Physics Program Presents
Dark Matter: All your questions answered...with more questions!
Friday, February 20, 2015
Hegeman 107
Matt Bellis, Assistant Professor of Physics, Siena College
Over the last 50+ years, we have definitively learned that the motions of galaxies and clusters and the curvature of light on cosmological scales cannot be explained solely by the gravitational attraction of the baryonic matter in the universe. The leading theory to explain this discrepancy proposes a particle that does not interact through the strong or electromagnetic interaction: dark matter. However, no definitive experimental evidence for this particle has been found. This talk will give an introductory overview of the experimental searches for dark matter with an emphasis on WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) models.For more information, call 845-758-7302, or e-mail [email protected].
Location: Hegeman 107