Physics Club: Tracy Slatyer, MIT, “What Can Galactic Gamma Rays Tell Us About Dark Matter?”

The nature of dark matter remains one of the great puzzles of fundamental physics, with potential connections to a plethora of deep questions. Interactions between dark and visible matter could leave imprints across the electromagnetic spectrum, and in particular in high-energy gamma rays from our Milky Way galaxy. I will discuss how gamma-ray measurements allow us to test a range of dark matter scenarios that are otherwise inaccessible, and outline some of the interesting theoretical challenges involved in predicting gamma-ray signals from heavy dark matter.
Host: Ian Moult (ian.moult@yale.edu)