Speaker
Motoko Fujiwara
(Kyushu University)
Description
The WIMP paradigm, in which dark matter particles are assumed to interact with the Standard Model and to have been thermalized in the early universe, remains one of the most compelling scenarios. It provides robust and testable predictions across a variety of interaction channels. Driven by significant experimental advances in both direct and indirect detection, increasingly precise theoretical calculations now enable the identification of dark matter signatures in observational data. In this talk, we review the current status and future prospects of the standard WIMP paradigm and discuss recent efforts to explore physics beyond it.
Primary author
Motoko Fujiwara
(Kyushu University)
