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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 1: Tutorial: Dark Matter (joint session AKjDPG/GR/T)

GR 1.2: Tutorial

Sunday, March 29, 2020, 17:00–17:45, P-HS 1

Search for Dark Matter — •Christian Weinheimer — Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Münster

There is multiple and clear evidence from astrophysics and cosmology that exist more matter than we see in the universe. This dark matter should be mainly exotic, i.e. not made out of particles from the Standard Model of particle physics. There are quite a variety of candidates for dark matter, which reqire different search methods.

In my talk I will present various experimental direct and indirect methods to look for candidates for dark matter at underground laboratories, at collider experiments and by astroparticle physics telescopes. At some characteristic examples I will explain detectors and experimental techniques.