International School on AstroParticle Physics 2008

June 21, 2008 to July 1, 2008
9:00am to 6:00pm

La Cristalera, Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid)

Specialist level
Location&Place: 

La Cristalera, Miraflores de la Sierra (Madrid)

Abstract: 

The aim of this school is to provide to the students the latest information on Dark Matter research. The theoretical and experimental efforts to identify the nature of this evasive component of the Universe will be reviewed.

Topics of the school:

  • Introduction to particle physics and cosmology
  • Observational evidences of dark matter
  • Structure formation in dark matter models
  • Direct and indirect searches
  • Candidates for dark matter
    • Axions , WIMPs, Supersymmetric particles