Kavli Affiliate: W. L. Kimmy Wu | First 5 Authors: Clarence L. Chang, Kevin M. Huffenberger, Bradford A. Benson, Federico Bianchini, Jens Chluba | Summary: This is a solicited whitepaper for the Snowmass 2021 community planning exercise. The paper focuses on measurements and science with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB is foundational to […]
Kavli Affiliate: Noah Kurinsky | First 5 Authors: Daniel Baxter, Raymond Bunker, Sally Shaw, Shawn Westerdale, Isaac Arnquist | Summary: Future dark matter direct detection experiments will reach unprecedented levels of sensitivity. Achieving this sensitivity will require more precise models of signal and background rates in future detectors. Improving the precision of signal and background […]
Kavli Affiliate: Daniel S. Akerib | First 5 Authors: Daniel Baxter, Raymond Bunker, Sally Shaw, Shawn Westerdale, Isaac Arnquist | Summary: Future dark matter direct detection experiments will reach unprecedented levels of sensitivity. Achieving this sensitivity will require more precise models of signal and background rates in future detectors. Improving the precision of signal and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Monica Valluri, Solene Chabanier, Vid Irsic, Eric Armengaud, Michael Walther | Summary: Despite efforts over several decades, direct-detection experiments have not yet led to the discovery of the dark matter (DM) particle. This has led to increasing interest in alternatives to the Lambda CDM (LCDM) paradigm and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Monica Valluri, Solene Chabanier, Vid Irsic, Eric Armengaud, Michael Walther | Summary: Despite efforts over several decades, direct-detection experiments have not yet led to the discovery of the dark matter (DM) particle. This has led to increasing interest in alternatives to the Lambda CDM (LCDM) paradigm and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Nicola Omodei | First 5 Authors: Kristi Engel, Jordan Goodman, Petra Huentemeyer, Carolyn Kierans, Tiffany R. Lewis | Summary: Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about particle acceleration in environments so extreme they cannot be […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Keith Bechtol, Simon Birrer, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Katelin Schutz, Susmita Adhikari | Summary: The non-linear process of cosmic structure formation produces gravitationally bound overdensities of dark matter known as halos. The abundances, density profiles, ellipticities, and spins of these halos can be tied to the underlying fundamental […]
Kavli Affiliate: Risa H. Wechsler | First 5 Authors: Yao-Yuan Mao, Annika H. G. Peter, Susmita Adhikari, Keith Bechtol, Simeon Bird | Summary: Establishing that Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a flagship dark matter experiment is an essential pathway toward understanding the physical nature of dark matter. In the past two decades, wide-field astronomical surveys […]
Kavli Affiliate: Steven M. Kahn | First 5 Authors: Bob Blum, Seth W. Digel, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Salman Habib, Katrin Heitmann | Summary: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) in 2024, spanning an area of 18,000 square degrees in six bands, with more than 800 observations of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Susan Clark | First 5 Authors: Travis S. Humble, Andrea Delgado, Raphael Pooser, Christopher Seck, Ryan Bennink | Summary: Quantum computing offers a new paradigm for advancing high-energy physics research by enabling novel methods for representing and reasoning about fundamental quantum mechanical phenomena. Realizing these ideals will require the development of novel computational […]