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DTSTART:20171205T180500Z
DTEND:20171205T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20260315T231810Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Rewards are worth the risk: Working in direct dark matter dete
 ction\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Kimberly Palladino\, UW Depa
 rtment of Physics
DESCRIPTION:For particle physicists\, determining the nature of Dark M
 atter is one of the greatest open mysteries. An abundance of astrophys
 ical evidence indicates that the matter density of the universe is dom
 inated by a new form of matter\, which played a key role in growth of 
 large scale structure. One candidate for Dark Matter is the Weakly Int
 eracting Massive Particle (WIMP). We hope to detect WIMPS by seeing th
 em scattering off of the target materials in our detectors. Liquid xen
 on has proved itself an excellent target\, and LZ is a dual-phase TPC 
 that will begin taking science data in 2020.  Much of the originally p
 roposed parameter space for WIMPS has been excluded over the past few 
 decades\, so I will also delve into the sociology of working on direct
  dark matter searches.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4694
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