Whispers in the Dark: Searching for Dark Matter with the SuperCDMS Experiment

Professor Jodi Cooley
Department of Physics, Southern Methodist University

Abstract

The existence of dark matter was first postulated in the early 1930s to account for the orbital velocities of stars in the Milky Way and motion in galaxy clusters. Since that time, astrophysicists and astronomers have produced compelling evidence for the existence of dark matter and determined that it constitutes the bulk of the matter in the Universe. Despite this fact, the composition of the dark matter remains unknown.  In this talk I will present recent results from the SuperCDMS experiment and give updates on the status of the next generation SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment under construction in Sudbury, Ontario.