“Beam-Dump Dark Matter Search Utilizing a Low-Threshold, Directional Dark Mat-ter Detector (BDX-DRIFT) at Jefferson Lab ”

Daniel Snowden-Ifft

Occidental College

Monday October 14th, 2019 at 4:00 PM

120 Engineering (Hammond Auditorium)

Light dark matter (LDM) in the context of dark sector theories is an attractive candidate to make up the bulk of the mass of our Universe. This talk presents the LDM discovery potential of a low-pressure, negative-ion, time-projection-chamber detector placed downstream of the Hall A beam-dump at Jefferson Lab receiving 10^22 electrons on target (EOT). [Read More…]