INPA

Initial results from the Majorana Demonstrator - By Alan Poon - LBNL
2017-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 50A-5132- Sessler, 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CA
Neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments play a major role in the search for lepton number violation and the Majorana nature of the neutrino mass. The MAJORANA Collaboration has assembled two modules of high-purity Ge detectors to search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in 76-Ge at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota. One of the primary goals of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR (MJD) is to establish the required background and scalability of a Ge-based, next-generation, tonne-scale experiment. Commissioning of MJD started in 2015 and its two detector modules are taking data. I will discuss the initial results on the search for neutrinoless double-beta decays and dark matter from the commissioning run and the first physics run of Module 1.

Alex Lowell (USB/SSL) - TBA
2016-12-16 12:00 - 13:00 | INPA Common Room, 50-5026

Probing Dark Matter with Radio Surveys
2016-12-09 12:00 - 13:00 | INPA Common Room, 50-5026
Julian Munoz
Probing Dark Matter with Radio Surveys
A significant part of dark matter could be compact, in particular in the form of primordial black holes. I will review the signatures of primordial black holes, both in the form of gravitational-wave events and as gravitational lenses of fast radio bursts. Alternatively, a WIMP-y dark-matter component could interact with baryons. I will explain how these interactions cause heating of the baryons, becoming observable in the 21-cm line prior to the epoch of reionization.
