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2013
Hunting for Dark Matter From Colliders to the Cosmos
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Pacific/Honolulu
112 (Watanabe Hall)
112
Watanabe Hall
Description
Astrophysical and cosmological observations provide
compelling evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe,
but its particle physics nature remains mysterious. The
weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) has been proposed as a dark
matter candidate. In this talk, I will first show that particle colliders like the Tevatron and the LHC are powerful tools to hunt for
WIMP dark matter. I will also discuss dark matter models beyond the
WIMP paradigm and search strategies for them. Astrophysical objects
such as neutron stars, the Bullet Cluster, dwarf galaxies provide
natural laboratories for exploring dark matter beyond the WIMP model.
