Energy content of the universe (NASA)
Content
About 80% of the matter in the universe cannot be explained in terms of ordinary, baryonic matter.
This lecture gives an overview of evidence for this "dark" component, current theoretical ideas to explain its so far obscure
nature, as well as strategies to test them.
Prerequisites
The lecture is mainly intended for Master and PhD students but everybody else who is interested is of course also very welcome to join. Some
background knowledge in cosmology and quantum field theory/particle physics will be needed to take full advantage of the classes.
Where and when?
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DESY campus (Bahrenfeld), building 67, room 10
(see map)
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every Monday, 10.15 - 11.45 am
Schedule:
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4. 4. : introduction, mini-review big bang cosmology +BBN (script | slides)
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11. 4. : direct evidence "today" (script | slides)
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18. 4. : evidence from structure formation and CMB (script | slides)
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25. 4. : Easter
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2. 5. : CMB (cont.); cold thermal relics (script |
CMB movies 1 2
3 )
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9. 5. : chemical freeze-out including coannihilations (script | slides)
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16. 5. : kinetic decoupling and the smallest protohalos (script | slides)
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23. 5. : SUSY WIMP-candidates (script | slides)
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30. 5. : WIMPs from extra dimensions and Little Higgs models (script | slides)
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6. 6. : (canceled due to illness - will be caught up later)
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13. 6. : Pentecost
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20. 6. : non-thermal production mechanisms and non-WIMP candidates (script | slides)
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27. 6. : indirect detection - gamma rays (script | slides)
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4. 7. : indirect detection - neutrinos and charged cosmic rays (script | slides)
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5. 7., at 1.15pm (NB: unusual time! See result of the POLL...):
 multiwavelength searches; direct detection (script | slides)
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11.7.: direct detection (cont.); accelerator searches / complementarity (script | slides)
> ...
Literature
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cosmology in general:
e.g. S. Weinberg, Cosmology, Oxford university press (2008);
L. Bergström & A. Goobar, Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, Springer (2006).
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dark matter:
G. Bertone (Ed.), Particle Dark Matter, Cambridge University Press (2010);
G. Bertone, D. Hooper & J. Silk, Particle dark matter: Evidence, candidates and constraints, Phys.Rept. 405,
279 (2005) [pdf].
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more specific references
will be provided during the corresponding classes (see script)
Contact
Any further questions? Just let me know: torsten.bringmann_at_desy.de!
"Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson
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