Non-Baryonic Dark Matter: WIMPs

• Accelerators: Large Hadron Collider
• Direct Detection of WIMP scattering
  • XENON
  • SuperCDMS
  • CoGeNT
  • claimed detection(!): DAMA/LIBRA
• Indirect Detection of WIMP annihilations
  • gamma rays: Fermi sky; Galactic Center anomaly
  • cosmic rays: positron anomaly PAMELA detection AMS confirmation

Finale

A Brief History of Time

New Views of the Cosmos

• LIGO
• JWST
• Vera Rubin/LSST
• Nancy Grace Roman
• CERN LHC
• EHT: Announcement this coming May 12!

Open Questions