INPA

Benjamin Schmidt (LBNL) - CUORE Commissioning
2017-02-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Marcelo Alvarez -Simulating Large Scale Structure Observables from Reionization to the Present
2017-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 | 50A-5132- Sessler, 50A-5132 Sessler Conference Room, CA
The next generation of large scale structure surveys will map out the universe in unprecedented detail. Transformative techniques in computational astrophysics are emerging as the optimal ways to extract information from these surveys, with realistic and routine full sky simulations finally within reach. I will describe a new pipeline for efficiently simulating high resolution maps of the sky from the radio to x-ray and from reionization to the present. I will conclude with what questions are likely to be answered in the next decade.

Initial results from the Majorana Demonstrator - By Alan Poon - LBNL
2017-01-13 12:00 - 13:00 | 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.
