Event calendar file
2-5 June 2016
CENT I and CENT II (Faculty of Physics) buildings
at the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw
at the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw
Europe/Warsaw timezone
Direct detection of self-interacting dark matter
Presented by Mr. Jackson CLARKE
Content
I will outline the unique direct detection phenomenology which arises if dark matter is self-interacting. The crucial point is that, in the Earth frame, the halo wind interaction with Earth-captured dark matter generically results in a spatially dependent near-Earth dark matter environment. This implies distinctive signatures in the direct detection signal, including latitudinal dependence, and modulation with sidereal day. The sidereal modulation is particularly interesting, since it can only have a cosmological origin. Some examples will be shown from dark matter simulations with dark photon self-interactions. I will then describe some model-independent search strategies for sidereal modulation signals of unknown shape, in the hope of encouraging experimental colleagues to perform such searches.
Place
Location: CENT I and CENT II (Faculty of Physics) buildings
at the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw
at the Ochota Campus of the University of Warsaw
Address: CENT I: S. Banacha 2c
02-097 Warszawa
CENT II: Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warszawa
Room:
Primary authors
- Mr. Jackson CLARKE ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, University of Melbourne
Co-authors
- Dr. Robert FOOT ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, University of Melbourne
- Dr. Edmund Noel DAWE ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, University of Melbourne
