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Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk – Graham Giovanetti

January 17, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am

UNC-CH Physics and Astronomy Chalk Talk

Graham Giovanetti, Princeton University

“Development of low-background detectors for future rare-event searches”

Physics beyond the Standard Model may be accessible to novel, ultra low-background detectors that push the frontiers of experimental sensitivity. Two such detectors are LEGEND, a search for neutrinoless double-beta decay using germanium diodes immersed in a liquid argon veto, and DarkSide-20k, an argon time projection chamber that will search for dark matter. While exploring very different physics, LEGEND and DarkSide-20k share many of the same technological challenges inherent in the design of a tonne-scale, low-background detector using argon. I will discuss a research program that addresses some of these common issues and advances the development of new detectors capable of probing novel parameter space in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay, dark matter, and other rare events.

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Date:
January 17, 2019
Time:
9:30 am - 11:00 am
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Phillips 277