Tooling up to hunt dark matter

摘要

The past century has seen ever stronger links forged between the physics of elementary particles and the universe at large. But the picture is mostly incomplete. For example, numerous observations indicate that 87% of the matter of the universe is dark, suggesting the existence of a new matter constituent. Given a plethora of dark-matter candidates, numerical tools are essential to advance our understanding. Fostering cooperation in the development of such software, the TOOLS 2020 conference attracted around 200 phenomenologists and experimental physicists for a weeklong online workshop in November.