6th Symposium on Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Nuclear Physics 2018

Session

Plenary Session 8

3 Jul 2018, 11:00

IBS HQ, Daejeon, Korea

Conveners

Plenary Session 8: DM/ BD

• Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

80. Solar neutrinos in dark matter experiments

Prof. Louis Strigari (Texas A&M University)

03/07/2018, 11:00

Oral

I will discuss the prospects for identifying solar neutrinos in future direct dark matter detection experiments. I will discuss them as a background for dark matter searches, and also the implications for constraining the properties of neutrinos and their sources. I will also discuss the complementarity of these future measurements with terrestrial coherent neutrino scattering experiments.

62. The CYGNUS directional search for dark matter below the neutrino floor

Prof. Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

03/07/2018, 11:30

Oral

An update is presented on progress towards realising a direction sensitive WIMP dark matter detector called CYGNUS with eventual sensitivity to probe below the neutrino floor. Latest R&D and simulations are presented towards underpinning sensitivity in this region, including new work on use of SF6+He4 gas mixtures to allow sensitivity in the low WIMP mass regime with both direction...

81. The Electron Capture in $^{163}$Ho experiment – ECHo

Prof. Loredana Gastaldo (Heidelberg University, Kirchhoff Institute for Physics)

03/07/2018, 12:00

Oral

Direct determination of the electron neutrino $m(\nu_{\mathrm{e}})$ and anti-neutrino mass $m(\bar{\nu}_{\mathrm{e}})$ can be obtained by the analysis of electron capture and beta spectra respectively. In the last years experiments analyzing the $^3$H beta spectrum reached a limit on $m(\bar{\nu}_{\mathrm{e}})$ of 2 eV. The upper limit on $m(\nu_{\mathrm{e}})$ is still two orders of magnitudes...