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<div class="">I thought that some of you not in KICP might be interested as well to this talk.</div>
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</b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[KICP announcement] KICP Wednesday Colloquium (12-10-14) Daniel Akerib</b><br class="">
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WEDNESDAY COLLOQUIUM and WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION<br class="">
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Please note that for all KICP and A&A Colloquia, <br class="">
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there will be a Wine & Cheese Reception <br class="">
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immediately following the talk <br class="">
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Daniel Akerib<br class="">
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SLAC<br class="">
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"Do WIMPs Rule? The LUX & LZ Experiments and the Search for Cosmic Dark<br class="">
Matter"<br class="">
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Dark Matter remains a profound mystery at the intersection of particle<br class="">
physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. One of the leading candidates, the<br class="">
Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, or WIMP, may be detectable using<br class="">
terrestrial particle detectors. Recent technological advances are enabling<br class="">
very rapid increases in sensitivity in the search for these particles. I<br class="">
will talk about the LUX experiment, a liquid xenon time projection chamber,<br class="">
which currently holds the best upper limit over much of the mass range. I<br class="">
will also discuss plans for a larger follow up experiment, LZ, which will<br class="">
just begin to measure a background neutrino signal that will set a<br class="">
fundamental limit our ability to search for WIMP dark matter. <br class="">
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Wednesday<br class="">
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December 10, 2014<br class="">
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3:00 pm <br class="">
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Locations and Times:<br class="">
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BSLC 001<br class="">
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Colloquium (3:00 pm)<br class="">
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LASR Conference Room<br class="">
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Wine and Cheese Reception (4:00 - 5:00 pm)<br class="">
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