Conveners
Session 13
- Wolfgang Funk
Mr
Andi Tan
(University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
18/05/2017, 14:40
Presentation
The Particle and astrophysical Xenon (PandaX) project is a series of xenon-based ultra-low background experiments in the China JinPing underground Laboratory (CJPL) targeting the unknown physics of dark matter and neutrinos. The first and second stage experiments (PandaX-I and II) both utilize dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) to carry out direct search for the dark matter...
Dr
Viviana Scherini
(INFN Lecce)
18/05/2017, 15:00
Massive photon-like particles are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model with a hidden sector where dark matter is secluded. They are vector bosons mediating the interaction between dark matter particles and can be produced in scattering of ordinary particles through a faint mixing to the photon. Most of the present experimental constraints on this “dark photon” (A’) rely on the...
Prof.
giovanni carugno
(Padova University & INFN)
18/05/2017, 15:20
Presentation
Dark matter axions may induce transitions between Zeeman states in an atomic paramagnetic system as proposed by Sikivie.
The Axioma R&D experiment is looking for a possible approach to look at axion-driven atomic transitions to be detected by resonance- enhanced multi-photon ionization spectroscopy or through up conversion mechanism.
Two main lines are under evaluation :
1) Rare Earth...
Prof.
Sergey Troitsky
(INR, Moscow)
18/05/2017, 15:40
I discuss the physics case for a medium-scale axion helioscope with sensitivities in the axion-photon coupling a few times better than CAST. Search for an axion-like particle with these couplings is motivated by several persistent astrophysical anomalies. Then I report on the project of such a helioscope to be constructed in INR, Troitsk, Russia. On behalf of pre-collaboration, I discuss early...
