U.S.-Argentina Cooperative Science Program: Search for Cosmic Dark Matter

9301522 Avignone美国-阿根廷合作科学奖将支持南卡罗来纳州大学的Frank Avignone和阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯TANDAR核实验室的丹尼尔迪格雷戈里奥合作的旅费和相关费用。 该项目旨在安装探测器，屏蔽和数据采集系统，用于探索宇宙中的冷暗物质。 根据最近的研究，地球中冷暗物质候选粒子的弹性散射效应意味着在南纬度重复现有的搜索将使它们更加敏感。 此外，对于一个显着的范围内的冷暗物质的质量和耦合强度，探测器的数据敏感的冷暗物质的核反冲弹性散射将有可观察到的昼夜调制。 该奖项将支持美国方面的两名高级研究人员，一名最近的博士生和一名研究生参与安装并从阿根廷南部的冷暗物质探测器设施获取数据。 双方将受益于初级研究人员的培训、南半球基础研究数据的获取以及技术交流。 ***

9301522 Avignone This U.S.-Argentina Cooperative Science award will support travel and related expenses for collaboration by Frank Avignone of the University of South Carolina and Daniel Di Gregorio of the TANDAR nuclear laboratory in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The project aims to install a detector, shielding, and data acquisition system for exploring cold dark matter in the universe. According to recent research, the effects of elastic scattering of cold dark matter candidate particles in the Earth imply that repeating existing searches at southern latitudes would render them far more sensitive. Also, for a significant range of cold dark matter mass and coupling strength, data from detectors sensitive to cold dark matter by nuclear recoil from elastic scattering will have observable diurnal modulations. This award will support two senior investigators, one recent doctoral recipient, and one graduate student on the U.S. side to participate in installing and obtaining data from a cold dark matter detector facility in southern Argentina. Both sides will benefit from training of junior investigators, access to fundamental research data in the Southern Hemisphere, and exchange of technologies. ***