| Seminar Date: | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
| Location: | KIPAC Auditorium |
| Abstract: | Theories of weak scale dark matter are becoming increasingly squeezed by probes from direct and indirect detection and from the LHC. On the other hand, well-motivated theories of dark matter (such as Asymmetric Dark Matter) predict dark matter well below the weak scale, in some cases with mass around the proton mass. These particles typically must interact with dark forces, and the interactions with this dark force may give observable signatures at intensity experiments. We make explicit connections between intensity experiments and cosmological signatures for these dark matter candidates. |
| Speaker: | Kathryn Zurek - University of Michigan
 Education:
Bethel University B.S. 2001
University of Washington Ph.D. 2006.
Currently Associate Professor at the University of Michigan.
Professor Kathryn Zurek works at the interface of particle physics with cosmology and astrophysics. Her work spans both studies of new physics signatures at colliders, as well as astrophysical searches for dark matter (DM) and physics beyond the Standard Model in the neutrino sector.
Recently, she has been most active in the study of DM. The presence of DM (five times as prevalent as ordinary matter in the universe) provides strong evidence that there are new particles beyond those in the Standard Model (which describes all currently known particles and interactions). Professor Zurek works on theories of DM and ways that we can detect it in the lab by DM-nucleus interactions, at colliders through high energy collisions, and in the galaxy by DM self-annihilations.
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