Speaker
Mr
Ciaran O'Hare
(University of Nottingham)
Description
Terrestrial dark matter detection experiments are crucially dependent on an understanding of the phase space structure of the local Milky Way halo. As such, the uncertainties in the astrophysical ingredients to predictions for dark matter signals feed directly into all experimental results. The bright side however is that our experiments are in a unique position to study this same astrophysical dependence, and in fact represent the only way to probe the local Milky Way halo on sub-milliparsec scales. I will talk about how to do this in the context of two particular novel search strategies: directional detectors in the case of WIMPs, and microwave cavity haloscopes in the case of axions.
Primary author
Mr
Ciaran O'Hare
(University of Nottingham)
