TASI LECTURES ON DARK MATTER

KEITH A. OLIVE

William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA E-mail: olive@umn.edu

Observational evidence and theoretical motivation for dark matter are presented and connections to the CMB and BBN are made. Problems for baryonic and neutrino dark matter are summarized. Emphasis is placed on the prospects for supersymmetric dark matter.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0301505.pdf

Dark Energy as a Modification of the Friedmann Equation

By:
Gia Dvali1 and Michael S. Turner2,3

1Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Department of Physics, New York University New York, NY 10003

2Departments of Astronomy & Astrophysics and of Physics Center for Cosmological Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637-1433

3NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510-0500

 http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0301510.pdf

Detecting Dark Matter using Centrifuging Techniques

S. Mitra

saibalm@science.uva.nl

Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica Universiteit van Amsterdam 1018 XE Amsterdam The Netherlands

R. Foot
foot@physics.unimelb.edu.au

School of Physics Research Centre for High Energy Physics The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia January 2003

Abstract

A new and inexpensive technique for detecting self interacting dark matter in the form of small grains in bulk matter is proposed. Depending on the interactions with ordinary matter, dark matter grains in bulk matter may be isolated by using a centrifuge and using ordinary matter as a filter. The case of mirror matter interacting with ordinary matter via photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing provides a concrete example of this type of dark matter candidate. It is known that a large fraction of the mass of the universe is in the form of dark matter. Most of this dark matter is believed to exist in the form of as of yet unknown elementary particles. Many different types of candidates have been proposed, such as weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), strongly interacting massive particles (SIMPS) and charged massive particles (CHAMPS). Despite many experimental searches all attempts to detect these particles have failed. For a review see. 

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0301229.pdf