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HEP/Astro Journal Club - Friday, 17 May 2002

Supersymmetric dark matter

Savvas Koushiappas (The Ohio State University)

Abstract

The dark matter problem remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in cosmology. I will present a brief review of the current status of dark matter. I will review the requirements placed by cosmology on a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) and show that supersymmetry naturally provides such a candidate, the neutralino. I will discuss the possible detection of gamma-rays resulting from the annihilation of neutralinos in the Galactic Center and the contraints placed on supersymmetry by such a detection or the absence thereof. Time permitting, I will comment on the possibility of constraining substructure in dark haloes using neutralino annihilations.

12:30, Smith Lab 4079


Matthew Wingate ( wingate.9@osu.edu ), last updated 06 May 2002.

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