Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Particles (WIMPs) are among the most well-motivated models for particle dark matter. Among a plethora of WIMP model building, models utilizing a standard thermal annihilation cross-section for the dark matter particle hold a particular significance due to their simplicity. The field of indirect dark matter searches has recently made an exciting transition from...
We are entering the era of multi-messenger astronomy with the first discovery of an electromagnetic kilonova counterpart to a gravitational wave signal of a binary neutron star merger and the identification of a flaring blazar as a compelling high-energy neutrino source candidate. I will highlight the possible synergies between electromagnetic observations and other messengers such as cosmic...
The Hubble tension between the distance ladder and measurements of the early universe has persisted and grown in recent years, remaining unresolved despite intense scrutiny within the cosmology community. I will review some of the main datasets involved, discuss why coming up with a compelling explanation has proven difficult, and share some of the work I have led or contributed to in an...
The most promising indirect search for the existence of axion dark matter uses radio telescopes to look for narrow spectral lines generated in the magnetospheres of neutron stars. Unfortunately, a large list of theoretical uncertainties has prevented this search strategy from being accepted as robust. In this talk I will present a novel end-to-end pipeline that traces individual photon...
The kinematics of WIMP dark matter-nuclear scattering is drastically altered if the interaction is inelastic, i.e. dark matter is up-scattered to a heavier state with certain mass splitting. With $\mathcal{O}$(100) keV mass splitting inelastic dark matter will evade the search in most direct detection experiments, where the momentum transfer is limited either by the mass of target nuclei, or...
Experimental developments in neutrino telescopes are drastically improving their ability to constrain the annihilation cross-section of dark matter. In this talk we project the future sensitivity of a Neutrino telescope similar to KM3NeT. Focusing on particle models for dark matter, we assess how these future limits will complement the existing landscape of dark matter searches. This brings...
This talk will feature the latest results of the dark matter search with DEAP-3600, including constraints on dark matter-nucleon effective couplings in the presence of kinematically distinct galactic halo substructures. The DEAP-3600 experiment is located 2 km underground at SNOLAB in Sudbury, Canada. This spherical detector consists of 3.3 tonnes of liquid argon in a large ultralow-background...
The HAWC telescopes has recently revealed new spectra for gamma-ray sources in the Galactic plane. In this talk I will review the possibility of detecting these sources at KM3 detectors. I will consider, with particular emphasis, the 2HWC J1825-134 source. Amongst the HAWC sources, it is indeed the most luminous in the multi-TeV domain and, therefore, is one of the first that should be...
The NEWS-G (New Experiments With Spheres-Gas) collaboration is searching for light dark matter candidates using a novel detector concept, the spherical proportional counter. Access to the mass range from 0.05 to 10 GeV is enabled by the combination of low energy threshold, light gaseous targets (H, He, Ne), and highly radio-pure detector construction. First NEWS-G results obtained with SEDINE,...