[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Special Seminar today at 14:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Wed 2018-07-11 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Patrick de Perio (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 the latest 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.

Neutrino Candidate Talk

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