All the dark we can not see - the state-of-the art in direct searches for particle dark matter

by Prof. Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

Friday 24 Nov 2023, 14:00 → 15:00 Asia/Shanghai

5#3nd-300 - Meeting room 300 (Science Building)

Abstract:

One of the major challenges of modern physics is to decipher the nature of dark matter.  Dark matter could be made of new elementary particles with allowed masses and interaction strengths spanning an enormous range.  Among these, particles with masses in the MeV-TeV range might be directly observed via scatters with atomic nuclei or electrons in ultra-low background detectors operated deep underground.  After an introduction to the dark matter problem, I will discuss the most promising direct detection techniques, addressing their current and future science reach, as well as their complementarity.

Biography:

Laura Baudis is a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Zurich. She has a long interest in dark matter and neutrino physics and has worked on dark matter detectors and on neutrinoless double beta decay since her days as a PhD student at the University of Heidelberg. She is one of the founders of the XENON programme, she is involved in GERDA/LEGEND and she leads the DARWIN collaboration with the aim to build an astroparticle physics observatory based on a 50-tonne liquid xenon detector. In 2017, she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her project Xenoscope, which conducts R&D for the construction of the DARWIN time projection chamber.  In 2021 she became a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and in spring 2022 she was awarded the Charpak-Ritz Prize by the French and Swiss physical societies.

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