Conveners
Session I
- Shufang Su (University of Arizona)
I will discuss dark matter candidates that are thermal relics of the early universe. In the first part of the talk, I will present a roadmap for exploring various theories including the WIMP, dark sectors and more, using the observed relic density as guidance. In the second part, I will focus on a class of thermal relics that decouple relativistically early on and require a dilution mechanism...
The content of the universe is well known from astrophysical observations, from which we conclude that about 27% of the universe consists of cold dark matter. Current theories of what a particle physics candidate for dark matter might behave like, provide several avenues for detection of this missing component of our universe. I will discuss the experimental efforts to detect dark matter...
