Sunday, February 17, 2013
Room 313 (Hynes Convention Center)
The properties of dark matter may be influenced by new forces that effect how dark matter interacts with itself
and with ordinary matter. Such forces can lead to new signals in direct or indirect dark matter searches, and might
explain some of the anomalous results already reported by such searches. Interacting dark matter may also explain the mysterious properties of dwarf galaxies. I will review the theoretical models and their experimental motivation, and discuss the
and with ordinary matter. Such forces can lead to new signals in direct or indirect dark matter searches, and might
explain some of the anomalous results already reported by such searches. Interacting dark matter may also explain the mysterious properties of dwarf galaxies. I will review the theoretical models and their experimental motivation, and discuss the
prospects to test these scenarios in the near future.