Neutrinos for dark matter detection and nuclear nonproliferation control

by Ms Stefanie Smith (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Mr Viacheslav Li (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Tuesday Apr 23, 2013, 3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

420 (Watanabe Hall)

Series of two talks that present how neutrinos can be used to search for dark matter and nuclear nonproliferation. Ms. Stefanie Smith: In the search for Dark Matter, indirect detection at neutrino telescopes will be an important component to discovery. I will briefly review recent results in the field and discuss detection prospects specifically at Super-Kamiokande, a water Cerenkov neutrino detector in Japan. I will also describe my ongoing work searching for Dark Matter annihilations in the center of the Earth using data from Super-K. Mr. Viacheslav Li: The talk is an overview of the miniTimeCube, at two liters volume, the world's smallest detector of reactor antineutrinos. I am going to discuss the main features of the detector which make it unique in its field: special scintillator, multi-channel plate photomultipliers, and 1562 channels of waveform-recording, <100ps electronics. Scientific and applied motivations, current status, the future of the project will be presented.