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Dec
12
2022

HEP Seminar: Matheus Hostert: Dark Neutrons Underground

When: Monday, December 12, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT

Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Joan West  

Group: Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars

Category: Academic

Description:

I will discuss signatures of dark baryons that mix with the neutron at underground neutrino experiments. Intense neutron sources can produce dark neutrons that upon transversing the shielding designed to stop normal neutrons, can be absorbed in neutrino detectors. We point out that the IsoDAR experiment, a proposal to place a high-intensity cyclotron at Yemilab, can place the strongest constraints in parameter space by searching for this neutron-shinning-through-walls signature. We also discuss the nuclear absorption of dark neutrons at large volume neutrino detectors when they constitute dark matter.

Dr. Matheus Hostert, Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario

Host: Andre de Gouvea

 

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