Speaker: Pedro Machado (Fermilab)
Atmospheric neutrinos at DUNE
In this talk I will discuss how DUNE can leverage its liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) technology to study atmospheric neutrinos. Because of the event reconstruction in LArTPCs, DUNE can use the large atmospheric neutrino flux below 1 GeV to do several physics analysis, including CP violation and Earth tomography.
Speaker: Javier Acevedo (Queen's U)
Detecting Composite Dark Matter with Bremsstrahlung and the Migdal Effect
An intriguing possibility for dark matter is that it formed bound states in the early Universe, much like the Standard Model fundamental particles formed nucleons, nuclei, and atoms, in a scenario called “composite” dark matter. One of the simplest composite dark matter models consists of dark matter fermions bound together by a real scalar field. Composite states that are massive enough source a scalar field so intense that nuclei, when coupled to this binding field, accelerate upon contact to energies capable of various collisional processes, including ionization, thermal bremsstrahlung, and even nuclear fusion. Such observable effects occur even when the coupling between nuclei and the binding field is vanishingly small, and have implications for the detection of dark matter through experiments as well as astrophysical observations. In this talk, I will discuss the detection prospects for these composite states by considering the Migdal effect at dark matter direct detection experiments, and thermal bremsstrahlung at large neutrino observatories.