Conveners
Monday Afternoon 1
- Joshua Frieman (Fermilab)
Devices with low energy thresholds are one of the main pillars for the direct detection of dark matter, and tremendous progress has been made in the past few years in probing dark matter with sub-GeV masses. The SENSEI (Sub-Electron Noise Skipper Experimental Instrument) Collaboration has pioneered the silicon-based Skipper-Charge Coupled Device (CCD) technology capable of detecting electron...
DarkSide-20k is a next-generation dark matter detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. With a projected sensitivity of $7.4 \times 10^{−48}$ cm$^2$ for 1 TeV/$c^2$ WIMPs for a 10 year run, DarkSide-20k will be the most sensitive dark matter experiment ever built. I will highlight the innovative design features of the DarkSide-20k experiment, including custom cryogenic...
As luminous tracers of the smallest halos, dwarf galaxies offer a unique window into the physics of dark matter (DM). The (lack of) a cutoff in the abundance of low-mass halos informs a variety of DM properties, which is crucial given the breadth of theoretical models that have gained popularity following the search for canonical WIMPs. In this talk, we describe recent advances in measuring...