Hunting for Dark Matter with Pixel Detectors (Dr. Sven Vahsen, LBL)

by Prof. Sven Vahsen (LBL)

Thursday Oct 8, 2009, 3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

Rm 112 (UHM - Watanabe Hall)

I will discuss the possibility that the Dark Matter consists of supersymmetric elementary particles. In that case, we may soon produce these particles at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and we can expect an interesting interplay between particle physics and cosmology – the study of the smallest and largest possible distance scales – in the next decades. I will discuss this interplay, highlight the different detector challenges, and describe how silicon pixel detectors originally developed for the LHC may also be utilized for direct dark matter detection with directional sensitivity.

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