Dark Matter and Particle Physics

2007/07/29 by Michael E. Peskin · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1143/jpsj.76.111017

published as J.Phys.Soc.Jap.76:111017,2007 · 13 pages, 5 figures; minor typo corrections

arxiv created 2007/07/29 · openalex publication_date 2007/11/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Astrophysicists now know that 80 % of the matter in the universe is ‘dark matter’, composed of neutral and weakly interacting elementary particles that are not part of the Standard Model of particle physics. I will summarize the evidence for dark matter. I will explain why I expect dark matter particles to be produced at the CERN LHC. We will then need to characterize the new weakly interacting particles and demonstrate that they the same particles that are found in the cosmos. I will describe how this might be done. to appear in the Special Topics Issue of the

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