Lectures on Dark Matter

21 Oct 2014, 09:00 → 23 Oct 2014, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Pontecorvo room (LNGS)

Aldo Ianni (INFN - LNGS), Fabio Cappella (INFN), Giulia Pagliaroli (INFN - LNGS), Massimo Mannarelli (INFN - LNGS), Natalia Di Marco (INFN - LNGS), Riccardo Cerulli (INFN - LNGS)

A series of lectures on Dark Matter held in the framework of the EU funded CFA - Gran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (PO FSE Abruzzo 2007-2013 - Piano Operativo 2012-2013).

Lectures will be focused on those subjects of Dark Matter from astrophysical hints to particle physics candidate and will be given by:


Gianfranco Bertone - University of Amsterdam

Graciela B. Gelmini - University of California (UCLA)

Alexander Kusenko - University of California (UCLA)

Pierre Sikivie - University of Florida
 

Lectures will be available in streaming: http://streaming.lngs.infn.it

Tuesday 21 October

1 Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Cosmology - pt. 1

Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam)

Slides Bertone_Lectures_1_and_2.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

2 Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Cosmology - pt. 2

Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam)

3 Visit to underground laboratory

13:00 Lunch

4 Direct detection of Dark Matter - pt. 1

Speaker: Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Slides GranSasso-Gelmini-1.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

5 Direct detection of Dark Matter - pt. 2

Speaker: Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Slides GranSasso-Gelmini-2.pdf

6 Round table

Wednesday 22 October

7 Direct detection of Dark Matter - pt. 3

Speaker: Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Slides GranSasso-Gelmini-3.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

8 Indirect Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam)

Slides Bertone_lecture_3.pdf

9 Round table

13:00 Lunch

10 Dark world

I discuss the scenario when dark matter of the Universe is represented by a matter of parallel gauge sector which may have many similarities to ordinary particle sector and Standard Model, and various experimental and cosmological implications of such "baryon asymmetric" dark matter.

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani (L'Aquila University)

Slides CFA_2014_Berezhiani.pdf

11 Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter candidates - pt. 1

Speaker: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

Slides kusenko.pdf

16:00 Coffee break

12 Axions as Dark Matter candidates - pt. 1

Speaker: Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida)

Slides sikivie.ppt

13 Round table

Thursday 23 October

14 Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter candidates - pt. 2

Speaker: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

10:00 Coffee break

15 Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter candidates - pt. 3

Speaker: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

16 Round table

13:00 Lunch

17 Axions as Dark Matter candidates - pt. 2

Speaker: Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida)

15:00 Coffee break

18 Axions as Dark Matter candidates - pt. 3

Speaker: Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida)

19 Round table