PIRSA:11020119 Scientific Series Cosmology

DOI10.48660/11020119

Series: Cosmology and Gravitation

Strigari, L. (2011). The Search for WIMP Dark Matter. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/11020119

Strigari, Louis. The Search for WIMP Dark Matter. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 17, 2011, https://pirsa.org/11020119 

@misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:11020119,
  doi = {10.48660/11020119},
  url = {https://pirsa.org/11020119},
  author = {Strigari, Louis},
  keywords = {Cosmology},
  language = {en},
  title = {The Search for WIMP Dark Matter},
  publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
  year = {2011},
  month = {feb},
  note = {PIRSA:11020119 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
}

Abstract

For nearly the past century, the nature of dark matter in the Universe has puzzled astronomers and physicists. During the next decade, experiments will determine if a substantial amount of the dark matter is in the form of non-baryonic, Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). In this talk I will discuss and interpret modern limits on WIMP dark matter from a variety of complementary methods. I will show that we are just now obtaining sensitivity to probe the parameter space of cosmologically-predicted WIMPs created during the earliest epoch in the Universe. I will discuss the science to extract from a positive signal in different experiments, and the prospects for an era of dark matter astrophysics.

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