21.01.2020 / 16:00 / Hamburg, Auditorium

Particle and Astroparticle Physics Seminar

Hic Sunt Leones: Charting Dark Matter Frontiers

Filippo Sala (DESY)

Dark matter constitutes one of the most pressing open issues in our understanding of nature. Its exploration has so far mostly focused on new particles lighter than a TeV or so, as I will overview in the first part of this colloquium. I will then switch to heavier dark matter, a new frontier which is attracting increasing interest in the community. I will highlight the key concepts behind the models that host these candidates, as well as the more promising searches for them, from high-energy cosmic-ray data at operating (e.g. H.E.S.S. II) and planned (e.g. CTA, KM3NeT) telescopes, to gravitational waves at LISA.

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