Description:

Cold dark matter is one of the major constituents of the leading cosmological model for our Universe, with many ongoing experimental efforts at directly detecting interactions of the hypothetical particle with terrestrial detectors. SuperCDMS SNOLAB is a Generation-2 dark matter experiment under construction at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada, that will employ state of the art cryogenic detectors capable of detecting sub-keV energy depositions from potential dark matter interactions. 

This talk will discuss the principle behind the SuperCDMS detector technology, the status of the ongoing construction of SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment as well as its ultimate scientific reach in searching for dark matter particles over a broad mass range, spanning from eV to GeV.

Tarek Saab, Associate Professor, University of Florida

Host: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano