Friday, January 11, 2002, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Prof. M. Drees, TU München
Abstract:
The lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is a leading particle
physics candidate for the mysterious Dark Matter whose existence has
been inferred from various cosmological measurements. The most
plausible explanation is based on the assumption that the LSP once was
in thermal equilibrium, so that relic LSPs would join the ranks of the
well-known cosmic microwave photons and (somewhat less well-known)
relic neutrinos as witnesses of the Big Bang era. In this talk I will
explore how this idea can be tested experimentally at high-energy
colliders, in "low-energy" precision measurements, and in direct
searches for relic LSPs.