CAREER: Novel Dark Matter Models and Detection Strategies

职业：新颖的暗物质模型和检测策略

• 批准号: 1250573
• 负责人: Jason Kumar
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-15 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1250573&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Novel; Dark; Matter; Models

A large body of evidence now indicates that about 80% of the matter in the universe is of a new type, known as dark matter. A variety of experimental and observational techniques from high energy physics, astrophysics and cosmology have been brought to bear on the study of this new type of matter. But in order to correctly interpret the data from these many different experiments, it is necessary to develop a theoretical framework for understanding dark matter. The PI's work will focus on developing the connection between new theoretical dark matter models and data. The PI will explore how data from many different experiments can together be used to test non-standard models of dark matter, and how new models of dark matter can be used to explain the data. A focus will be on the study of isospin-violating dark matter, WIMPless dark matter, asymmetric dark matter, and on the use of neutrino detectors to search for dark matter. The Broader Impact of this proposal will be the communication of these and other exciting developments at the frontier of fundamental physics to the broader Hawaii community, particularly at the high school level. The PI's efforts will be focused on participation in the QuarkNet program.

现在，大量证据表明，宇宙中约80％的物质是一种新型，称为暗物质。 高能量物理学，天体物理学和宇宙学的各种实验和观察技术已在研究这种新型物质的研究中得到了影响。 但是，为了正确解释这些许多不同实验的数据，有必要开发理论框架来理解暗物质。 PI的工作将集中于发展新的理论暗物质模型和数据之间的联系。 PI将探讨如何将来自许多不同实验的数据一起用于测试暗物质的非标准模型，以及如何使用暗物质的新模型来解释数据。 将重点放在研究均质的暗物质，wimpless暗物质，不对称的暗物质以及使用中微子探测器来寻找暗物质的研究上。 该提案的更广泛的影响将是这些和其他令人兴奋的发展在基本物理学的边界与更广泛的夏威夷社区的交流，尤其是在高中一级。 PI的努力将集中在参与Quarknet计划上。