PSI Explorations: Dark Matter

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General Information

Lectures:
Mon.-Fri., 10:15-11:15am
(March 18 - April 5, 2013)

Instructor:
David Morrissey
dmorri@triumf.ca

Course Tutor:
Tibra Ali
Rm. 274w
tali@perimeterinstitute.ca

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Outline

• Evidence for Dark Matter
• Thermal Creation of Dark Matter
• WIMPs as Thermal Dark Matter
• Non-Thermal Creation of Dark Matter
• Direct Detection
• Indirect Detection
• DM@LHC
• Axions as Dark Matter

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Lecture Notes

0. Background Material
1. Dark Matter in the Cosmos
2. Thermal Dark Matter Creation
3. WIMP Dark Matter
4. Non-Thermal Dark Matter Creation
5. Direct Detection of Dark Matter
6. Indirect Detection of Dark Matter
7. Dark Matter and Stars
8. Dark Matter at Colliders
9. Axions and Dark Matter

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Assignments

1. Freeze Out Calculations (due Mar. 28)
2. Dark Matter Production and Detection (due Apr. 5)
3. Indirect Detection, Axions (due Apr. 12)

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Tutorials (by Tibra Ali)

1. The Jeans Instability
2. Entropy Injection, Cross Sections
3. Estimating Equilibrium
4. Non-Thermal DM
5. Direct Detection of DM
6. Scattering Practice

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