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HET Brown Bag Seminar | You Can Hide but You Have to Run: New Theory Tools to Unveil the Mystery of Dark Matter

Francesco D'Eramo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
12:00-1:00 PM
3481 Randall Laboratory Map
The origin and composition of 85% of the matter in the universe is completely unknown. Among several viable options, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are motivated dark matter candidates that can be tested by different and complementary search strategies. Crucially, different searches probe WIMP couplings at different energy scales, and such a separation of scales has striking consequences in connecting different experimental probes. This motivates the development of theoretical tools to properly connect the different energy scales involved in constraining WIMP models. I will introduce these tools and I will illustrate with several examples how crucial the inclusion of these effects in WIMP searches is.
Building: Randall Laboratory
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Tags: Culture, Free, Graduate, Lecture, Physics, Science, Talk, Undergraduate
Source: Happening @ Michigan from HET Brown Bag Series, Department of Physics