Colloquium Speaker Thomas Shutt today, Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 4:00 PM

[Tate, Arnay]

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:



Speaker:              Thomas Shutt - Case-Western Reserve University

Date:                     Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Time:                    4:00 PM

Place:                    The Robert Smith Seminar Room

Title:                     The hunt for dark matter, and the LUX experiment

Abstract:



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.



The website for the Colloquium is https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/news/colloquium.php




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