The Search for Dark Matter with Neutrinos

by Prof. Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)

Monday 21 Oct 2019, 15:30 → 16:30 Asia/Shanghai

Room 603, No 5, Science Building

Abstract

Dark Matter could be detected indirectly through the observation of neutrinos produced in self-annihilations or decays. Searches for such neutrino signals have resulted in stringent constraints on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section, lifetime, and the scattering cross section with matter. The talk will review recent progress in the search for dark matter at neutrino telescopes. A particular focus will be set on the opportunity to probe light dark matter models, through the interaction of astrophysical neutrinos with Galactic and extra-galactic dark matter. Limits on the dark matter neutrino scattering using the reported evidence for the first identified source of the high energy astrophysical neutrinos (Blazar TXS0506+056) will be reported.

Biography

2017 – now Associate Professor (tenure), Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

2013 – 2017 Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

2016 Visiting Researcher (3-month), University of Tokyo, Japan

2009 – 2013 Senior Fellow of the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) (5-year term), The Ohio State University, USA

2008 – 2009 CCAPP Fellow (3-year term), The Ohio State University, USA

2005 – 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, USA

1998 – 2004 Ph.D in Purdue University, Indiana, USA

Division

Particle and Nuclear