Prof. Michael Peskin (SLAC)
A Particle Physicist Looks at Dark Matter
December 9, 2005

If the particle that makes up cosmic dark matter is a weakly-interacting
massive particle, it ought to be produced at the particle accelerators
of the next generation, the LHC and the ILC.  Measurements at these
accelerators should feed back into astrophysics, providing the cross
sections that are needed to interpret astrophysical observations of
dark matter.  In this talk, I will discuss the application of high-energy
collider physics to the dark matter problem and give quantitative
estimates of the accuracy of the microscopic information that we might
obtain.