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What Is Dark Matter? - With Peter Fisher

The Royal Institution via YouTube

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This talk introduces dark matter, its gravitational effects on galaxies, candidate particles, and experimental efforts to detect it. It surveys evidence from cosmology and particle physics, including axions, the Standard Model, and detector experiments.

Syllabus

Introduction
History of particle physics
Outline
Expanding Universe
Hubble Extremely Deep Field
Examples of Dark Matter
The Coma Cluster
The Schmidt Telescope
Andromeda
Standard Model
Galaxy
Particles
Double beta Decay
CDMS
Axions

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The Royal Institution

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