191214 Kinetic Inductance Detector for Next Generation Dark Matter Search

Title:
Kinetic Inductance Detector for Next Generation Dark Matter Search

Speaker:
張硯詠 (Yen-Yung Chang), PhD candidate, Caltech

Time:
12/14 (Sat.) 5 pm PST, 6 pm MST, 7 pm CST, 8 pm EST
12/15 (Sun.) 9 am Taiwan

Keywords:
Physics, High energy physics, Dark matter, Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID), SuperCDMS

Abstract:

In recent years, development in dark matter (DM) phenomenology below GeV scale has been booming, partially due to the null results from collider and noble liquid-based searches, and partially thanks to new technologies' sensitivity in previously unreachable territory.

I will begin with the rich phenomenology in low-mass, i.e. sub-GeV to wave-like, DM candidates and discuss SuperCDMS single-electron-hole-sensitive detector and its latest result. And then I will focus the rest of the talk on the ongoing R&D with Kinetic Inductance Detector (KID) at Caltech and NASA-JAP as a promising alternative to current technologies, e.g. transition edge sensor (TES), for future larger scale, low-threshold DM searches.