Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) at LBNL
The INPA Seminar weekly talks are on Fridays, starting at 12:00 pm, unless informed otherwise. The seminar talk starts with a brief presentation of the weekly scientific news. Typically, the talks conclude by 1:00 pm. The seminars are held in the Sessler Conference Room, located in Bldg. 50A- 5132.
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The seminar schedule for the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA) is tentative and becomes final a few days before the Friday talk.
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VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Chiara Salemi (MIT)
December 10, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: via Zoom
Speaker: Chiara Salemi (Massachusettes Institute of Technology)
Title: Seeing the Invisible: Search for Low-Mass Axion Dark Matter
Abstract:
Multiple astrophysical and cosmological observations have shown that the visible matter described by the Standard Model is only a small fraction of the energy in the universe. We believe that there is about five times as much dark matter, which is likely comprised of massive particles that interact very little or not at all with other matter. One of the most well-motivated candidates to be the dark matter is the axion, a hypothetical particle that is predicted by the solution to another long-standing mystery in physics, the strong CP problem. This talk presents ABRACADABRA-10 cm, the first direct search for low-mass axion dark matter, which used an innovative lumped element detection method. This prototype experiment set world-leading limits on axions and set the stage for the DOE-funded DMRadio program, a series of larger detectors that will be capable of finding axions or definitively excluding them over a large range of masses below 1 μeV.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://lbnl.zoom.us/j/93849799393
Meeting ID: 938 4979 9393
INPA guests from campus can now come to the lab early on Fridays. The INPA Common Room (50-5026) is reserved for our guests from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Note that the seminars are now held in 50A-5132 to accommodate a more significant number of attendees.
CPTea Series (also known as INPA Tea Series)
The Physics Division CPTea Series invites you to an In-Person Tea Series 1st Friday of every month at 3:30 pm INPA Conference Room 50-5026.
Everyone is welcome to attend the open forum. Tea and light refreshments will be served.
INPA Common Room (50-5026)
Fridays
3:30 pm
Access to the Lab
For a shuttle pass, please email Erica Hall. The pass is only valid for the day of the seminar.