21–23 Sep 2020
US/Central timezone

Dark Matter Direct(ional) Detection at Neutrino Experiments

23 Sep 2020, 13:40
10m

Speaker

Nirmal Raj (TRIUMF)

Description

I will show that, via dedicated selection triggers for track signatures, dark matter with per-nucleon scattering cross sections above 10^-28 cm^2 can be discovered at liquid scintillator neutrino detectors such as BOREXINO, SNO+, and JUNO. Thanks to the large fluxes allowed, masses well beyond the Planck mass can be probed. The tracks observed would also directly reconstruct the dark matter velocity distribution, hence determine the dispersion speed, escape speed, and velocity anisotropies of the Galactic halo.

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Nirmal Raj (TRIUMF)

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