Detecting Dark Matter in Planets - note unusual time

by Dr Rebecca Leane (SLAC)

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Stockholm

Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/62320153507

I will discuss new ways that planets and exoplanets can be used to discover dark matter. This includes a new search for light dark matter in exoplanets, where dark matter scatters, becomes captured, deposits annihilation energy, and increases the heat flow within exoplanets. I will discuss upcoming infrared telescope sensitivity to this scenario, detailing actionable discovery or exclusion searches, which lead to new tests of the dark matter scattering cross section. I will also discuss a new search for dark matter in our own Jupiter.