Speaker
Yue Zhao
(HKUST)
Description
This talk will focus on how gravitational-wave experiments can help probe dark matter candidates. The first part will demonstrate how data from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration can be leveraged to distinguish between annihilating weakly interacting massive particles and a population of millisecond pulsars as the source of the long-standing GeV gamma-ray excess at the Galactic Center. I will then show how these same detectors enable the direct detection of ultralight dark matter candidates, including dark photons, axions, and dilatons.
Author
Yue Zhao
(HKUST)