Dark Matter and Particle Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
[A brief review intended for a general physics colloquium audience.] Astrophysicists now know that 80% of the matter in the universe is `dark matter', composed of neutral and weakly interacting elementary particles that are not part of the Standard Model of particle physics. I will summarize the evidence for dark matter. I will explain why I expect dark matter particles to be produced at the CERN LHC. We will then need to characterize the new weakly interacting particles and demonstrate that they are the same particles that are found in the cosmos. I will describe how this might be done.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.1536,
title = {Dark Matter and Particle Physics},
author = {Michael E. Peskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.1536},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
13 pages, 5 figures; minor typo corrections