Dr
Luca Visinelli
(Stockholm U. and Nordita)
07/11/2017, 13:45
I revise the axion as a cosmological probe and a cold dark matter candidate, in both
standard and modified thermal histories of the Universe. I will also discuss about the
possibility that dark matter is in the form of "ultra-light" axions.
Dr
Alfredo Davide Ferella
(Stockholm University)
07/11/2017, 14:00
Axions and axion like particles (ALPs) belong to a class of well motivated dark matter candidates. A
variety of techniques are employed in several experimental efforts to directly detect them. An
oscillating axion field can exert a time-varying torque on the nuclear spins; such spin precession can
be detected using nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, as in the Cosmic Axion Spin...
Dr
Riccardo Catena
(Chalmers University of Technology)
07/11/2017, 14:15
Direct detection experiments search for nuclear recoil events induced by the non-
relativistic scattering of Milky Way dark matter (DM) particles in low-background
detectors. Current strategies for the experimental analysis and theory interpretation of
direct detection experiments focus on two parameters: the DM particle mass, and the
cross-section for DM-nucleon scattering computed...
Dr
Daniel Gazda
(Chalmers University of Technology)
07/11/2017, 14:30
In this contribution we will report on calculations of reaction rates for dark matter
particles scattering off selected nuclear targets relevant for dark matter direct
detection experiments. A model-independent effective field theory approach was used
to construct the most general form of low-energy dark matter particle-nucleus
interaction. The resulting nuclear matrix elements were...
Ruth Pöttgen
(Lund University)
07/11/2017, 14:45
The origin and observed abundance of Dark Matter in the Universe can be explained
elegantly by the thermal freeze-out mechanism, leading to a preferred mass range of
the Dark Matter particles in the MeV-TeV region. The GeV-TeV mass range is being
explored intensely by the variety of experiments searching for Weakly Interacting
Massive Particles. The sub-GeV region, however, in which the...
Dr
Martin Krauss
(CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)
07/11/2017, 15:00
We develop a method to forecast the outcome of the LHC Run 3 based on the
hypothetical detection of O(100) signal events at XENONnT. Our method relies on a
systematic classification of renormalisable single-mediator models for dark matter-
quark interactions, and is valid for dark matter candidates of spin less than or equal
to one. Applying our method to simulated data, we find that at...
