Calendar

Physics Colloquium: "From ALPs to 'ZILLAS: Discovering Dark Matter In Novel Laboratories"

Speaker: Gordan Krnjaic (UChicago)
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.