Pheno & Vino Seminar

Detecting Dark Matter from Supernovae

The central region of Supernovae are one of the hottest and densest regions in the Universe. Due to the high temperatures, particles with sub-GeV masses can be copiously produced if they have non-negligible couplings to the Standard Model. If dark matter has sub-GeV mass it will be produced in the hot Supernovae core and it will have sufficiently large momenta to be detectable in direct detection experiments. In this talk I discuss the sensitivity of current and future Xenon based direct detection experiments to a simplified model of dark matter which interacts with the Standard Model via the dark photon portal.

Date & Time

October 23, 2018 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm

Location

Jadwin Hall, Room 303

Speakers

Gustavo Markes Tavares

Affiliation

Stanford University