Physics Colloquium
Date:
Colloquia
Time: 11:15-12:30
Title: New era in dark matter searches, the dawn of the nuclear clocks
Location: Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Lecturer: Prof. Gilad Perez,Prof. Gilad Perez
Organizer: Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Details: Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract: After a brief introduction related to ultralight (pseudo) scalar dark matter, we ... Read more After a brief introduction related to ultralight (pseudo) scalar dark matter, we shall describe the current status of searches for ultralight dark matter (UDM). We explain why modern clocks can be used to search for both scalar and axion dark matter fields. We review existing and new types of well-motivated models of UDM and argue that they all share one key ingredient - their dominant coupling is to the QCD/nuclear sector.
This is very exciting as we are amidst a revolution in the field of dark matter searches as laser excitation of Th-229 with effective precision of 1:10^13 has been recently achieved, which as we show, is already probing uncharted territory of models. Furthermore, Th-229-based nuclear clock can potentially improve the sensitivity to physics of dark matter and beyond by factor of 10^10! It has several important implications to be discussed.
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