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DEPPISCH3 |
Effective
Theories of Dark Matter |
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Type |
Theoretical |
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#students |
1 |
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Orientation |
The nature of the so called Dark Matter component
of the universe is one of the major open questions of physics today. As Dark
Matter is necessarily weakly interacting (if at all) with ordinary matter,
determining its properties is very difficult, and there are numerous models
that explain the apparent abundance of non-baryonic matter. It is therefore
important to get a good understanding of the salient features of different models. |
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What |
In this project, you will review the various
proposed models for Dark Matter (e.g. standard WIMP, freeze-in models,
asymmetric Dark Matter, and possibly including alternatives to Dark Matter
such as Modified-Gravity models from the literature, and extract the salient
features of the most important classes of models in terms of effective
theories. You will also learn how to calculate the Dark Matter abundance in
the universe from first principles, using Boltzmann equation. Using this
knowledge, you will then implement an analysis to numerically calculate and
compare the abundance within the different effective theories. |
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Special Knowledge |
Knowledge
of particle physics, ability and interest in analytic and numeric computation |
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Supervisor |
Dr.
Frank Deppisch (f.deppisch@ucl.ac.uk) |