3:30–4:30 pm Zoom
Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab
"From ALPs to WIMPZILLAS: Discovering Dark Matter In Novel Laboratories"
Although the astrophysical evidence for the existence of dark matter is overwhelming, its microscopic properties remain elusive, despite decades of dedicated searches for the dominant weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) paradigm. In light of this experimental situation, there has recently been a surge of activity to broaden the search program by utilizing previously overlooked strategies, which leverage novel terrestrial and cosmic laboratories to probe dark matter beyond the WIMP framework. I will survey some of these ideas and present a road map towards greatly expanding our converge of well-motivated dark matter models that sample the full range of viable candidate masses.