Detecting dark matter from Supernovae

Speaker: 
Gustavo Marques Tavares
Institution: 
Stanford University
Date: 
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Time: 
11:00 am
Location: 
NS2 1201

*Please note the new time and location for the Spring 2018 Quarter.

Abstract:
The central region of Supernovae are one of the hottest and densest regions in the Universe. Due to the high temperatures, particles with sub-GeV masses can be copiously produced if they have non-negligible couplings to the Standard Model. If dark matter has sub-GeV mass it will be produced in the hot Supernovae core and it will have sufficiently large momenta to be detectable in direct detection experiments. In this work we investigate the sensitivity of current and future Xenon based direct detection experiments to a simplified model of dark matter which interacts with the Standard Model via the dark photon portal.

Host: 
Arvind Rajaraman
Angelo Monteux