Conveners
Focus Session: Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matter: Focus Session: Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matter
- Martin White
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Laura Manenti02/12/2025, 10:40Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matterFocus session invited talk
After decades of not finding dark matter, we've gotten creative.
While liquid xenon detectors lead the direct search for 10-1000 GeV dark matter, sub-GeV dark matter particles from the local halo cannot transfer enough energy through nuclear scattering to be detected.
Blazars offer a solution. These supermassive black holes emit powerful particle jets directly toward Earth, and when...
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Amelie Read (University of Sydney)02/12/2025, 11:10Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matterFocus session invited talk
The cosmic web is a vast large-scale network of interconnected filaments, clusters, and sheet-like walls surrounding voids that compose our Universe. The cosmic web is pivotal in galaxy formation and evolution, as studies have demonstrated a connection between the large-scale cosmic environment of a galaxy and its observed properties.
Caustic Skeleton (CS) theory offers a promising new...
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Chris Power02/12/2025, 11:40Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matterFocus session invited talk
In this talk, I’ll explore how theoretical modelling—particularly N-body simulations and semi-analytic approaches—can shed light on the nature of dark matter and the formation of cosmic structure. I’ll highlight recent work on modelling classes of dark matter beyond ΛCDM, discuss approximate schemes that are especially useful for interpreting cosmological surveys, and examine how extended...
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Joss Bland-Hawthorn02/12/2025, 12:10Combining astronomy and particle physics in the hunt for dark matterFocus session invited talk
The spatial and velocity distributions of dark matter in the local environment are a crucial input to searches for particle dark matter, for both direct experiments based on Earth, and astronomical observations of the galactic centre. Despite this, there are considerable uncertainties that directly impact the current and future sensitivity to particle dark matter signals. I will summarise what...
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