Search for Bosonic Dark Matter with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

ORAL

Abstract

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is a neutrinoless double-beta decay experiment operating at the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility that uses modular arrays of High-Purity germanium detectors enriched in 76Ge in an ultra-low background environment. The DEMONSTRATOR has a low energy program that is capable of probing a variety of physics beyond the standard model; it has previously produced limits on bosonic dark matter candidates that come in two weakly coupling varieties, vector and pseudoscalar (axion-like). These particles would manifest as low energy peaks at their rest mass in the detector spectrum. I describe ongoing efforts in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR's bosonic dark matter campaign, specifically to improve the limits on the coupling parameters of these dark matter candidates in the mass range 9 – 100 keV.

*This material is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, the Particle Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Programs of the National Science Foundation, and the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Presenters

  • Jamin Rager

    • Univ of NC - Chapel Hill

Authors

  • Jamin Rager

    • Univ of NC - Chapel Hill