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Probing Dark Matter with SuperCDMS in the Era of eV Sensitivity
March 17, 20202:15 pm – 3:15 pm (CDT)

Probing Dark Matter with SuperCDMS in the Era of eV Sensitivity

Speaker:

Ziqing Hong (Northwestern University)

Location:

Address:

Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics & Astronomy

College Station, Texas 77843

Event Details

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that, if it exists, may account for more than a quarter of the energy density of our universe. Despite the variety of astrophysical evidence pointing to its existence, the direct interaction of dark matter in a terrestrial detector is yet to be observed. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment tries to observe a dark matter signal in silicon and germanium detectors operated around 50 miliKelvin. In this talk, I will discuss the status of the next generation SuperCDMS experiment, the recent results with an eV-resolution gram-scale prototype detector, and the future plan with this technology.

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