet Rajendran\nObservational bounds currently permit the e
 xistence of a large number of dark matter candidates\, ranging from ultra-
 light axions with masses ~ 10^(-22) eV to MACHOs with mass as large as 10^
 (24) gm. It is important to develop experimental methods to constrain this
  vast range of parameters. In this talk\, I will describe new experimental
  methods to probe a wide variety of dark matter candidates\, ranging from 
 ultra-light axions with masses ~ 10^(-22) eV to light WIMPs with mass in t
 he keV - GeV range. A variety of precision measurement technologies such a
 s optical/atomic interferometry and SQUID magnetometry can be applied to s
 earch for these particles. I will also discuss methods to search for the d
 irection of the nuclear recoil induced by conventional WIMP scattering in 
 detectors with solid state densities. These directional detectors may enab
 le probes of conventional WIMP dark matter beyond the solar neutrino floor
 . 
LOCATION:BSP 727 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BSP%20727
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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