Physics Theory Seminar with Huaike Guo on Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter

Physics Theory Seminar with Huaike Guo on Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter

Huaike Guo (Hosted by Dev) from University of Oklahoma will be presenting the seminar "Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter in LIGO Data"

Dark matter exists in our Universe, but its nature remains mysterious. The remarkable sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) may be able to solve this mystery. A good dark matter candidate is the ultralight dark photon. Because of its interaction with ordinary matter, it induces displacements on LIGO mirrors that can lead to an observable signal. In this talk I will briefly introduce the dark photon, discuss in detail its signal properties at LIGO and our searches using LIGO data.

Zoom link available upon request at physics@wustl.edu.
Post-docs and students' Q&A with the speaker starts at 2:15 pm.  Contact Garrett King for the Q&A Zoom link.