3 ECTS PhD-school: Dark Matter; Distribution, origin, detection and production

26 Sep 2016, 09:00 → 30 Sep 2016, 15:00 Europe/Copenhagen

H422 (conference room, not for teaching) (Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department)

With kind support from: * The Royal Physiographic Society, http://www.fysiografen.se * Grace and Philip, Sandblom's fund * Erasmus

Exercises-Gelmini-1-8 Lund-Ex-1-8-Gelmini.PDF

Exercises-Gelmini-9-10 Lund-Ex-9-10-Gelmini.pdf

Kursplan NAFY015-Sve.pdf

Syllabus NAFY015-Eng.pdf

Monday, 26 September

09:00 → 10:00 Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 1

- Brief review of observables, measurement and timescales in astronomy - Classical evidences for dark matter: galaxy clusters and the virial theorem; rotation curves - What dark matter is not

Speaker: Prof. Justin Read (University of Surrey)

Exercises Read-problems_1.pdf

Lecture-notes lecturenotes_darkmatter_justinread-v3.pdf

10:00 → 10:15 Break

10:15 → 11:15 Dark Matter production and indirect searches 1

Production: Introduction; Freeze-out mechanism; Freeze-in mechanism; Decays of other particles; Gravitational production; Misalignment mechanism; Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Asymmetric DM

Speaker: Prof. Jose Cembranos (Complutense University of Madrid)

Exercises Cembranos-exercises-1.pdf

Slides Cembranos-Slides-1-v2.pdf

11:15 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Direct searches and searches at the LHC 1

- What are we looking for? - Overview of what we know and do not know about the dark matter and possible candidates for the dark matter. - Dark matter particles as the earliest relics from the Big Bang.

Speaker: Prof. Graciela Gelmini (University of California Los Angeles)

Exercises-1-8 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=1&confId=399

Slides Gelmini-LUND-1-2016.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Break

13:30 → 18:50 Problem solving

Tuesday, 27 September

09:00 → 10:00 Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 2

- Cosmology primer - Homogeneous Universe; FLRW metric; Friedmannn equation; the “Lambda Cold Dark Matter” (LCDM) standard cosmological model

Speaker: Prof. Justin Read (Surrey)

Exercises Read-problems_2.pdf

Lecture-notes https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?contribId=0&resId=0&materialId=2&confId=399

10:00 → 10:15 Break

10:15 → 11:15 Dark Matter production and indirect searches 2

Production: Freeze-out mechanism; Freeze-in mechanism; Decays of other particles; Gravitational production; Misalignment mechanism; Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Asymmetric DM

Speaker: Prof. Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Exercises Cembranos-exercises-2.pdf

Slides https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?contribId=1&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=399

11:15 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Direct searches and searches at the LHC 2

- Introduction to dark matter searches. - Introduction of direct dark matter detection. World wide efforts. - The main elements of the expected rate in direct detection experiments (detector response, cross section and halo model) and their uncertainties.

Speaker: Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Exercises-1-8 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=1&confId=399

Slides Gelmini-LUND-2-2016-given.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Break

13:30 → 18:50 Problem solving

Wednesday, 28 September

09:00 → 10:00 Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 3

- Inhomogeneous Universe - Numerical simulations of structure formation in LCDM - Evidence for dark matter from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Large Scale Structure - The “bullet cluster” and evidence for particle dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Justin Read (Surrey)

Exercises Read-problems_3.pdf

Lecture-notes https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?contribId=0&resId=0&materialId=2&confId=399

10:00 → 10:15 Break

10:15 → 11:15 Dark Matter production and indirect searches 3

- Indirect detection I : Gamma rays

Speaker: Prof. Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Exercises Cembranos-exercises-3.pdf

Slides Cembranos-Slides-3-v4.pdf

11:15 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Direct searches and searches at the LHC 3

- The local distribution of dark matter in our galaxy. - The expected annual modulation of the direct detection rate. - Past hints of dark matter in direct detection experiments.

Speaker: Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Exercises-1-8 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=1&confId=399

Exercises-9-10 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=2&confId=399

Slides Gelmini-LUND-3-2016-given.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Break

13:30 → 18:50 Problem solving

Thursday, 29 September

09:00 → 10:00 Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 4

- The Lyman-alpha forest and the temperature of dark matter - Near-field cosmology and “small scale puzzles” in LCDM - Including the effect of “baryons” (stars and gas) in the models

Speaker: Prof. Justin Read (Surrey)

Exercises Read-problems_4.pdf

Lecture-notes https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?contribId=0&resId=0&materialId=2&confId=399

10:00 → 10:15 Break

10:15 → 11:15 Dark Matter production and indirect searches 4

- Indirect detection II : Neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Exercises Cembranos-exercises-4.pdf

Slides https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?contribId=9&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=399

11:15 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Direct searches and searches at the LHC 4

- Halo-dependent and halo-independent direct detection data analysis. - The future of direct dark matter detection. - Introduction of search strategies at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Exercises-1-8 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=1&confId=399

Exercises-9-10 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=2&confId=399

Slides Gelmini-LUND-4-2016.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Break

13:30 → 18:50 Problem solving

Friday, 30 September

09:00 → 10:00 Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 5

- Beyond LCDM. Self-interacting and warm dark matter; alternative gravity models. - Future probes of dark matter: Gravitational lensing; stellar stream bumps.

Speaker: Prof. Justin Read (Surrey)

Lecture-notes https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?contribId=0&resId=0&materialId=2&confId=399

10:00 → 10:15 Break

10:15 → 11:15 Dark Matter production and indirect searches 5

- Indirect detection III : Antimatter (antiprotons and positrons)

Speaker: Prof. Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Slides https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?contribId=9&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=399

11:15 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 Direct searches and searches at the LHC 5

- Complete and simplified dark matter models and their searches at the LHC. - Complementarity of dark matter searches.

Speaker: Prof. Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Exercises-1-8 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=1&confId=399

Exercises-9-10 https://indico.lucas.lu.se/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=2&confId=399

Slides Gelmini-LUND-5-2016-given.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Break

13:30 → 14:30 Wrap-up and distribution of examination problems

dat-file Cembranos-examination-problems HESSj1745_290.dat

Examination-problems

• Examination-Cembranos.pdf
• Examination-Gelmini.pdf
• Examination-Read.pdf