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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 55: Invited Topical Talks 4

T 55.4: Invited Topical Talk

Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 12:15–12:40, T-H16

Towards the lightest dark matter in direct searches — •Belina von Krosigk — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

In the last decades, astronomical observations have consistently indicated that most of the matter in the Universe remains hidden to even the most sensitive telescopes because it is nonluminous - because it is dark. Observing the respective dark matter particles became one of the most tantalizing endeavors of modern physics. A new generation of large exposure direct search experiments is at the ready to observe weak-scale dark matter particles, with their successors already in the planning. At the same time a new era has begun towards a direct detection of ever lighter dark matter candidates. Novel detector designs are reaching ultra-low detection thresholds with which new detection channels can be exploited and unprecedentedly low dark matter masses can be probed. State-of-the-art direct detection searches most sensitive to light dark matter will be reviewed together with an outlook on where the near future is expected to take us in this quest towards dark matter discovery in the laboratory.