PSI Explorations: Dark Matter

General Information

Outline

• Evidence for Dark Matter
• Thermal and Non-Thermal Creation of Dark Matter
• Direct Detection
• Indirect Detection
• DM@LHC
• Popular (WIMP-Like) Candidates
• Axions as Dark Matter

Lecture Notes

1. Dark Matter in the Cosmos
2. Thermal Dark Matter Creation
3. More Dark Matter Creation

Assignments

1. Freeze Out Calculations (due Apr. 12)
2. Dark Matter Production and Detection (due Apr. 20)
3. Dark Matter Research (due Apr. 27)

Tutorials (by Tibra Ali)

1. The Jeans Instability
2. Cross Sections
3. Direct Detection Scattering
4. Some Effective Field Theory
5. Estimating Equilibrium