1. HET Special Seminar

    "The Quest for Dark Sectors"

    Presented by Claudia Frugiuele, Weizmann

    Friday, July 20, 2018, 10 am
    Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

    Hosted by: Sally Dawson

    Dark sectors are ubiquitous in physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), and may play a role in explaining many of the long-standing problems of the SM such as the existence of dark matter or the electroweak hierarchy problem. By definition, dark sectors are not charged under any of the known forces. Discovering their possible existence is thus challenging. I will describe how a a broad program combining particle, nuclear and atomic physics experiments can effectively probe a large region of the parameter space. I will show how the unique signatures of such physics can already be searched for with existing/planned experiments, including neutrino-proton fixed-target experiments and precision atomic measurements.