Evidence for Dark Matter - Plots and pictures shown during the lecture
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Problem Sheet 02: Monophoton signals at lepton colliders
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Direct dark matter detection - Plots and pictures shown during the lecture
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Collider searches for dark matter - ATLAS Fact Sheet
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Collider searches for dark matter - Plots and pictures shown during the lecture
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Indirect searches for dark matter - Plots and pictures shown during the lecture
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Cosmic rays - Plots and pictures shown during the lecture
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Sterile neutrinos - Plots and pictures shown during the lecture
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Topics
Basics of cosmology
Evidence for Dark Matter (DM)
DM Freeze-Out in the Early Universe
Direct DM detection
DM production at colliders
High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Indirect DM Searches
Sterile neutrinos as DM
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)