[Seminars] Reminder: Informal lunch talk Friday

[jia liu]

Dear All,

We will postpone the talk to Friday (Nov 3rd, 2017) 3:00 P.M. and the
location does not change. Feel free to join.

Best regards,
Jia


On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:17 AM, jia liu <liuj1 at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Doojin Kim, a CERN postdoc who is visiting Fermilab will give an informal
> lunch talk on Friday. Feel free to join.
>
> DATE: Friday November 3, 2017
>
> TIME: roughly 3:00 P.M.
>
> LOCATION: PRC 3rd Floor Common Space
>
> Speaker: Doojin Kim (CERN)
>
> Title: A New Dark Matter (in)Direct Search Strategy
>
> Abstract: I propose a new dark matter (DM) detection strategy for models
> with a non-minimal dark sector. The strategy is to search for
> relativistic, inelastic scattering signatures of DM at conventional DM
> direct detection experiments via a DM interaction with target material
> inside the detector. The signal process is characterized by an inelastic
> scattering of relativistic/boosted DM, which may arise in multi-component
> DM scenarios, into a heavier unstable dark-sector state which
> subsequently decays back into DM along with visible particles. I will argue
> that the presence of the secondary (visible) decay signature along with an
> energetic target recoil is very unique, hence allow to unambiguously
> separate signal events from associated background ones. I will then discuss
> some interesting phenomenology including detection prospects at the
> above-mentioned experiments, taking the dark photon scenario as a benchmark
> model.
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Jia Liu
> Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago,
> Chicago, IL 60637, USA
> liuj1 at uchicago.edu
>



-- 
Sincerely,
Jia Liu
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
liuj1 at uchicago.edu
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