Place: Small Lecture Hall, Philosophenweg 12 Time: Thursday, 9:15 – 10:45 Lecturer: Joachim Kopp (
)
Credit points
There are two credit points (“Leistungspunkte”) for attending this
lecture regularly. Since the university does no
longer allow a pure "Sitzschein", anyone in need of a certificate for
the successful completion of this lecture needs to pass a short (about 30 min)
oral exam. Please contact me (
) to fix
a date and time for the exam.
Einstein-Hilbert action, stress-energy tensor, and some clarifications
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Motivation for dark matter - Plots and pictures shown during the lecture on 16.05.2013
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Problem Sheet 03 (16.05.2013): Cosmic structure formation
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Direct dark matter detection - Plots and pictures from the lecture on 13.06.2013
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Collider searches for dark matter - ATLAS Fact Sheet
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Collider searches for dark matter - Plots and pictures from the lecture on 13.06.2013
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Problem Sheet 04 (13.06.2013): Monophoton signals at lepton colliders
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High-energy cosmic rays - Material from the lectures
on 20.06.2013, 27.06.2013 and 04.07.2013
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Problem Sheet 05 (27.06.2013): Cosmic rays & Dark matter capture in the Sun
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Indirect DM detection - Material from the lectures on 04.07.2013 and 11.07.2013
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Detecting axions - Material from the lecture on 18.07.2013
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Topics
Basics of cosmology
Inflation
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Evidence for dark matter
Dark matter freeze-out in the early Universe
Dark matter–nucleus scattering and direct dark matter searches
Dark matter production at colliders
High-energy cosmic rays and indirect dark matter searches
Axions
The baryon asymmetry of the Universe
Prerequisites
Relativistic quantum mechanics
Basic knowledge in quantum field theory and particle physics
(scattering theory, cross sections, Feynman diagrams, Lagrangians,
basic concepts of the Standard Model)
Helpful, but not necessary: general relativity
Literature
E. Kolb, M. Turner The Early Universe
Westview Press, 1994, ISBN 0-201-62674-8
M. Peskin, D. Schroeder An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Westview Press, 1995, ISBN 0-201-50397-2
R. Wald General relativity
The University of Chicago Press, 1984, ISBN-0-226-87033-2
A. Barr, C. Lester, P. Stephens
m_T2: the truth behind the glamour
J. Phys. G 29 (2003) 2343–2363, arXiv:hep-ph/0304226
(an overview of the m_T2 method for determining particle masses in cascade decays)