[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 09:30

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Thu 2018-05-31 at 09:30

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Patrick dePerio (Columbia U)

Title:     Searching for Dark Matter and CP Violation

Abstract: Two outstanding questions in physics are the nature of dark matter and the origin of the matter-antimatter  asymmetry  in  the  universe.  Astrophysical  observations  imply  the  existence  of dark matter,  an  invisible  and  dominant  mass  component  in  the  universe,  but  it  has eluded  direct detection  to  date.  A  measurement  of  charge-parity  (CP)  violation  in  the  lepton sector  may  help explain the observed preponderance of matter over antimatter. I will present new results from the XENON1T  dark  matter  search  experiment,  consisting  of  a  multi tonne  dual-phase  (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber, as well as my future plans for the measurement of CP violation by  the  T2K  long-baseline  neutrino  oscillation  experiment  and  the next-generation  large  water Cherenkov detector, Hyper-Kamiokande, attempting to answer these two questions.

IPP Research Scientist Candidate

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