Speaker
Benjamin Ryan Safdi
Description
The microscopic nature of dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries of modern science. On the other hand, the best-motivated particle dark matter candidates will be definitively probed in the coming years by a combination of laboratory and astrophysical probes. In this review I will focus on present-day and near future efforts to use astrophysical observations, for example in the gamma-ray band, to indirectly detect the microscopic nature of motivated dark matter candidates including the QCD axion and minimal thermal dark matter candidates like the higgsino.