Prof.
INA SARCEVIC
(University of Arizona)
5/8/17, 2:30 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
The IceCube detection of High Energy Starting Events (HESE) and
the upward muon track events (6 year data) are presently hard to
explain with the single power-law astophysical flux for
energies above 30TeV. We investigate the possibility that a
significant component of the additional neutrino flux originates
due to the decay of a very heavy dark matter particle via several
possible...
Prof.
Rajesh Gandhi
(HRI)
5/8/17, 2:48 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
We study the implications of the premise that any new, relativistic,
highly energetic neutral particle that interacts with quarks and gluons would
create cascade-like events in the IceCube (IC) detector which would be
observationally indistinguishable from neutral current deep-inelastic (DIS) scattering
events due to neutrinos. Consequently, one reason for deviations, breaks or
excesses...
Dr
Aaron Vincent
(Imperial College London)
5/8/17, 3:06 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
The origin of the observed extraterrestrial neutrinos is still unknown, and their arrival directions are compatible with an isotropic distribution. This observation, together with dedicated studies of Galactic plane correlations, suggest a predominantly extragalactic origin. Dark matter-neutrino interactions, which have been extensively studied in cosmology, would thus lead to a slight...
Hrvoje Dujmovic
(o=sungkyunkwan,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
5/8/17, 3:24 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
Search for heavy dark matter decay with IceCube
Many heavy (m>100TeV) dark matter models predict the dark matter particle to decay into standard model particles, including neutrinos.
These neutrinos would produce a unique signal, both in terms of their energy and angular distributions, in the IceCube detector. This talk describes the search for such a signal using two years of high energy...
Antonia Hubbard
(Northwestern)
5/8/17, 3:42 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
The Micro-X sounding rocket uses a Transition Edge Sensor (TES) array to make X-ray observations. The improved energy resolution of TESs compared to traditional space-based X-ray detectors brings new precision to both supernova observations and the X-ray search for sterile neutrino dark matter. Current X-ray observations disagree over the potential presence of a 3.5 keV X-ray line consistent...
Dr
Francesco Capozzi
(The Ohio State University)
5/8/17, 4:30 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
Sterile neutrinos at the eV scale have long been studied in the context of anomalies in short baseline neutrino experiments. Their cosmology can be made compatible with our understanding of the early Universe provided the sterile neutrino sector enjoys a nontrivial dynamics with exotic interactions, possibly providing a link to the Dark Matter (DM) puzzle. Interactions between DM and neutrinos...
Dr
Carlos Arguelles
(o=mit,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
5/8/17, 4:48 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
In this talk I will discuss the production of high-energy neutrinos from interactions of cosmic rays with the solar atmosphere. Production of solar atmospheric neutrinos has been previously considered in the literature both as a potential source of high-energy neutrinos and as an irreducible background for dark matter searches. In our new calculation we estimate the uncertainties that arise...
Jay Hyun Jo
(Yale University)
5/8/17, 5:06 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
DM-Ice is a phased experimental program using low-background NaI(Tl) crystals with the aim to unambiguously test the claim of dark matter detection by the DAMA experiment. DM-Ice17, consisting of 17 kg of NaI(Tl), has been continuously operating at a depth of 2457 m in the South Pole ice since December 2010. COSINE-100 is a joint collaboration between the DM-Ice and KIMS groups to search for...
Prof.
Andrew Renshaw
(University of Houston)
5/8/17, 5:24 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
The DarkSide program for the direct detection of WIMP dark matter is a phased program, set at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. TheDarkSide-50 detector is a two-phase argon TPC installed at the center of two nested veto detectors, a 30-tonne liquid scintillator neutron veto and a 1,000-tonne water Cherenkov muon veto. While operating in 2014 with a fill of argon extracted from...
Prof.
Ali Murat Guler
(METU)
5/8/17, 5:42 PM
Dark Matter - Convenor: Carsten Rott, SKKU
Direct dark matter searches are promising techniques to identify the nature of dark matter particles. A variety of experiments have been developed over the past decades, aiming to detect Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) via their scattering in a detector medium. Exploiting directionality would also give a proof of the galactic origin of dark matter making it possible to have a...
