Physics Colloquium: "From ALPs to 'ZILLAS: Discovering Dark Matter In Novel Laboratories"
Speaker: |
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Gordan Krnjaic (UChicago) |
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Date: | 11/8/2023 |
Time: | 4 p.m. |
Location: | Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom |
Event Contact: | Kelly H Darr 217-300-7821 khdarr@illinois.edu |
Sponsor: | Department of Physics |
Event Type: | Lecture |
Although the astrophysical evidence for the existence of dark matter is overwhelming, its microscopic properties remain elusive, despite decades of dedicated searches for the dominant weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) paradigm. In light of this experimental situation, there has recently been a surge of activity to broaden the search program by utilizing previously overlooked strategies, which leverage novel terrestrial and cosmic laboratories to probe dark matter beyond the WIMP framework. I will survey some of these ideas and present a road map towards greatly expanding our coverage of well-motivated dark matter models that sample the full range of viable candidate masses. |