Hot Topics on the Cosmic Frontier

Session

Colloquium 3

17 Jun 2022, 12:00

Contribution list Timetable

6. Wave Dark Matter: Quantum Enabled Opportunities for Discovery

Chelsea Bartram (University of Washington)

17/06/2022, 12:00

Despite robust evidence for the existence of dark matter, questions regarding its precise nature endure. Bosonic dark matter candidates with low mass can be well-described as classical waves. Axions are one particularly compelling form of bosonic dark matter because of their ability to compose all the missing matter and solve the strong CP problem. The direct detection of 'wave-like' dark...

7. Indirect Detection of Dark Matter

Rebecca Leane (SLAC)

17/06/2022, 12:30

All the evidence to date for dark matter comes from its fingerprints in astrophysics and cosmology. This affords indirect detection searches an exciting opportunity not available with terrestrial probes: the chance to test dark matter in its natural habitat. In this talk I will discuss the path toward to dark matter discovery with indirect detection, emphasizing the important role of...

8. Cosmic probes of dark matter

Risa Wechsler (SLAC)

17/06/2022, 13:00

Cosmological and astrophysical measurements have so far provided the only robust, positive empirical measurements of dark matter, and can provide wide-ranging insight into their properties, spanning ~90 orders of magnitude in dark matter mass. I will review a variety of cosmic probes of dark matter, which are able to
distinguish models with different microphysical properties, using tracers...