Dark Interactions: Perspectives from Theory and Experiment

Session

Light (keV-GeV) Dark Matter

2 Oct 2018, 13:30

Physics Department, Bldg. 510, Large Seminar Room (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Conveners

Light (keV-GeV) Dark Matter: Recent developments

• William Marciano (BNL)

66. Probing sub-GeV Dark Matter with conventional detectors

Prof. Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

02/10/2018, 13:30

67. Direct detection of sub-MeV dark matter with optical phonons

Dr Simon Knapen (Institute of Advanced Study)

02/10/2018, 14:05

I will discuss the direct detection of dark matter (DM) with polar materials, where single production of optical or acoustic phonons gives excellent reach to scattering of sub-MeV DM for both scalar and vector mediators. Using Density Functional Theory (DFT), we calculate the material-specific matrix elements, focusing on GaAs and sapphire, and show that DM scattering in an anisotropic crystal...

68. Radiating Dark Matter at the LHC

Dr Malte Buschmann (University of Michigan)

02/10/2018, 14:40