Physikalisches Kolloquium

June 23, 2020 at 4:15 p.m. only via Recording of the presentation

Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid
Institut für Physik
friederike.schmid@uni-mainz.de

Prof. Dr. Concettina Sfienti
Institut für Kernphysik
sfienti@uni-mainz.de

What you always wanted to know about Dark Matter but never dared to ask
Rafael Lang (Purdue University, Indiana, USA)


I will review the science case for dark matter, presenting the evidence from cosmology and astrophysics. As will thus become clear, dark matter
has already been discovered - we just don't know yet what it is made of. The so-called direct detection of dark matter is a very promising
approach to tackle this question. I will present the status of this field, including the recently announced results from XENON1T.