US Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter 2017 : Community Report

Technical Report · Mon May 08 04:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1389964· OSTI ID:1389964

Feng, J. ^[1]; Fox, P. ^[1]; Dawson, W. A. ^[1]; Ammons, M. ^[1]; Axelrod, T. ^[1]; Chapline, G. ^[1]; Drlica-Wagner, A. ^[1]; Golovich, N. ^[1]; Schneider, M. ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

This white paper summarizes the workshop “U.S. Cosmic Visions: New Ideas in Dark Matter” held at University of Maryland from March 23-25. The flagships of the US Dark Matter search program are the G2 experiments ADMX, LZ, and SuperCDMS, which will cover well-motivated axion and WIMP dark matter over a range of masses. The workshop assumes that a complete exploration of this parameter space remains the highest priority of the dark matter community, and focuses instead on the science case for additional new small-scale projects in dark matter science that complement the G2 program (and other ongoing projects worldwide). It therefore concentrates on exploring distinct, well-motivated parameter space that will not be covered by the existing program; on surveying ideas for such projects (i.e. projects costing ~$10M or less); and on placing these ideas in a global context. The workshop included over 100 presentations of new ideas, proposals and recent science and R&D results from the US and international scientific community.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-07NA27344
• OSTI ID: 1389964
• Report Number(s): LLNL-TR--730998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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