Colloquium

The Hunt for Dark Matter's Particle Identity

Dr. Dan Hooper
Fermilab

Wednesday, September 9, 2009   4:00 p.m.  NSH 118

(Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. NSH 202)

 

For seventy years, we have had evidence that much of the Universe's mass is non-luminous, but still today we have not identified what makes up this mysteriously dark substance. Many experimental programs that hope to change this are underway, however. Deep underground detectors, gamma-ray telescopes, neutrino and anti-matter detectors, as well as particle colliders, each are searching for clues of dark matter's identity. Possible dark matter candidates include supersymmetric particles or even ordinary particles traveling through extra dimensions of space. With the new technologies needed to observe these particles rapidly developing, the hunt to discover dark matter's identity has now truly begun.

 

Host: Antonio Delgado