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Decoding the Mystery of Dark Matter with Celestial Objects
Speaker
Anupam Ray
Date
Fri September 13th 2024, 3:00pm
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley and University of Minnesota
Event Sponsor
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
Location
Varian 312

SITP sign on 3rd floor of the Varian Physics Building
Event Topic
Dark Matter (DM) remains mysterious. Despite decades of experimental and theoretical efforts, its microscopic identity is still unknown to us. In this talk, I will walk you through how a variety of celestial objects can be utilised as powerful DM detectors. This astrophysical probe, complementary to the terrestrial and cosmological probes, covers a significant portion of the DM parameters (DM mass and its interaction strength with nucleons) which otherwise remains elusive.