Dr. David G. Cerdeño
IPPP, Durham University
The Dark Matter Lab is an initiative sponsored by the IFT-UAM/CSIC through a Severo Ochoa Excellence grant and comprises various activities:
Research Visits
Research visits to IFT to discuss projects in theoretical Astroparticle physics and experimental searches of dark matter with SuperCDMS.
Articles Published
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*How to calculate dark matter direct detection exclusion limits that are consistent with gamma rays from annihilation in the Milky Way halo
David G. Cerdeño, Mattia Fornasa, Anne M. Green, Miguel Peiró.
Phys.Rev. D94 (2016) 043516 (10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043516) [arXiv:1605.05185].
Postgraduate Course on Astroparticle Physics
I have coordinated and taught this course in collaboration with Professor Anatoly Klypin.
- Observational evidence for dark matter and dark energy
- Introduction to Cosmology
- Freeze out of massive species and relic density computation
- Dark matter detection
- Dark matter models
The online notes for the course can be found here.
MSc Student Supervision
- Elena Perdomo, “How high is the neutrino floor in dark matter direct detection experiments?” (July 2016) Supervisors: David G. Cerdeño and Pedro Machado.
Workshop organisation
- “Simplified models for dark matter: connecting direct detection and LHC predictions” (March 2017) Coorganised with Steven Worm (Birmingham University) and Valya Khoze (IPPP, Durham University).