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Dark Matter Theory
Seminar for Master students - Masterpflichtseminar
Tuesdays, 16:15 - 18:00
Philosophenweg 12, SR 106
First meeting: Tuesday, October 19.
Welcome to the dark side of the universe
As of today, we have ample evidence for dark matter based on astrophysical and cosmological observations. But we know very little about the fundamental nature of dark matter. In this seminar, we will explore the hypothesis that dark matter is a new particle, or an entire sector of new particles, from a theory perspective. We will discuss what we think are good candidates for dark matter, how dark matter could have been produced in the early universe, and how we search for dark matter at experiments today.
Seminar course
Each student will give a 3 x 12 minutes presentation on one of the topics, followed by a discussion with all of us. We will distribute the topics at our first meeting.
In addition, you will write a summary of your presentation in 5-8 DIN A4 pages. This write-up is due 2 weeks after your presentation.
What you should know
To be equipped with background knowledge for this seminar, you should have attended at least one of the courses listed below (or equivalent courses).
- The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Quantum Field Theory I/II
Schedule
- Di 19.10.2021 16:15 Introduction
- Di 26.10.2021 16:15 Preparation - Get-together
- Di 2.11.2021 16:15 Preparation
- Di 9.11.2021 16:15 Evidence for Dark Matter and candidates
- Di 16.11.2021 16:15 Thermal Dark Matter and relic abundance
Jona Ackerschott - Di 23.11.2021 16:15 Portals to a dark sector
Alice Vendrame - Di 30.11.2021 16:15 Dark Matter annihilation and indirect detection
Ilaria Del Rosso - Di 7.12.2021 16:15 Dark Matter-nucleon scattering and direct detection
Nils Tobias Tobias Becker - Di 14.12.2021 16:15 Dark Matter production at colliders
Maksim Stepulev - Di 21.12.2021 16:15 No seminar
- Di 28.12.2021 16:15 No seminar
- Di 4.1.2022 16:15 No seminar
- Di 11.1.2022 16:15 Non-thermal Dark Matter
Fotios Fronimos Pouliasis - Di 18.1.2022 16:15 No seminar
- Di 25.1.2022 16:15 Dark matter searches with long-lived particles
Mirco Erpelding - Di 1.2.2022 16:15 Axion Dark Matter
Thilo Blumenberg - Di 8.2.2022 16:15 Sterile neutrinos as Dark Matter
Nikita Schmal - Di 15.2.2022 16:15 Exam week - no seminar
Preparation meetings
2 weeks before your talk: Tuesday, 13:30 - 14:00, online on zoom
Link: https://zoom.us/j/8104759006?pwd=VDFQQ2hFU3FBTGNOZ2J2SUp6R1Uydz09
Meeting-ID: 810 475 9006
Code: 016090
1 week before your talk: Tuesday, 17:30 - 18:00 (after the seminar), Philosophenweg 12, R 115
Literature
- G. Bertone, D. Hooper, A History of Dark Matter
- G. Bertone, D. Hooper, J. Silk, Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints
- G. Gelmini, TASI 2014 Lectures: The Hunt For Dark Matter
- M. Lisanti, Lectures on Dark Matter Physics
- T. Slatyer, TASI Lectures on Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
- T. Lin, TASI lectures on dark matter models and direct detection
- Y. Mambrini, Histories of Particles in the Dark Universe
- M. Bauer, T. Plehn, Yet Another Introduction to Dark Matter
- G. Arcadi et al., The Waning of the WIMP? A Review of Models, Searches, and Constraints
- F. Kahlhoefer, Review of LHC Dark Matter Searches
- Bernal et al.: The dawn of FIMP dark matter: A review of models and constraints
- D. Baumann, Masters Course on Cosmology
- S. Dodelson, Modern Cosmology (textbook), Academic Press, 2003
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