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This Week's Speaker: Christian Herwig
PGSS Invited Faculty Lecture:
Shedding Light on Dark Matter with Particle Accelerators
Christian Herwig
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
What is the nature of dark matter (DM)? Thermal relics provide an excellent candidate, predicting DM masses within a few orders of magnitude of the proton, and small couplings to the known Standard Model (SM) particles. Particle accelerators are critical instruments in this search, where machines that achieve the highest energies and intensities are deeply complementary in exploring the full range of allowed masses. I will start by discussing a two-fold strategy that leverages datasets collected by the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and the Light Dark Matter Experiment at the SLAC LCLS-II, before pivoting to a few recent developments and ideas for the future.
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