Physics (Internal)

Searching for Dark Matter

This event is part of the HEE Seminar Series.

There is now overwhelming evidence for the existence of vast quantities of non-baryonic dark matter in the Universe. I will give a brief overview of the current status of direct and indirect searches for this mysterious stuff. Then I will concentrate on the future of these searches, including special attention to a novel experiment, DMTPC. This experiment is being designed to be able to identify the direction of the “dark matter wind,” which will be crucial for the ultimate discovery of dark matter.