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Physics Colloquium: "From ALPs to 'ZILLAS: Discovering Dark Matter In Novel Laboratories"
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Department of Physics
- Location
- Loomis Lab 141 and via Zoom
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Nov 8, 2023 4:00 pm
- Speaker
- Gordan Krnjaic (UChicago)
- Contact
- Kelly H Darr
- khdarr@illinois.edu
- Phone
- 217-300-7821
- Views
- 184
- Originating Calendar
- Physics - Colloquium
Although the astrophysical evidence for the existence of dark matter is overwhelming, its microscopic properties remain elusive, despite decades of dedicated searches for the dominant weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) paradigm. In light of this experimental situation, there has recently been a surge of activity to broaden the search program by utilizing previously overlooked strategies, which leverage novel terrestrial and cosmic laboratories to probe dark matter beyond the WIMP framework. I will survey some of these ideas and present a road map towards greatly expanding our coverage of well-motivated dark matter models that sample the full range of viable candidate masses.