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Title: Prospects for the direct detection of dark matter

Speaker: Carter Hall, University of Maryland

Abstract: A local detection of the Milky Way's dark matter halo within an earth-bound laboratory would be a spectacular confirmation of our modern cosmological model. It would also rewrite the textbooks of elementary particle physics. A global campaign of such direct-detection experiments has been gaining steam over the last several decades. The last ten years in particular has seen a rapid exploration of many particle models of dark matter, and many additional models will be tested in the next five to ten years. This talk will review where the direct-detection campaign currently stands and what may lie ahead in the near future.

Host: Eric Dahl

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Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Colloquium