This group covers dark matter in the regime where it appears in experiments as individual quanta, rather than coherently via wave phenomena. Techniques to search for such particles include directly through its interaction with detector materials, indirectly from products of its annihilation, and via production at accelerators (primarily covered in other frontiers).
We held a series of 90 minute meetings for the CF1 topical group in August and September of 2020. These meetings included a mixture of short talks, panels, and general discussion and questions, informed by the responses from the interest survey and the discussion at the kickoff meeting. Thanks to all of you who attended the meetings or filled in the survey.
In November and December, we held a series of meeting describing our Big Questions White Paper planning, requesting feedback and volunteers to be coordinators and contributors.
Our Indico page contains meeting details, including recordings and real-time minutes, for all CF1 meetings: https://indico.fnal.gov/category/1193
In November 2020, we set out ~8 “Big Questions” that could be addressed by the community via white papers. The focus of these papers can still change as the community works together to talk about what is most important, but the topics to first order are listed below, along with paper coordinators and the name of the relevant Snowmass slack channel. Everyone is welcome to contribute, so please contact the CF1 conveners or paper coordinators, or just join the slack channel to get involved.
Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.