Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 1

• Justin Read (University of Surrey)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - 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

Dark Matter production and indirect searches 1

• Jose Cembranos (Complutense University of Madrid)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) Production: Introduction; Freeze-out mechanism; Freeze-in mechanism; Decays of other particles; Gravitational production; Misalignment mechanism; Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Asymmetric DM

Direct searches and searches at the LHC 1

• Graciela Gelmini (University of California Los Angeles)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - 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.

Problem solving Room: Different offices

Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 2

• Justin Read (Surrey)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - Cosmology primer - Homogeneous Universe; FLRW metric; Friedmannn equation; the “Lambda Cold Dark Matter” (LCDM) standard cosmological model

Dark Matter production and indirect searches 2

• Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) Production: Freeze-out mechanism; Freeze-in mechanism; Decays of other particles; Gravitational production; Misalignment mechanism; Spontaneous symmetry breaking; Asymmetric DM

Direct searches and searches at the LHC 2

• Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - 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.

Problem solving Room: Different offices

Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 3

• Justin Read (Surrey)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - 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

Dark Matter production and indirect searches 3

• Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - Indirect detection I : Gamma rays

Direct searches and searches at the LHC 3

• Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - 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.

Problem solving Room: Different offices

Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 4

• Justin Read (Surrey)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - 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

Dark Matter production and indirect searches 4

• Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - Indirect detection II : Neutrinos

Direct searches and searches at the LHC 4

• Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - Halo-dependent and halo-independent direct detection data analysis. - The future of direct dark matter detection. - Introduction of search strategies at the LHC

Problem solving Room: Different offices

Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 5

• Justin Read (Surrey)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - Beyond LCDM. Self-interacting and warm dark matter; alternative gravity models. - Future probes of dark matter: Gravitational lensing; stellar stream bumps.

Dark Matter production and indirect searches 5

• Jose Cembranos (Madrid)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - Indirect detection III : Antimatter (antiprotons and positrons)

Direct searches and searches at the LHC 5

• Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching) - Complete and simplified dark matter models and their searches at the LHC. - Complementarity of dark matter searches.

Wrap-up and distribution of examination problems Room: H422 (conference room, not for teaching)