Orateur
David Harvey
(EPFL)
Description
In a bid to unveil the illusive fundamental properties of dark matter, physicists are being forced to look beyond the standard model and develop both new theoretical models and observational methods. In this talk I shall present exciting new results from observations and state-of-the-art simulations that exploits the largest structures in the known Universe, galaxy clusters to study the the dark matter self-interaction cross-section in a whole new way. This fundamental property, which has the discriminatory power to rule out large swathes of dark matter models has become of great interest in the last decade and these results could be another step closer to understanding exactly what this mysterious matter could be.
Author
David Harvey
(EPFL)
