Let op! Deze week om 11.00 uur
Friday 16 Oktober 2009, 11:00h, at Nikhef in H331
Speaker: Dr. Anne Green, Nottingham
Title: WIMP hunting: searching for dark matter
Abstract:
Diverse astrophysical observations indicate that most of the matter in the Universe is cold, dark and non-baryonic. Weakly Interactive Massive Particles (WIMPs) are generically a good dark matter candidate and particle physics provides us will several well-motivated candidates, in particular the lightest neutralino in supersymmetric extensions of the standard model. WIMPs can be detected directly, via elastic scattering in underground detectors, or indirectly, via the products of their annihilation. After an introduction to dark matter and WIMPs, I will discuss the principals, current status and future prospects of WIMP direct and indirect detection experiments.