Speaker
Mr
Ryan Wilkinson
(IPPP, Durham University)
Description
Despite the large number of dedicated experiments, an understanding of the particle nature of dark matter and direct evidence for its existence have remained elusive. However, detection methods generally assume that dark matter consists of cold, massive particles (CDM). In this talk, I will discuss how cosmological data from the CMB and Large-Scale Structure can be used to study dark matter interactions in a model-independent framework. I will show how small interactions with photons and neutrinos can have significant impact on structure formation, potentially solving key problems with the standard CDM cosmology.
Author
Mr
Ryan Wilkinson
(IPPP, Durham University)
