On the (low) threshold of new physics

by David Cerdeño (IPPP Durham)

Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

IFAE Seminar room (IFAE)

In order to search for dark matter with increased sensitivity, the new generation of direct detection experiments will soon be operational with an increased target size and lower experimental thresholds. These offers new possibilities to looking for new physics in the dark matter and in the neutrino sectors. I will first introduce RAPIDD, a surrogate model that we have developed to compute the dark matter spectrum in direct detection experiments and I will use it to review the capability of these detectors to reconstruct dark matter properties. I will then argue that direct detection experiments might also be sensitive to new-physics in the neutrino sector through the observation of coherent neutrino scattering. I will present the potential reach of future experiments and will review the conditions under which solar neutrinos from the CNO flux can be observed.