Colloquium Speaker, Kimberly Palladino (University Of Wisconsin) today at 4:00pm

[Patterson, Robin L.]

Please take note of Colloquium taking place today, Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 4:00 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception in the Atrium at 3:45PM. Details concerning the talk are as follows:

Speaker:          Kimberly Palladino (University of Wisconsin)
Date:                Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Time:               4:00 PM
Place:              1080 Physics Research Building, The Robert Smith Seminar Room
Title:                Deep, Dark, and Elusive: LUX and direct Dark Matter Searches


Abstract:  Astrophysical evidence indicates that dark matter is five times more abundant that the normal matter that we interact with daily. A candidate for dark matter is the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) which we attempt to see via its rare interactions with a target material in the laboratory. Liquid xenon time projection chambers have proved a robust technology for rare event searches, and the LUX experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, SD has updated its sensitivity to spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon interactions to have world-leading limits. LUX will not be the final word in dark matter searches, and a number of direct detection experiments will be turning on in the coming years that will cover significant WIMP mass ranges and interaction cross-sections.

The website for the colloquium is https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule.



Robin
[The Ohio State University]
Robin Patterson
Undergraduate Program, Colloquium and Seminar Coordinator
Department of Physics
1040K Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210
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patterson.716 at osu.edu<mailto:patterson.716 at osu.edu> osu.edu<http://osu.edu/>

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