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Session chair: Alex Drlica-Wagner
Bradford Welliver
(University of Florida)
09/06/2015, 08:30
Astrophysical observations indicate that approximately 85% of the matter in the universe consists of invisible, non-baryonic dark matter. A well-motivated candidate for this dark matter is the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). The SuperCDMS Soudan experiment is a direct-detection experiment aimed at searching for rare WIMP-nucleon interactions using a 9-kg array of germanium crystal...
Junhui Liao
(University of Zurich)
09/06/2015, 08:45
A large body of astronomical evidence across all length scales, from galaxy rotation curves, to lensing studies and spectacular observations of galaxy cluster collisions, to cosmic microwave background measurements, all points to the existence of CDM(Cold Dark Matter) particles. WIMPs(Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) represent a class of dark matter particles that froze out of thermal...
Animesh Chatterjee
(Postdoctoral fellow, University of Texas at Arlington)
09/06/2015, 09:00
High Intensity fixed target neutrino experiments present a new opportunity to search for sub-GeV Dark Matter. Our idea is to search for sub-GeV dark matter at DUNE near detector or a dedicated Dark Matter detector. Neutrinos are the major background for the Dark Matter experiment. Dark matter-nucleon or DM-electron scattering signal looks like neutrino neutral current scattering signal. In...
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Ting Li
(Texas A&M University)
09/06/2015, 09:15
Over the last two decades, large-area digital sky surveys have provided deep photometric catalogs of stars in our Galaxy. The ability to detect and characterize substructures in our halo has increased dramatically. These substructures show that the Milky Way Galaxy is a complex and dynamic structure that is still being shaped by the accretion and merging of neighboring smaller galaxies. Sharma...
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Yuanyuan Zhang
(University of Michigan)
09/06/2015, 09:30
Galaxy clusters and groups contain enormous amount of baryonic matter and dark matter, leaving prints across the electro-magnetic spectrum. Using optical imaging data from Dark Energy Survey, we have confirmed ~ 200 clusters and groups discovered with XMM-Newton archival data. In turn, this X-ray selected sample provides a well-understood data set for studying their optical content with Dark...
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Conett Huerta Escamilla
(Graduate Student)
09/06/2015, 09:45
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will explore the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the universe. Fermilab's Detector Research and Development program plays key role in testing and characterizing the CCD sensors which will probe the night sky from Kitt Peak.