Friday, April 12, 2002, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Prof. V. Zacek, Montreal Univ.
Abstract:
One of the key issues at the frontier between particle physics
and cosmology is the nature of non-baryonic dark matter, most probably
in the form of weakly interacting massive supersymetric particles, which
apparently dominate the matter density of the Universe. In this
conference we will review the present knowledge of the cosmological
parameters, the astronomical evidence for dark matter and the status of
dark matter searches. One of the latest initiatives to directly search
for non-baryonic dark matter candidates distributed in our galactic halo
is the PICASSO project at the Université de Montréal and we will discuss
first results and the future potential of this new detector.