Date Oct 23, 2018, 4:00 pm – 4:00 pm Location Jadwin 303 Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Speaker Gustavo Markes Tavares Affiliation University of Maryland Details Event Description The central region of Supernovae are one of the hottest and densest regions in the Universe. Due to the high temperatures, particles with sub-GeV masses can be copiously produced if they have non-negligible couplings to the Standard Model. If dark matter has sub-GeV mass it will be produced in the hot Supernovae core and it will have sufficiently large momenta to be detectable in direct detection experiments. In this talk I discuss the sensitivity of current and future Xenon based direct detection experiments to a simplified model of dark matter which interacts with the Standard Model via the dark photon portal.