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NPP Seminar by Chris Tunnell (Rice)

Date: Tuesday Aug 31, 2021 at 4pm
Location: HBH 227

Title: The bizzare excess electronic recoil events in XENON1T
Speaker: Chris Tunnell (Rice)

Abstract

XENON1T is the most sensitive dark matter detector built to date, but its senstivity has opened up a range of other scientific searches and discoveries. I will tell the story of one such search and the evidence we have for solar axions, a neutrino magnetic moment, or tritium. This result gained substaintial interest in the field with nearly 300 citations in the last year. I will also explain why each explaination is slightly unsettling, where XENONnT (our upgrade) should help clarify this situation.

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