PSI Explorations: Dark Matter

General Information

Lectures:
Mon.-Fri., 10:15-11:15am
(March 18 - April 5, 2013)
 
Instructor:
David Morrissey
dmorri@triumf.ca
 
Course Tutor:
Tibra Ali
Rm. 274w
tali@perimeterinstitute.ca
 

Outline

Lecture Notes

  1. Background Material
  2. Dark Matter in the Cosmos
  3. Thermal Dark Matter Creation
  4. WIMP Dark Matter
  5. Non-Thermal Dark Matter Creation
  6. Direct Detection of Dark Matter
  7. Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
  8. Dark Matter and Stars
  9. Dark Matter at Colliders
  10. Axions and Dark Matter

Assignments

  1. Freeze Out Calculations (due Mar. 28)
  2. Dark Matter Production and Detection (due Apr. 5)
  3. Indirect Detection, Axions (due Apr. 12)

Tutorials (by Tibra Ali)

  1. The Jeans Instability
  2. Entropy Injection, Cross Sections
  3. Estimating Equilibrium
  4. Non-Thermal DM
  5. Direct Detection of DM
  6. Scattering Practice