Dr. Alexey Elykov
Alexey Elykov is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Astroparticle Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in experimental astroparticle physics from the University of Freiburg, and specializes in data analysis for rare event detection and development of technologies for Dark Matter and Neutrino searches. He has been a part of the international XENON, DARWIN & XLZD Collaborations, working on the current generation of experiments and towards the development of the next generation of highly sensitive Dark Matter and Neutrino detectors.
Beitrag
Over the past century astronomical and cosmological observations persistently point towards the fact that about 85% of all the matter in our Universe remain completely hidden from humankind's view. This so-called Dark Matter has played a key role in the formation of our Universe as we know it; however, its nature is still a mystery to modern science. It is postulated that Dark Matter is composed of completely new particles beyond the standard model of physics, that interact with gravity and only very weakly with known elementary particles. In this talk, I will discuss the history of Dark Matter, as well as the past and current state of searches for it. I will also present the modern and future technological developments that could, in the near future, allow us to detect Dark Matter and unveil its mysteries.