Starts 10 Dec 2025 14:30
Ends 10 Dec 2025 15:30
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JOINT ICTP-SISSA-UNITS Seminar - Dark Matter Searches in the Lab, Across Energy Scales
Hybrid
Leonardo Building - Luigi Stasi Seminar Room and via Zoom
Abstract
I will discuss the role that different energy scales play in our direct searches for dark matter. In particular, I will discuss how, lowering the masses one is interested in probing, it becomes mandatory to account for new degrees of freedom: those typically belonging to low energy physics. In this context, these degrees of freedom can be both a curse and a blessing. I will argue that effective field theories for spontaneously broken spacetime symmetries can be a crucial tool to tackle the problem.
I will discuss the role that different energy scales play in our direct searches for dark matter. In particular, I will discuss how, lowering the masses one is interested in probing, it becomes mandatory to account for new degrees of freedom: those typically belonging to low energy physics. In this context, these degrees of freedom can be both a curse and a blessing. I will argue that effective field theories for spontaneously broken spacetime symmetries can be a crucial tool to tackle the problem.