Research Seminars @ Illinois

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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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High Energy Physics Seminar - Marcell Howard (University of Pittsburgh) "Gravitational Particle Production as a Mechanism for Generating Dark Matter"

Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor: Physics Department
Location: Rhondale Tso Seminar Room, Loomis 236
Date: Sep 12, 2025 11:00 am
Speaker: Marcell Howard (University of Pittsburgh)
Contact: Brandy Koebbe
E-Mail: bkoebbe@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Physics - High Energy Physics Seminar; The lack of direct detections for weakly interacting massive particles has led theorists to think about more exotic scenarios for producing DM in the early Universe. One viable alternative is gravitational particle production i.e. the creation of particles through due to the presence of a sufficiently strong gravitational field. In this talk, I will go over how this mechanism can be used to produce a viable free scalar field dark matter candidate and how these results can be extended to a self-interacting scalar field.

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