Speaker
Tim Tait
(University of California, Irvine)
Description
The abundance of dark matter is a key piece of information that informs any fundamental theory aiming to describe its properties. However, mapping this measurement onto the parameters of the underlying theory relies on the cosmology at early times, which is itself not well-anchored by observation. I will describe a few ways in which the properties of the Universe at early times could deviate from our expectations, and explore how they would influence the parameter space of dark matter models that one would infer as a result.
Primary author
Tim Tait
(University of California, Irvine)
