23rd International Conference From the Planck scale to the Electroweak scale (Planck 2021)

Session

Dark Universe / Astro-particles

28 Jun 2021, 12:00

1. Dark Matter Hunting in 2021 – How do you look for something when you don’t know what it is?

Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College London)

28/06/2021, 12:00

The Search for clues as to the nature of Dark Matter continues in more varied and novel ways than ever before and has never been more challenging nor more stimulating. In this talk I will describe a variety of approaches that have been worked on over the past years, focusing shamelessly on those I have been involved in personally. We can learn about dark matter through observations of dwarf...

2. The quest for the origin of matter

Marco Drewes

28/06/2021, 12:50

Observations strongly indicate that the baryonic matter in the observable universe is the remnant of a matter-antimatter asymmetry in the primordial plasma, which cannot be explained by the Standard Model of particle physics. If the new particles that are responsible for this asymmetry have masses below the TeV scale they may be discovered within the next decade. Using the example of low scale...

3. Detecting Dark Matter in Celestial Bodies

Rebecca Leane

28/06/2021, 15:30

Stars and planets can be ideal playgrounds to discover dark matter. In this talk, I will review a range of dark matter searches using celestial objects, including neutron stars, exoplanets, solar-system planets, and our Sun. I will discuss different search strategies, their opportunities and limitations, and the interplay of regimes where different celestial objects are optimal detectors.