Topic: Dark Matter Detection - Building a Detector to catch the Invisible

Dr Theresa Fruth

Dr Theresa Fruth is an experimentalist in Astroparticle Physics and an expert in Dark Matter direct detection. She joined the University of Sydney as a lecturer in October 2022. Theresa received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2019 following her work on monitoring sensors and PMT studies for the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter search. She continued her research on the LZ experiment as a post-doctoral researcher at University College London (UCL), contributing to the commissioning and first science exploitation of the detector. At Sydney, she has also joined the Australian SABRE South collaboration, which will be the first experiment of its type in the Southern Hemisphere. 

In this talk, Theresa will talk about the essential building blocks needed for a dark matter detector and how to interpret the recent results from the LZ dark matter experiment.