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September 13, 2024 past

PUG Seminar

Whitmore 321 (IGC Lounge)

PUG Seminar

NEST (Noble Element Simulation Technique) is a semi-empirical model that describes the charge and light signals generated by particle interactions in liquid noble elements. This tool is particularly effective for simulating the behavior of dark matter detectors that utilize liquid noble elements as target material. In this seminar, I will explain how NEST can be employed to simulate the detector response of liquid-xenon-based detectors used for direct dark matter search.

Program

Date Time Speaker Title
2024-09-13 14:00 Yen-Ting Chin Simulations for dark matter experiments with NEST
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Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.