Conveners
(DTP) R1-2 Astrobiology, Astrophysics and Cosmology | Astrobiologie, astrophysique et cosmologie (DPT)
- Ivan Booth
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are ideal candidates for indirect dark matter searches. They are dark matter dominated and usually contain no intrinsic astrophysical sources of gamma ray emission. In order to accurately predict the dark matter annihilation signal from dwarf spheroidal galaxies, it is crucial to correctly model the phase space distribution of dark matter in them. Hydrodynamical...
Strong experimental evidence points to the existence of dark matter (DM) but, to date, there has been no direct detection of any DM candidate. However, an extensive effort towards this goal is underway. In this talk I will discuss the phenomenology of possible DM candidates that could be detectable in collider based experiments. I will first quickly review a class of models known as dark...
Some aspects of the transition from non-living to living matter are best understood within the context of the theory of phase transitions. A good example is the emergence of homochirality, where stereoisomers of left- and right-handed molecules are believed to have undergone spontaneous symmetry breaking from a racemic mix of both forms to a homochiral set of all left or all right-handed akin...
