Ian Shoemaker (Penn State University)
Demystifying the Origin of Dark Matter
Demystifying the Origin of Dark Matter
While very little is known about dark matter, its cosmological abundance is remarkably well-determined and curiously close to the abundance of ordinary matter. Moreover, there may be tentative indications from astronomical data that dark matter self-scatters at a sizeable rate. These clues point to a common solution and could indicate that dark matter interacts with a new force carrier. I will discuss the variety of ways in which this class of dark matter models can be tested in future observations, including: direct detection experiments, The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, and the Large Hadron Collider.
Oct 20 at 4pm in Geo/Phys 407