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

该奖项将部分资助年轻科学家(研究生和博士后研究人员)参加天鹅座2009年定向暗物质探测会议。这是致力于围绕定向暗物质探测的理论和实验挑战的一系列会议中的第二次。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，宇宙中的物质成分主要是非重子暗物质。尽管暗物质预计将渗透到我们的星系，但还没有直接明确地探测到暗物质粒子。世界各地的许多小组都在实验室里开展了寻找暗物质粒子与重子物质相互作用的计划。由于暗物质和重子物质之间的相互作用率非常小，这些实验受到标准模型背景的困扰。然而，暗物质信号在起源上是天体物理的，如果测量到到达方向，它应该可以与背景分开。这一想法促使几个国际组织致力于开发能够提供方向性灵敏度的暗物质探测器。天鹅座会议系列的目标是将致力于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国际科学界聚集在一起，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，所有发言都将存档，并通过会议网站向公众开放，以便其他许多人可以利用会谈。

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.