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New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter
by Surjeet Rajendran
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Surjeet Rajendran |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202109_00034v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2022-04-13 |
| Date submitted: | 2022-04-03 22:54 |
| Submitted by: | Rajendran, Surjeet |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Experimental |
Abstract
The identification of the nature of dark matter is one of the most important problems confronting particle physics. Current observational constraints permit the mass of the dark matter to range from $\sim 10^{-22}$ eV - $10^{48}$ GeV. Given the weak nature of these bounds and the ease with which dark matter models can be constructed, it is clear that the problem can only be solved experimentally. In these lectures, I discuss methods to experimentally probe a wide range of dark matter candidates.
Author comments upon resubmission
I have incorporated the vast majority of the comments by the reviewers. The only comments I have not incorporated involve specifying the speed of light explicitly when I talk about velocities of dark matter since I think this is clear.
Published as SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 56 (2022)