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<p class="MsoPlainText">Please take note of Colloquium taking place today, Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 4:00 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception in the Atrium at 3:45 PM. Details concerning the talk are as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Speaker: Thomas Shutt – Case-Western Reserve University
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Time: 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Place: The Robert Smith Seminar Room<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Title: The hunt for dark matter, and the LUX experiment<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The world-wide hunt for particle dark matter has, if anything, accelerated in recent years with a number of new experiments, possible hints of a signal at low mass, and in the US a continuing effort to create a national underground science
facility. Recent advances in liquid-phase detectors promise a radical increase in the sensitivity of searches for WIMP dark matter, and the prospects for a nearly complete test of supersymmetric dark matter over the next decade or more seem high. I will discuss
these broader developments and also the LUX experiment, of which I am member. LUX is deploying a 300 kg of two-phase Xe-based detector in the location of Ray Davis' original solar neutrino experiment in the Homestake mine in South Dakota. A proposed follow-on
experiment at the 20-ton scale would be an ultimate direct dark matter detection experiment - closing the available WIMP search window on Earth that is limited by the signal from coherent scattering of astrophysical neutrinos.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The website for the Colloquium is <a href="https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/news/colloquium.php">
https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/news/colloquium.php</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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