Overview
Syllabus
Intro
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Cosmic Microwave Background
Structure Formation
Cluster Mergers, e.g. Bullet Cluster
Typical Rotation Curve: M33
Dark Matter Has Been Discovered have evidence at all time scales and vast length scales have no clue what Dark Matter is made of
Simulation: Cold or Warm?
X-Section From Astrophysics are galaxies and Dark Matter offset?
Sterile Neutrinos
3.5kV Line: 7keV vs?
ADMX Resonant Axion Search microwave cavity, up to 8T, down to 100mk cover most expected parameter space by -2016 gemeration-3 ADMX to probe fractional halo densities
Thermal Relic Particles
WIMPs at the LHC
Mono-Jet Final State
Electrons, and Positron Excess
FERMI Galactic Center
FERMI Dwarf Galaxies
Direct Recoil Search
Direct Scattering - Simplified
SuperCDMS: Ge Crystals First analysis of 577 kg days optimized for GeV WIMP
LUX: Xenon TPC
Direct Scattering - Outlook
Conclusions • Dark Matter exists no clue what it is made of
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APS Physics