Speaker: Kelly Stifter (Stanford University) Title: The LZ Dark Matter Experiment: From Detector Development to First Physics Abstract: LZ is a next generation dark matter search designed to significantly extend our sensitivity to WIMP dark matter candidates. At the core of the LZ experiment is a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC) with a 7 ton […]

Speaker: Nguyen Phan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  Title: “Understanding Electrical Breakdown in Liquid Helium through Analysis of the Empirical Breakdown Field Distributions” Abstract: Many present and future large-scale detectors in nuclear, particle, and astroparticle physics experiments will employ very high voltages and/or high electric fields inside a noble liquid detection medium.  However, electrical breakdown in these […]

Speaker: Yifan Chen (University of Bern, Switzerland) Title: Just A Little Kick: Low-Energy Transfer Muon-Neutrino νμ Charged-Current Interactions on Argon Abstract: Accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments provide a sensitive way to approach a few major open questions in neutrino physics. To achieve precision neutrino oscillation measurements, we need a better understanding of key aspects of the […]

Speaker: Tucker Elleflot (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Title: Multiplexed Readout of Transition Edge Sensors for CMB Polarization Experiments Abstract: The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) provides a valuable means to study the very early universe and high energy physics beyond the standard model. Remarkable experimental progress has been made on this front in the past […]

Speaker: VIRTUAL INPA SEMINAR | Joseph DeRose (UC Santa Cruz) Title: “Models of the Non-Linear Universe for Precision Cosmology” Abstract: Imaging and redshift surveys of galaxies and high resolution observations of the CMB promise to shed light on the physical nature of dark matter and dark energy in the coming decade. One of the main […]