I am Dan McKinsey, and I am a dark matter hunter from Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, AMA!
Abstract
That’s a wrap! Thanks for all the great questions today. Don’t forget to
check out #DarkMatterDay tomorrow via http://www.darkmatterday.com. I’m
Dan McKinsey and am here to answer your questions about dark matter, the
mysterious stuff that makes up an estimated 85 percent of all matter in
the universe, and about how we search for it. My research, before with
LUX and now with LUX-ZEPLIN, the next generation of dark matter particle
detectors that is under construction at an underground research facility
in South Dakota, centers on non-accelerator particle physics, particle
astrophysics, and low-temperature physics. In particular, I work on the
development, construction, and operation of new detectors using liquid
forms of noble gases like xeon, which are useful in looking for physics
beyond the Standard Model. Applications for this research include the
search for dark matter interactions with ordinary matter, searches for a
process known as neutrinoless double beta decay that can help us
understand the matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe, and the
measurement of the low-energy solar neutrino flux. This talk is one of
dozens of events that are related to Dark Matter Day, an international
celebration of the search for the unseen on October 31st. Dan McKinsey’s
Bio http://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/Daniel-McKinsey Dark
Matter Day - http://www.darkmatterday.com Ask Symmetry - How is the
Force like dark matter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foTNIwSidjc
Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/02/13/next-gen-dark-matter-detector-race-finish-line/
Dark Matter day is Approaching… but Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
http://bit.ly/lbnl-dmd-reddit Berkeley Lab - http://bit.ly/lbnl-reddit