Financial Assistance for the CYGNUS 2009 Conference on Directional Dark Matter Detection; June 2009, Cambridge, MA

该奖项将部分支持年轻科学家（研究生和博士后研究人员）参加CYGNUS 2009定向暗物质探测会议。这是一系列会议中的第二次，致力于围绕定向暗物质探测的理论和实验挑战。会议将于2009年6月11日至13日在麻省理工学院举行。天体物理观测表明，宇宙的物质含量主要是由非重子暗物质。虽然暗物质预计会渗透到我们的银河系，但没有直接明确检测到暗物质粒子。世界上许多研究小组都在实验室中进行了暗物质粒子与重子物质相互作用的研究。由于暗物质和重子物质之间的相互作用速率非常小，这些实验受到标准模型背景的困扰。然而，暗物质信号的起源是天体物理学的，如果测量到达的方向，应该可以从背景中分离出来。这一想法促使几个国际组织致力于开发具有方向灵敏度的暗物质探测器。CYGNUS系列会议的目标是汇集国际科学界在定向暗物质探测和银河系暗物质分布的理论和实验方面的工作，并协调努力，以实现未来的大型定向暗物质实验。对于更广泛的影响，所有的演讲都将存档，并通过会议网站公开提供，以便许多其他人可以利用会谈。

This award will partially support the participation of younger scientists (graduate students and postdoctoral researchers) in the CYGNUS 2009 Conference on Directional Dark Matter Detection. It is the second in a series of meetings dedicated to the theoretical and experimental challenges surrounding directional dark matter detection. The conference will be held at MIT from June 11-13, 2009.Astrophysical observations suggest that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by nonbaryonic dark matter. Although dark matter is expected to permeate our galaxy, no dark matter particle has been unambiguously detected directly. Many groups worldwide have undertaken programs to search for the interaction of dark matter particles with baryonic matter in the laboratory. Because the interaction rates between dark matter and baryonic matter are so small, these experiments are plagued by Standard Model backgrounds. The dark matter signal, however, is astrophysical in origin, and should be separable from backgrounds if the direction of arrival is measured. This idea has prompted several international groups to pursue the development of dark matter detectors that provide directional sensitivity. The goal of the CYGNUS Conference series is to bring together the international scientific community working on both theoretical and experimental aspects of directional dark matter detection and Galactic dark matter distribution, and to coordinate efforts towards a large future directional dark matter experiment. For the Broader Impacts, all presentations will be archived and publicly available through the conference website so that many others can take advantage of the talks.