[On_site_list] Colloquium Today: Dark Forces, Dark Matter & the GeV-Scale Discovery Frontier

[Kandice Carter]

Dark Forces, Dark Matter, and the GeV-Scale Discovery Frontier

Philip Schuster
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Faculty Member
SLAC Research Associate

The search for dark matter and new forces mediated by sub-GeV particles with very weak coupling to matter (“dark forces”) is an emerging frontier in fundamental physics. I will present the theoretical motivations for dark forces and their possible connections to dark matter and the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. I will also discuss strategies, results, and prospects for searches at high-energy colliders, flavor factories, and dedicated fixed-target experiments. I will focus particularly on the near-term program of searches for dark forces at Jefferson Lab, including APEX in Hall A and HPS in Hall B, and I will briefly describe opportunities to directly search for dark matter at Jefferson Lab in the future.

Tuesday, April 22 at 3 p.m.
CEBAF Center auditorium
Cookies & coffee in the CEBAF Center lobby, 2:30 p.m.

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