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PGSA Grad Seminar Series - "Dark Matter Interferometry"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
PGSA
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Nov 6, 2020   3:00 pm  
Speaker
Rachel Nguyen
Originating Calendar
Physics - PGSA Graduate Seminar Series

Axions are a well-motivated class of dark matter models that arose as a solution to the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics. Currently there are many axion direct detection experiments probing different regions of parameter space. The next generation of these experiments will feature multiple detectors operating at various terrestrial locations. Because of the wave-like nature of axion dark matter, adding spatial separation to these experiments will measure a unique phase inaccessible to a single detector. In this talk, I will discuss the formalism to extract the signal from these experiments and illustrate how we can use these experiments to estimate parameters in the dark matter velocity distribution.

Please email shreyaa5@illinois.edu for the meeting link.

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